RE: Home visits
by: allie - 29-07-10 10:37
Hi Happiness,
We do home visits as part of out transition programme before a child starts the nursery. In my opinion it is best before the child starts a setting. Two practitioners visit the family - one being the Key Person. It is an ideal opprotunity to find out the child's interests and getting to know them in an environment that is familar and secure to them.
It's also an ideal opportunity to get to speak to the family about the child's needs - what is likely to comfort them when they are distressed , any allergies, what motivates them, any schemas and their input for the first seperation and how best to support this. After this meeting practitioners are well placed to devise a transition programme that would support the needs of that child and their family into the setting.
We are implementing a new transition programme for children starting in September. As well as the home visit we are offering a minium of 3 transition sesions (more if required) dependent on how the child adjusts. Each visit lasts 1 hour and gives the child (and family) a taster of what is offered from Child Initiated Play to family group times.
Hope this helps,
allie:)