Awards

Over the past years the Elm Park Baptist Church Playgroup has been given several major awards

HEYL

Healthy Early Years London -GOLD AWARD
To do this we had to first achieve the “First Steps”, “Bronze and Silver HEYL Awards” and complete “the 12 further areas of audit”:

  • Social and emotional health and wellbeing
  • Speech, language and communication
  • Healthy eating
  • Oral health
  • Independence in self-care and hygiene
  • Immunisation and infection control
  • Physical activity
  • Sustainability (active travel, recycling, energy saving)
  • Adult health and wellbeing; staff and practitioners can provide information for parents and carers about support available
  • Practitioners are able to identify early and plan for children’s additional physical, social, emotional and mental health needs, including working with parents, carers and partnership agencies
  • There are effective communication systems and working relationships with other professionals to support work with children and their families
  • Each practitioner is supported to maintain their own social, emotional, physical health and wellbeing

QuILT

(Quality Improvement in Learning and Teaching)

. . . is organized into 9 general modules:

  • Aims, values and principles
  • Equal opportunities
  • Learning and teaching strategies
  • The learning experiences
  • Observation, assessment and planning
  • Parental partnership, home and community liaison
  • The physical environment
  • Relationships and interactions
  • Staffing

. . . and 7 separate standards for 2-year-olds

  • The emotional environment
  • Positive interventions and interactions
  • Self-care
  • The physical environment
  • Development matters and the characteristics of effective learning
  • Parental partnership
  • Leadership

ECERS-R

(Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale)

. . . is organized into 7 Subscales:

  • Space and Furnishings
  • Personal Care Routines
  • Language-Reasoning
  • Activities
  • Interaction
  • Program Structure
  • Parents and Staff

To find out more about us and our awards, meet the team or download a prospectus below.