Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
Theatre
bugs –
Up
Coming Events
12th
June – Father’s Day Week
16th
June – Father’s Day breakfast
27th
July – Pre-School Graduation
Father’s
Day week
A
reminder that we will be celebrating Father’s Day the w/c 12th June.
We
would love for all Daddies to come in for a stay and play session. All you need
to do is chat to the staff in your child’s room and sign up for a session!
We
will also be having a Father’s Day breakfast on Friday 16th June, so
come along and have a bacon sandwich with your child for breakfast. Please sign
up in your child’s room J
Sunflowers
Graduation
The
Sunflowers School Leavers Graduation is Thursday 27th July from
3.30-5pm.
We
will be having a bouncy castle, party tea and the Graduation Ceremony will be
4.30-5pm.
We
look forward to seeing all the School leaver parents and families there J
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!
Useful
websites
Here
are the links for the Surrey Family Information Service, Free Early Education
(the 15 hours funding), Free Early Education for Two year olds and Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP).
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: Planes
Monday – Sammy’s group are exploring the shape
sorters building an awareness of shapes and size
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group is making cheese and
tomato twists with their friends developing an interest in different foods
Wednesday – Leanne’s group will be learning simple
emotions while discovering the emotion dolls with others
Thursday – Nilem’s group are singing actions songs
supporting listening and attention skills
Friday – Leanne’s group will be choosing their own
book to read encouraging early literacy skills
Charlotte is off Tuesday and Wednesday, Leanne is
off Monday, Nilem is on holiday all week, Sammy and Montse are in all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Transport
Monday – Megan’s group are developing their
understanding of different occupations around us while dressing up in the ‘people
who help us’ role play clothes
Tuesday – Ruby’s group will be following
instructions while playing ‘Simon Says’ with Ruby
Wednesday – Donna’s group is using a variety of
tools while exploring different paints building manipulative skills
Thursday – Carla’s group will be exploring sound
while singing favourite songs and playing musical instruments
Friday– Megan’s group is completing their own
puzzle of themselves that Megan will have prepared for them, building their confidence
with self-awareness of themselves
Donna is off Tuesday, Megan is off Thursday, Ruby
is in all week, Carla is on holiday on Monday.
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: developing knowledge and
understanding of different shapes
This week the children will be developing their
knowledge and understanding of shapes while creating their special gift for
their Daddies. Initially the children will recognise different shapes, the
children will then choose a shape to create their gift with. The activity will
be extended and the children will discuss how many sides and corners the shapes
have. They will then match the shapes up with shapes from around the
environment.
Topic of the month: Summer
The letter of the week is: B
The children will be:
Writing the letter B
Buzzing like bees
Cutting banana for snack
Building with blocks
Thinking of words that begin with B
The Number of the week is: 8
The children will be:
Counting up to number 8
Holding up 8 fingers
Drawing the number 8
Hopping 8 times
Making the number 8 out of playdough
The shape of the week is: Rectangle
The children will be:
Talking about the rectangle shape
Counting how many sides a rectangle has
Drawing a rectangle shape
Becci is off Friday, Carla is in on Friday and Ines
is in all week.
Jenni and Consuelo are in all week.
I will now be working every day of the week, so I
will get to see you all every day J If I am not here at the beginning or end of the day and you have any
queries please speak to Charlotte.
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.
Our Policy of the 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 setting.
- 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 setting.
- 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.
Childcare and Learning Group 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 the setting.
- 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 a
best fit judgement 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 the child has a strong attachment to another staff member, subject
to capacity in the preferred team member’s workload and other key relationships
already in place.
Key buddies
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, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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