Welcome to Cove Pavilion Pre-School

Cove Pavilion Pre-school is a Community Pre-school housed in a Pavilion building on Cove Green in Farnborough, and has been established since 1966.

The pre-school is open during the hours of 8.00 a.m. and 3.45 p.m. Monday to Friday, during term times. Your child may attend in a combination of ways during these times. There is a maximum attendance of 30 children at any one time. The setting offers as much flexibility of attendance as possible to assist parents around their work commitments. Times can only be available in accordance with vacancies within the setting.

The pre-school is run by a Management Committee and highly trained staff led by an experienced Early Years Teacher. All members of staff hold First Aid certificates.

Our setting aims to:

• provide high quality care and education for children below statutory school age;
• work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop;
• add to the life and well-being of the local community; and
• offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality and values diversity.

Parents

Parents are regarded as members of our setting who have full participatory rights. These include a right to be:

• valued and respected;
• kept informed;
• consulted;
• involved; and
• included at all levels.

We aim to ensure that each child:

• is in a safe and stimulating environment;
• is given generous care and attention, because of our ratio of qualified staff to children, as well as volunteer parent helpers;
• has the chance to join with other children and adults to play, work and learn together;
• is helped to take forward her/his learning and development by being helped to build on what she/he already knows and can do;
• has a personal key person who makes sure each child makes satisfying progress;
• is in a setting that sees parents as partners in helping each child to learn and develop; and
• is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers.
• has the expertise of a well qualified Special Educational Needs Coordinator if required.
• has fun and friendship with other children and adults