Our Partnership with Parents

We deeply respect the role that parents play as the principal carer in their child’s life and we want to develop a close working relationship with you so that we are consistently meeting your family’s needs. We find that open, two-way communication is the best way to handle this so we always make time to talk at the beginning and end of each day and you will receive information about your child’s nursery day verbally, in writing or through photographs.

We share our observations of your children with you using an online learning journal called ‘ParentZone’ and you can see these anytime you choose and access our observations at home to share with your family.

All around the nursery you will see photos of children’s experiences and evidence of their learning. We will also keep you to up to date with events at nursery through the ParentZone app.

Inclusion for All Children

Our policy is to include all children whose parents request a place, wherever possible. We will be happy to discuss any arrangements we need to make in order to give the best to your child and we may often involve other sources of support too.

How parents can get involved:

• Sharing home activities through ParentZone (this can be experiences at home, when out and about or when visiting somewhere exciting)
• Telling us your own talents and interests- we strive to include and celebrate this within the nursery!
• Gathering resources with your children. For example sticks on a woodland walk, leaves from the local park or petals from cut flowers at home!
• Joining in with nursery events e.g. sports day, Christmas play, parties, fun days
• Attending parents meetings and discussions.
• Supporting sponsored events and charity weeks
• Suggesting activities, contributing to planning and sharing your child’s interests.

How we support our parents:

• Recognise and support parents as their child’s first and most important educators. We welcome all our families into the life and community of the nursery.
• Maintain regular contact with parents to help us to build a secure and supportive working relationship for their children.
• Operate a key person system to enable parents to establish a close working relationship with a named practitioner and to support two-way information sharing about each child’s individual needs both in nursery and at home. Parents are given the name of the key person when their child starts at nursery.
• Inform parents how the nursery supports children with special educational needs and disabilities.
• Actively encourage parents to contribute to children’s learning through sharing observations, interests and experiences from home. This may be verbally, sharing photographs or observations via ParentZone.