We recently visited the lovely team at Smallville Nursery to see how they use Blossom every day! Victoria (Nursery Manager of the Year 2024) and Amber-Rose (Director) share how Blossom’s software helps them build parent partnerships, save time and focus on what matters most.
Rather than describe what they said, you can watch it for yourself right here!
Video transcript
00:00:04
My name is Victoria, I’m the manager here at Smallville.
00:00:06
We are a small nursery based in Kent, following lots of different approaches and making sure that the children get the best out of each day.
00:00:13
So previously we were just ticking, like old school ticking sheets, but now you can actually just see everything, one button sign in, one button sign out.
00:00:21
Yeah, super simple, it’s one of my favourite things.
00:00:25
So it helps us every day.
00:00:27
So for me as the manager, it helps me to have a look and see how many children we’ve got in, how many we’ve got due in, look at all of their learning, check they’re on track.
00:00:35
And I know for the practitioners, it helps them with things like the formative reports, so they can look on there and they can see where the children are working at.
00:00:42
The parent inbox is probably one of our favourite things as well, because it means that they can chat directly to their key person throughout their day.
00:00:54
The support is one of the best things about Blossom for us.
00:00:56
We know that if we ever have a query or we’re not sure on something that we can contact them.
00:01:00
Another thing I really love is that they’ve all got early years experience, so you know that you’re speaking to other people that have been in situations similar to you and they know what it’s like to be in a nursery.
00:01:09
It streamlines the business, it allows you to actually see what your staff are doing and everyone is on one platform.
00:01:15
Oh hello, I’m Amber Rose and I’m the director of Smallville Nursery.
00:01:19
It helps with financial planning so you can see the percentages and forecasts
00:01:23
across the whole week and across the whole year.
00:01:26
And then you can compare it.
00:01:28
I also think it helps with understanding where everyone is at in terms of the staff as a whole.
00:01:35
So everything is on one platform.
00:01:37
I also think it helps with parent facing conversations.
00:01:41
So parents pick up what we’ve seen in the day.
00:01:43
And that’s really lovely actually, because it means that when they go home, the parents can flick through at the end of the day and see what their child’s been doing during their Smallville lives.
00:01:56
Easy, time-saving, and supportive.
