The JLK morning welcome
We greet every child by name at the door — not "hello darling" but "Good morning, Aisha" — and crouch to their eye level. If they don't respond, we don't force it. We just make sure the door is a moment where they know we saw them.
Add your site variations, favourite phrases, and stories that made this land.
The JLK birthday moment
Placeholder — Kim/Rowan/Maxine to add the JLK birthday ritual as it lands.
The JLK farewell
Placeholder — add the JLK farewell tradition, the letter, the keepsake, whatever lives in the founders' heads.
➕ Suggest a ceremony we should capture
"You're a good listener"
Sample entry — replace with real capture. A 3-year-old said this to a room leader after being helped through a big feeling about her mum's pick-up. The reminder: they notice how we make them feel, long before they can say it.
➕ Capture something a child said or did
The rota we thought we'd solved but hadn't
Placeholder — Kim/Rowan/Maxine to author. A short story about a decision or process that didn't land, what we noticed, and what we changed. Written honestly, with the specific lesson.
Why we now do settling visits twice
Placeholder — the story behind the current settling-visit rhythm. What we tried first, what didn't work, why we settled on the current pattern.
What we learned from our recent Ofsted inspection
Placeholder — an honest reflection on what the inspection surfaced, what we changed as a result (the QA engine, the training records rebuild, the reflection loop). This is the failure that led to the systems the current team benefits from.
🙋 Own a failure worth documenting? This library is director-authored so the framing stays consistent. Message JLK Management with the story and they'll write it up.