Working with parents/carers
At Greenhays Nursery School, we believe that working alongside parents greatly benefits children in their early years. We work with parents using the following techniques:
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Settling In Sessions - These are to help make the beginning of your child's time at nursery slightly easier for both you and your child. Easing them into the nursery's routine and become familiar with the setting and staff members.
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All About Me - This is a document filled in by you which includes information such as; Name, nickname, special people, things your child enjoys, favourite food, and so on. We use the All About Me alongside talking and playing with your child during their first days at nursery to help us get to know them even more.
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Learning Journeys - Each child who attends our nursery has an online learning journey. This allows your child's key person to keep you up-to-date with your child's learning development through play via observations (text, photos and/or videos). Our online learning journeys also allow the parent of the child to upload their own observations - which we highly encourage!
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Parent's/carers Evening - These are a wonderful way for parents/carers to have a quiet and private discussion with their child's key person to discuss their child's progress and development, what their next steps are and work together to encourage further development.
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Newsletters - We create regular newsletters for parents/carers so that they are kept up to date with useful information for parents, what is going on within the setting, important dates, and much more.
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Parent feedback forms & questions - We regularly give out parent feedback forms to evaluate our practice using parents ideas and thoughts. We also aim to put a new 'yes or no' question at the front of the setting for parents/carers to answer. These questions cover things such us "Are your child's interests taken into consideration?", "Does Greenhays promote healthy eating?" and so on.
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In-setting parent visits - We like to invite parents into the setting, where they can read a book, talk about their occupations, cook their favourite recipe with us, show us any family/home traditions and more.
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Home visits - We conduct short home visits prior to a child starting at Greenhays. This allows us to answer any potential questions you may have and for their key person to get to know both you and your child.