Parent News

Dear Parents and Carer,

Shortly we shall be asking some of you if you would kindly volunteer to read some of our policies and procedures which are in the process of being reviewed.  If you are interested in helping us with this please could you email Michelle.

We have set ourselves a challenge of making an igloo out of two litre milk cartons which is big enough for the children to play in.  Could we therefore ask any of you who buy this size of milk to bring in your empties. Thank you

We still have places available on our parent first aid course, Friday 27^th February.  If anyone would like to book a place, please see Michelle.

 

March is going to be a busy month; we have a few events for you to put into your diaries.

Monday 2^nd March the nursery is celebrating St. David’s Day by having a Welsh menu for the children to enjoy.

Friday 6^th March the nursery is going to dress up for World Book Day. We are encouraging children to dress up as their favourite book character, so we are able to take lots of photographs and play games from the books.

Friday 13^th March we would like to invite all mothers in to celebrate Mother’s Day Breakfast. There will be a selection of croissants, pain au chocolat’s, bacon sandwiches and juices. This will also be a moment where you will be able to meet other mothers from your child’s room and enjoy a nice breakfast alongside your child. Breakfast will be running between 8am – 9am, please feel free to join us during these times. Please see a member of staff within your child’s room if you would like to attend.

Saturday 14^th March we are holding a St Patricks Day evening meal for parents who wish to attend. Please see the menu attached to the entrance door. Please see a member of staff within your child’s room or Michelle if you wish to attend, by Friday 27^th February. The evening will begin at 7.30pm with a sit down, three course meal followed by a quiz, drinks and Irish crème coffee and a selection of traditional Irish biscuits. The evening will then come to a close around 9.30pm.

Policies

Please find attached our social contact policy.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is St David’s Day. The children will have the opportunity to create flags by using mark making materials and to also enjoy our Welsh menu. The children will also be able to explore the pop up tent and tunnel, problem solve by playing with the shape sorters and exploring the sensory shapes and taking part in heuristic play to explore the different utensils. Outdoor activities include exploring with the wooden puzzles, musical toys and ICT toys and exploring the outdoor treasure baskets.

 Planned activities within the Snails surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Amy – Day off Monday

Tarnia – covering at another nursery Friday morning

 

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on the outdoor environment by playing and exploring the outside. Activities this week will include painting, exploring stacking cups and how they fall over, exploring the shape sorters, taking part in cornflour play, puzzles, playing with the happy land village, exploring the sounds of the sensory bottles and playing with the heuristic play. The book of the week is ‘I spy with my little eye’. Outdoor activities this week include mark making with chalk and exploring wet sand play.

Planned activities within the Caterpillars surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off       

Jamie – Thursday

Alisha – Monday

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is physical skills. The children will have the opportunity to mark make in paint, enjoy an afternoon with soft play, gluing and sticking with coloured sand, dancing to songs and sounds that the children enjoy, mark making using a tripod grip, table painting using rollers and water play, filling and emptying containers. Outdoor activities include practising their balancing by walking along the balancing beam, practice throwing and kicking by using the footballs, playing in the tents and the tunnels and using the pedal bikes in the big garden and to encourage the children to climb on the climbing frame. The story of the week is ‘six little chicks’.

Planned activities within the ladybirds surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off  

Abi – Thursday, training on Tuesday

Naomi – Friday

Maria- covering at another nursery Monday afternoon.

 

Bumblebees

This week the children will be focusing on dinosaurs and cooking. Activities this week include turning the role play into a dinosaur cave, pretend to be dinosaurs, junk modelling by making dinosaurs out of boxes, reading dinosaur stories in the dinosaur cave. The children will be able to take part in making playdough and then playing with it, counting dinosaurs, reading the story of the week which is the ‘the dance of the dinosaurs’ and ‘Harry and the dinosaurs go wild’, letter lollies and looking at letters and drawing letters in flour. The children will also have the opportunity to turn take by building a train track with each other and enjoying listening to the Gruffalo on the computer. Outdoor activities this week include balls and hoops, little sports stars, sand and water play with dinosaurs, large chalk drawing, playing with bubbles, water play with brushes. There is also an additional focus this week which is encouraging the children to take off their coats and shoes and washing their hands independently. The children will also be making flapjack.

Planned activities within the Bumblebees surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning which is now displayed on the large notice board outside the Bumblebees room.

 

Days off     

Jani – Wednesday, training on Tuesday

Jenni – Office based Monday, Annual leave Thursday and Friday

 

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies are focusing on books and stories. The activities include talking about people who help us, reading stories about people who help us, listening to music and using movement whilst listening, cooking club runs on Thursday and this week the children will be making homemade pizza’s, focusing on Italy. The children will also have the opportunity to role play about people who help us, such as doctors, nurses, police officers etc. Outdoor activities this week are turn taking games (what’s the time Mr Wolf), running games, climbing frames, threading, chalking on the ground, water play and looking at and finding different colours within the garden. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘M’ and the number of the week, which is number 4.

Planned activities within the Butterflies surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off   

Stani – Friday                                  

Tara – Tuesday

Juan – Wednesday

Lee – Annual leave Monday, Forest School Tuesday morning, Forest School all day Wednesday

Jade - Monday

 

Michelle is day off Monday.

Social Contact policy

 

Aim of policy

 

To give guidance to both staff members and parents/carers to appropriate social contact outside of the nursery.

 

Points to consider

 

This policy works with the Parents as Partners policy and confidentiality policy.

 

Castle Daycare and Preschool aims to achieve this by:

 

At Castle Daycare and Preschool we understand they may be social occasions outside of the nursery where parents come into contact with staff members. We want our staff to form bonds with the children’s families however professional boundaries need to be drawn in order to maintain these bonds appropriately.

We would ask all staff and parents to not make links on social networking sites, such as requesting “friendships” on facebook. This is to protect confidentiality and professional boundaries.

 

Whilst Castle Daycare and Preschool do not facilitate babysitting, we do understand that it may occur. We would ask all parents and staff not to discuss nursery life (even regarding their own child) outside of Nursery times. This can create awkward situations and problems that may affect the parents/staff bond.

There may be other occasions where the staff meet the parents/ carers outside of nursery again we ask all parents and staff not to discuss nursery life (even regarding their own child) outside of Nursery times.

 

The Nursery is happy to arrange a time for the Parent/Carer to discuss their child within nursery time.

Parent News

Dear Parents and Carer,

 

Shortly we shall be asking some of you if you would kindly volunteer to read some of our policies and procedures which are in the process of being reviewed.  If you are interested in helping us with this please could you email Michelle.

We have set ourselves a challenge of making an igloo out of two litre milk cartons which is big enough for the children to play in.  Could we therefore ask any of you who buy this size of milk to bring in your empties. Thank you

We still have places available on our parent first aid course, Friday 27^th February.  If anyone would like to book a place, please see Michelle.

Policies

Please find attached our confidentiality policy.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is Pancake Day and Chinese New Year. The children will have the opportunity to create dragons by mark making, building towers by using the stacking cups, taking part in Custards music class on Friday and using self-help skills during snack time. Outdoor activities include exploring with the bead mazes, playing with ICT toys, sensory bottles and exploring the mirrors to build relationships.

 Planned activities within the Snails surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Amy – Day off Monday

 

 

 

 

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on singing and group singing with actions. Activities this week will include shape sorters, stacking cups, cornflour play, heuristic play, painting, Custards music class on Friday, exploring soft play and mark making by gluing and sticking. The book of the week is ‘Caterpillars rhyme book’ to read and sing from whilst exploring the pages. Outdoor activities this week include singing nursery rhymes and playing on the bikes and walkers.

 Planned activities within the Caterpillars surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off       

Jamie – Thursday

Alisha – Monday

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is sensory play. The children will have the opportunity to explore textured sand paint play, exploring the different sounds of sensory bottles, finding our noses, eyes, mouth and ears in mirrors, playing with ‘oaty’ playdough, exploring ice cubes, gluing and sticking using different types of materials and cornflour play with pasta pieces. The ladybirds will also take part in Custards music class on Friday. Outdoor activities include textured ball play, running and ball games, sand play with big trucks, coloured mirror play and using the big building blocks to build structures. The story of the week is ‘Turn it up Doris’.

Planned activities within the ladybirds surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off  

Abi – Tuesday

Naomi – Friday

Bumblebees

This week the children will be focusing on Pancake Day and Chinese New Year. Creative activities this week include hand and feet painting, gluing and sticking, table painting, mark making in cornflour and mark making on the white board. Activities this week include using red blocks to build towers, using the washing machine to ‘wash clothes’, in a group working together to build a train track, painting on the easel using water, filling in the missing word to songs, throw bean bags into hula-hoops, pretend play with food for Chinese New Year and counting our food during snack time. The story of the week is ‘Wake up do, Lydia Lou’. The children will also take part in making spring rolls for Chinese New Year. Outdoor activities this week include an obstacle course, little sports stars, climbing on the climbing frame and using the ladder, playing in the sand pit, rolling the balls down the guttering, parachute games, playing with the dinosaurs in the sand and running games.

Planned activities within the Bumblebees surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning which is now displayed on the large notice board outside the Bumblebees room.

 

Days off     

Jani – Friday, Monday covering at another nursery in the afternoon.

Jenni – Office based Monday, day off Wednesday

Hannah – Annual leave Monday,

Amy E – Covering at another nursery on Thursday

 

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies will continue to focus on fruits and vegetables. The activities include paper dyeing used cooked beetroot, looking at variations of the same vegetable (new potato, sweet potato, jacket potato), making a chart of our favourite fruit and vegetables, cooking club, this week the children will be making ‘Mexican taco’s’, and to discuss the topic of fruit and vegetables and review this with the children. Outdoor activities this week are bubble play, threading activities, ball games, playing with balls and bats, water play and building a scarecrow. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘P’ and the number of the week, which is number 18.

Planned activities within the Butterflies surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off   

Stani – Friday                                  

Tara – Tuesday

Juan – Wednesday

Lee – half term

Jade - Monday

 

Michelle is day off Monday.

Confidentiality policy

 

Aim of policy

 

To give clear guidance on what the confidentiality policy is and how staff members need to adhere to it. This policy works alongside the information sharing policy.

 

Points to consider

 

If a child is considered at risk the child protection policy will take precedence over the confidentiality policy where conflict between the policies arises.

 

Castle Daycare & Preschool have a legal obligation to hold information about children using their nurseries and about staff employed at the nurseries.  It is necessary to record basic information for registers, invoices and emergency contacts. 

 

It is entirely possible that our staff, because of their relationship with both the children and their parents/guardians/carers, may learn more about individual families using the nursery. Consequently our staff team are advised that disclosure or discussion referring to any children or their families using the nursery will result in disciplinary action being taken. 

 

Issues relating to the employment of staff, whether paid or unpaid, will remain confidential to the people responsible for management of personnel.

Students, volunteers and staff on training or temporary work assignments, when observing or working in the nursery, as part of their induction process will be advised of our confidentiality policy and their duty to respect it.

 

Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:

 

• All child records will be held securely or where held on a computer, the equipment will be password protected to ensure access by authorised persons only

 

• Staff members are not permitted to discuss individual children, other than for purposes of curriculum planning/group management, or other relevant management issues with people other than the parent/guardian/carer of that child.

 

• If any information is requested about a child from any source, for whatever reason, the parent/guardian/carer’s permission will always be sought.

 

• Parents will have access to the files and records of their own children but will not have access to information about any other child.

                   

 

• We will inform parents and carers when registering their child that they can share personal information in the confidence that it will only be used to enhance the welfare of their children

 

• Children’s records maybe stored off site at our registered head office at:

                   

Cranbrook

Antlands Lane East

Shipley Bridge

Burstow

Horley

RH6 9TE

 

Parent News

Dear Parents and Carer,

Shortly we shall be asking some of you if you would kindly volunteer to read some of our policies and procedures which are in the process of being reviewed.  If you are interested in helping us with this please could you email Michelle.

We have set ourselves a challenge of making an igloo out of two litre milk cartons which is big enough for the children to play in.  Could we therefore ask any of you who buy this size of milk to bring in your empties. Thank you

We still have places available on our parent first aid course, Friday 27^th February.  If anyone would like to book a place, please see Michelle.

Policies

Please find attached policy on parents as partners.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is various activities focusing on Valentine’s Day, Shrove Tuesday and Chinese New Year. The children will have the opportunity to create and decorate a Valentine’s Day card, using balls and paint to explore different marks, exploring sensory bottles, creating a dragon for Chinese New Year by painting our hands, exploring the mirrors by playing peek-a-boo and exploring the ICT toys that lift flaps and pushing buttons. Outdoor activities include exploring the sensory shapes, rattles and looking at books.

Planned activities within the Snails surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Amy – Day off Monday

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on singing and action rhymes. Activities this week will include heuristic play, exploring cornflour, painting, exploring touch and feel books, gluing and sticking, puppet play, custards music class on Friday and mark making with crayons. An additional focus this week is creating Valentine’s Day cards. The book of the week is ‘Caterpillars rhyme book’.

 Planned activities within the Caterpillars surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off       

Jamie – Friday

Alisha – Tuesday

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is role play. The children will have the opportunity to decorate boxes, take part in a teddy bears picnic, exploring textured sand in paint, dressing up, painting with rollers, singing with puppets, bathing babies and playing with the interest baskets. Outdoor activities include pushchairs and dollies, water play with bubbles and containers, chalking in the garden and building towers with duplo. The story of the week is ‘Jolly Olly octopus’.

Planned activities within the ladybirds surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off  

Abi – Thursday

Naomi – Friday

Maria - Monday

Bumblebees

This week the children will be focusing on painting, singing, posting items and mark making with pens. Creative activities this week include cling film painting, soap and tissue play, bubble painting, bin bag painting, mark making on the easel and string painting. Activities this week include building with duplo, making a den in our role play area, animal play in the water tray, posting letters we have made, making dragon masks for Chinese New Year, reading the story of the week which is ‘Elephant pants’ and having a puppet show. The children will also take part in making pizzas and making sandwiches in which we will be eating for tea. Outdoor activities this week include running games, little sports stars (Monday afternoon), hula hoops and ball games, parachute games, water play with the pipes and completing an obstacle course.

Planned activities within the Bumblebees surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning which is now displayed on the large notice board outside the Bumblebees room.

Days off     

Jani – Friday

Jenni – Office based Monday, day off Thursday

Hannah – Annual leave Friday

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies will continue to focus on fruits and vegetables. The activities include discussing what we like to eat, printing with vegetables, vegetable leaf rubbings with Cabbage, Kale, Spinach and Lettuce, creating a collage using seeds for our display and making fruit smoothies. Activities this week also include exploring colour changes, looking at different fruits talking about the textures, smells and patterns, discussing healthy eating and the need for various foods. Outdoor activities this week are throwing games, assault course, playing hide and seek, bikes and balls, bubble play, playing with sand and dinosaurs, water play, balancing games and drawing with chalk. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘G’ and the number of the week, which is number 5.

Planned activities within the Butterflies surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off   

Stani – Friday                                   

Tara – Monday, training on Thursday

Juan – Wednesday

Lee – out all day on Thursday

Jade - Monday

 

Michelle is day off Friday.

Parents as partners

 

Aim of policy

 

To give clear guidance on how we value and recognise Parents as the first educators and as our partners in supporting and nurturing the children.

 

Points to consider

 

Through this policy and the appointment of professional staff, we aim to make parents/carers feel comfortable in our nurseries and that the staff team are friendly, approachable and attentive to their needs and the needs of their children.

Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:

 

1. Having an ‘Open door’ policy to parents/carers.

 

2. Consulting and seeking guidance from parents/carers when planning and implementing child care practices.

 

3. Parents/carers having the opportunity to discuss and review their children’s progress at regular developmental evenings or at any other time.

 

4. Parents/carers will have access to their children’s records at all times.

 

5. Informing all parents/carers of the policies, procedures and guidelines the nursery operates by.

 

6. Establishing  varied and effective parents/carers methods of communication

 

7.      Ensuring that all Parents/carers are provided with the opportunity to actively participate in all aspects of the nursery. Where appropriate this will, include the review and implementation of policies and delivery of services to their children.

 

8. Giving the parents regular opportunities to feedback on their child’s progress and developmental stages

 

9. By giving detailed daily feedback to the parents

 

10. Having a regular blog/newsletter for parents

 

11. Having regular parents social events such as sports days, picnics and bbq’s.

 

12.  Having a clear complaints policy

 

13.  Supporting the parents as well as the children through transition times.

Parent News

Dear Parents and Carer,

 

Shortly we shall be asking some of you if you would kindly volunteer to read some of our policies and procedures which are in the process of being reviewed.  If you are interested in helping us with this please could you email Michelle.

We have set ourselves a challenge of making an igloo out of two litre milk cartons which is big enough for the children to play in.  Could we therefore ask any of you who buy this size of milk to bring in your empties. Thank you

We still have places available on our parent first aid course.  If anyone would like to book a place, please see Michelle.

Policies

Please find attached policy on play dates.  If any parent would like to organise a play date with their child’s keyworker, please see a staff member or Michelle.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week continues to be supporting the babies fine and gross motor skills. The children will have the opportunity to roll and tumble on the soft play and will be encouraged, with support, to build towers using Duplo. On Friday the children will take part in Custards music class whereby the children will be able to explore and copy movements in time to the music. Outdoor activities this week include looking at books and exploring the sensory shapes in the garden.

Planned activities within the Snails surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Amy – Day off Monday

 

 

 

 

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on ice play, splashing in puddles and exploring the toy boats and fish in the water. Activities this week will include using single words (eg) ‘Ta, using the tents and tunnels, coloured ice play and dancing to familiar music.  A focus will be on helping the new children to settle whilst creative activities include cornflour play, gluing and sticking and feather painting.  Outdoor activities include sensory balls in the garden, chalking on the pavement and water play with the boats and fish. The book of the week is ‘Five little ducks’.

 Planned activities within the Caterpillars surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off       

Jamie – Thursday

Alisha – Monday

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is farm animals. The children will have the opportunity to play with the farm animals in damp sand, paint using animal foot prints and make animal masks. The children will also be able to play with the Happyland farm set and will be encouraged to thread, with adult support, using the animal threading stencils. Outdoor activities include ball games, extending from last week’s activities, and practising pushing themselves along on the bikes and cars. The story of the week is ‘Over on the farm’.

Planned activities within the ladybirds surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

 

Days off  

Abi – Thursday

Naomi – Wednesday and Annual Leave Thursday and Friday

Bumblebees

This week the children will be focusing on cooking, painting, dancing and sand and water play. Creative activities this week include sponge painting, gluing and sticking tissue paper, chalking on small chalk boards and using the duplo to paint. Activities this week include making iced buns, matching numbers to quantities using flash cards, building dinosaur homes using the big blocks and using tongs to transfer compare bears from one container to another. The children will also have the opportunity to practice their mouse control on the computer, whilst the role play area shall be transformed into a doctors surgery. The story of the week is ‘Kevin the crocodile’.

Planned activities within the Bumblebees surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning which is now displayed on the large notice board outside the Bumblebees room.

 

Days off     

Jani – Friday

Jenni – Monday, Training Thursday and Office based Friday

 

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies will continue to focus on fruits and vegetables. The activities will include discuss what has happened to the seeds that the children planted last week, dry out citrus fruits to make a mobile and make bird feeders using lard and seeds. Activities this week also include painting with fruits and vegetables, hide and seek using vegetables and making carrot cake. Outdoor activities include playing skittles, balancing beam and practising using balls and rackets. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘L’ and the number of the week, which is number 8.

Planned activities within the Butterflies surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off   

Stani – annual leave all week                                   

Tara – Tuesday, annual leave Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Juan – Wednesday

Lee – Wednesday Forest School all day and out on Thursday

Jade - Monday

 

Michelle is day off Friday.

 

Play date Policy

 

Aim of Policy

To work in partnership with parents, giving both the key person and parent an opportunity to build relationships. The play date gives parents, educators and children the opportunity to build relations without the constraints within the setting, whereby the role of the practitioner within ratio’s causes distractions and strains upon the procedure.

 

Suitable Persons

In this context, suitable persons are parents of those children already attending the setting.  Whereby other persons such as grandparents or nannies, for example regularly collect the child, a play date may be organised with the permission from the parent.

 

 

Organisation

Play dates must be organised during working hours and must be agreed with the manager.  The parent can choose the date, time and venue of the play date which must support the child’s learning and which will not affect the ratio’s within the setting.  These details, along with the name of the person accompanying the child must be known by the manager and practitioner before the play date is agreed.

 

Conduct

The staff member must take a nursery phone with them and must be contactable at all times. They must also take an evaluation form with them to be completed at the end of the play date, which will allow us to evaluate the benefits of the play date for the parent, practitioner and the child.

 

Parents are no way required to participate in play dates just as staff members reserve the right to decline from carrying out play dates providing that a justifiable reason is given.

 

 

Due Diligence

All participants during play dates must show due diligence for the safety of one another.  If at any time any person feels under duress or at risk, the play date will be discontinued.