About us
Rackets Preschool has been established since 1990. We are in the heart of Edgbaston with beautiful grounds and private access to The Botanical Gardens. With an OFSTED rating "GOOD" in June 2023.
Our Staff
Rackets Preschool has 7 Members of staff. All staff are DBS checked & all hold the relevant childcare qualifications as well as Paediatric First Aid, Senco & Safeguarding
Key worker Groups
Staff work closely with the children in their key worker groups. As Rackets Preschool is open planned staff will interact with all children throughout the day. Keyworker group system is mainly for concept times and to plan age appropriate activities. Your child's keyworker will record progress or identify if children need additional support.
DBS Checked & First Aid Trained
All staff are vetted thoroughly upon starting with an ENHANCED DBS check which is regularly checked via the update system. and references .
All staff onsite have received paediatric first aid training which included Asthma & Allergy training.
Staff also have great knowledge of safeguarding.
Staff Qualifications
All staff hold relevant childcare qualifications and go on regular training to keep up to date and improve their professional development.
Staff turnover is VERY low with one member of staff being at Rackets preschool for 23 years!!!
We do also have students from mainly UCB & Halesowen college who are vetted before starting a placement with us!
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Rackets Preschool
Take a look at all the exciting activities and experiences we have at Rackets Preschool!
Rackets Preschool Day!
The children are greeted in at 9am by a familar member of staff. The children then go into freeplay choosing what they would like to play with untill around 10am. 10am the chidren will begin wake and shake, getting their heart rates racing with a range of dances, parachute or just running around! At around 10:15am-10:30am the children then go and wash their hands for snack time. The children chose from a range of healthy fruits and vegetables and 1 carb option e.g. crackers, breadsticks. Once snack has finished the children then go into adult led concept time to work on their next steps, e.g. cutting, shape recognition, textures. 11am its time for the BOTANICAL GARDENS! The children either go for a walk to see the birds, butterflies and fish or have fun exploring the play area. 11:45am its back to Rackets for a lunchtime story and hometime for our morning session children. Lunch is served at 12pm-12:15pm. 1pm and the fun starts all over again mirroring the mornings routine.
Early Year Foundation Stage
At Rackets Preschool we use a range of ways to track your child progress. We use an app called TAPESTRY for you to be able to be apart of your child's journey in which we post observations on.
We follow the 'EYFS' also known as The Early Years Foundation Stage. We follow three prime areas Personal Social & Emotional Development, Communication & Language and Physical Development with excitng child-led activities out daily to support the areas of learning. We also have four specific areas of learning, Understanding The World, Literacy, Maths and Expressive Arts & Design in which the children will also have activities to support the areas.
The Botanical Gardens offers great support to the childrens learning giving them different expierences daily!
Partnership with parents
At Rackets Preschool we love to get the parents, grandparents family members and carers involved in everything we do! We put on lots of workshops throughout the year e.g. Valentines, grandparents day, Mother's day and many more. We have a great time celebrating each event with parents and sometimes its jut so nice to see your child in their nursery enviroment! We hold parent reviews three times a year to discuss your childs progress.
Parent reviews
OFSTED RATED "GOOD"
Extra curriculum activites
At Rackets Preschool we like to make sure your contributions are put to good use. For the last year we have had Spanish lessons from an outside agency called Bilingual. The children have thrived and absolutely love their Spanish lessons.
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