Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
In2Sports
– This
week we were using our imaginations while pretending to be in the supermarket.
We were sorting and categorising bananas, pears, apples and tomatoes (soft
balls and cones). We had to move around the garden carefully to avoid all our
friends that were shopping!!
Theatre
bugs –
Up
Coming Events
Tuesday
3rd January – Open for 2017!
Next
week:
Staff
News
From
January Ruby will be joining Donna, Megan and Carla in the Bluebell room. I
hope all of you have had the chance to meet Ruby by now, if not please let
Donna know and she can introduce you to her.
Menus
Just
to let you know there will be a few changes to the tea menu for the first week
after Christmas as we will be cooking and providing our teas as one of the
chef’s at Markenfield is on holiday. Lunches will remain the same.
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: Winter wonderland
Tuesday – Sammy’s group are finding their own body
parts while exploring the hand held mirrors
Wednesday – Nilem’s group is discovering media and
textures while playing with coloured water and farmyard animal
Thursday –Charlotte’s group will be experimenting
while making marks in trays of cornflour gloop
Friday – Charlotte’s group is singing action songs
with their friends building listening and attention skills
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Jessica is off
Thursday, Sammy is in all week and Nilem is on holiday all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Tuesday – Megan’s group will be cutting up their
own strawberries for snack while talking about the hungry caterpillar story
Wednesday – Donna’s group is exploring the small
world people and cars encouraging language through play
Thursday – Carla’s group are playing with the
linking elephants building counting skills
Friday – Donna’s group will be singing and
dancing along to the ‘Sticky Kids’ CD supporting listening and attention skills
Donna is off on Tuesday, Chloe is off Thursday,
Megan is off Wednesday, Carla is on holiday on Tuesday and Ruby is in all week.
Donna and Megan are on training Friday morning.
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: talking about our
Christmas holidays..
This week the children will be talking about their
Christmas holidays and talking about what they got for Christmas. The children
will be given the time to talk and will be supported to initiate conversation
and listen to what their peers are saying. The activity will be extended and
the children will create a picture of their favourite thing Father Christmas
brought them.
Topic of the month: Transport
The letter of the week is: F
The children will be:
Writing the letter F
Drawing pictures of our fish
Thinking of words that begin with F
Talking about firemen and firewomen
Looking at the F alphabet soup can
The Number of the week is: 16
The children will be:
Counting up to 16
Doing a number 16 puzzle
Writing the number 16
Grouping 16 objects together
The shape of the week is: Square
The children will be:
Drawing a square shape
Finding square shapes around the room
Looking for square flashcards
Counting how many sides a square has
Leanne is off Wednesday, Becci is off Tuesday 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.
Follow
the link below: www.interactivelearningdiary.co.uk
Our Policy of the Week:
Early Help Assessment (EHA) policy
Aim of Policy
To outline the commitment
of our setting to the EHA approach and inter agency working.
Points to Consider
The EHA process,
replaces the previous Common Assessment Framework (CAF) process.
The EHA process
is a consent based approach and families will be involved throughout and must
have given signed permission for the EHA to take place.
Purpose of the
EHA
Children and
families may need support from a wide range of local agencies. Where a Child
and family would benefit from coordinated support there should be an
inter-agency assessment.
These early help assessments
should identify what help the child and family require to prevent needs
escalating to a point where intervention would be needed by a statutory
assessment.
The early help
assessment is used to help practitioners gather and understand information
about the strengths and needs, based on discussions with the family. The
holistic assessment identifies the most appropriate way to meet those needs,
and with consent of the family can support a team around the family approach.
Steps to take:
- Something will have triggered the key person, senior practitioner or SENCO to recognise a possible need in a child or young person. It may be a change in their behaviour, an action, consequence, development assessment or something else which alerts them.
- The key person, senior practitioner or SENCO will inform the setting manager, keeping them informed throughout the rest of the process.
- Key person, senior practitioner or SENCO will prepare their evidence and their developmental assessments of the child to support their concern.
- The key person, senior practitioner or SENCO will need to seek further information to help clarify the problems or issue, and prevent needs from escalating. At this point, the family is engaged.
- The key person, senior practitioner or SENCO requests permission from the family to seek involvement from the local authority EHA team. At this stage, it may only be a second opinion observation. A part of this process will be checking to see if an Early Help Assessment or Team Around the Family is already in place for the family to ensure you are working together.
- The LA EHA team will support the setting with the current processes for an EHA. A Team Around the Family (TAF) will be established and a lead professional appointed.
- When an Early Help Assessment has been completed, practitioners are able to see the family's needs holistically and not fragmented. They will work together to support the needs and development of the child within the family.
What is the role
of the lead professional?
The Early Help
Assessment will be undertaken by a lead professional who will provide support
to the child and family, act as an advocate on their behalf and coordinate the
delivery of any services.
The lead
professional role, is not necessarily a setting representative. It could be
undertaken a general practitioner (GP), family support worker,
health visitor or special educational needs coordinator.
Contacts:
In this setting the SENCO is: Becci
Stone
Our local authority EHA
contact area is: Surrey South West Area (Guildford and Waverly)
The EHA team contact number
is: 0208 541 9282
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
