PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS

Partnership with Parents

Working Alongside Our Parents

ABC recognises that parents / carers are the most important people in their child’s life. ABC aims to work with you in providing care and education for your child, each child is assigned key persons who work in partnership with parents in order to provide the best outcomes for children. Each child has 2 key persons who work together to promote the learning and development of your child. Having 2 key persons means that there is always a familiar practitioner in the setting for the children and their parents.

We like to welcome parent volunteers to the setting, and we invite parents in to play when we can. Any regular visitors to the setting will be asked to complete a DBS check.

Uniform

Meet The Team

Policies & Procedures

Term Dates

Our term dates are in line with Swalecliffe School and are as follows:

Term 1

Monday 5^th September - Friday 21^st October 2022

Term 2

Tuesday 1^st November – Friday 16^th December 2022

Term 3

Thursday 5^th January – Friday 10^th February 2023

Term 4

Monday 20^th February – Friday 31^st March 2023

Term 5

Monday 17^th April – Friday 26^th May 2023

Term 6

Monday 5^th June – Friday 21^st July 2023

We are also closed on Bank Holiday Monday 1^st May 2023

Parents as Volunteers

The pre-school will again welcome parent volunteers when government guidelines allow us to do so. Due to the Covid 19 pandemic, we have had to close our doors to all visitors, once it is safe to do so, we will once again invite parents in to the setting to play and help out. In order to help safeguard the children in our care, regular volunteers will be asked to complete a criminal records check procedure.

What To Bring

If your child is in nappies or pull ups please provide:

Nappies/pull ups
Wipes
Nappy sacks

For all children please provide:

A full change of clothes, including socks
A sun hat for outside play
Wellington boots when it’s wet

Uniform

We have a lovely uniform of sweatshirts, polo shirts and fleeces that are practical and hard wearing, and look great teamed with trousers or jeans. The wearing of our uniform is beneficial for the following reasons:

The children have a sense of belonging when wearing the uniform, and know they are attending pre-school that day.

The uniform makes the children easily identifiable when we are out on our planned walks.

Wearing the uniform saves wear and tear on the children’s other lovely clothing.

The step from pre-school to primary school is not so big if the children are dressing in uniform when they attend pre-school

Uniform can be purchased from the pre-school

T-Shirts

red or blue

£6.00

Polo shirts

red or blue

£8.00

Sweatshirts

red or blue

£10.50

Fleeces

red or blue

£12.50

We completely understand that some parents may prefer to dress their children in their own clothing so we would ask that you please dress your child in clothing which is easy for them to manage independently e.g. pull-up trousers, shoes with Velcro, and that clothing is appropriate to the current weather and climate.

We encourage children to gain the skills which help them to be independent and look after themselves. These include taking themselves to the toilet, taking off and putting on various clothing eg dressing-up clothes etc

All clothing should be clearly named especially coats and sweatshirts/jumpers that may be taken off.