School policies cover every aspect of school life. Below are current versions of our most important policies for your reference. If you want to know our policy on something that is not listed, please contact the school office.

Paper copies of policies available upon request from the school office.

Keeping Children Safe

Safeguarding and Child Protection

‘Crosfield Nursery School and Children’s Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.’

Our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy is located in the reception area and published on our website.

Photographs and contact details of our designated safeguarding lead, deputies and officers, along with contact details for Croydon’s Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), are displayed prominently in a number of locations throughout the Nursery and have been provided below.

The Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is our Acting Executive Headteacher, Danny Bissex. 

Designated Safeguarding Officers (DSO) include:

Jenny Gabriel – Children's Centre Manager / Designated Safeguarding Officer (Children’s Centre)

Anne Addo - SENCO / Designated Safeguarding Officer (Crosfield and Selhurst)

Sian Philpotts - Class Teacher / Designated Safeguarding Lead (Selhurst)

Our Lead Governor for Safeguarding is Damian Clark.

If we have any concerns about a child we will firstly discuss these with parents/carers. We have a legal responsibility to report to Social Care any evidence or suspicion of a child suffering or likely to suffer from significant harm.

Categories of harm (or abuse) are neglect, physical abuse and emotional abuse. If, however we have concerns about possible sexual abuse we refer to Social Care directly without discussing with the parents/carers.

Our school procedures for safeguarding children will always be compliant with the London Child Protection Procedures produced by the London Safeguarding Children Board.

It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that children are cared for appropriately and safeguarded from harm and their duty of care to promote their health, safety and welfare.

Learning & Teaching Policy

Curriculum and Assessment Policy

SEND Policy

Behaviour Policy

Behaviour Policy

Our Behaviour Policy follows the requirements and guidance of the Early Years Foundation Stage and is based on the need for everyone to feel safe and be able to work together.  We aim to establish good relationships with all children and the quality of these determines how effectively children respond.

We work with children to think about rules.  We use a common set of words so that children hear the same things from all adults.

All forms of bullying are unacceptable and will not be tolerated.  We seek to deal with any deliberately hurtful behaviour before any concerns escalate.  All children are encouraged to tell a grown up if they are unset or worried by the actions of another child.

Children need a secure framework and need to know our expectations of them.  We hope that we can work closely with you and we will always tell you if we feel a child needs help with managing behaviour.  All children are different and we will respond to a child’s needs on an individual basis.  We will set an individual behaviour management plan if we can feel this is necessary.

Other Policies