Parental Info, Communication and Support
Our promise to you...
At Shadwell Childcare we recognise that parents and carers are their child's primary carers and we work continually to build trusting relationships with parents to create a stable, secure environment for children. We use a wide range of ways to communicate with you to let you know all of the fun we are having from wonderful activities on a daily basis to special event days and welcome every opportunity for you to share information with us.
Your child's key person
Within our setting we operate a Key Person system. Their primary role is to ensure all of your child's needs are met and that they are safe and happy. Your child's key person will work in partnership with you and your child, building up a caring and fun bond, allowing each child to enjoy their time with us. Taking time to bond with your child, your key person will learn about your child's likes and dislikes and will plan according to your child's development and learning. They will be available for you to speak with on a daily basis and will be happy to support any transitions or changes from within your home life for example the arrival of a new baby, a house move or even toilet training. Working closely together allow continuity and security for your child, creating happy, secure children.
Parent Partnership is very important to us, please see the Key Person bags scheme we recently launched. We hope you and your child enjoy owning one!
The Learning Journey
We are delighted to share the news that we use the Family software platform to share so much wonderful information about your child’s day with you. This allows us to send updates on sleep times, meals, snacks and the fun activities they will take part in each day. Instead of using a traditional paper book style way of recording, we can upload photos and observations of your children. You can log on and view what your child has been learning and the activities they have taken part in and add in your own comments.
Another advantage of this system is that you can add your photos from holidays, birthdays or special occasions or simply from a lovely weekend walk.
The safeguarding of our children is very important to us and therefore please be assured you will only have access to your child’s own system and this cannot be seen by other parents.
Parents Involvement
We welcome all of our parents into our setting and are very lucky that many come in to share details of celebrations and festivals with all of our children and staff. If you would like to share any event with us, a family holiday, religious celebration or a new family member or pet, please let your child's Key Person know and we can arrange for a visit.
All our children will receive our educational packs
Stay & Plays
Reading Week / World book Day
Parents' Comments
I firstly just wanted to say that I really love and appreciate the extra communication and interactions you are all providing, I find this really great for myself being a parent as it helps to be more involved and be more aware and know what is going on the overall end of term pdf you provide from Parent link is just amazing in order to keep, that's really has also been wonderful to print, keep and also send onto our family, thank you!
Dear Staff, Thank you so very much for sending this (the PDF learning journal update) through. It's actually brought a tear to my eye! So kind and thoughtful and just so wonderful to see how happy she is. It's so lovely to be able to share such precious time with her grandparents too. Thank you for everything, we appreciate all you do so much.
Thank you so much for collating this and sending it (the termly pdf journal) . I've absolutely loved looking at this - it's beautiful. - Thank you for all you do.
This is absolutely wonderful, thank you so much for creating this for us. You have been great xxx
Ready to join us?
As an established non-profit organisation, we use any additional finances available to enhance the setting allowing us to continually strive for excellence for all children, parents and staff. If you would like to join us, please return the session request form (available below in either WORD or PDF format) and we will contact you regarding a starting date and what sessions are available.
We are a very popular setting and you can use the session request form to add your details to the waiting list for future years. Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to arrange a visit, we would love to show you around our wonderful early learning environment.