Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
In
2 Sports –
This week we practiced our football skills, we had to balance footballs on
cones and practice kicking them off. We then had a fun game of hide and seek
with ‘Hello Kitty’, we had to quietly manoeuvre around the garden to find her.
Forest
School – This
week at Forest School we created our own fire again and had to collect lots of
different dry natural objects to help, we warmed up milk and had yummy hot
chocolate for snack. We also had a fun game of hide and seek.
Theatrebugs
-
Up
Coming Events
Thursday
2nd November – Zoo Lab
w/c
13th November – Nursery Rhyme week
Friday
8th December – Christmas party
Monday
11th December – Carol service
Tuesday
12th December – Nativity play
Photos
As you know the photographer was at nursery
yesterday. You should have all received you order slip, if you have any
questions please let us know. If you are interested in ordering photos if you
do this online by the 16th October you will receive a 10% discount.
Facebook
As
a group we have decided to create a Castle Nursery and Preschool Facebook page
to promote the company, engage with parents and team members across our nurseries. If you
would be interested in following this page, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/Castle-Nursery-and-Preschool-790319011138020/.
We will be regularly adding events and photos to the page.
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: Autumn
Monday – Charlotte’s group will be following
instructions while finding different objects around the garden
Tuesday – Montse’s group is discovering
different shapes and sizes in the Autumn treasure basket
Wednesday – Leanne’s group are exploring music and
material while dancing to music using the ribbons and streamers
Thursday – Nilem’s group will be developing an
interest in books while exploring the story sacks
Friday – Sammy’s group is creating their own messy
track for cars and animals using sand and water
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Leanne and Nilem are on
a/l all week, Montse and Sammy are in all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Autumn
Monday – Megan’s group are creating a number
caterpillar with their friends building confidence with numbers
Tuesday – Donna’s group is exploring the
whiteboards and pens supporting early writing skills
Wednesday – Megan’s group will be building their
knowledge of emotions while creating their own pictures of themselves and
talking about emotions
Thursday – Ruby’s group are collecting leaves
from around the garden and making their own wreath encouraging them to talk
about what they are doing throughout
Friday – Donna’s group is developing their gross
motor skills while playing ball games with their friends
Donna is off Monday, Megan is off Thursday and
Friday, Ruby and Maria are in all week.
Sunflowers
In the Sunflower room each Key Person plans and
implements their own Key Group activity, but the room works on the same area
and aspect to ensure the activity is individual to each Key Group and therefore
meets the specific Key Group’s individual needs.
This will work alongside their weekly planned
activity list which you can see in the room and on the ILD’S.
Becci’s activity: Becci’s group are developing
their knowledge and understanding of special times while working with Becci and
Key friends by talking about special events.
Ines’s activity: This week Ines’s group is
listening to a story all about Autumn building their understanding of seasons
and the world around them. The children will then explore different natural
objects and link them to a season.
Almu’s activity: Almu’s group will be discovering
the outdoor environment. The child will be given an envelope with a number on
and they will have to go and collect that many leaves! They will then take them
back into the room and talk about their collections.
Topic of the month: Autumn
The letter of the week is: T
The children will be:
Talking about words beginning with T
Setting up the easel with letter T stencils
Writing the letter T
Drawing the letter T in the air!
The Number of the week is: 6
The children will be:
Counting to 6
Doing 6 star jumps
Writing the number 6
Making the number 6 using playdough
Exploring number puzzles
The shape of the week is: Rectangle
The children will be:
Counting how many sides and corners a rectangle has
Drawing around a rectangle stencil
Finding a rectangle in the room
Creating a rectangle in the air
Becci is off Tuesday, Almu is off Wednesday and
Ines is in all week
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:
Fire safety policy
Aim of policy
This policy is designed to
eliminate/reduce the risks to the health and safety of children, staff and
users of the setting from fire and related hazards.
Points to consider
Childcare and Learning
Group can only ensure the health and safety of everyone using the setting with
the co-operation of staff following/putting the procedures in place during
evacuation in a fire emergency or training exercise.
The nominated fire warden in this setting is: Charlotte Hampshire
Childcare and Learning Group aim to achieve this by:
Having a procedure to
ensure robust systems
In order to ensure robust
systems exist to respond to an event of fire:
The setting Manager/Fire Warden will:
•
Undertake a fire alarm/ bell test at least once a term.
•
Test emergency lighting every six months.
•
Keep a record of the tests to include date and time, faults/ issuers
occurring if appropriate.
•
Develop a local setting fire evacuation procedure to include exits to be
used, assembly area etc.
•
Carry out a setting evacuation procedure (fire drill) every quarter as a
minimum.
•
Keep records of the fire drills to include time of drill, evacuation
time and comments.
•
Ensure all staff members are aware of and understand the local setting
evacuation procedure.
•
Ensure that all staff members have undertaken basic fire safety training
during their initial induction and senior staff will undertake additional
training annually.
·
All the setting staff will:
•
Ensure that fire exits are not blocked.
•
Ensure routes of access and egress remain clear
•
Undertake regular fire safety training.
The evacuation of the setting is a significant event and therefore
Ofsted must be informed within 14 days of the evacuation
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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