Parents

Our extended hours of operation are from 5:00 AM to 9:00PM

Let Us Know When Your Child Is Not Feeling Well

Call the program as soon as possible in the morning to let us know that your child will be absent due to illness.

Please keep your child home whenever you observe the following symptoms:

⮚ Fever
⮚ Sore throat
⮚ Eye infection
⮚ Continuous and colored nasal excretions
⮚ Persistent chest cough
⮚ Pink eye or any undiagnosed contagious rash
⮚ Vomiting
⮚ Diarrhea
⮚ Head lice

We require children to remain at home until the symptoms and/or fever have been gone for at least 24 hours – without medication. Children may return to program, in less than the 24-hour period, with written notification from a physician.

Weather permitting, children/students will have access to outdoor learning and recreation every day. If you feel your child is too sick to work or play outdoors, please keep them home from program. TenderTree Montessori is not staffed to provide one-on-one care and supervision of children.

Children/students with infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, measles, chickenpox, conjunctivitis, or strep throat must remain at home until the contagious stage has passed. We are required to notify those who have been exposed, so the program must be notified immediately of a contagious illness diagnosis.
If Your Child Becomes Sick at Program
We will do our best to comfort and care for your child should they feel sick, while we assess the nature and seriousness of their condition. We make the determination whether to send a child home or keep them in class based on their level of discomfort or pain, their ability to stay engaged in self-directed learning and teacher lessons, their emotional state, social behavior, and the risk to others in their classroom and program community.

Considering living with COVID 19 and its variants – if a child test positive they will need to stay home for 5 days before returning to program symptom-free.

You will receive a call from us, requesting that you pick up your child as soon as possible, if we observe any of the following symptoms:

⮚ A fever of 100 degrees or higher
⮚ Uncontrolled vomiting
⮚ Uncontrolled diarrhea
⮚ A rash that might be contagious
⮚ Any symptoms that are preventing your child from participating in learning, social, or recreational activities
⮚ Symptoms of lethargy or sleepiness
⮚ Changes in mood, such as irritability, sadness, or anxiety that are disrupting your child’s learning or the learning of others.
⮚ Any set of symptoms that require more care and attention than our teachers or administrative staff can provide, without compromising the health, safety, and supervision of other students.

If we determine that, due to your child’s current state of health, they need to be picked up, we will contact you by phone. If we are unable to reach you within 30 minutes, we will begin calling designated emergency contact individuals kept on file in the office. Please be sure you have identified alternative pick-up people; in the event you are unavailable or unreachable.

If your child’s health condition will cause them to be absent from program for an extended period, please contact their teacher(s) to discuss strategies for maintaining their learning and academic progress at home.
The Importance of Complete and Accurate Health Information About Your Child
It is vital to your child’s health and wellbeing, and to the wellbeing of others, that we have accurate and up-to-date records of:

● Current medications (prescription and over the counter)
● Allergies
● Pre-existing conditions that may affect their learning or behavior
● Professional help they are currently receiving that may impact their learning or behavior

Zero Tolerance to Bullying

Bullying has no place in a Montessori learning community. If we observe it, we address it immediately with the students involved and their families.

Forms of Bullying include:
1. Physical Bullying occurs when people use physical actions to gain power and control over another person.
2. Verbal Bullying occurs when words, statements, and name calling are used to gain power and control over another person.
3. Relational Aggression is a form of social manipulation, used to demean peers or sabotage their social standing.
4. Sexual Bullying is harmful and humiliating actions that target a person sexually.
5. Prejudicial Bullying is using race, religion, sexual orientation, or other biases to demean others.
6. Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or demean another person.

If you believe your child has become the target of bullying or appears to be exhibiting bullying behaviour, please report it to their teacher(s) as soon as possible. We are committed to nipping bullying behavior in the bud. Bullying behaviour is not accepted between students, between parents and students, between staff and students, between staff members, and between parents and staff.

Your child will be released to those family members and designated individuals, who are authorized for pick-up, as listed in your family file. Changes to your child’s authorized pick-up personnel may be made at any time through your account.

If a person, other than those authorized in your account, is to pick up your child from program, we will require oral or written notification from you or an account authorized individual. At the time of pick-up, the designated pick-up person will be required to produce identification before we will release your child. We will not release any child from program upon the word of the child or any non-authorized person.

Appropriate child seat restraints are required, and we reserve the right to not release a child at pick-up time if we observe inadequate seat restraint equipment in the vehicle.

TenderTree Montessori is legally obligated to honor all legal documents in shared custody situations, or when Child Protective Services is involved. We will not take the word of any person in such cases without verification provided by legal documentation and authority.

Please help us protect TenderTree Montessori children and families by disclosing everything we need to know to keep your child safe and to adhere to legal custody decisions and agreements.

S.W.E.E.T CARE FOR ALL AGES stands for:

Shift Accommodated Care.
Weekend Care.
Extended Care.
Emergency Care.
Timed Respite Care

Every parents situation is different, which is why we work with you to ensure that your child has access to a safe, familiar, and reliable environment on days where you need help beyond standard child care hours. Within our S.WE.E.T Care Program. We work with you to create a schedule based on your needs to ensure that your child is always in safe hands.

Each program accommodates a different need.

Shift Accommodated Care

• You bring in your schedule and we work with you to adjust your extended hour fees so that you are ONLY CHARGED FOR THE HOURS YOU NEED

Weekend Care.

• Whether it is a drop in situation or a regular need, we have you covered with our weekend care program which spans from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM Saturday & Sunday

Extended Care

• Similar to our weekend care we provide extra coverage for when the schedules do not line up. Offering extended hours from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM seven days a week.

Emergency Care

• We understand that life is unpredictable and make sure to do our best to always have you covered. With our Emergency care program as long as we have space we will make room for your child no matter the lack of notice. If we are open we are there.

Timed Respite Care

• Timed Respite care is for the days you need two hours for yourself. Whether its going to the grocery store or finally seeing your sons basketball game without a stroller we are there for you. On a first come first serve basis we allow you to allocate a set amount of respite hours you can drop your child off outside of their regular program hours.