Dear Parents and Carers,
Nativity and Carol Service
It has reached that time of the year
again where we are starting to organise the Christmas productions!
Buttercups and Bluebells will be holding a carol service on Monday 7th
December at 4.15 and Sunflowers will be performing their nativity on Tuesday 8th
December at 9.45 and 4.15. We thought we’d give you plenty of notice so
you can make arrangements with work.
Illness
There have been several cases
of vomiting and diarrhoea throughout the nursery L If your child catches the stomach bug, please can
you keep them off of nursery until 48 hours after their last episode of being
ill. This is to try to prevent other children catching it.
Halloween
On Friday 30th we will be
celebrating Halloween, if your child would like to dress up on this day they
are very welcome to wear a Halloween costume to nursery!
Interactive Learning Diary
Don’t forget to check out all the
exciting things your child has done this week, on their ILD profile.
We aim to put at least one
observation up per week.
Policy of the week
We will be displaying a different
policy every week at the bottom of this newsletter.
If you would like to see this or any
of our policies please ask Jess.
Our Policy
this week is:
Inclusion policy – talented and
gifted children
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
Emily (our cook) is on holiday next
week, see attached menu for the changes.
See attached document for the weekly
menu. If you would like to see a copy of our allergens menu at any time please
ask!
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 on the ILD’S.
Buttercups
Monday – Hannah’s group will be
dancing to music and moving to the beat.
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group are
developing awareness of parts of their bodies by playing naming games.
Wednesday – Mel’s group will be
making Halloween biscuits together, and talking about what they are doing to
encourage understanding of words and sentences.
Thursday – Charlotte’s group will be
developing their interest in books through looking at the ‘That’s That Not My
Bear’ and ‘Where’s Spot?’ books.
Friday – Hannah’s group are
practising rolling over and reaching out for musical toys and balls.
Charlotte is off Monday and Tuesday,
Hannah is in on annual leave all week, Mel is off Tuesday and Nilem is off
Friday.
Bluebells
Monday – Megan’s group are drawing
pictures and talking about the marks they have made in their pictures.
Tuesday – Chloe’s group will be
developing their ICT skills by using the cameras to take pictures of their
friends and objects around the room.
Wednesday – Almu’s group are reading
the story ‘How Do You Feel Today?’ to support their understanding of feelings
and empathy.
Thursday – Almu’s group will be
developing their vocabulary as they talk about Autumn whilst playing in the
garden.
Friday – Donna’s group are practising
their self-care skills through using the toilet and washing their hands
independently.
Donna is off Wednesday, Chloe is off Friday, Almu
and Megan are in all week.
Sunflowers
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: Creating
Halloween pictures
The children are going to be making their own
Halloween collages and pictures using a variety of media and materials.
They will be talking about the textures of the materials they are using and
exploring the colours they can make by mixing different coloured paints
together. The children will also be learning about Halloween.
The letter of the week is: X
The children will be:
Using the letter X stencils at the
easel
Playing with the xylophone
Thinking of objects that begin with
the letter X
Playing ‘Alphabet Soup’ with the
letter X
Exploring the X letter bottles.
Leanne is off Wednesday, Hector is
off Thursday and Becci is in all week.
Inclusion policy – talented and
gifted children
Aim of policy
Castle Daycare and Preschool
is committed to providing all children in our care every opportunity to achieve
to the highest standards of their ability. This policy helps to ensure that
this happens for all the children at our setting including children who may be
talented or gifted.
Points
to consider
In
order to be able to confidently identify talented or gifted children it is
important to have a shared idea of what that means. Below is a definition of
gifted, talented and more able children:
Gifted – The top 5% of age related intellectual or
academic ability within the
setting.
Talented – The top 5% of age related practical or
creative power or other
natural ability or tendency within the setting.
More able – children who have the potential to or
who are working above age
related expectations in academic or practical
subject areas within the setting.
Castle
Daycare and Preschool aims to achieve this by:
- Having regular, well
thought out observations so that all children’s needs can be identified
- Having a talented and
gifted coordinator who will attend training and support the child, family
and key person.
The
talented and gifted coordinator in this setting is:
________________________________________________________________________________
- Where the attainment of
a child significantly exceeds the expected level of attainment,
practitioners may use materials designed for use with older children, or
extend the opportunities for work within the area or areas for which the
child shows particular aptitude.
- Individual Support Plans
(ISP’s) may be used to identify areas to support and develop and well
thought time scales put into place.
- Adopting a
differentiated approach to ensure appropriate stretch and challenge for
all children within group activities.
- Balance must be found
between stretching and challenging the child to develop them and ensuring
they are still allowed to be a child.
Kind
Regards
Charlotte Hampshire
Deputy Manager
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