Dear Parents
Parent news
One of our Mummies is running the Stockholm Marathon in May raising
money for the Unicef Nepal Earthquake Appeal.
You can see Rachel’s story below and donate if you wish.
Good
luck to all the Mummies running Race for Life this weekend!
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.
Follow
the link below: http://www.interactivelearningdiary.co.uk/
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 Caroline.
Our Policy this week is: Whistle
Blowing
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
Tea on Thursday will be bread rolls
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 are now on
the ILD’S
Forest school
This
week’s group made a camp with the tarpaulin.
They
cooked their own bread over the fire and drank hot chocolate
The
next Forest school session will be on Monday 1st June
Buttercups
Tuesday
– Mel’s group are exploring the toy telephones.
Wednesday
– Leanne’s group is looking at the family book and naming our family members
Thursday
– Charlotte’s group will be naming parts of their body and singing “Head,
Shoulders, Knees and Toes”
Friday
– Mel’s group are exploring shapes as they play with the bead mazes.
Charlotte
is off Tuesday, Mel is off Wednesday, Nilem and Leanne are off Friday
Bluebells
Tuesday
– Hannah’s group is building a tower with blocks to develop physical skills
Wednesday
– Almu’s group are exploring ICT toys and how they work.
Thursday
– Donna’ group will be rolling balls to their friends as they call out their
names
Friday
– Chloe’s group is making mini pizzas!
Donna
is off Tuesday and Wednesday, Chloe is off Thursday and Almu and Hannah 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 developing personal
relationships by asking our friends questions and answering questions from our
friends.
The learning intentions for this activity are:
To develop social skills
To share interests
To build relationships
To discover similarities and differences
The letter of the week is: B
This week we will be:
Putting the letter B stencils out
Singing Ba Ba Black Sheep
Painting with Blue paint
Blue sand in the tray
Eating Banana for snack
Jess
is off Friday and Megan and Becci are in all week.
Enjoy
the Bank holiday!
Caroline
and the South Hill Team
Policy
of the week:
Whistle Blowing
Whistle
blowing is another way of saying “staff that make a disclosure in the public
interest”
The
Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 protects workers who “blow the whistle”
about wrong doing. It applies where a worker has reasonable belief that their
disclosure tends to show one or more of the following offences or breaches:
- A criminal offence
- The breach of a legal obligation
- A miscarriage of justice
- A danger to the health and safety of any individual
- Damage to the environment
- Deliberate covering up of information tending to show
any of the above.
Castle
Daycare and Preschool strongly supports measures which protect whistle-blowers
from any form of victimisation. Castle Daycare and Preschool has a procedure to
ensure concerns are dealt with effectively and efficiently and will do all that
they can to preserve the confidentiality of workers who raise such concerns.
If
you genuinely believe that people you work with are behaving in a way that
seems wrong or have a serious concern about an aspect of service, you will be
doing your duty and acting in the public interest by speaking out.
- If you are concerned about staff members or a working
practice you are requested to speak to your Manager.
- The Manager will investigate the complaint and you will
be informed of the outcome of the investigation. The Nursery will deal
with a concern within ten days of receiving the concern.
- If it is the Manager you have a concern about, or the
Manager has not dealt with any issues satisfactorily, you need to inform
the Operations Manager, who will then undertake an investigation.
Operations Manager, Natalie
Chrystie: 07789 26 82 41 or 01293 772561
- If the matter is still not dealt with in a satisfactory
way or the issue is very serious you can contact the Ofsted whistle
blowing number:
0300123 3156
- Depending on the outcome of the investigation other
agencies such as Ofsted or Surrey Safeguarding Children Board may need to
be contacted.
Castle
Daycare and Preschool will respond to any concerns raised and will make every
effort to not reveal the whistle-blower’s identity, if they so wish. However
during the investigation it may be necessary to make the origin of the
complaint known to the person or persons the allegations concern. All concerns
raised within the investigation process will be assessed to determine if the
confidentiality extends to withholding the name of the complainant.
Whistle-blowers
should understand that their identity may be revealed by inference.
Castle
Daycare and Preschool accepts that the deciding to report a concern can be very
difficult and uncomfortable. If a member of staff makes an allegation in good
faith, but it is not confirmed by the investigation, no action will be taken
against him/her. If however a member of staff makes an allegation frivolously,
maliciously of for personal gain, disciplinary action may be taken against
them.
This
may be a stressful time for the whistle blower so Castle Daycare and Preschool
would recommend that support groups such as the Samaritans on: 08457 90 90 90
may be able to give impartial support.
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