Rise & Shine Chris,an Preschool - 3289 Laurel Rd Brunswick, Ohio 44212 Tax ID# 34-1895516
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Rise & Shine Chris,an Preschool 3289 Laurel Rd Brunswick, Ohio 44212 Tax ID# - 34-1895516 Mission Statement Rise and Shine preschool is a school that is loved and supported by Polaris Chris,an Church. Polaris is passionate about its role in suppor,ng families in their efforts to raise their children to know God and to follow Christ. The Rise and Shine mission is to provide a loving, suppor,ve, safe environment where children will not only learn their “ABC’s" but will also learn about God’s awesome love and how to live out Christ’s example. OUR PHILOSOPHY Each child approaches learning differently. Rise and Shine recognizes the fact that children bring to school a wide range of developmental levels, backgrounds, experiences and needs. Children also learn best when the environment supports construc,ve purpose-full play that allows the child to explore, manipulate, discover, ques,on and experiment while interac,ng with other children and teachers. The whole child is important to us which means that Rise and Shine provides opportuni,es in language, social, spiritual, physical, cogni,ve and crea,ve development. All ac,vi,es and material are age appropriate and relevant. We are rich in Language Arts and Math and proud of our Science and Social Study projects. Finally, we value a partnership with the families of the children we teach because this also promotes development and learning. OUR GOAL Our educa,onal goal is to give your children a solid founda,on of learning, while developing a posi,ve self-image, which will follow them throughout all their years of learning. CURRICULUM Rise and Shine uses Crea,ve Curriculum and Handwri,ng Without Tears. Crea,ve Curriculum is an award-winning curriculum that is based on sound research that aligns with the Ohio Early Learning Content Standards. It supports our programs philosophy of teaching and recognizes all areas of development. It is appropriate for ages Birth to 5 years old and offers an assessment tool that is on a con,nuum. Handwri,ng Without Tears is a curriculum that is used to teach readiness, drawing, alphabet knowledge, colors and coloring, pre-wri,ng and wri,ng skills. The curriculum uses hands-on mul,-sensory materials that en,ce children to want to learn. It is easy-to-teach and easy-to- learn.
LICENSE Rise and Shine is state licensed through the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family services. The license is posted in the center office. We are owned and operated by Polaris Chris,an Church. At the end of this handbook you will find an abachment about licensing and other valuable informa,on. Please take the ,me to read this informa,on. ENROLLMENT Rise and Shine is required by state law to follow the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services state ra,os, which pertains to the staff to child ra,o. Currently this ra,o is 1:9 TIMES OF OPERATION Rise and Shine Summer Camp will be in opera,on from June 8 – Aug. 12. Our class ,mes will be 9:30AM – 1:30PM Op,onal Extended care will be available from 8:30AM-9:30AM and 1:30PM-4:00PM (extended care maybe be cancelled if enrollment numbers are not meet). The teachers will greet your children and unlock the doors approximately 5 minutes before class ,me starts. We will follow the Brunswick City Schools Calendar for days off, snow days and vacation. If Brunswick is on a delay, bomb threat or closed due to an illness, we may still have school. ADMINISTRATOR’S OFFICE HOURS The administrator will be available at the center from 9:00AM- 2:00PM during summer camp on Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Other ,mes may be available by appointment only. REGISTRATION Registra,on applica,ons will be taken on a first-come-first-serve basis un,l enrollment capacity is reached. There is a $25.00 non-refundable registra,on fee. Any remaining applica,ons will be placed on a wai,ng list. These applicants will be no,fied if any openings occur. NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY Rise and Shine does not discriminate in the enrollment of children upon the basis of race, color, religion, sex or na,onal origin. ATTENDANCE POLICY In order for your child to abend Rise and Shine Summer Camp a registra,on form, roster form, health form, handbooks sign off and emergency transporta,on form must be completed and turned in. During Summer Camp we will need you to no,fy the school when your child will not be in abendance. Abendance will be taken every day. Money is not refunded for daily absences.
If permanent withdrawal is ever necessary, please advise the administrator at least two weeks
in advance.
TUITION
Tui,on is $75 a week.
Extended Care is $45 per week
Tui,on is due the Monday before your child is to abend camp. (See camp flier for specific
dates)
Checks should be made payable to Polaris Chris,an Church with “Summer Camp” wriben in the
note area. Tui,on can be mailed in or you may use our convenient drop box located by the
school entrance.
PROGRAM OPTIONS
Week 1: June 8-10 Trash and Recycling Tui,on due by June 1
Week 2: June 15-17 Pet Fist Tui,on due by June 8
Week 3: June 22-24 Magnets Tui,on due by June 15
Week 4: June 29 – July 1 Ice Tui,on due by June 22
Week 5: July 13-15 Digging Dinosaurs Tui,on due by June 29 or July 6
Week 6: July 20-22 Nocturnal animals Tui,on due by July 13
Week 7: July 27-29 Buberflies Tui,on due by July 20
Week 8: Aug. 3-5 Plants and trees Tui,on due by July 27
Week 9: Aug. 10-12 Senses Tui,on due by Aug. 3
You may choose any of the above weeks individually.
SAMPLE SCHEDULE – SUBJECT TO CHANGE
8:30-9:30 AM Extended Care
Four-hour Day
9:30-10:30 - Arrival, wash hands, circle ,me
10:30-11:00 Bathroom break, Snack
11:00-11:45 Inside ac,vi,es (small groups, free choice, art)
11:45-12:15 Lunch
12:15-1:15 Outdoor- (Planned outdoor ac,vi,es, free play, science experiments)
1:15-1:30-wash hands, dismissal
1:30-4:00 PM Extended Care
APPROPRIATE DRESS
For your child’s enjoyment of the ac,ve summer camp experiences and for his/her safety tennis
shoes are required. Play clothes are also recommended because your child will be using clay,paint, and glue throughout the summer. We would like your child to feel comfortable par,cipa,ng in all of the fun ac,vi,es and not have to worry about geong their clothes dirty or ruined. We appreciate your efforts in making your child’s school experience a posi,ve one. Do not send your child to Summer Camp in Croc’s or Flip Flops. SNACKS and LUNCH Please pack one snack for your child each day they attend Summer Camp. Extended Care children will need an additional snack for the afternoon. Lunch must be sent in each day for your child. Water will be available to your child at all times. NEW THIS YEAR: Due to covid-19 restrictions all snacks and lunch MUST be packed in throw away containers/bags. No lunch cloth bags/boxes. Please also make sure the items are easy to open for your child. This is to ensure the least amount of contact with your child's food. LATE PICK-UP It is very important to the staff both professionally and personally that your child is picked up on ,me. If your child is picked up late, you will be assessed a $1.00 a minute. DROP-OFF and PICK UP POLICY Drop off NEW THIS YEAR: When dropping off your child we ask that you remain in your car and follow the instruc,ons for your child's group. Summer Camp will have two classes each week and your child will be in either group A or group B. You will receive an email the week prior to your child's registered week leong you know which group they are in. Group A: will drive up to the Rise and Shine Preschool front doors. Groups B: will stop at the church lobby doors under the awning. Teachers will be ready to great your child approximately 5 minutes before camp starts. When dropping off your child please pull all the way up and a teacher will meet you there and assist your child out of the car. At this ,me we will take your child's temperature. Please refer to the illness policy below regarding temperatures. We appreciate your understanding and pa,ence with this new procedure. Please allow for extra ,me at drop off. Do not drop off your child if there is not a teacher outside to receive your child. Pick up New procedure: To follow the CDC guidelines of social distancing we will bring your child to your car. Please pull up to the same loca,on as you did for drop off.
We respecqully request that there is to be NO PARKING IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL ENTRANCE at any ,me during the day. RELEASE POLICY It is our policy to require wriEen permission given to the administrator or teacher prior to the release of a child from the center to any person other than the custodial parent or guardian, or contact person listed on Emergency Transporta,on Form or on the Authorized Persons form. Any individual may be required to show iden,fica,on, to a staff member, in certain circumstances. PARENTAL ACCESS Custodial parent, custodian, or guardian of a child enrolled at Rise and Shine will be permibed unlimited access to the center during its hours of opera,on for the purpose of contac,ng their children, evalua,ng the care provided by the center or evalua,ng the premises. Upon entering the premises, the custodial parent, custodian, or guardian should no,fy the administrator or his designee of his presence. CUSTODY AGREEMENTS If there are custody issues involved with your child, you must provide the center with court papers indica,ng who has permission to pick up the child. The center may not deny a parent access to their child without proper documenta,on. DIS-ENROLLMENT POLICY Rise and Shine reserves the right to exercise withdrawal services for any of the following reasons: 1. Failure to follow the preschool rules and policies. 2. Failure to return necessary documents. 3. Child not poby-trained NO PULL-UPS. 4. Failure to pay tui,on aser no,fica,on. 5. Excess absences without no,fica,on. GUIDANCE AND MANAGEMENT All employees at Rise and Shine believe that helping the child to learn self-control is very important. Our hope is that each child will learn self-discipline through careful guidance. Your child will be treated with love and respect. If children are treated with respect, they in turn learn to respect the teachers and their friends. Our expecta,ons will be kept within the child’s capabili,es and the child will be made aware of these expecta,ons. Rise and Shine has put together a policy that creates a consistent atmosphere of structured learning by training children to make appropriate choices. We recognize the importance of the coopera,on of
parents with teachers in shaping a child’s behavior in the classroom. The provisions of
5101:2-12-22 applies to all employees of Rise and Shine.
! No discipline technique will be delegated to any other child.
! No physical restraint will be used to confine a child.
! No child will be humiliated or subject to profane language or other verbal abuse.
! Discipline will not be imposed on a child for failure to eat or for toilet accidents.
! Techniques of discipline will not be used to humiliate, shame, or frighten a child.
! No corporal punishment will be used.
! If a child misbehaves the discipline will be related to the misbehavior and administered
immediately.
! First will be redirec,on of aben,on.
! Second abempted form of discipline will be ,meout, where the child is separated from
the group for a period of ,me equal to the child’s age.
! In case of a severe behavior problem, the child will be taken to the center’s office and a
parental conference may be requested.
ACCIDENTS/EMERGENCIES/SAFETY
Rise and Shine has put together several procedures that will ensure the safety of your child
while in our care. The following policies will be carried out by trained staff out of genuine
concern for all children.
! No child will ever be les alone or unsupervised
! A greeter will be at the drop-off area to take your child safely to their class.
! Children will be dismissed from their classrooms only to an adult that is the custodial
parent, guardian, or contact person listed on Emergency Transporta,on Form. A wriben
permission form must be given to the teacher or administrator to release a child to any
other person.
! Our center has immediate access at all ,mes to a working telephone within the building
used for the center. Each classroom has a cell phone which the teachers will use for
emergencies or to contact the front desk.
! The front doors to the center will be locked at all ,mes. If you need assistance please call
the school office.
! In the event of a fire or tornado, staff would follow the wriben instruc,ons that are
posted in each classroom. These instruc,ons cover staff responsibili,es and evacua,on
routes. The center will conduct monthly fire drills and periodic tornado drills. Records of
these drills will be kept in the office.
! If the building is unsafe for the staff and children to remain in the building due to fire,
bomb threat, gas leak, etc then the children will be relocated to the center’s emergency
des,na,on which is the Northwest corner of the property. A sign will be posted on the
front door of the center indica,on that we have been evacuated and the loca,on where
you can pick up your child. Parents will be contacted as soon as possible to come to pick
up your child. If a parent cannot be reached, we will contact the emergency contacts as
listed on your child’s enrollment informa,on.! If the center would need to close due to loss of power, heat or water for more than one
hour, Rise and Shine will call parents to come and get their child. If a parent cannot be
reached, we will contact the emergency contacts listed on your child’s enrollment
informa,on.
! In the unlikely event there would be an environmental threat or a threat of violence, the
staff will: secure the children in the safest loca,on possible, contact and follow the
direc,ons given by the proper authori,es and contact the parents as soon as the
situa,on allows. An incident report would also be provided to the parents.
! There is always one staff member present that has received training in First Aid,
Communicable Disease, Child Abuse Recogni,on and CPR.
! In the case of minor accident/injury, staff will administer basic first aid and TLC.
! If the injury is more serious, first aid would be administered, and a parent would be
contacted immediately to assist in deciding an appropriate course of ac,on.
! If any injury is life threatening, the EMS will be contacted, parent will be no,fied, and a
staff will accompany the child to the hospital with all available health records. Staff will
not transport children in their vehicles. Only parents or EMS will transport. An incident/
injury report will be completed and kept on file.
! When an illness, accident, or injury requires first aid treatment a staff member will
complete an incident report and give a copy of it the day of the incident and keep a copy
on file at the preschool.
! When there is a bump or blow to the head, a parent will be no,fied, and an injury/
incident report will be filed.
! In accordance with chapter 5101:2-12-46 Administra,ve code for state licensing and in
accordance with Ohio Law, childcare staff member must no,fy a local public children
services agency when the staff member suspects that a child has been abused or
neglected.
ILLNESS POLICY
The Ohio Jobs and Family Services requires that there be daily observa,ons of each child upon
arrival at school by a person capable of recognizing signs of communicable diseases or other
evidence of ill health. A child who is ill upon arrival at school will not be admibed. When
children have been exposed to communicable diseases, all staff members and all parents or
guardians of children will be no,fied immediately by the school. With infec,ous disease, we ask
that you seek your physician’s advice and always no,fy us of the disease. If a child becomes ill at
school, parent, guardian or emergency contacts will be contacted and expected to pick the child
up as soon as possible.
NEW THIS YEAR:
Child care programs are required, per Ohio Administra,ve Code, to ensure that all staff and
children take their temperature as soon as they arrive each day. If the temperature is 100
degrees or higher:• The individual cannot abend camp that day and cannot return to the program un,l fever-free
without the use of fever-reducing medica,on for at least 48 hours.
•If your child is sick please do not send them to summer camp.
• If your child has had a posi,ve covid-19 test or has been exposed to someone in their
immediate houshold that has had a posi,ve covid-19 test, they will not be able to return to
camp for two weeks following the quaran,ne procedures from the health department.
•In your family travels out of the country your child will not be allowed to abend camp for a 2
week quaran,ne period upon returning home.
If a child displays any of the following symptoms, he or she must be kept home or will be sent
home:
1. Temperature of at least 100 degrees.
2. Diarrhea (three or more abnormally loose stools within a twenty-four-hour period)
3. Severe coughing, causing the child to become red or blue in the face or to make a
whooping sound.
4. Difficult or rapid breathing.
5. Yellowish skin or eyes.
6. Redness of the eye, obvious discharge, matted eyelashes, burning, itching.
7. Untreated infected skin patches, unusual spots or rashes
8. Unusually dark urine and/or gray or white stool.
9. Stiff neck with an elevated temperature.
10. Evidence of untreated lice, scabies, or other parasitic infestations.
11. Color discharge from the nose.
12. Vomiting
13. Sore throat – Difficulty swallowing
The child may return to school after illness when:
1. Fever stays under 100 for 48 hours without fever-reducing medications.
2. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea have subsided for 24 hours.
3. An antibiotic has been given over a 24-hour period for any type of strep or bacterial
infection.
4. Upon presentation of a note from the child’s physician stating that the child is not
infectious.
5. Child is feeling well again and has returned to normal behavior.MEDICATION No medica,on, vitamins, modified of special diets, or fluoride supplements will be administered at the center.
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