Dear
Parents
Parent’s
Evening
Date
for your diary, parents evening is Thursday 5th March.
Pop
in anytime between 6.30-8.30, to chat to your child’s key person.
You
can also have a look at the next room if your child is due to move up and have
the chance to talk to other parents.
Hope
to see you all there!
Mother’s
week
Please
can all Mummies clear a space in their diaries on the week of 9th
March as we are having Mother’s week.
This
is a week when we invite all Mummies in to play, it doesn’t have to be a date
your child attends. Just sign up in your child’s room.
Come
along and spend some time with your child at the nursery, you can join in a
music session, have a go at sports stars or join
us for tea.
We
are also having a Mother’s day tea party on Friday 13th March so
come along and be spolit!
Missing
scarf
We
have found a very nice red scarf. It looks like an adult’s scarf so if any of
you are missing one please let me know.
Illness
Have
had one case of threadworm in the nursery.
New
Fees
From
1st March the fees are changing. I have attached another copy of the
new fee schedule for you all to see.
To
try and make the 15 hours of funding that three year olds receive clearer, we
will be changing our fee structure from your average monthly fee minus the
funding to an actual monthly fee minus the funding. You will still receive all
of the funding that your child is entitled to.
Please
remember that the Government does not pay funding during school holidays. Here
is a list of the school holiday dates:
W/C
16th February
30th
March – 10th April
4th
May
W/C
25th May
End
of term is 21st July and the term starts again in September so there
is no funding in August.
Hopefully
this will make the funding a little easier to calculate.
If
you have any questions about the new fees you can contact the Operations
Manager Natalie Chrystie on: natalie@daycare.co.uk
or her Mobile: 07789268241
Useful
websites:
Here
are the links for the Surrey Family Information Service, Free Early Education
(the 15 hours funding) and Free Early Education for Two year olds.
Menus
We will be having a Chinese New Year Tea on
Wednesday.
If you
would like to see a copy of our allergens menu at any time please ask!
Policies of the week
We are
currently updating our policies. When these are finished we would like some of
our parents to review them.
All you
would need to do is read some or all of the policies and give some feedback on
them.
If you
are interested please let me know.
This week’s activities
Each key person will be responsible for designing
an activity based on their key children’s needs; however, all children who are
in on that day will have the opportunity to access the activity too.
If the key person is on holiday or off, another
staff member will be able to lead the activity in their place so that the
children do not miss out.
For more information on the Early Years Foundation
stage, the guidance we use to support our planning and practice, please visit:
This week’s planned activities are also are now on
the ILD’S
Forest School
There was no forest school this week.
The new group will start after half term.
Buttercups
Monday – Leanne’s group will be
practising holding their own bottles.
Tuesday – Nilem’s group are singing
the song ‘Ring a Ring O’ Roses’ together.
Wednesday – Leanne’s group are
getting creative as they glue and stick tissue paper onto Chinese dragons.
Thursday – Charlotte’s group will be
developing awareness of numbers as they make cups of tea for each teddy in the
role play area.
Friday – Charlotte’s group are listening
and responding to simple sentences as they find objects around the room.
Charlotte is off Monday, Mel is off
Tuesday, Leanne and Nilem are off Friday.
Bluebells
Monday – Donna’s group are making a
dragon for Chinese New Year out of cardboard boxes and pretending to be
dragons.
Tuesday – Chloe’s group are
practising their cutting skills as they chop up fruit to eat with their
pancakes.
Wednesday - Donna is turning the role
play area into a Chinese restaurant with her group to develop awareness about
other cultures.
Thursday – Rose’s group will be
sharing books about Chinese New Year.
Friday – Almu and Chloe will be
asking the children to guess what will happen next in the stories they are
going to read.
Almu and Rose are working together
with Rose’s key group. This is so that we have a seamless transition when Rose
goes on Maternity leave.
Donna is off Friday, Chloe is off
Thursday, Rose and Almu are in all week.
Sunflowers
Books of the fortnight
16th-23rd
February – Go for it Ruby by Jonathan Emmett and Rebecca Harry
2-9th March – Mother Knows
Best by Jill Murphy
The Sunflowers have one detailed
weekly focused activity to ensure all the children have the opportunity to take
part in it.
This will work alongside their weekly
planned activity list which you can see in the room and on the ILD’S.
This week’s activity is:
Understanding Chinese New Year (the year of the sheep)
The children will be:
Making sheep out of cotton wool,
paper plates and paints
Looking at the Chinese calendar
Discussing the different animals of
the Chinese calendar
Developing their understanding of
different cultures and festivals.
The Letter of the week is: N
This week the children will be:
Talking about words that begin with
the letter ‘N’
Using the letter ‘N’ stencils on the
easel
Talking and learning about Chinese
New Year
Drawing pictures for our Nannies
Practising numbers during circle time
Jess is off Friday, Megan and Becci
are in all week.
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