partnership with parents

Partnership with parents

How are parents/carers included in their child’s development?

Parent partnership and the key person approach is an important part of a child’s development. From the first initial day the child settles the key person will work closely with the parents/carers to ensure that the child feels comfortable and secure within the nursery environment, this includes ensuring their interests and dislikes are taken into account.

We work closely with the parents/carers to set development targets for the child to achieve. Their first targets will be set from the All About Me booklet completed by the parents/carers. We will provide the parents with a report which outlines the activities we will carry out within the nursery to help them to achieve their next steps and also ideas that parents/carers can do at home to also support them. All reports will be translated into the home language to ensure that all parents/carers are included in their child’s development.

Every child has their own learning journey that will incorporate a mixture of observations, pictures and videos to evidence their journey throughout their time at nursery. This is compiled via the Parenta app. Parents/carers can have an input in their child’s learning journey and get real-time daily updates on their child’s day by downloading the Parenta parent app on their mobile telephone or other devices. The app is always accessible for the parents that have downloaded it, meaning that they can look at their child’s daily updates and learning journey at any time. We do arrange parent/carer evenings for all ages to give extra opportunities for you to discuss your child’s development with their key person.

We do encourage all parents/carers to complete weekend sheets so that we can see the child’s interests at home and even extend any activities or outings they may have enjoyed to incorporate into the nursery routines and topics.