Holiday and Staff Training Dates 2024 - 2025
50% childcare fees apply when the nursery is closed for nursery holidays. Bank Holidays are charged at full rate.
Monday 26th August 2024 - August Bank Holiday
Monday 4th November 2024 - Autumn Term Staff Training Day
Thursday 19th December 2024- NURSERY CLOSES AT 4PM for Christmas and re opens on Monday 6th January 2025
Monday 21st April 2025 - Easter Monday
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 - Spring Term Staff Training Day
Monday 5th May 2025 - Bank Holiday
Monday 26th May - Friday 30th May - Half term week
Wednesday 30th July 2025 - NURSERY CLOSES AT 4PM
Thursday 31st July - Friday 15th August 2025
Monday 18th August - Staff Training day - Summer Term Staff Training Day
*All dates are inclusive
Parents in receipt of the funded hours, funding is not claimed for any period of time when the nursery is closed, or through school holidays. When the nursery is closed we will use our 5 non funded inset days as per our Early Years Education terms and conditions with Hampshire County Council.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Staff Training
We live in a rapidly changing world, with new legislation, theories and technologies being introduced seemingly every day. Our staff keep up to date with these changes through continuous professional development, this helps support your children in our care.
Similarly, learning about theories developed by early years pioneers, such as Froebel, Piaget and Vygotsky, helps us to understand how current practices have come about and to assess their benefits and shortcomings and relevance to our practice.
CPD enables us to adapt our ideas and teaching in light of new information. Knowing why we do something and reflecting on this invariably helps us to do it better. This will inevitably have a positive impact on the children in our care.
Regular CPD leads to enhanced self-confidence and improved practice. It enables us to develop our competence in caring for young children and helps us to demonstrate our commitment in this role. Our staff undertake three staff training days a year, these dates are listed under our holiday dates above. All other staff training is carried out during evenings and weekends.
Doing accredited training leads to quality childcare. It is often a requirement of professional bodies and quality assurance programmes, for example, PACEY’s ‘My Professional Standards’. The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) makes ongoing CPD training a requirement and explains why this is important:
‘’Providers must support staff to undertake appropriate training and professional development opportunities to ensure they offer quality learning and development experiences for children that continually improves.’’
50% childcare fees apply when the nursery is closed for nursery holidays. Bank Holidays are charged at full rate.
Monday 26th August 2024 - August Bank Holiday
Monday 4th November 2024 - Autumn Term Staff Training Day
Thursday 19th December 2024- NURSERY CLOSES AT 4PM for Christmas and re opens on Monday 6th January 2025
Monday 21st April 2025 - Easter Monday
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 - Spring Term Staff Training Day
Monday 5th May 2025 - Bank Holiday
Monday 26th May - Friday 30th May - Half term week
Wednesday 30th July 2025 - NURSERY CLOSES AT 4PM
Thursday 31st July - Friday 15th August 2025
Monday 18th August - Staff Training day - Summer Term Staff Training Day
*All dates are inclusive
Parents in receipt of the funded hours, funding is not claimed for any period of time when the nursery is closed, or through school holidays. When the nursery is closed we will use our 5 non funded inset days as per our Early Years Education terms and conditions with Hampshire County Council.
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) - Staff Training
We live in a rapidly changing world, with new legislation, theories and technologies being introduced seemingly every day. Our staff keep up to date with these changes through continuous professional development, this helps support your children in our care.
Similarly, learning about theories developed by early years pioneers, such as Froebel, Piaget and Vygotsky, helps us to understand how current practices have come about and to assess their benefits and shortcomings and relevance to our practice.
CPD enables us to adapt our ideas and teaching in light of new information. Knowing why we do something and reflecting on this invariably helps us to do it better. This will inevitably have a positive impact on the children in our care.
Regular CPD leads to enhanced self-confidence and improved practice. It enables us to develop our competence in caring for young children and helps us to demonstrate our commitment in this role. Our staff undertake three staff training days a year, these dates are listed under our holiday dates above. All other staff training is carried out during evenings and weekends.
Doing accredited training leads to quality childcare. It is often a requirement of professional bodies and quality assurance programmes, for example, PACEY’s ‘My Professional Standards’. The Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) makes ongoing CPD training a requirement and explains why this is important:
‘’Providers must support staff to undertake appropriate training and professional development opportunities to ensure they offer quality learning and development experiences for children that continually improves.’’