Partnership with Parents
Settling in sessions
We offer 2 sessions (1 hour for the child and parent session and 2 hours for your child to be left in the care of their key person and the room staff) to allow your child to settle into the nursery and for parents and children to become acquainted with their key person who will introduce you to room staff, explain the system of the nursery and answer any questions. Your child’s key person will also discuss your child’s development and support planning for their next steps and their individual needs.
Open Door policy
We provide an open door policy whereby a parent/carer can discuss any aspect of their child’s care or development at any time.
Parent/Staff meetings
The nursery encourages parental involvement from day one to ensure we cover your child’s needs. We hold Zoom meetings 2 times per year with parents to discuss your child’s progress. This enables parents to fit meetings into their schedule. As always any parent is welcome to come into the nursery to discuss their child at other times.
At the planned open evenings to discuss your child’s progress you will have the opportunity to discuss your child’s next steps with their key person.
We also encourage parents to share their professional skills with the children, e.g. If one of our parents was a dentists they could come to help the children learn all about the important of dental health.
Monthly newsletters with additional information from each room to support learning at home are available. We use ‘eyLog’, an online early learning journal to enable staff to share your child’s learning journey, thereby increasing parent participation in their child’s activities at nursery. Parents can contribute to their child’s learning journey with observations from home via the eyLog tool or in person.
If a child is identified as having any developmental delay or if concerns are raised by parents, we follow our special educational needs policy and commence observing and monitoring the child. Close liaison with the parents will follow.
We also liaise with other professionals related to a child’s development such Police and Fire Brigade.