Parental Partnerships
Staff use the knowledge they have about each individual child to plan learning experiences to suit each child, staff will be encouraging children to investigate and experiment during activities for them to develop new skills and self-confidence in their own abilities. Working in partnership with parents during this time can greatly enhance the learning process. Staff are always available for you to chat with about your child’s progress and any concerns you may have, or to simply update you on your child’s progress.
Our Aims
To make parents welcome and offer opportunity for exchanging knowledge, expertise and information between parents, staff and children.
To recognise and respect the fact that parents are a vital factor in their child’s development and learning.
To encourage parents to take an active part in the daily life of the nursery.
We will work in partnership with parents to offer a service built on trust and respect. We will ask for your views to improve the nursery and service we offer, and we are always happy to hear your comments and suggestions.
Working With You
We recognise that the parent/carer is the child’s prime educator, and we will work closely with you to develop links in learning between home and the nursery.
The length of our day means that staff work in shift patterns, this may mean that your child’s keyworker may not be always available when you bring your child or alternatively when collecting them. Information may be relayed either through another member of staff or management. We welcome your interests and participation in the activities within the nursery, and we also welcome any ideas or suggestions you may have to enhance the service we provide. We operate with an open-door policy where a member of our management can be available to answer any queries you may have.
Working Together to Promote Positive Behaviour
We aim to work together to promote an atmosphere of sharing, caring and friendships. Encouraging acceptable behaviour and mutual respect is part of our curriculum. Co-operating, sharing, taking turns are just some of the things we encourage the children to do to increase their social skills.
Of course, our children do not always wish to comply with our requests or demands of our children, and incidents do arise which require staff to intervene in the situation to maintain a happy environment for all the children. Staff at the nursery are fully aware of our Promoting Positive behaviour policy and would be pleased to discuss this with you if required.
Fundraising
Our nursery has a Parents Forum, that supports the nursery throughout the year, they have taken ownership of fundraising events and activities. Staff and management will support, and we ask kindly that You support at these events. This is an important part of our nursery success, the children who uses the nursery will benefit from all money raised. So please where possible help and support our nursery staff team during these events.
