Health and Safety
🛡️ Health, Safety & Security at Little Elephant Montessori
Providing a healthy, safe, and nurturing Montessori environment for every child is one of our highest priorities at Little Elephant Montessori.
We follow comprehensive health, safety, cleaning, and security practices and stay informed of applicable state and local health and childcare guidance to help protect the well-being of our students and staff.
From clean classrooms and trained teachers to secure building access and careful pick-up procedures, we work every day to give our families peace of mind. ❤️🐘
🧼 Keeping Germs at Bay
Our illness and hygiene practices help protect the health of our entire school community.
Children and staff who are sick should remain home until they meet our return-to-school requirements.
If a child becomes ill during the school day, they will be cared for in a separate supervised area while we contact their family for prompt pickup.
Children are taught healthy habits such as covering coughs and sneezes and washing their hands afterward.
Children and staff wash their hands frequently, including before and after meals, after restroom use or diapering, after outdoor play, and whenever needed.
Staff follow proper procedures when handling food, changing diapers, or coming into contact with bodily fluids.
✨ Sparkling Spaces for Growing Minds
Young children learn by touching, exploring, and interacting with their environment, so maintaining clean learning spaces is an important part of our daily routine.
Our team regularly cleans and sanitizes classrooms, common areas, learning materials, toys, tables, restrooms, and high-touch surfaces such as door handles and light switches.
Cleaning and sanitizing products are used carefully and securely stored out of children’s reach.
Our healthy-environment practices include:
🌬️ Air Purification & Filtration
💧 Water Filtration
🧴 Regular Sanitizing & Disinfecting
🧼 Routine Cleaning Throughout the Day
🧸 Cleaning of Classroom Materials & Toys
🚪 Extra Attention to High-Touch Surfaces
Learn more about Safe Cleaning, Sanitizing & Disinfecting from Texas DSHS.
👩🏫 Superhero Teachers Ready for Anything
Our teachers are at the heart of our safety program. Staff members undergo required background checks, screening, and training before working with our children.
Our team receives ongoing training and professional development in areas such as:
❤️ CPR & First Aid
🚨 Emergency Preparedness
👶 Child Supervision
🛡️ Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention
🥜 Allergy & Food-Safety Procedures
🧼 Health, Hygiene & Sanitation
🧠 Positive Behavior Guidance
👧 Face-to-Name Safety Procedures
Our Face-to-Name procedure helps ensure that every child is properly accounted for during classroom activities, transitions, playground time, and throughout the school day.
🔐 Commitment to Security
Safety begins the moment you arrive at our school.
Our building and procedures are designed to help prevent unauthorized access and ensure that children are released only to approved individuals.
🔐 Secure Keyless Entry System
🚪 Controlled Front Door Access
🪪 Visitor Check-In & Identification
📛 Visitor Identification Procedures
👨👩👧 Authorized Pick-Up Procedures
📹 Indoor & Outdoor Security Camera Monitoring
🚨 Gate Safety & Alarms
🖐️ Finger Guards & Classroom Safety Measures
Visitors must follow our check-in procedures, and identification may be required. Children are released only to parents, guardians, or individuals who have been authorized for pickup.
🚗 Safe & Convenient Drop-Off and Pick-Up
We want arrival and dismissal to be as safe, organized, and convenient as possible.
Our established drop-off and pick-up procedures help reduce unnecessary traffic inside the building while allowing our team to safely receive and release each child.
Staff follow authorization and identification procedures to ensure every child leaves with the correct approved adult.
🍎 Food & Meal Safety
Healthy habits continue during meals and snacks.
Children wash their hands before and after eating.
Staff wash their hands before food preparation and before putting on gloves.
Gloves are used when required for food handling.
Tables and eating surfaces are cleaned and sanitized before and after meals.
Safe food handling and storage procedures are followed.
Drinking water is readily available throughout the day.
👶 Extra Care for Our Youngest Learners
Infants and toddlers require an additional level of attention and care. ❤️
Our teachers follow careful procedures for diapering, feeding, handwashing, sanitizing, safe sleep, supervision, and individual care routines.
Diaper-changing areas are cleaned and disinfected appropriately, gloves are used when required, and children’s personal-care items are stored separately.
Every routine is also an opportunity to provide the warm, responsive, nurturing care that our youngest Little Elephants need to feel safe and secure. 🍼🐘
🛝 Playground & Outdoor Safety
Outdoor play is an important part of children’s physical, social, and emotional development.
Our playgrounds and outdoor spaces are routinely monitored and maintained, and teachers actively supervise children during outdoor activities.
Our procedures include:
🛝 Regular playground and equipment checks
👀 Active, age-appropriate supervision
🚶 Safe classroom-to-playground transitions
👧 Face-to-Name attendance checks
🧼 Cleaning and maintenance of outdoor equipment
🚪 Gate and playground safety procedures
🚨 Prepared for Emergencies
Our team receives training and follows established procedures for situations including:
🔥 Fire & Evacuation
⛈️ Severe Weather
🔒 Lockdown & Security Situations
🩹 Medical Emergencies
❤️ CPR & First Aid
👧 Child Accountability & Face-to-Name Procedures
Emergency procedures and safety practices are reviewed regularly so our team knows how to respond calmly and appropriately when needed.
❤️ A Culture of Care
Safety is about more than locks, cameras, cleaning, and procedures.
At Little Elephant Montessori, we embrace a Culture of Care — physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually.
We strive to create an environment where every child feels safe, respected, included, supported, and loved.
We also believe the words we use matter. Children learn from the way adults communicate, so we encourage respectful language, kindness, patience, positive guidance, and consideration for others throughout our school community.
🌟 Our Commitment to Your Family
Our health, safety, security, supervision, and cleaning procedures are regularly reviewed to help us continue providing a safe and nurturing environment for our children.
At Little Elephant Montessori, children have the freedom to learn, explore, build independence, make friendships, and discover the joy of learning — while families have peace of mind knowing that safety and care are always at the heart of what we do.