I could pick up key aspects of how the nursery nurses meet the children PIES needs. Alperton Nursery meets the children’s intellectual needs by ensuring the children have positive experiences of success at their own levels, in order to give them confidence and motivation for learning in the future. This is purely because children start to learn about the world around them from the moment they are born. The care and education offered by Alperton Nursery helps children to continue to do this by providing all of the children with interesting activities that are appropriate for their age and stage of development. The staff informed me during the interview that Alperton Nursery provides a variety of healthy balanced and nutritious foods. The quality of foods served in the nursery is such that would give children all of the energy they need for a busy day for play, learning and development. Menus are carefully scheduled and freshly prepared on site by the chefs. Children would be feed regularly with snacks and drinks as well.
When interviewing the parents and children, I decided that it would be appropriate to have a partner with me because the parents and children are vast number of people. I would have more responses from parents and children with a partner due to the fact that we could cross pathways and ask directly as much parents and children we could. Salma and I scheduled a meeting to visit Alperton Nursery just before the parents picked up their children in order for us to ask them directly for consent to ask a few questions before they leave. We went to the nursery and we were successful in getting over fifteen responses from parents and eight responses from the children. I’ve decided to ask the children questions that was unstructured because unstructured interviews are best suited to children feeling comfortable and less pressured. The children would have speech impediment and feel uncomfortable due to their less amount of vocabulary, so in order for them to response efficiently they’ll need questions that would best suit their capability of understanding. When asking the parents questions, Salma and I had to structure are questions because the parents were in a rush to go home and rest after a busy day at work. This resulted in us limiting our questions to six quick and simple questions. Salma and I were able to collect useful information to use through recording parents and children because writing the response would be time consuming.
The reason why I choose an interview method to gather more information than a questionnaire was because interviews give me the opportunity to look at the interviewee facial expression, so I’ll able to tell if their finding anything offence or don’t understand what I’m Implying. Interviews have certain advantages over questionnaires. Using the interview method I can explain questions that the participants has not understood and can ask for further elaboration of replies, for example ‘why do you say that?’ Interviews were more useful than questionnaires in me collecting information because they allowed me to collect non-verbal data. For example, I was able to see whether particular question made an interviewee nervous or if they struggled to answer the question. In short, nonverbal indications such as lack of eye contact, jittery mannerisms or defensive posturing can provide context to a participant’s answers. This type of information could not be collected from a written questionnaire.
When visiting the nursery I found the nursery to be well thought-out and artistic. The doorways at the nursery was wide and automatic allowing wheelchairs and buggy users to have easy access. Narrow doors would prevent parents with double buggies going through. This is a physical barrier because a person cannot access the care they want or need because of a physical problem like a walking difficulty and the person would need crouches or a wheelchair access. The nursery also has ramps to support people struggling with wheelchairs, crouches and buggies. This is because stairs are a physical barrier, sometimes making it extremely difficult for a parent to take their child to Alperton Nursery.
The walls, particularly were covered in children art work-out, portraying the nursery to be playful and cheery. This is because I could get a sense of enjoyment and playfulness when I stared at the finger drawings hanged on the wall. You could instantly calculate in your head that the children did it because it was colourful and messy. It bought a smile to my face when the children pointed out what hand print belonged to them because they were enthusiastic and overwhelmed about their art work. The drawing also indicating that the nursery is meeting the children intellectual and physical needs because the children are using their touch and smell senses with the paint. Their able to feel the sticky substances and smell the powerful smell that comes from the paint. They’re learning how to use paint and the purposes of paper and paint. Alperton Nursery is outstanding nursery to visit.
The checklist was helpful in indicating to me what particular task I have finished and the ones have not completed efficiently. This was a guide for me to use because I was able to tick and cross my tasks depending on if I finished or if there incomplete. The checklist allowed me to structure my work efficiently, so I was able to pin-point-out any missing information to help me succeed my objectives and aims. It was beneficial for me to have a checklist because I was able to refer back to it.
During my research I used a references, these were; GCSE Health and Social Care Mark Walsh textbook, my teachers notes and useful websites that enabled me to get information on Alperton Nursery and the PIES of children. The references were a guide for me to abstract information from and use in my investigation, in order for me to know how Alperton Nursery meets the PIES needs for children. From the textbook and websites I could got a general overview how certain people meets the PIES needs of children (e.g. parents, nursery or preschool teachers and council). The teacher’s notes were valuable aspect for me because the notes particularly were based on my aims, so I didn’t need to read between the lines.
If I was doing this task again I would probably structure a few questions for the children to answer in their ability. This is purely because unstructured interviews are time consuming and children talk about nonsense. I was able to get eight very useful responses from the children that felt at ease to talk to me. However, I think I would have got more response if I structured my questions before hand.