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Brayton Headstart Preschool Ltd
🌟 Welcome to Brayton Headstart Preschool 🌟
A warm, welcoming, and inclusive local preschool, providing the ideal environment for your child’s first steps into social interaction, learning, and discovery.
Brayton Headstart is proud to be:
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Ofsted Registered: OUTSTANDING ✅
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A member of the Preschool Learning Alliance
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A provider of high-quality care and education in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
🧸 Who We Cater For
We welcome children from 9 months up to 5 years of age, and our provision is tailored to meet the unique needs of each developmental stage through three age-specific groups:
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🐾 Baby Cubs – under 2 years old
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🦁 Simbas – 24 to 35 months
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🦁 Mighty Lions – preschoolers aged 36+ months
Each room is equipped to nurture your child’s curiosity and growth through age-appropriate activities, play opportunities, and loving care.
📚 Our Learning Framework
We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework, which focuses on seven key areas of learning and development, designed to support each child’s overall growth:
💖 Personal, Social & Emotional Development
Building confidence, friendships, independence, and emotional wellbeing.
🗣️ Communication and Language
Encouraging listening, understanding, and early language skills through stories, songs, and conversation.
🤸 Physical Development
Supporting movement, coordination, and self-care with fun and engaging activities both indoors and outdoors.
📖 Literacy
Fostering a love for books, mark-making, storytelling, and early reading and writing skills.
➕ Mathematics
Exploring numbers, shapes, space, and patterns through play and everyday routines.
🌍 Understanding the World
Helping children make sense of their environment and community through nature, culture, people, and technology.
🎨 Expressive Arts and Design
Inspiring creativity through music, movement, art, imaginative play, and design.
At Brayton Headstart, we’re more than just a preschool—we’re a community that celebrates each child’s journey and supports families every step of the way.
Ready to start your child’s learning adventure? 🌈
Contact us today to book a visit and see how we can support your child’s bright future!
Key Worker System
We operate a key worker system, where a member of staff is allocated to a child before they start with us. Your key worker will endeavour to quickly build close trusting relationships with your child and yourself. They will carry out regular observations of your child, and work alongside you in ensuring your child receives the best quality care and education from us.
Parents Consultations
We are committed to providing a partnership of care for your child. This will be achieved by all staff regularly communicating with you, through informal discussions at the beginning or at the end of a session and meetings with your key person worker at formal parents consulations or on your request.
Yummy Snacks
All staff preparing snack have relevant and up to date food hygiene training. There is unlimited drinking water available throughout the session with healthy snacks provided. We offer water or milk at snack time.
Experienced Staff
All staff are highly trained and motivated to provide the best service for your child and you.
Outdoor Play
We have a fantastic garden with plenty of room, activities and the use of the field!
OFSTED Report
Please click on the link to read our latest Ofsted Report dated 12th September 2024 Ofsted report September 2024
Morning Session
9am until 12pm
Dedicated Key Worker
Snacks
Day Session
9am until 3pm
Dedicated Key Worker
Lunch
Snacks
Wrap around
3pm until 5pm
Dedicated Key Worker
Snacks
Monday – Thursday
