Inside Little Ark

Helping children learn and develop through play and exploring their world, caring for them every step of the way!

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Meals & Snacks

With our very own dedicated kitchen and cook, our seasonal menus are nutritionally balanced and varied, which allows the children to experience a wide variety of flavours and textures. Most of our food and snacks are homemade on site, including our yoghurt (which is a firm favourite with the children!)

All of our menus are low salt and low sugar, and the specially designed menu for under-1s is no added salt and very low sugar.

Our kitchen is regularly inspected by the Food Standards Agency, where we have been praised for our high standards. We’re also proud to cater for children with special dietary needs including allergies, intolerances and cultural preferences.

Mealtimes are a fun family experience for our children as they get to sit together in their age groups learning independence and table skills.

Our Care, Learning and Curriculum

Children learn when they are in a safe and caring environment where they are stimulated through play.

Babies and young children develop best when they are in a caring relationship with an adult. A baby will learn to walk faster when they have a safe pair of arms to walk towards and learn to talk, when they have an adult listening and responding to them.

At Little Ark we will strive to provide your child with an environment that will be caring, fun and stimulating. We will implement ideas from the Early Years Foundation Stage standards for Learning, Development and Care for children from birth to five.

Little Ark’s aim is to facilitate all children to attain their maximum potential within and beyond their perceived capabilities. To assist in this aim, an individual record of each child’s development is maintained on the Famly app, showing their abilities, progress rate and areas to further their development. Parents can see all this information on the app.

A child’s learning begins at home. Therefore, we will encourage a partnership approach with parents to enable us to promote their child’s development by building on past experiences while reinforcing and extending them to explore new learning opportunities through play.

Little Ark aims to achieve this by:

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Our Team

Our team is what makes Little Ark as brilliant as it is! All of our staff members are passionate about early years education and giving children the best start in life.

In order to ensure every child in Little Ark is given the appropriate level of attention and care, a key person is appointed for each child. A key person is a named member of staff assigned to an individual child to support their development and act as the key point of contact with that child’s parents or carers. The key person has special responsibilities for working with a small number of children and helps build and develop positive relationships with children and between parents, carers and staff.

You will meet various members of the team when you book your lookround visit and at drop off and pick up times.

Our Team

Catherine Lanera (BEd Hons)

Catherine Lanera (BEd Hons)

Nursery Manager

Claire Brecker

Claire Brecker

Early Years Assistant Manager

Toni Cardwell

Toni Cardwell

Deputy Manager, Level 3 Nursery Practitioner

Tracey Todd

Tracey Todd

Level 3 Nursery Practitioner and Wellbeing Officer

Serena Tomlinson

Serena Tomlinson

Level 4 SENCo and Safeguarding Lead

Ifra Bibi

Ifra Bibi

Level 3 Nursery Practitioner

Kathryn Shaw

Kathryn Shaw

Level 3 Nursery Practitioner

Megan Gowling

Megan Gowling

Level 3 Nursery Practitioner

Teri Holland

Teri Holland

Level 3 Nursery Manager

Mamoona Qudoos

Mamoona Qudoos

Level 2 Nursery Pracitioner