Skip to content We are a 60-place nursery. Places are available for babies and children from 3 months to 5 years. Funded 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old places available as well as the option to access further hours between 7.30 am & 6.00 pm. We pride ourselves in delivering excellent care and early education with the children at the centre of everything that we do. Our promise is to support every child as individuals.
According to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework, a partnership includes ‘parents, families and practitioners working together to benefit children.’ For a partnership to work well, it must be built on trust, transparency and responsibility from all parties involved.
There are many ways practitioners and parents can work together. The EYFS focuses on four elements, including:
But why is it so important for children’s day nurseries to partner with parents?
The most important element of any children’s day nursery is trust. Leaving your child is a difficult thing to do, especially at such a young age, and it’s up to the day nursery to show that your child is in a trusting environment.
Not only that, a child needs to feel safe when they’re in an environment without their parents. At Stars, we use the Key Person system to partner children with adults to effectively tailor each child’s development. Not only does this help build trust in the child, it also creates trust for the parents, too.
Parents need to get involved at every stage of a child’s development, and a partnership is an ideal way for parents to understand how their child is getting on outside of their care.
But, for this to be fully effective, parents need to be willing to get involved. This means you need to be in regular contact with your child’s school, ensuring that you understand how your child is developing and what you can do to further their learning at home.
At children’s day nurseries, the expectation is that parents will actively get involved in their child’s learning. For the parent, they expect their child to be left in the right hands, and that those hands are actively progressing their child’s learning and development.
Parent partnerships, then, clarify the expectations for everyone. Good relationships with day nurseries helps you manage your expectations and raise any concerns that you have about their learning. It also allows a school to set their expectation of how involved parents should be outside of the classroom.
Children learn at different rates. A partnership with parents ensures that each parent is kept up-to-date on their child’s learning and development.
Children’s day nurseries may make changes to the curriculum or their working practices, and it’s important for this to be voiced to the parents. Monthly newsletters are a great way to ensure everyone is kept up-to-date on not only what the children are learning, but also on any changes that are made at school.
There are multiple ways you can begin to put your partnership into practice. A few examples include:
Daily diaries – development diaries can help both parents and practitioners better understand a child’s rate of development.
Parents evenings– This allows for practitioners and parents to talk in-depth about a child’s development, helping both parties raise any comments or concerns they may have.
Coffee mornings and tea parties – Like parents evening, coffee
mornings and tea parties are the perfect way to catch up with practitioners and voice your thoughts about your child’s development.
SEND – working with external professionals to support child who my need extra help using Redbridge’s Local offer
We operate a key person system in the nursery where each child has a key person. The key person observes their key child regularly and completes assessments, which helps to identify any support that the child may need. We try to identify children with SEN as early as possible. We know when children need help if:
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