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Kind Hearted Business Woman Date:31/12/2011 13:03:00
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Congratulations - QUALITY AWARDS Date:01/12/2011 09:09:13
A huge congratulations to both Little Achievers @ Ribbleton Childrens Centre and Headstart Nursery and Pre-school for achieveing your STEP in to Quality Award for Lancashire County Council All of our settings now hold IIP. They also hold a Childcare Quality award - except for Little Achievers in the Park, who are working towards the award.

Early success for Rosy Apple’s inspirational training programme Date:01/12/2011 09:05:28
Rosy Apple Childcare’s recently launched innovative training workshops for everyone involved in childcare provision are already receiving plaudits from impressed attendees. A suite of short (usually 2-hours long) focused workshops linked to the Welfare Requirements for all childcare providers serves the needs of parents, childcare practitioners, management committees and schools. Available across the North West, the cost-effective courses on a variety of childcare and leadership topics are provided by carefully selected, experienced professional trainers. Based on current research, best practice and guided by local and national drivers for change, the workshops focus on subjects ranging from safeguarding children, health and safety, nutrition and wellbeing through to personal effectiveness and assertiveness, motivating your team, promoting your business, getting to grips with self evaluation and auditing the Welfare Requirements. Typical feedback from participants includes: “Very informative sessions, full of useful information”; “The trainer made me want to develop my setting further”; “Having the trainer so passionate about their subject made you want to be part of their team.” A firm believer in the concept of lifelong learning for all, Rosy Apple’s MD, Sharon Alexander is delighted by the enthusiastic response to the training programme. She says:” I’m thrilled so many people are attending and providing positive feedback. We launched the programme because we were keen to share our expertise in childcare and leadership and realised there was unmet demand for short, focused workshops dealing with practical childcare and management issues we are all facing in these challenging times.” A multi award winning childcare provider established in 2003 with a 39 place day nursery, Rosy Apple Childcare now manages six day nurseries across Lancashire offering over 350 places, more details at www.rosyapplechildcare.com

Early success for Rosy Apple’s inspirational training programme Date:01/12/2011 09:05:28

Rosy Apple Childcare’s recently launched innovative training workshops for everyone involved in childcare provision are already receiving plaudits from impressed attendees.

A suite of short (usually 2-hours long) focused workshops linked to the Welfare Requirements for all childcare providers serves the needs of parents, childcare practitioners, management committees and schools. Available across the North West, the cost-effective courses on a variety of childcare and leadership topics are provided by carefully selected, experienced professional trainers. Based on current research, best practice and guided by local and national drivers for change, the workshops focus on subjects ranging from safeguarding children, health and safety, nutrition and wellbeing through to personal effectiveness and assertiveness, motivating your team, promoting your business, getting to grips with self evaluation and auditing the Welfare Requirements.

Typical feedback from participants includes: “Very informative sessions, full of useful information”; “The trainer made me want to develop my setting further”; “Having the trainer so passionate about their subject made you want to be part of their team.”

A firm believer in the concept of lifelong learning for all, Rosy Apple’s MD, Sharon Alexander is delighted by the enthusiastic response to the training programme. She says:” I’m thrilled so many people are attending and providing positive feedback. We launched the programme because we were keen to share our expertise in childcare and leadership and realised there was unmet demand for short, focused workshops dealing with practical childcare and management issues we are all facing in these challenging times.”

A multi award winning childcare provider established in 2003 with a 39 place day nursery, Rosy Apple Childcare now manages six day nurseries across Lancashire offering over 350 places, more details at www.rosyapplechildcare.com

Preston Day Nursery leads the way with new signage in Guajarati Date:14/09/2011 22:12:57
Little Achievers @ Headstart Day Nursery on Herschell Street in Preston is the first day nursery in the area to recognise the multi-cultural and multi-lingual character of its locality by commissioning a new sign in Guajarati to complement the existing sign which is in English. Lisa Wilkinson of Geminus Design took on the task of designing the sign for Rosy Apple Childcare which runs four nurseries across Preston. Rosy Apple’s Managing Director, Sharon Alexander is delighted with the results and is also very pleased with the process. She says: “Developing the new sign brought us into close contact with Guajarati speakers from our local community who, along with members of the neighbourhood mosque, were very helpful - we were keen to ensure that our sign said what we wanted it to say and that it was spelt correctly too.“ Sharon adds: “We decided to invest in the Guajarati sign to reflect our local community and already we have had great feedback about it. Our neighbours say it looks really good and they are happy that a local business is trying to show awareness of the multi-cultural neighbourhood. However they also say they would have liked a sign in Urdu too so we have started work on this second phase of our new signage which will be installed in a couple of months!” The idea for the Guajarati sign came form a member of the nursery staff – Hajra Dawood who was Lancashire’s Apprentice of the Year in 2008.	Zoom +

Preston Day Nursery leads the way with new signage in Guajarati Date:14/09/2011 22:12:57

Little Achievers @ Headstart Day Nursery on Herschell Street in Preston is the first day nursery in the area to recognise the multi-cultural and multi-lingual character of its locality by commissioning a new sign in Guajarati to complement the existing sign which is in English.

Lisa Wilkinson of Geminus Design took on the task of designing the sign for Rosy Apple Childcare which runs four nurseries across Preston. Rosy Apple’s Managing Director, Sharon Alexander is delighted with the results and is also very pleased with the process. She says: “Developing the new sign brought us into close contact with Guajarati speakers from our local community who, along with members of the neighbourhood mosque, were very helpful - we were keen to ensure that our sign said what we wanted it to say and that it was spelt correctly too.“

Sharon adds: “We decided to invest in the Guajarati sign to reflect our local community and already we have had great feedback about it. Our neighbours say it looks really good and they are happy that a local business is trying to show awareness of the multi-cultural neighbourhood. However they also say they would have liked a sign in Urdu too so we have started work on this second phase of our new signage which will be installed in a couple of months!”

The idea for the Guajarati sign came form a member of the nursery staff – Hajra Dawood who was Lancashire’s Apprentice of the Year in 2008.

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