Daybreak Nursery is just the start of your child’s education, and we work hard to make sure your child is ready for school once the time comes. Each child is unique, and we individually nurture each and every one to make sure they get the best possible start.
Starting school is a time of transition and it requires co-operation between childcare professionals, teachers and parents. UNICEF describes school readiness as consisting of three pillars:
• children’s readiness for school
• schools’ readiness for children
• families’ readiness for school.
By working together the three pillars maximise each child’s likelihood of success as they progress through their time in school. Therefore, school readiness refers not only to the attributes of a child but also to the roles and responsibilities of families, teachers and practitioners in ensuring that children are ready and able to access learning as they enter school and beyond.
Our early years practitioners are vital at this time of transition and we seek to collaborate and communicate effectively with both parents and schools to help to prepare each child for school.
To help make each child’s transition a positive one we will:
• Establish positive relationships and communicate with parents about the transition to school.
• Share ideas with parents about how to support children’s development and learning at home.
• Establish positive relationships with individual schools setting up two way communication about each child so that their school have all the information to have school ready to meet the individual child’s needs.