Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
Forest
School – This
week at Forest School the children had lots of fun finishing off creating their
Christmas tree decorations and exploring animal footprints and making casts of
them. They also enjoyed catching the falling leaves, it was such a
blustery day so there were plenty to catch! The children also sat down
together to have a snack and drink some yummy hot chocolate.
In2Sports
– This
week we practised balancing bean bags on our heads and then we had to put them
into the correct colour hoop. We then found all the bean bags which Coach
Jack had hidden around the garden. We also explored the different ways we
could move including forwards, backwards and side steps.
Theatre
bugs –
Children
in Need
Thank
you so much for your kind generosity towards our fundraising for Children in
Need. We will let you know the winners of our quiz and ‘guess how many
sweets are in the jar?’ competition next week!
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 12th
December at 4.15 and Sunflowers will be performing their nativity on Tuesday 13th
December at 9.45 and 4.15. We thought we’d give you plenty of notice so
you can make arrangements with work.
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
Topic of the month: Shapes
Monday – Sammy’s group are singing ‘If You’re Happy
and You Know It’ and joining in with the actions to the song
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group will be developing their
hand-eye co-ordination whilst exploring the sensory balls
Wednesday – Nilem’s group are discovering their
reflections in hand held mirrors to develop self-awareness
Thursday – Charlotte’s group is discovering how the
light up cubes and torches work
Friday – Sammy’s group will be investigating
different shapes as they explore the shape sorters
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Jessica is off
Thursday, Nilem is off Monday and Sammy is off Monday and Friday.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: People who help us
Monday – Megan’s group are visiting the Sunflower’s
room to develop their confidence in exploring a different environment
Tuesday – Donna’s group will be learning how to
operate the torches and shining them around the room and Chloe’s group are
listening to and following instructions as they make their own mini pizzas
Wednesday – Donna’s group are developing their
imaginative play through trying on the ‘people who help us’ dressing up clothes
Thursday – Megan’s group are choosing stories to
listen to on the iPod and drawing pictures of what they remember from the story
Friday – Chloe’s group will be looking at
photos of themselves, their families and each other at circle time
Donna is off Friday, Chloe is off Thursday, Megan
is off Friday and Carla is 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.
The Key People link this activity to their individual Key Groups.
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: Making up a role play
story using the car garage and dolls
This week the children will be developing their
vocabulary and communication skills through making up their own story using the
props provided. The children will be supported through adults asking them
‘who’, ‘what’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ questions. The activity will be extended
through the other children in the group also asking questions.
Topic of the month: Dinosaurs
The letter of the week is: Aa
The children will be:
Talking about names which begin with the letter A
Cutting up apples
Writing the letter A
Exploring the letter A whilst playing alphabet soup
Exploring the letter A bottle
The Number of the week is: 11
The children will be:
Counting up to 11
Writing the number 11
Counting out 11 objects
Making the number 11 with playdough
The shape of the week is: Square
The children will be:
Talking about how many sides a square has
Drawing squares
Looking for square shaped objects
Making squares with playdough
Leanne is off Thursday, Becci is off Tuesday and
Ines is in all week.
Jess is back from her holiday on Wednesday.
Our Policy of the Week:
Settings and group provided social media policy
Purpose
of the policy
To
make clear that it is neither compulsory nor a feature of our setting or wrap
around care settings to provide social media, but that if they do, there is
criteria in place to operate them by.
To
ensure any use of social media is a positive addition to the company settings
and its users.
To
ensure that the administrators of any social media provisions managed by our
settings or on behalf of the company group have clear guidance with which to
manage their social media provision.
To
ensure families and employees are fully aware of their responsibilities and
role to play in keeping our social media provisions safe and secure.
Twitter
Individual
settings will not use Twitter as a social media platform as there are no
mechanisms to create a private group or to ensure that others users will not
Tweet information at the settings in breach of our privacy and safeguarding
children expectations.
Facebook
for settings
Our
setting and wrap around care facilities will only use a closed Facebook
Group for information sharing about the activities of the setting.
Each
setting will have up to two nominated administrators per setting who are
responsible for the posts. The manager must be one of those people. If the
manager of a setting is not a Facebook user, then the setting will not have a
Facebook Group.
If
a setting has a Facebook Group, there must be at least one post per week for
each group of children in the setting to ensure it is kept up to date, relevant
and interesting.
Administrators
must ensure that faces of children without specific Facebook permission are not
used or shared on Facebook. Faces can be blocked out by placing a smiley face
over the top of them. Or, just stick to hands and the activity those hands are
doing.
Names
of the children will not be shared on Facebook, whether with or without
permission.
Images
of children shared on the group wall must be decent, fully clothed and taking
part in setting activities.
Settings
must ensure location services are turned off for photos.
Members
of the Facebook group are limited to parents of the children at the setting,
the direct setting team, nominated senior management representatives and two
additional family members of the child on request to the manager.
On
leaving the setting, the administrator will remove the employees or family
members from the group.
Members
of the Facebook Group must ensure that the information and images shared within
the Facebook Group, stay within the Facebook Group. Images are not to be copied,
shared or made available to anyone outside of the setting group. The manager of
the setting will regularly remind users of this, through newsletters, updates
and directly on the Facebook group wall.
Members
are able to give permission for images of their child to be used on the
Facebook Group wall and on giving permission, understand that once the images
are uploaded, Facebook will have their own rights to the photos, which may
change from time to time and that the setting and company will no longer be
responsible for the images as they will fall under Facebook rules and rights
and the setting and company have no control over this. Parents must sign
specific permission for this on the company specified permission form.
Administrators
must scrutinise the posts before posting to ensure children without permission
are not in the background.
Facebook
for the Childcare and Learning Company Group
This
is a group aimed at those employed in the early years sector and specifically
(but not exclusively) our employees. It is to share snap shot information and
ideas within members of the group about our company. It can also be used to
post vacancies and as a marketing tool for our group.
This
is an open group. Anyone can join, but must be approved by the Administrator.
The Operations Manager will nominate up to two administrators of the group.
The
role of the administrator is to approve posts made by members of the group.
Posts can be made by any employees of the Company and will be approved subject
to the following considerations:
- Avoiding news about upcoming children’s events that mean an outsider could get knowledge of where children may be going and when they can find them there.
- Not ‘checking in’ at any destinations. Always post after the event.
- Avoiding ‘controversial’ or ‘opinion’ discussions about practice. Save these for ‘in-house’ professional discussions.
- Avoiding marketing and advertising that does not relate to Childcare and Learning Group.
- Keeping out names of children. Members of the public should not be able to put a name to a face.
- Sharing great practice from your settings.
- Sharing news that is public knowledge and to enhance the image of the company.
- Sharing posts about excellent practice and ideas.
- Sharing posts relevant to the early years’ sector.
If
for any reason the administrator does not approve a post, direct feedback will
be given as to why or how to update the post appropriately.
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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