Co-operative Responsibilities

At CCNS, the parents organize and run the school through a parent elected Executive in a Corporation, with all members having a say in their child's education. The corporation hires a teacher/supervisor who implements and plans the classes.

The co-operative approach demands time and energy from each family. But it is time and energy well spent. Everyone benefits from exposure to new and different ideas and approaches

If family schedules permit, parents may play a further role by performing “duty days” in which they come to the school to help with the program. The parents and teacher work closely together with the children. This facilitates a consistent approach between home and school. It offers a chance to personally oversee your child’s first school experience and to contribute ideas of your own to the program.

Young children, too, enjoy having their mother or father spend a morning or afternoon at their school and the parent benefits from the support of other parents. Parents develop their own problem-solving skills from being in co-operative nursery school. They learn to deal with children in a group and to assess their own child’s and other children’s development within the group.

JOBS

Each family is encouraged to assume an extra job within the school, whether it be as a Board Member (serving as President, Secretary or Registrar), a field trip coordinator, an assistant with general maintenance, or play dough coordinator, etc. Job descriptions are detailed in the parent handbook.

SNACKS

Your family will be scheduled to provide snack for one week at a time on a rotating basis during the school year. Snacks follow the Canadian Dietary Guidelines and must include a protein, a grain, and a fruit or vegetable. The school supplies drinks for the children. Parents will check all ingredient lists when purchasing snack on their snack week and ensure they are not bringing peanut and tree nut products and any product with any allergic ingredient(s) specific to their class.

ALLERGIES

Creating an environment that reduces the risk to severely allergic or anaphylactic children requires the cooperation and understanding of all members of the Nursery School, including staff, children and parents. In all literature sent home to parents, we request that no peanut or tree nut products are allowed at the Nursery School at anytime.

The Nursery School does not purport to be, nor can it be deemed to be free of food items and non-food items that may lead to a severe allergic or anaphylactic reaction. The school will make every reasonable effort to reduce the risk to children with severe allergies or anaphylaxis in accordance with this policy.