Parent’s Corner

We pride ourselves in creating a loving and caring environment for every child. We firmly believe in a low child to staff ratio, meaning all students receive the quality attention they deserved. All classrooms are maintained within state guidelines for child to teacher ratios.

Our experienced staff has been part of Bloomingdale Day Care for many years. All of our teachers are fully background checked, fingerprinted, have certification in First Aid & CPR, and attend annual training. We believe this makes every child’s experience at Bloomingdale Day Care a positive one.

Bloomingdale Day Care has a camera system in place to monitor activity in and around our center, which is linked directly to the Bloomingdale Police Department. We keep all of our entrances locked: anyone wishing to enter our center must be identified by a Bloomingdale Day Care employee beforehand.

For a complete listing of all our tuition rates, please contact us at (973) 838-2459 or bloomingdaledaycare@gmail.com and we will be happy to assist you in choosing the right program for you and your child.

Parents or guardians will be contacted by phone via our Swift Reach automated system for delayed openings, school closings, and early dismissals. Be sure that the school always has your current home and work phone numbers at all times. We also display closing information on News 12 New Jersey in times of inclement weather.

Our top priority is ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of our students, team, and families.  We have existing policies and protocols in our daily operations to ensure everyone’s safety.  On top of these, we have upgraded policies & protocols we will implement effective Monday, June 1st, 2020, to combat and mitigate the COVID19 virus outbreak in our center.

Families and Staff are taught and required to: 

• To wash hands frequently & thoroughly with soap (minimum of 20 seconds).
• Cover your mouth and nose if / when sneezing or coughing. 
• Refrain from touching your own nose, mouth and eyes. 
• Refrain from touching each other or sharing items.
• Bring extra pair of shoes for school use only. 
• Minimize bringing in personal belongings to school.
• Require the use of facemasks for students 2 years of age and older.  We highly recommend having four washable mask for each child at our center.  

Our team is required to:

• Thoroughly spray disinfectant on surfaces, handles, shared objects (such as pens, markers, etc) regularly throughout the day, using directions printed on disinfectant labels to ensure proper use.
• Include the 3 basic best practices, ie, wash hands with soap, cover mouth / nose if sneezing/ coughing, no touching in our weekly lesson plans, including the real world experience of doing these best practices with the kids.
• Teach and encourage students to allow physical distancing between each other in the classroom & play area whenever possible.
• Use facemasks whenever feasible and possible.
• Practice physical distancing during break time, meetings and small gatherings of staff. 
• Send students home if it appears they may have a fever or flu-like symptoms.
• Wellness check each staff and student when they come into the building. Wellness includes no contact temperature check, visual signs of cough, colds, sore throat or shortness of breath. 
• Wellness check is to be repeated every two hours of the day. 
• Review and retake our online courses on the following:
  • Basic Health and Hygiene Practices for the Early Childhood Setting.
  • Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic.

DO NOT COME TO SCHOOL IF YOU ARE SICK

If your child is showing any possible COVID-19 symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, aches, sore throat, diarrhea), or if you have any of these symptoms, please stay home! We are asking everyone to think of the health of the community as you decide whether to go to places where you are in close contact with others.  If your child is sick, stay home.  If you are sick, have a healthy adult take them to school.  Ideally if there is anyone in your home that is showing symptoms, all should stay home for 14 days based on CDC guidelines.

OFF-LIMITS TO ADULT NON-STAFF MEMBER

We are limiting the entry of non-staff adults to our center.  Parents and guardians are can pickup and drop-off by our front entrance to allow for a no-contact health screening for all students, staff, and essential visitors.  We will not accept any children from the side entrance.   Call us 5 minutes before you arrive so that we can have kids ready by the door for pickup.

MINIMIZED PERSONAL BELONGINGS
In order to ensure that we keep a sanitized environment, we ask that you refrain from having your child bring personal belongings that are not needed for the day.  

FACE MASKS
Per the newest CDC guidelines and recommendation of wearing masks in public, we ask that you provide us with four handmade fabric mask for each child.  These masks will be sent home at the end of the day to be washed and sanitized by each child’s parent.  Masks will be worn by our staff at all time.  Students who are 2 years old or older must wear a face mask during check-in, while walking in the hallways, and while using the restrooms.  They will be encouraged to wear their face mask whenever it is feasible to do so. 

CONTACTLESS PAYMENT PROCESS
We encourage all our families to make payments by check when possible.  If you like to pay with a Credit Card, starting July 1st we’ll be using the credit card processing by our childcare management app, EZcare.  Once the system is ready we’ll provide parents detail instructions on how to process payments. 

 We have enough cleaning & disinfecting supplies.  We have made advanced order to our suppliers for some low supply cleaning supplies. In the event that we will have shortage of any of our cleaning supplies, we will ask the help of the community & parents to source these out for us and buy it in exchange. We will keep you posted for any developments. 

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While the health and safety of our students is our primary concern and responsibility, we believe that we are also a critical service for essential works to do their jobs. Additionally, if we continue to remain close, many employees who are providing vital services in health and safety in our communities would have to stay home with their children, meaning vulnerable families are at a higher risk of being negatively impacted.  A decision to close schools is always a last resort. Closing schools would be done with great care, transparency, and in partnership with public health.  If public health determines schools should close before we hit the threshold outlined by the civil authorities, we will.

Per our Financial Agreement and Parents Handbook, no credit or refunds given for days that the center is closed. We understand however that we are in an unprecedented situation; thus, please be guided with our Tuition Guidelines below.

We understand that some families may be experiencing a change in work situation and/or income during this time. Please understand that the livelihood of our teachers is contingent upon tuition remaining fairly constant.  Abiding by this plan will allow us to continue to temporarily pay our hard-working teachers and increase the likelihood that they will be here when things are back up and running.  We want your children to be able to return to the same teachers and high-level program that they left.

Due to the fluid situation with COVID-19 and since we had a change of ownership.  We have decided to standardize all our documents with updated industry standard forms.  Forms are available in our parent’s corner