24November2009
Posted by bringingupbaby under: update.
Christmas Holiday 2009
All the nurseries, with the exception of The Vale, will close on Tuesday 22nd December at 6.15pm and re-open on Monday 4th January 2010 at 8.00am.
The Vale Day Nursery will close on Thursday 24th December at 6pm and re-open on Monday 4th January 2010 at 8.00am
Easter Holiday 2010
All nurseries, with the exception of The Vale, will close on Wednesday 31st March at 6.15pm and re-open on Monday 12th April at 8.00am.
The Vale Day Nursery will only be closed for the bank holidays – Friday 2nd April and Monday 5th April 2010.
18October2009
Posted by bringingupbaby under: news.
Bringing up Baby is delighted to be celebrating its
20th year in childcare in 2009.
On Friday 8th May each nursery celebrated this in their own way with duck themed parties for all parents, staff and children. Great fun was had by all and full details of the events can be read on our General News section.
A large party was held on 4th June and great fun was had and the dancing started late! It was lovely to have all our current and past staff and supporters there having a great time and enjoying the mojitos, champagne and cake.
You can download an article from Nursery Management Today magazine all about the celebrations (3.3Mb PDF file).
31December2008
Posted by bringingupbaby under: news.
Over the past 6 months some of our nurseries have involved their parents and children in various activities to raise money for charity.
Our Brentford Nursery undertook the annual Big Toddle in their local park and raised £700 for Barnados
One of the dads at our Richford Street Day Nursery spent a day working with the Over 2s and they also produced a cook book of those foods that the children had been cooking at nursrey. This raised £400 for The Rose Ward at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
Our Clapham nursery held their annual Pedal Push in Battersea Park and raised £556 for Childline.
We hope to continue with such events in 2009.
20November2008
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: childcare; finance; news.
Since 6th April 2006 Childcare Vouchers (to a limit of £55 per week or £243 per month) have been exempt from Tax and National Insurance Contributions (NIC) for employees.
Childcare Vouchers can be offered to you by your employer in addition to your salary but are more commonly offered as a “salary sacrifice”. This means that you sacrifice a specific amount of your salary and receive that equivalent amount in childcare vouchers. This means you will only pay Tax and NIC on the reduced level of your salary. For more information on Childcare Vouchers visit www.daycaretrust.org.uk or contact us.
At Bringing up Baby we currently accept the following vouchers: Accor, Busy Bees, Care-4, Early Years, Fair care, Leapfrog, Kids Unlimited, Sodexho and individual company schemes.
31January2008
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: news; website.
A major development to our site built by
rad apple is the private area for parents and nursery staff. Each nursery has its own area where nursery staff can post news stories (or blogs) for parents to read. This allows us to upload pictures of parents’ children safely and securely, whilst keeping parents as up to date as possible with the development of their child. It will also save us on paper as we can deliver our news online!
Feel free to let us know what you think of our website!
1November2007
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: news; special needs; support.
All of our nurseries are members of their local Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership. This enables us to access external training courses as well as to link up with an Early Years Advisor.
These advisors regularly visit the nurseries and provide advice, support and guidance in areas such as curriculum planning, observation and assessment and Special Educational Needs.
Some of our advisors have also provided us with some excellent in house training for our staff as well as speaking at Parents Evenings.
Good practice is shared amongst the Company and new ideas and procedures are put into place as and when necessary.
21October2007
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: news; reports.
Each of the nurseries has a regular Ofsted inspection. This is an inspection combining OFSTED’s 14 Care Standards with the Educational Inspection, which looks at the 6 Early Learning Goals.
Reports are available from the nurseries and from the OFSTED website.
16September2007
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: careers; news.
New training and development programmes are being continually drawn up for all staff members. Topics covered can be seen in our
careers section.
1July2007
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: corporate; finance; news.
We offer a 10% discount to NHS Trust, BBC and Metropolitan Police employees. Please contact us to provide further information.
21June2007
Posted by Bringing up Baby under: health; news.
At Bringing up Baby, Health and Safety within our nurseries is always of utmost importance and as part of this we continually review our policies and procedures and share and implement good practice. Some of our staff have undertaken a one day Children’s Allergies course. All our nursery cooks and some of our staff also undertake a Basic Food Hygiene course.
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