GardensHello,

Thank you for showing an interest in LittleGreen Man and taking the time to look throughour brochure.

For over 22 years now, it’s been my pleasure towork alongside my family and staff at thenursery and Kids’ Club, and watch so manysmall babies grow into little people and beyond.

When I started the nursery back in 1996 withmy husband Barry, we really wanted to create afun, caring and safe environment for children, sothat their parents could leave them with us, safein the knowledge that we were helping them tolearn and play, and become fantastic, well-rounded people. Our simple ethos really andtruly is the fundamental heart of our nursery:We Care!

We ensure high-standards and expect a lot from our staff, which shows in the great resultswe have with the children in our charge, whilst keeping and emphasis on maintainingstrong relationships with all the parents and carers. We are an independent nursery of agood size, which means we can keep control of our programme and facilities, whilst stillhaving the capacity to be flexible.

Our open-door Partnership with Parents/Carers means that we’re always here to help, towork with you or to talk if you need anything. Just give us a call if you have any queriesand we will be happy to help.

We hope to see you soon,

JanJan BloomfieldProprietorLittle Green Man

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Welcome

Our History

Our Mission

Aims and Objectives

Nursery Structure

Our Team

Management Team

Our Staff

Education

Nursery Programme

Skills for Life

OFSTED accreditation

SENCO Provision

Languages

Facilities

The Premises

Multi-Sensory Room

On-site Kitchen

Art and Role-Playing Rooms

Outdoor Areas

Computer and ICT area

Keeping Children Safe

Reception

Safeguarding

Building Security

When outside the nursery

Pricing

Schedule of Charges

Childcare Vouchers

Help with payment

Uniform

Find out More

Partnership with Parents/Carers

Get in Touch

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Our Mission

Our History

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Little Green Man is here to supply first class

facilities for children aged one month to five years

in a happy, secure, imaginative and stimulating

environment.

We provide a broad, balanced and relevant

education, in order to develop learning and social

skills; building confidence, independence and self-

esteem.

We support parents and carers in providing the

best possible start in preparation for Big School

and their future life experiences.

Little Green Man was started by Proprietors Jan

and Barry Bloomfield and has since become a true

family business with both their sons working

alongside them.

It first opened its doors over 21 years ago in May

1996, starting at 15 Lemna Road in

Leytonstone, before extending into the building

next door on Gainsborough Road, allowing them

to welcome a capacity of 130 children into the

now eight rooms.

Since its beginning Little Green Man has helped

in the development of over 3,000 infants,

toddlers and pre-school children, with a simple

ethos: We Care!

Nursery Structure

Aims & Objectives

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• To ensure that each child’s specific and personaldevelopmental needs are met. All children have

the right to education and their families have the

right to chose where their child receives that care

and education.

• To positively value and respect everyone

regardless of race, religion, disability, gender or

sexual orientation.

•To ensure all staff members at the nursery match

or exceed National Standards 1 of the OFSTED

requirements.

•To follow the DfES curriculum the Early YearsFoundation Stage as required by National

Standard 3 of the OFSTED requirements, to

ensure a stimulating environment, where play

and learning go hand in hand.

Being one of the biggest nurseries in the area, we

are able to provide an extra level for accessibility

and flexibility. Any changes in days and times will

be met within four weeks if not sooner.

At the same time however, our structure of eight

rooms for three age-groups allows us to create a

cosy and intimate atmosphere for the children

with a base room, where the children feel like

they belong, rather than one big open space. It

also allows us to keep very strict staff/child ratios:

- Infants (under 2 years): 1:3

- Toddlers (aged 2-3 years): 1:4

- Pre-School (above 3 years): 1:8

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Our Staff

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Proprietors Jan and Barry Bloomfield have over

45 years experience each working with children

in nurseries, youth clubs and major summer camp

programmes and well as working in the business

and voluntary sectors

The Nursery Manager Lisa Kypri has 25 years

experience (19 of which are with LGM) and a

Foundation Degree in Early Years (Lvl 5).

She is supported by Deputy Manager Tracy

Donegan, alongside Group Managers Catherine

(Infants), Hannah (Toddlers), Kristina and Emily

(Pre-School) and their Room Leaders Saniya,

Angela, Katie and Anthea.

All Room leaders and above are Lvl 3 qualified,

aged at least 21 and have a minimum of three

years experience in child care.

We select our Nursery Assistants from their ability to

provide a warm and caring atmosphere, with a

coherent understanding of how to develop emotional

and intellectual qualities in the children.

All staff members at Little Green Man are qualified at

Lvl 2 or above. They are all required to obtain a First

Aid qualification. further training for which is provided

by us. We do not employ unqualified/inexperienced

staff or school leavers and only take on students from

accredited colleges and training organisations.

We also have on-site cooks, caretakers and

receptionists to keep the nursery moving safely and

smoothly.

All staff are DBS checked without exception.

Management Team

Nursery Programme

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We have adopted the OFSTED and Every Child

Matters framework: Early Years FoundationStage (EYFS)., which guides our planning and

programming.

The planning is primarily through adult-led, child-

initiated play. We provide a wide-range of

resources and great facilities (see facilities section

for more details), which are made readily

available to the children. Every week, each room

will have a theme, around which activities are

focused. Activities both indoors and outdoors

include the use of arts and crafts, role-play,

cookery, stories, music, jigsaws, collage and

constructions as well as messy, creative, water

and dramatic play.

There are also specialised art, role-play and

sensory rooms, as well as two large garden areas

with both small and large outdoor equipment;

including a fantastic and very popular play

structure.

We regularly take the children on trips to the

park, local shops, farms and the library, with

occasional trips to places of interest and an

annual panto. Oh yes we do!

Staff facilitate the children’s activities and recordwhat each one does every day, using their

observations to plan the next steps in their

learning and development. That’s how we harnesstheir natural curiosity and build on the seven

areas of learning:

For more information about the education at

Little Green Man, click here

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OFSTED

Skills for Life

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We support our parents and carers in teaching

the children to respect all people and things;

including their peers, elders, personal belonging,

toys and books.

We believe it to be extremely important to teach

social skills; for example self-reliance, getting on

with others, sharing, caring, co-operation within a

group, table manners, and basic health and

hygiene.

These values are taught through play, songs and a

general attitude and understanding from all staff.

We have been given “ GOOD” by OFSTED. Someof the comments made are below:

“Staff have a good knowledge and understanding oftheir roles in teaching and supporting children's

learning, which they facilitate well. As a result,

children are making good progress in their learning

and development and are becoming capable and

confident learners.

“Children are happy, content and well cared for by acaring staff team, who show a genuine interest in

helping children make progress. The children benefit

from and enjoy a stimulating learning environment.

“Arrangements for safeguarding and childprotection are firmly understood by staff because

these form part of the induction process and

ongoing training.”

LanguagesTo help with the children’s cultural and linguisticdevelopment, we provide weekly French lessons

for our Pre-School children with a native speaking

teacher.

Although English is the language we use at Little

Green Man, we have many children for whom it

is not their first language. Some children, when

they arrive at the nursery speak little to no

English.

To help their transition we ask parents to supply

us with some basic words, which we can use to

communicate with the children. We also have

staff members who speak a multitude of other

languages; from German, Romanian and Polish,

to Bengali and Russian. They will use English to

communicate, but where necessary are able to

use some words to help.

SENCO provision

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Deputy Manager, Tracy Donegan is our on-site

trained SENCo expert, She is the nursery lead on

SEND planning, referrals and working on one-to-

one targets for the children supported by Toddlers

Group Manager and Deputy SENCo. Hannah.

They work with children with Special Educational

Needs, supporting both nursery staff and Group

Managers to ensure that special provision is

accounted for, whilst also supporting parents and

carers, if they need any help at home.

Tracy also liaises with representatives from the

Local Authority and other external organisations

for example Speech and Language Therapists,

Educational Psychologists and Health Visitors, to

ensure that we have a full 360 care for all

children at the nursery.

The Premises

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Little Green Man is located in two beautiful,

large, Victorian buildings in Leytonstone.

The premises cover over 5,000 square feet, which

includes nine bright, airy, spacious group rooms.

There are other rooms for specific activities such

as sensory, sand, role-play, art and water play

(continue reading for more information).

We also employ two permanent caretakers, who

are on site to ensure that the building is always to

standard.

There are two entrances for convenience and a

buggy park, where parents and carers can leave

their strollers and pushchairs.

Multi-Sensory RoomAt Little Green Man we are one of the few

nurseries in the country to have our very own

Multi-Sensory Room.

The Multi-Sensory Room charges all five senses

for children to enjoy experiencing sound, smell,

light, touch and taste.

The room is accessible to children of all ages

and groups and includes a sensory board with

textures, buttons and lights, alongside mirrors,

scent bottles, lava lamps and bubble machines

so that children can begin to better understand

the world around them.

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Our on-site kitchen means that we are able to provide all

of the children with tasty, hot, fresh, nutritiously

balanced meals throughout the day. We cater for

breakfast, snack, lunch and tea, all prepared by our two

professional and experienced cooks. Babies under 8

months are given fresh mouled food.

Menus are organised on a weekly rotation to give keep

the food interesting for the children and full of variety.

All dietary requirements are taken into account, from

vegetarian to Halal or dairy free (all meat is Halal).

Our kitchen meets rigorous hygiene standards and has

been awarded a 5 star hygiene certificate by the Local

Authority.

If you would like to see an example of our menu, click

here

We create spaces and areas to help the children

explore their imagination, including the Art

Room and the Role-Playing Room

The Art Room is stocked to the brim with

paint, glitter, corn flour, sand, water, home-

made playdough (made on site), sponges,

brushes, bubbles and more. This room is

dedicated to promoting the children’screativity.

Our specially made Role-Play room holds

outfits and toys to spark any child’simagination. We have costumes for them to

learn more about occupations (nurses,

shopkeepers, doctors, firemen) as well as those

so they can live like a wizard, princess or

superhero.

Art and Role-Play Rooms

Outdoor Areas

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We have four outdoor areas at Little Green Man;

including our front garden for free play and three

back garden areas: one with an all-weather,

matting floor for imaginative play, the second

with large educational activity panels and soft

play and the third with our very own adventure

play structure.

These areas are used to help increase the physical

development of the children, maximise their

opportunity to imagine and allow them to

investigate the environment and world that we

live in. They can be seen every day enjoying our

outdoor areas: climbing the adventure play

structure, enjoying our large and small outdoor

equipment or hunting for mini-beasts.

Each Group Room at Little Green Man is

equipped with a tablet, which is used to record

observations and take pictures for our records and

parents to see how the children are doing.

Observations and reports are put onto our Early

Years software programme called Tapestry. Since

2017 parents have been able to have a sign-in

and see the progress of their children.

We also have a bank of computers, which are

used for the children to play educational games,

to support their learning, as well as help them

with typing by finding letters on the keyboard

and enhancing their fine-motor skills with mouse

control exercises.

Computers and ICT

Safeguarding

Reception

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We have a reception area open every day from

8am to 6pm. Suzzanne and Renee are always

there to let you in the building, answer the

phones and help in any way they can.

Aside from the helpfulness of having them there,

this also means, that we know at all times who is

in the building and when they are here.

In terms of security, all visitors or people

unknown to the receptionists will be asked to

kindly sign in at reception.

Visitors are not allowed to wander around the

building alone or unknown to a member of staff.

We will only release children to known parents,

carers and authorised persons and photographs

are required for our files.

You will also be asked to chose a PIN number,

which can be given to anyone else who needs to

collect your children last minute.

Every group room in the building also has CCTV,

to help keep the premises and your child safe at

all times.

In the interest of Safeguarding your children, we

ask that all staff members and parents/carers do

not use any mobile phones throughout the

building.

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The building has a an entry-phone system , so

that no entry can be made into the building

without the knowledge of a member of staff. This

entrance is also by the reception area.

At the Gainsborough Road entrance we have an

additional electric door entry using fobs, which

parents and carers are able to order and use

(there is a small deposit required).

In the interest of fire safety, we have two main

staircases and seven exits. The building has a full

fire alarm system, with smoke and heat detectors,

and all doors are fire resistant with special smoke

and heat seals.

We comply fully with regulations set out by the

Fire Officer, Health & Safety and Environmental

Health and Building Inspector.

Building Security

When outside the nurseryWe love taking the children on adventures,

whether they are going to the local shops, the

library or on outings to farms and museums.

When outside the nursery, our ratios are

increased to above requirements, to ensure the

safety of the children.

All Toddlers, Pre-School and Kids’ Club childrenare dressed in Little Green Man branded Hi-Viz

vests and Infants are put into buggies and not

carried.

Staff are required to take with them a nursery,

non-Smartphone, mobile phone in case of

emergencies.

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Schedule of Charges

Childcare Vouchers

Little Green Man is open from 7am to 7pm.

Our daily sessions are charged from 8am-6pm,

with half days also available (8am-1pm or 1pm-

6pm).

Extension for an extra hour (from 7am or until

7pm) are available every day at a small additional

cost either regular or on an ad hoc basis (notice

required).

Our prices are completely inclusive of all food,

milk, nappies and supplies with no regular

auxiliary or supplementary costs.

For a full list of charges and costs please look at

our Schedule of Charges

We accept Childcare Vouchers from all providers.

Childcare Vouchers are generally provided

through a cooperation with your employer and

allows you to receive a valuable tax and national

insurance reduction via a salary sacrifice, to help

with your fees. This could lead to saving of up to

35% on your nursery fees.

We are registered to accept tax free childcare

under the new government initiative.

If you would like to know more about Childcare

Vouchers or tax free childcare, speak to your

employer or phone Mark at Little Green Man for

more information.

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The Free Early Education Entitlement (FEEE) is a

government funded scheme, which entitles

certain families with 2-year-old children to 15

hours per week of free nursery education during

term time.

At Little Green Man you can claim this by putting

your hours towards a reduction in your normal

booking, spread over 12 months.

The FEEE is available for ALL pre-school children

over the age of 3. This is reflected in our Pre-

School Schedule of Charges. An additional 15

free hours available for some families.

To find out whether you might are eligible please

click here.

We have a Little Green Man Nursery uniform

consisting of a yellow polo-shirt and green

sweatshirt for all children over the age of 2. This

saves you money, provides an identity and sense

of belonging for the children, avoids spoiling their

own clothes and helps security on outings.

When leaving the nursery, all children in Toddler

and Pre-School groups will be provided with Hi-

Viz vests for additional security and extra

visibility.

Uniforms cost just £6 for Polo Shirts and £8 for

sweatshirts.

Free Early Education Entitlement

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Get in Touch!

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Our open-door policy means that we are pleased

to welcome parents and carers at any time, to

speak with the Proprietors, Managers, Group

Managers and Room Leaders about any concerns

or queries they may have.

We have a monthly, digital newsletter called In

Touch to keep you up-to-date with the play,

learning and development of each of the groups

and staff will report on your child’s developmentat least twice a year and ask for a meeting to

discuss how they’re getting on.If you would like to know more about our

Partnership with Parents/Carers, you can find it

all in our Policies and Procedures.

We have Show Rounds every day between 10-

11am or between 3-4pm, to fit in with the

children’s schedule.

If you would like to book a Show Round or if you

would like any more information, please don’thesitate to get in touch either via email at:

littlegreenmane11@hotmail.co.uk

Or by calling:

020 8539 7228

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to LittleGreen Man

Partnership with Parents/Carers