Dear
Parents and Carers,
Children
in Need
Thank
you to everyone who donated last week towards children in need. We had a great
week raising money for a good cause. We raised a total of £252.00!!!
I
have attached the answers to the guess the baby name activity for you all to
see who is who. We will let the person know who got the most right tomorrow J
Dates
for the diary:
Christmas
Parties - Friday 4th December 3.30-5pm
Babies
and Bluebells Carol Service - Monday 7th December 4.15pm
Pre-Schools
Nativity - Tuesday 8th December 9.45pm or 4.15pm
There
will be signup sheets for these in the rooms.
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 of the week: Key person policy
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
There are no planned changes to this week’s menu.
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 – Charlotte’s group will be discovering a
variety of textures and appearances while exploring the treasure basket
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group are being supported to
develop an awareness of their feelings while using the emotion dolls
Wednesday– Shula’s group will be practicing washing
their hands and face supporting independence
Thursday – Shula’s group is reading textured books
promoting reading skills and encouraging the children to develop an interest in
books
Friday – Mel’s group will be encouraged to follow
simple instructions while exploring the role play resources
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Nilem is off Monday,
Shula is in all week and Mel is on holiday all week.
Bluebells
Monday – Chloe’s group will be playing creative
games with friends while exploring the role play animals and ice promoting
imaginative skills
Tuesday – Donna’s group is talking about different
emotions they know and recognise while exploring the emotion dolls
Wednesday – Chloe’s group are playing the animal
sound game promoting attention and listening skills
Thursday – Almu’s group will be reading ‘The Gruffalo’
in small groups, they will be encouraged to repeat familiar sentences within
the story supporting reading and language
Friday – Megan’s group are investigating the garden
area, they will be asked to find and recognise what they can find in their
community
Donna is off Friday, Chloe is off Thursday, 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: using the atlas and globe
to explore the world
The children will be exploring the atlas book and
the globe to find countries they know. They will be encouraged to talk about
where they live and where they have been. The activity will be extended and the
children will colour in their own map of the world and mark where they live.
The letter of the week is: B
The children will be:
Playing Brown Bear
Linking words to the letter B
Having banana for snack
Bouncing balls
Looking at the letter B bottle
Using blue paint
Drawing boats
Setting the easel up with B stencils
Leanne is off Monday, Hector is off Thursday and
Becci is in all week
Key person policy
Aim of policy
To demonstrate how the key person role is used throughout the
setting.
Points to consider
As part of the vision and values of our setting, we greatly value
the strong positive relationships we build with the children in our care and
their families. Children’s emotional wellbeing is an essential foundation for
their health, happiness and ability to learn.
A key person:
- Welcomes parents and children and introduces them to
other staff members, other parents and children.
- Works closely with the parents and child.
- Builds and maintains attachment relationships.
- Informs parents of their child’s time at nursery.
- Keeps parents informed of any setting events.
- Discusses and reassures fears, worries or problems from
both parents and children.
- Supports the child’s transitions.
- Continually builds a close relationship with the
parents and children during their time at nursery.
- Ensures that their key children’s needs and interests
are met through appropriate activities.
- Keeps records on each of their key children and uses
these to enhance their learning and development.
Castle Daycare and Preschool aims to do this by:
- Having a key person for each child before they come in
to settle.
- The key person will do the settling in visits and will
cascade information about the child to relevant team members.
- The key person will spend time with the child
supporting their welfare, learning and emotional and physical development.
- Ongoing training will be provided for staff to enable
them to carry out the key person role.
- Arrangements will be in place to balance out the number
of children assigned to each key person and to accommodate shift patterns
and where possible a key person buddy maybe allocated to ensure the
children are supported whilst their key person is absent from nursery.
- Staff will be inducted into becoming a key person as
part of their induction and will be supported throughout by the manager
and room leaders.
- Sufficient time will be given for key people to
complete records, however these records will be designed to minimise any
time away from the children
Key people are chosen by parent request or by looking at the
session the child attends and staff shift patterns. By fitting shift patterns
to the days the child attends means the child and key person can spend as much
time together as possible.
The key person may be changed if a parent requests another key
person or the child has a strong attachment to another staff member.
Being a key
buddy
A key person buddy is someone
who supports the key people in the room.
They are not a key person
themselves but they will have the skills needed to be a key person.
The key person buddy will
observe the children and complete activities in the absence of the key person.
They may also plan activities
but these will be for the whole room rather than a key group.
Whilst the key person is off
the key buddy will be responsible for that key group.
It is the responsibility of
both the key person and key buddy to communicate so that everyone knows what
they need to do.
As well as planned holidays
the key buddy may also need to cover unexpected absences such as sick leave. As
these can be sudden it is important that the key buddy has a good overview of
each key group in their room and knows where the key person keeps any notes or
tick sheets they may need.
Kind regards,
Jess Smith
Manager, SENCO
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