Dear
Parents and Carers,
Forest
School
It
was our first Forest School session for this term this week. All the children
had a great time. They were given a board with a variety of pictures and they
had to look for all of the things in the forest! They made hot chocolate and
sat on logs for snack. We played hide and seek in the woods and had to follow
our friends voices to find them J
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: Well child
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 – Mel’s group will be hiding and finding 5
ducks while singing ‘Five Little Ducks’ supporting simple number skills
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group is building towers with
the duplo blocks supporting hand eye co-ordination
Wednesday – Shula’s group will be exploring the
animal song sacks encouraging an interest in books
Thursday – Shula’s group are making biscuits with
their friends promoting attention skills
Friday – Mel’s group is playing with the train
track building their knowledge of small world models
Charlotte is off Monday, Mel is off Tuesday, Nilem
is off Monday and Wednesday and Shula is in all week.
Bluebells
Monday – Megan’s group are singing number songs
encouraging early number skills
Tuesday – Donna’s group is using the wooden blocks
and animals to promote an awareness of the world
Wednesday – Donna’s group will be making
sandcastles with their friends in the sandpit building relationships
Thursday – Almu’s group are using their hands and
feet to make sounds and rhythm
Friday – Chloe’s group is listening to the Gruffalo
story and will be talking about what comes next in the story building an
interest in stories
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 tools to investigate
colour, water and ice
The children will use different tools to mix food
colouring and water to make a variety of colours. The children will pour the
water into ice trays and put them into the freezer. The children will be encouraged
to predict what is going to happen. They will then talk about what has happened
when the water has frozen!
The letter of the week is: I
The children will be:
Writing the letter I with stencils
Making Ice cubes
Thinking of objects that begin with I?
Finding objects that start with I
Playdough fun with I stencils
Looking at the letter I bottle
Leanne is off Monday, Becci is in all week and
Hector is off Thursday
Well child policy
Aim
of policy
To
give practitioners and parents guidance on how we judge a child to be well
enough to attend nursery.
Points
to consider
The
health and wellbeing of the children in our care is of the utmost importance to
us. However as every child is different we use the definition of a well child
along with information from Public Health England to decide if a child is well
enough to attend nursery.
A
copy of the Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare
settings is appendices 3
Castle
Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:
The
definition of a well child:
- A
child who is not dependent on Calpol or similar.
- A
child with normal bowel movements.
- A
child who participates in activities as they normally would.
- A
child who does not require a greater ratio than normal.
Standard
adult child ratios are:
1: 3
children under two years
1:4
children aged two to three years
1:8
children aged three to five
Kind
Regards
Jess
Smith
Manager, SENCO
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