Policies
Our policies in Belfi’s Child Care daycare allows us to provide safe, nurturing and continuing child care services. Therefore it is so important to us that our families are completely aware of our policies and their importance. For any more information regards our policies you can always contact the manager . Here is a brief of our policies for general information.
Physical Activity Policy
At Belfi’s Child Care daycare children will have at least one-hour active playtime every day. Manager will lead children for active playtime per day for an hour at a time.
Manager will role model activities targeting loco-motor skills, such as running, hopping, jumping, and games that involve these sorts of movements. Manager will model what is safe play for children in order to prevent any injuries.
Toy Policy
We prefer children do not bring toy from home as it may cause difficulties with sharing and that special toy may get lost or broken.
Show And Tell
Once a week on Fridays we have show and tell. On that day each child is welcomed to bring a special toy from home to the centre and show it to all friends and talk about it.
Birthday Policy
We believe it is very important to acknowledge every child’s birthday. Children’s birthday will be celebrate in the daycare and parents are welcomed to bring special snack or cake to the daycare considering this is a nut free daycare.
Discipline Policy
The purpose of guidance and discipline is to help children acquire the skills of self-control, self–confidence, and ultimately self–discipline. The discipline policy respects the rights and well being of each child. Our goal is to provide and maintain a safe, nurturing and healthy learning and living environment in which each child can feel secure. We will provide a stimulating environment to encourage positive play, comfort and social interaction. We will model appropriate and respectful behaviour, and demonstrate respectful affection and caring to each child at all times. In guiding a child’s behaviour, we use positive guidance, encouraging the use of problem solving techniques that develop self-confidence and communication skills. We encourage children to verbalize their feelings, allowing for choices and reinforcing positive behaviours rather than negative ones. Setting clear, consistent and simple limits is important. Knowing their limits, the children can trust the adults and feel safe and secure. We will acknowledge each child’s feelings and give verbal directions and redirection as the main way of guiding children. We explain that we can’t allow the children to hurt themselves, to hurt another child or adult or to damage property. We try to positively redirect them and to show them what behaviour is permissible.
Example: When two children are in conflict, the manager will assist them to verbalize their feelings, letting them know it is all right to be angry and help them find an appropriate way to express their anger. Our goal is to help children develop self-discipline, and to find acceptable ways of expressing and controlling feelings. We do this by encouraging children to use their language to express their feelings and desires.
Items Needed At The Centre
Parents are required to make sure a complete set of changing clothes (clean change of appropriate indoor and outdoor clothing) brought from home and kept at the daycare.
Appropriate indoor & outdoor clothing includes:
An extra shirt, pants, underwear and socks.
In the winter please ensure that your child has a coat, hat and a pair of mittens.
For raining days please bring appropriate rainwear, raincoat, rain boots and indoor slippers.
In the summer please bring a hat, sunscreen lotion and appropriate shoes (NO FLIP FLOPS please).
Diapers and Wipes
Bed sheet and any stuffy your child feels comfortable with for nap time
Please call or let the manager know if your child will be away from the daycare.
Emergency Comfort Kit
We are asking every child to bring a comfort kit to have in case of an emergency: fire or earthquake.
Letter from mom or dad that comfort the child as well please :
write your most recent contact information
Family picture
Daycare Closure
Daycare will be closed (but not limited) on the following days:
Christmas Day
New Years
Boxing Day
Good Friday
Easter Monday
Victoria Day
Canada Day
Civic Holiday
Labor Day
Truth and Reconciliation Day (Orange Shirt Day)
Thanksgiving Day
Remembrance Day
Winter Break (Last two weeks of December)
Exception
If a statutory holiday falls on a weekend, either the proceeding Friday or Monday is a holiday.
Extreme Weather Condition – School Closure
all of our procedures for extreme weather and closures due to snow follow the standards set forward by the Coquitlam School District (SD43).
In the event of extreme weather conditions and power outages SD43 will communicate their decision as to whether or not schools will be open or closed before 6:30am of the same day. This information will be made available on the district website www.sd43.bc.ca.
Food And Nutrition
We are a nut free daycare!!!
2 healthy meals and snacks will be provided to each child everyday .
Food and snack menu will be available in the beginning of each week.
All Meals and Snacks will be served with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Health And Illness Policy
A child should be kept home when any of the following symptoms occur:
*Pain-any complaints of unexplained or undiagnosed pain
*Common cold with listlessness, runny nose and eyes, coughing and sore throat
1-Once the child’s temperature, well being and energy return to normal, the child is no longer considered contagious and may return back to daycare regardless
2- if they continue to have a cough or runny nose
3-If the child’s symptoms are due to an allergy such as asthma or hay fever, the child does not need to be excluded as they are not contagious
*Difficulty breathing-wheezing or a persistent cough
*Fever (100 degrees F/38.3 degrees C or more), sore throat or trouble swallowing
*Infected skin, discharge from eyes, or an undiagnosed rash
*Headache and stiff neck *should see physician)
*Unexplained diarrhea or loose stool in the last 24 hours (may or may not be combined with nausea, vomiting or stomach cramps).
*Nausea or vomiting 1 or more times in past 24 hours
*Severe itching, dry skin of either body or scalp if caused by head lice or scabies
*Children with known suspected communicable diseases
The child should be kept home until all symptoms have stopped.
Medication Administration
Medication will be administered to children only when absolutely necessary with the following guidelines:
Parents must fill out an administration of medication form before any medication can be administered to a child. The form includes date, child’s name, Dr’s name and phone number, dosage and information about the medication. Parents must sign the form. Manager will document the amount the medication. Manager will document on the form the date, time and dosage of when the medication was administered.
Medication must be sent in the original container and include directions for use or physicians instructions (no over the counter medications will be administered unless accompanied by a Dr’s note stating the dose and name of medication)
Medications will be placed in the Medication Box and inaccessible to the children
In regards to inhalers, they will be kept in a clear Ziploc bag (labeled with the child’s name) .
All inhalers must be prescribed by a doctor and a medical form must be filled out; inhalers must be handed directly to the manager in a Ziploc bag with the child’s name on it.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ANY MEDICATIONS (over the counter or prescribed) IN YOUR CHILD’S BACKPACK
The daycare will not accept children with allergy plans without a valid puffer and EPI PEN.
Arrival and Departures
Every child is to be personally dropped off or picked up by a parent/guardian or an authorized person stated in the registration package and emergency consent card. Your child is to be signed in daily on the sign-in sheet. If any unauthorized person (not on the pick–up list) comes to pick up your child, the child will not be released without WRITTEN consent dated and signed by the parent. The manager will not allow your child to leave the daycare with anyone other than yourself or a person authorized by you.
Emergency Pickup
In order to ensure your child’s safety; please send a written note when someone other than yourself or your emergency contact will be picking up your child. Please state the first and last name of who will be picking up your child, the time they will pick up your child and the date. Also, please ensure that whoever is picking up your child has photo identification on hand before the child will be released into their care. Any last minute arrangements to send the child to a friend’s house after 3pm will not be acceptable unless the daycare is informed by 9am the same day of the play date.
No Contact
If no contact can be made with either a parent or emergency contact person in regards to coming and picking up the child by 8pm, Social Service and MCFD will be informed. Please be aware that constant late pick-ups will be cause for termination of the parent agreement contract, this would be determined by the daycare manager.
Termination Policy
Provider
In the event that the provider decides to terminate the child care relationship due to repeated contact violations, the provider reserves the legal right to terminate the child care relationship without notice. Any false accusations or threats made to the manager by the parents/legal guardians will lead to immediate termination. to avoid the unfortunate situation from occurring, parents and legal guardians are required to thoroughly read the entire child care contracts as well as sign off on the written warnings of any incident their child is a part of.
Parent/ Legal Guardian
In the event that the parent or legal guardian chooses to terminate the child care for any reason the parent or legal guardian will be required to submit a letter in writing and provide at least two months notice. The parent / legal guardian will be responsible for all final payments through the end of the notice period regardless of whether or not the child is attending the facility. Also the parents will surrender the deposit fee as it is only refundable to the client in the last month of their registration.
Fee’s
Administration and Half-Month Deposits Fee
Upon Child Spot Confirmation a 200$ Registration Fee as well as the half-month of Monthly fee will be required.
Late Pick up
Procedure if a child is NOT picked up by 6pm and parents HAS NOT phoned:
Manager will try to reach all persons who have been designated as a pick up person for that child on their emergency form. I.e. parents and emergency contacts. Starting with parents first.
Manager will try each designated person at least 2 times; also will leave a message to let them know she is trying to contact them in regards to picking up their child from daycare, leave time, contact info, name and date.
Late fee charge
We aim to close our daycare promptly at 6pm. In order to discourage late pick up we have late fee charges.
Late Fees
6 to 6:10pm is a flat rate of $15. An additional $5 will be added every 5 minutes until the child is picked up from the centre. Therefore a 6:15pm pick up will result in a late fee of $20($15 + $5 for the additional 5 min = $20).
Pet policy
We have two dogs in our daycare. The dogs will not be in contact with children at any time. Both of our dogs are fully vaccinated and have been registered with the City of Coquitlam. Our dogs will not use our backyard for washroom area, as we want to make it completely clean for children to play.
Cameras
There is no cameras in the daycare except the door bell camera and baby monitor in the nap room and sometimes in the daycare.