It is our goal here at Creative Little Angels to offer a family educational environment.  We achieve this through providing a positive, safe, nurturing, and loving environment for your child.  We believe this environment will help each child develop strong self-esteem and learn valuable life skills.  Most importantly, we help each child to develop intellectually, physically, emotionally, and socially at his or her own rate.

It is our goal to offer the following:

·        Professional staff who are experienced, skillful, and who all meet state qualifications.

·        All staff are certified in CPR and First Aid

·        A developmental curriculum tailored to individual needs

·        A great place to help with the transition from home to school

·        Low teacher/student ratios, allowing for individualized care

·        A rich academic environment offered in a sensitive, creative manner, to foster each child’s interest and enjoyment in art, dramatic play, reading, mathematics, science, music, and physical activity

·        Well-equipped indoor and outdoor play areas, which offer ample opportunities for physical development

·        An open door policy that gives parents the opportunity to observe and/or to discuss the progress of their child. 

             Policies and Guidelines

Absences: 

Please inform the school before 8:30 a.m., if your child will not be attending school.  This will help staff plan activities accordingly.

Bedding: 

Please provide bedding.  All bedding will be sent home once a week for washing.

Behavior management plan:

The staff is dedicated to the goal of maximizing the growth and development of the children and for protecting the group and individuals within it.  The staff will use behavioral management in a consistent, reasonable and appropriate way based on an understanding of the individual needs and development of a child.

Birthday Parties:

All party invitations need attention of  the classroom teacher.

Clothing:

Please dress your children in comfortable, washable, play clothing appropriate for the weather and daily activities.  Please provide one change of clothes (shirt, pants, socks, and underwear) for your child for unexpected events.  The clothes will be left at school in a labeled box for each child and sent home if they become soiled. During winter months, each child needs to have snow pants, jacket/snowsuit, mittens, hat, and boots daily.  Outside play is scheduled every day except during rain or frigid weather.

Daily Information:

Announcements and notices will be posted on each classroom’s Parent board.  Messages, monthly newsletters, and monthly director’s letter will be put in the child’s mailbox.  Please check both of these places each day.

Discipline Policy:

 When a child’s behavior is such that it results in the disruption of classroom activities or it endangers the safety of other children in the classroom, the parent is called in for a conference with the staff teacher and director to discuss appropriate steps to correct the problem.

If such behavior continues in the classroom on a daily basis, the parent will be called to remove the child for the remainder of the day.

The school reserves the right to suspend the child for three days or to terminate the child on the basis of continual disruptive behavior or failure of the child to comply with the policies set by the school.

Drop off/ pick-ups:

When dropping off or picking up your child, please enter the child’s classroom through the appropriate door so not to disturb other classrooms.  All children need to be signed in and out each day..

Fire-Drills:

Monthly fire drills will be conducted to inform children of proper emergency procedures.

Food and Beverages:

Please provide your child with a lunch and at one snack.  Heat up foods should be provided in a microwavable container. Breakfast food may be sent as well if arrival is before 7:30a.m.  Each child should bring a lunch box/cooler with icepack to keep things cold.  The center will provide milk and juice.  2% milk will be offered and various juices that are 100% juice and a morning snack.  If there are any allergies please notify the director.  All children 24 months and older will be drinking out of regular cups provided by the center.  

Medications:

In order for any medication prescription or non-prescription, to be administered by school staff the following are required: 

*Written parent permission indicating the name of the medication, the times to be administered and the amount given

*Written physician’s order: label on prescription medication clearly indicating it is for the child

*All medications must be stored safely at school with the staff.  Please indicate if medication is to be refrigerated. Please give all medicines to Director at front entrance.

Progress Reports:

Developmentally age-appropriate progress reports will be given for each child twice a year.  Parent meetings will be at the discretion of the teacher or upon request.  Year-end evaluations will be formally discussed with parents.

Rest Time:

All children attending more than five hours rest for a minimum of one hour.  State law states children in attendance for more than five hours be provided with an opportunity for at least one hour of rest, relaxation, or sleep, depending on the needs of the child.

School Shoes:

All walking children need to wear indoor sneakers or soft sole shoes or slippers inside.  

Tuition: 

Tuition is due on Tuesdays of each week.  There will be a $10.00 late fee for tardiness with tuition.  Please make a strong effort to pay on time to eliminate extra fees.  If you do not pay tuition on Tuesday, please include the late fee the next day.  If you come on Monday but not Tuesday, please pay on Monday. If you do not come on Monday or Tuesday, please pay the first day you come.

Tuition is due regardless of attendance, vacations, or Holiday closings.  If you plan to be absent please drop tuition in box before you leave.

Toys: 

If at all possible, home toys should stay home. 

Traffic and Safety:

 Please do not leave your car running in the driveway.  Please be timely when dropping off and picking up during high traffic hours.

       Sick Policy

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We reserve the right not to accept a child who appears ill or has a contagious condition. This is for the protection of other children and staff in the school.

It is our policy that if your child is sent home with any of the following symptoms: fever, rash, diarrhea, vomiting, or the first sign of a communicable disease, the child may not return to school for 24 hours, not including the day the child is sent home.

Please comply with the following guidelines for school attendance for everyone’s health and safety.

·        Chicken Pox

A child with chicken pox will be excluded from school until 7-10 days after the rash appears or when the lesions are scabbed over. 

·        Conjunctivitis

A child with conjunctivitis (pink eye) can return to school 24 hours after antibiotic medication has been started.

·        Colds

Children with nasal discharge will be allowed to attend school unless the discharge is profuse.

A child with uncontrolled coughing or wheezing will be sent home.

·        Diarrhea

A child with more than one episode of diarrhea in one day will be sent home.

·        Ear Infections

A child who is feeling better and has no fever can return to school.

·        Fatigue

A parent will be called if a child exhibits extreme or unusual fatigue or lethargy. 

·        Fever

A child with an oral temperature 101 ^oF  or higher combined with behavior changes or other signs of illness such as:  diarrhea, rash, ear ache, sore throat, or vomiting must be sent home.  A child must be AFEBRILE (without fever) for 24 hours before returning to school.

·        Fifth Disease

Fifth disease is an illness caused by a virus called human parvovirus B19.  Most children with it develop a facial rash (i.e. slapped cheek appearance) and a lace like rash on the trunk and extremities.  It takes 4-20 days after exposure to develop the characteristic rash illness of fifth Disease.  People with the rash are past the period of infectiousness to others; therefore, children with Fifth Disease may attend school, as they are not contagious after the onset of the rash.

·        Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

An infection caused by the coxsackie virus that produce vesicular lesions (i.e. blisters) that may occur in the mouth, on the sides of the tongue, inside the cheek and on the gums.  Lesions also occur on the palms, fingers, soles, and buttocks.  Most lesions persist for 7-10 days.  A low-grade fever may accompany the illness for one to two days.  Exclusion from a childcare facility or school is not recommended.

·        Head Lice- Scabies

A child with head lice can return to school 24 hours after treatment has begun and after all nits have been removed. 

·        Hepatitis-A

Persons diagnose with hepatitis-A should be excluded from childcare and school for one week after jaundice appears.

·        Impetigo

A child can return to school 24 hours after treatment has begun and lesions can be covered.

·        Mildly Ill Child

Children exhibiting non-contagious symptoms, which should be expected to resolve themselves in a short time, will be allowed to stay in school.  If the symptoms persist and impair or prohibit a child’s participation in the regular school activities a parent will be called. If the symptoms require more care than childcare personnel are able to provide without compromising the health and safety of the ill or injured child or the other children a parent will be called.

·        Skin Lesions

A child with skin lesions, which have not been diagnosed or treated by a licensed health practitioner, will be sent home.

·        Strep Throat

A child can return to school 24 hours after antibiotic treatment has begun.

·        Vomiting

After a night of vomiting, parents should keep their child at home the following day.  When your child feels well enough to return to school and there are no other symptoms, then your child may be readmitted to school.  While in school two or more episodes of vomiting, the child will be sent home.