Dear
Parents and Carers,
Wishing
you all a very Happy New Year!
Staff
News
Ines
started with us this week and is taking over the role of our floating staff
member to cover holidays and sickness. We will be introducing her to you all
over the next couple of weeks.
Forest
School
We
are very excited about Forest school starting again this week for the
Pre-School children! The Sunflower staff will be letting you know which
children are in the first group. The sessions run for six weeks and after
half term a different group of children will be going.
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.
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 Jess.
Our Policy of the week: Risk assessment policy
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
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
Monday – Mel’s group are exploring shapes and
spaces through using the jigsaw puzzles
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group will be printing with
toy cars and paint and investigating the marks they make
Wednesday – Shula’s group are developing
relationships with each other by playing copying games such as ‘Simon Says’
Thursday – Shula’s group will be playing with the
jungle animals in cornflour gloop and creating animal footprints
Friday – Mel’s group are looking at their family
photos and talking about them to develop their vocabulary
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Mel is off Tuesday,
Nilem is off Monday and Shula is in all week.
Bluebells
Monday – Megan’s group are exploring textures
through drawing over a variety of surfaces in the garden with pencils and paper
Tuesday – Chloe’s group will be making their own
pizzas for tea, listening and following instructions about how to make them
Wednesday – Donna’s group are playing alongside
each other with the garage and vehicles and taking it in turns to use the
different cars
Thursday – Almu’s group are counting the compare
bears and beginning to learn about different quantities
Friday- Megan’s group will be choosing books from
the book box to read together and talking about the pictures
Donna is off Friday, Chloe is off Thursday, Almu
and Megan 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: playing the ‘Spider web’
board game.
The children will be developing their turn taking
and sharing skills with their peers as they play the game together. They
will also be learning to manage their emotions and feelings through discussing
how they feel about winning or losing the game.
The letter of the week is: H
The children will be:
Writing the letter H with stencils
Thinking of words that begin with H
Singing ‘Humpty Dumpty’
Building houses with blocks
Wearing role play hats and creating their own hats
Moving like houses and singing ‘Horsey Horsey’
Leanne is off Monday, Hector is off Thursday, Becci
is on SEND training on Tuesday and in the rest of the week.
Risk assessment policy
Aim
of policy
To
give guidance on how and when to complete risk assessments.
Points
to consider
Risk
assessments are to assess hazards to anyone on the nursery premises, or in case
of external trips to the children, staff and parents in our care.
The
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) considers risk assessment to be:
“a
careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people to enable
you to decide whether you have taken enough precautions or you should do more.
It should identify and take into account all significant factors that can
affect the chance and extent of harm and reach a conclusion on whether and how
the management of such factors needs to be improved to eliminate or lessen that
chance”.
There
are five points to consider when carrying out a risk assessment:
Identify
the hazard
Decide
who may be harmed and how
Evaluate
the risks and decide on precautions
Record
your findings and implement them
Review
your assessment and update if necessary
To
see the risk assessments go to appendices 3
Castle
Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:
Carrying
out thorough and regular risk assessments on all aspects and areas of the
nursery.
The
person responsible for carrying out risk assessments in this nursery is: all
staff
Daily
Health and Safety checks should also be made to ensure no hazards arise between
risk assessments.
The
person/people responsible for carrying out these daily checks are: All staff
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More
information on how to complete risk assessments can be found at:
Kind Regards
Charlotte Hampshire
Deputy Manager
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