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• An open house:
– open communication with our parents
• Check out our website please!
– Information sharing
– Provide social emotional, parenting and medical support
• Keep up with changes/ the latest in the area of child care
• Make your baby feel safe: try to have a regular childcare assistant for him/her every day

Barbara Vrijdags
Director
Babyhome
Katrijn Leempoels
Childcare assistants
Villa
Trees Steyaerts
Iris Tomzack
Marina De Greef educationalist
Kristien Brosens
Management assistant
Kabouterberg en kabouters
Nele Lapiere
Veerle Bruyninckx
Lore De Cooman
Peutertuin
Emilie De Poorter
Ilse Brison
Childcare assistants Childcare assistants Childcare assistants
Grootpark
Karolien Slagmolen
Childcare assistants

6 Different day care centers:
Kabouterberg – kabouters
Villa
Babyhome
Peutertuin
Grootpark

• Kabouterberg: structured mixed-age groups
• Peutertuin:
– one mixed age group / other groups semi-mixed
• Villa: same-age groups
• Babyhome: same-age groups
• Grootpark:
– one mixed age group/ others semi-mixed

• Mixed age- groups:
– baby’s form one group along with todlers, they stay in the same group untill school
– They have a team of max 4 childcare assistants
• Semi-mixed:
– Baby’s and todlers up til the age of 18 months form one group with a childcare assistant
– Todlers from 1,5 years and up form a group with a new childcare assistant
• Same- age groups:
– Baby’s of the same age stay together untill they start school, they have one childcare assistant during all those years

How do you feel about our way of working?
Do you feel your baby is happy in his/her group?
Do you prefer same-age groups, semi-mixed, mixed groups?
 Questionnary in October
 In coorporation with Prof.Dr Ferre Laevers from
CEGO
 Target: one way of working in all the day care centers by summer of next year

We try our absolute best to provide a regular childcare assistant
However:
People sometimes get sick
People get pregnant
People want to work less
People retire…
 Sometimes you will find there are substitutes who take care of your child in cases like these

Provide play-clothing that may get dirty
So children can play outside without our childcare assistant worrying too much 

Don’t bring you child to the day care center when it’s sick! Your baby should be free of fever for as long as 24 hours before returning to daycare
• To protect your child:
• sick children need time to rest and recover
• To protect other children
• To protect our staff:
• so we can provide continuity in our care
We do not administer medication, only medication to lower a fiever, with a written agreement from parents and doctor
We call parents when your child is not feeling well, please come to your daycare center ASAP

When you drop your child off quite early (before 8 a.m), you will find your child stays in a group with children from different “families” (units) until all our staff is present
(different work shifts). This is
“de vroege”.

Round 8 a.m. they go to their
“classroom” and stay there during the day with their regular childcare assistant
With our baby’s, we try to follow their day rythme from home and let them sleep and eat when they need it

Toddlers have a more structured day:
 playtime till 11,
 then lunch, (ALMA provides our meals)
 then nappy time till around 2 pm,
 playtime again,
 snacktime round 15: an apple a day… ;-)
 playtime till mum or dad arrives…
Round 6 the children who aren’t picked up yet, gather in one room, we call this ‘de late”
More of all this later..
Please, try to arrive in time, not after closing hours!

If you pick up your child in “de late”, you may not have the chance to talk to its’ regular childcare assistant every day
 How to know how your childs’ day was then?/ how he/she is doing in general?
 Diary (heen en weer boekje):
 is filled out with usefull information:
 Diapers update, sleep, feedings, anekdotes…
 Please write down important/fun things …
 “Look, I’m growing up”: how is your child developping?

• wether your child is developping well
• Wether your child is feeling happy in the nursery
• wether your child is ready for pre-school
• Wether your child is ready for potty training
Or you have other questions about parenting/
The well being of your child…
Please let us know! Contact your manager of the nursery, ask for an appointement with Marina-
Our educationalist, or make an appointment with me.