Health and Nutrition
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Meals are cooked fresh daily in our nursery kitchen by Carly our onsite cook.
Meals and snacks are healthy and nutritious providing children with the nutrients they need throughout the day for growth and development.
Water is offered to children freely throughout the sessions and milk is offered to children during snack times.
We are able to cater for a wide range of dietary needs including allergies and intolerance.
Meals are adapted to the child’s individual needs.
Children can be offered split plates for meals for food separation to further support individual preferences and when encouraging children to try new foods.
A few meal examples are pictured here.
We offer a four weekly rotating menu and a copy of this menu can be requested along with allergen records.
Snacks are offered as ‘rolling snacks’ to enable children to choose to have snack at a convenient time and continue with their learning and play around snack times.
PATHS
We have been running PATHS at Noah’s Ark in our childcare setting for a number of years supporting the wellbeing of children in our care..
PATHS is a programme designed to support the emotional and social awareness of young children focusing on feelings, empathy and developing skills to manage emotions.
Children are supported to manage their emotions and learn how to express themselves within social environments. We look at comfortable and uncomfortable emotions and introduce strategies to help children manage their feelings.
We also have staff who have completed ELSA training focused training on supporting children in the early years with their emotional wellbeing.
