OUR TEAM

Personal and professional development is essential to maintaining the quality and delivery of high quality care and education for young children in early years. It underpins all aspects of curriculum delivery and positive interactions.

At Orange & Lemon Pre-school we ensure that all staff are qualified to Level 3 or equivalent in childcare and education. Other staff working at the pre-school will either be qualified to Level 2 or undertaking training or have a wealth of child care experience. We strongly promote constant professional development and all staff will have individual training records and training plans to enhance their skills and expertise.

To Facilitate The Development Of Staff We

• Coach, lead and role model with staff, and offer encouragement and support to achieve a high level of morale and motivation.
• Promote teamwork through ongoing communication, involvement and a no blame culture to enhance pre-school practice.
• Provide opportunities for delegation based on skills and expertise to offer recognition and stimulate staff.
• Encourage staff to contribute ideas for change within the pre-school and hold regular staff meetings and team meetings to develop these ideas. Regular meetings are also held to discuss strategy, policy and curriculum planning.
• Encourage staff to further their experience and knowledge by attending relevant external training courses.
• Encourage staff to pass on their knowledge to those who are less experienced and disseminate knowledge from external training to small groups of staff within the pre-school.
• Provide regular in-house training relevant to the needs of the pre-school.
• Carry out regular tri monthly supervisions with all staff. Staff appraisals are carried out every year ad reviewed 6monthly where objectives and action plans for staff are set out, whilst also sourcing training according to their individual needs.
• Develop a training plan addressing both qualifications and continuous professional development needs of the setting and of individual staff.
• Promote a positive learning culture within the setting.
• Delegate responsibilities according to an individual's expertise.
• Offer annual team building training.
• Cascade information and hold regular internal training events.
• Carry out training needs analysis for all individual staff, the team as a whole, and for the pre-school every six months.
• Carry out full evaluations of all training events and use these to evaluate the training against the aims set to enable the development of future training programmes to improve effectiveness and staff learning.
• Provide inductions to welcome all new staff and assign a 'work-buddy' to coach and support new staff.
• Offer ongoing support and guidance.
• Offer to staff varied information sources including membership to local and national organisations, resources, publications and literature.