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Top tips for babies & kids!
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from one another and working
together for the well-being of
the children.
The function of a nursery
is to support families in this
endeavour. Therefore, families
should expect the nursery to:
• Do everything in their power
to ensure that your child
feels comfortable and secure
as well as maintain the
health, safety and well-being
of your child in their care.
• Provide skilled, qualified
and experienced staff that
operates with exemplary
adult-to-child ratios and in
limited group sizes
• Keep in strict confidence any
information you share with
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goals for him or her.
• Communicate with you about
teachers and staff members.
• Maintain sensitivity and your child’s development
and progress in the program.
ensure that all children • Provide opportunities
and families are treated for you to increase your
with respect regardless of understanding of child
ethnic background, lifestyle, development in general
disabling condition, gender, and your own child’s
family structure or religion. development in particular.
• Strive to enhance the overall • Willingly assist you in
development of your child locating appropriate
in the program and track child and family resources
their progress through available in the community.
systematic observations and • Consistently strive to
assessments, the outcomes implement programs based
of which are used as a basis on sound child development
for future instruction principles and relevant
• Engage in a variety of research.
activities to gauge your • Strive to provide a positive
child’s progress through the learning environment for
program to develop personal all children enrolled in the
program regardless of ability,
special needs or learning
style.
The outcomes of such
approaches noted above
are multi-fold. Typically, your
child will:
• Develop a sense of
competence as part of a
social and physical world.
• Explore actively and
purposely the environment.
• Acquire appropriate social
behaviours.
• Refine and build social,
emotional, language,
physical and cognitive skills.
• Enhance sensory skills.
• Learn effective
communication skills.