Register Your Child
Forms are mailed at the end of the summer to all previous registrants
in our program. We need your child to be registered so you will receive
our mailings and so we can plan for volunteers and supplies. Forms are
available in the Mason Wing outside the RE office or click on this link
to register online: https://fs18.formsite.com/FirstUnitarianChurch/form983244941/secure_index.html
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We ask that you register your child even if you are not a member.
Parents Are Expected to Help
We can only function with the generous volunteer help of all our families.
Join a teaching team. There are many opportunities to meaningfully contribute
to our program and we ask each family to volunteer in at least two areas
each year. We really need and appreciate your contributions and you will
be glad you participated. Volunteer opportunities are listed on our Volunteer
Form, on our bulletin board outside the RE office, or call Jennifer Halperin
at 621-8008.
Contribute Financially
At this time, there is no registration fee, but we do ask participating
families to pledge or contribute financially to the church’s overall
budget each year according to their ability. Pledging happens during the
fall and the fiscal year begins in January. It costs about $150 per child
per year (not including RE staff salaries) to run our program.
Bring Your Child Regularly
It is much easier for a child to experience growing connections with others
and to receive the cumulative understanding of the messages in the planned
curriculum if they are here regularly.
Express Interest in Your Child’s
Class
Visit, offer to help in class now and then, chat with teachers, and converse
with your children about their classes and other church experiences. Express
your appreciation to your child/youth’s volunteer teachers.
Share Your Own Views
It is extremely helpful to your child to know how you think about important
questions of meaning and value, even when you may be struggling with uncertainty.
Most of us view religion as a process and a journey, and your child can
learn so much from you.
SAFETY
Nursery
Nursery children must be signed in and out by the same person. Beepers
will be available sometime in Fall 2008 for parents to be paged by nursery
caregivers.
Preschool Pick-up Authorization Form
The first time you bring your preschool child to class, you will be required
to fill out this form that indicates who has permission to pick up your
child from class. He/she will not be released to anyone who is not listed
on the form.
During the Service
Preschool children through sixth graders should be kept with you when
they attend the first part of the service before they are dismissed to
go to class. Teachers need the time before church to prepare classrooms
and lessons.
Picking Up Your Child After the Service
Parents of children through 3rd grade MUST pick up their children in their
classrooms after the service. Children should be met in their classrooms
unless your child’s teachers suggest a different arrangement.
First Aid
There is a FIRST AID KIT in the hallway outside the Gandhi Room for use
of all
Sunday School classes.
Volunteer
Positions (pdf)
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Code of Ethics for Teachers and Leaders
All our teachers, Youth Advisors and Nursery
caregivers sign the following code of ethics developed by the Unitarian
Universalists Association:
Adults who are in leadership roles are in a position
of stewardship and play a key role in fostering spiritual development
of both individuals and the First Unitarian Church. It is, therefore,
especially important that those in leadership positions be well-qualified
to provide the special nurture, care and support that will enable
children and youth to develop a positive sense of self and a spirit
of independence and responsibility. The relationship between young
people and their leaders must be one of mutual respect if the positive
potential is to be realized.
There are no more important areas of growth than
those of self-worth and the development of a healthy identity as
a sexual being. Leaders play a key role in assisting children and
youth in these areas of growth. Wisdom dictates that children and
youth suffer damaging effects when leaders become sexually involved
with young persons in their care; therefore, leaders will refrain
from engaging in sexual, seductive, or erotic behavior with children
or youth that constitutes verbal, emotional or physical abuse. It
is expected that all leaders will conform to the behavior standards
agreed upon by the Religious Education Committee as well as to the
laws of the Commonwealth of PA. In cases of violation of this code
of ethics, the Director of Children and Youth Ministries and Religious
Education Council will take appropriate action. |
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