About Us:
“Welcome to Wegahitalittlewisenanny, where excellence in early education comes to life! Our mission is simple but powerful: providing quality care and early education in safe, joyful, and stimulating environments. Led by a passionate team, Wegahitalittlewisenanny is your partner in nurturing your child’s holistic development. Join us in creating a brighter future for your little ones!” Our collective mission at Wegahitalittlewisenanny is to offer top-notch early education and care within safe, joyful, and stimulating environments. We are committed to providing a range of activities, resources, experiences, and opportunities that foster holistic child development.
We believe that an exceptional education can help every student reach their full potential and transform their lives, regardless of their background. We are committed to this belief and summarise it with the statement “Realising Potential. Transforming Lives.”
Mission, Values, and Expectations
Staff Values:
Our staff adheres to six core values, which we summarise with the MERCIA acrostic. These values underpin everything we do.
Moral Purpose:
We exist to inspire students to realise their full potential and lead happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
Expectations:
We set exceptionally high standards for ourselves and our students, and we strive for excellence.
Relentless Focus on Learning:
We prioritise our time, energy, and resources to ensure exceptional learning environments and curricula that help every student succeed.
Culture:
We demand consistency, kindness, tolerance, and respect in all our relationships, and we expect every staff member to go above and beyond to achieve student success.
Impressive Staff:
We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining outstanding staff and helping them maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Alignment:
We believe that partnerships bring profound benefits to each school and that we are stronger together.
Pupil Values:
We want every student to realise their potential and lead happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives. We set high expectations for them, which we express with our six trust values:
Ambition:
We expect students to aspire to be the best they can be, to strive for success in school and beyond.
Strength:
We expect students to develop strength of character, determination, and resilience to overcome obstacles to success.
Passion:
We expect students to become inquisitive, to thirst for knowledge and learning.
Independence:
We expect students to be organised, prepared, and to take personal responsibility for their learning and behaviour.
Respect:
We expect students to show good manners, kindness, tolerance, and exemplary behaviour at all times.
Endeavour:
We expect students to work hard, fully engage in all aspects of school life, and maintain a healthy balance that preserves their well-being.
Continuous Improvement and Collaboration
Unique identity and is designed to meet the needs of its community. Each school is led by a Headteacher and a Local Governing Body, but we expect all our schools to share our vision and values to ensure that every child receives an exceptional education. To achieve this, we insist that each school has:
1. An explicit ethos and culture of high expectations and inclusion.
2. Behaviour of the highest standard.
3. A meticulously planned curriculum, which is consistently well delivered by teachers every lesson, every day, to every child.
4. A robust culture of safeguarding.
5. A thorough and inclusive personal development strategy.
6. Leadership at every level who are focused and driven by the right priorities.
7. Rigorous internal and external quality assurance.
8. A culture of continuous improvement.
Calming Sensory Science Experiments
We doing some really powerful about science experiments that also incorporate a sensory experience. These are the activities that kids ask to do over and over again. The best part, is that these sensory science experiments encourage kids to slow down. We all know how excited kids can get during the Halloween season. These can be an invitation for a little peace and calm, all while having fun and learning!
Developmental Milestones for Babies
1. How to dance:
It’s a while yet until your baby will be up on the dancefloor and boogieing to their favourite tunes. But even at a few months old they can move to the beat. One study found that babies are literally born to dance!
Researchers looked at babies aged 5-24 months and found they could move in time to a beat. ‘The better the children were able to synchronize their movements with the music the more they smiled’, say the experts. Awww.
So if you’re playing music, or their favourite toy plays a tune, they may well start moving along in time to the music. The VTech Play & Dream Kicking Piano, suitable for babies from 3-18 months, attaches to your baby’s cot or can be used for sit-down play. With 5 plush piano keys they can kick or press, there are plenty of opportunities for a boogie! Your baby can press the rabbit button to hear 15 minutes of upbeat music, or slide the owl for more soothing tunes.
2. How to make you lough:
No, you’re not imagining it – your baby really IS trying to make you laugh.
Experts at the University of Portsmouth found that from the age of 7 or 8 months, babies deliberately use their faces, bodies and voices to make us adults laugh.
According to the researchers, this includes them waving their ‘sweaty’ feet in the air for you to smell them, or knocking over a tower of blocks their sibling has – very carefully – built. By around 10 months, your baby will be playing with things they know they shouldn’t (from your phone to the TV remote). And by their first birthday they will find it very funny when ‘rules’ are broken, like you trying to put on their hat or pulling silly faces when you shouldn’t!
They’ll love their very own VTech Squishy Lights Learning Tablet. Suitable for babies aged 6-24 months, they can have fun pressing the buttons (helping with their fine motor skills). And they’ll get a sensory and early language boost from the flashing lights and animal sounds and songs.
3. How to make a mess:
Half of parenting seems to be tidying up after the kids. And your baby learns early on how to make a mess! This is especially true during the weaning stage when their favourite game is smearing food on their faces/ clothes/ highchair/ you.
Give them another focus at mealtimes with the VTech Twist & Spin Lion. It has a handy suction cup at the bottom to secure to your baby’s highchair tray or your table. They can then spin the beads on the hoops and boost language skills by pressing the lion’s buttons to hear fun phrases.
4. How to move quickly:
You know babies start to move in their first year, whether that’s rolling, crawling or even first steps. But what you might not know is how quick they are!
In fact, they are (mini) masters in causing you to panic: they’re on a playmat one minute, and the next they’re trying to cruise on the furniture.
Give them a boost with the VTech Crawl & Learn Bright Lights Ball. Suitable for babies from 6-36 months, it has a built-in motor that makes the ball roll. As your baby crawls to reach and touch it, lights flash. Your baby can have fun pressing buttons and hearing numbers, sounds and songs.
And to give them a helping hand when they’re on their feet, try the VTech Baby First Steps Baby Walker. A 2-in-1 walker and activity centre, your baby can practice walking, then play with the activity panel when they need a rest.
How to add up:
Believe it or not, your baby is a budding mathematician! A study found that babies as young as 6 months have a sense of numbers. Scientists showed them displays containing different numbers of dots. Babies looked longer at the displays that had a new number of dots, showing they noticed a difference.
While that all sounds very scientific, there are easy ways to boost your baby’s early grasp of numbers. The VTech Play & Learn Activity Table, suitable for babies aged 6-36 months, introduces numbers to your little one. They can see and hear numbers, along with other sounds, songs and phrases.