Dear
Parents and Carers,
Forest
School this week
We
were all very excited to get on our way for our first forest school session
after the Easter holidays. We started by looking for animal footprints in the
mud, Lee mixed up some magic potion (plaster of Paris) and poured it into the
footprint. We left the mixture to get hard and came back to it on our way back.
We then went to have a play, we played chase and looked at some flowers. After
a play we stopped to have some snack. We then carried a ladder that Lee had
made over to a tree, we took turns climbing the tree and jumping down while
holding Lee's hands we all had lots of fun we were so brave! We then headed
back to find our foot prints, they had dried so we dug them up to take back to
nursery!
Parents
Forest Taster Session
Lee
the Forest School leader will be holding a parents Forest School taster session
on Sunday 24th April at 10.00am, so please come and see for yourself
why your children are raving about Castle Nursery Forest School! There is a
flyer attached for further information.
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: Emergency closure 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 – Charlotte’s group will be creating their
own flags for St George’s Day using a variety of materials supporting fine
motor skills and hand eye co-ordination
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group is investigating
the heuristic play equipment encouraging exploration of a variety of objects
and textures
Wednesday – Shula’s group are listening to St.
David’s Day music while dancing in a group supporting listening and attention
Thursday – Shula’s group will be discovering the
black and white resources promoting self-confidence and a sense of themselves
Friday – Mel’s group is looking at their favourite
books encouraging an interest in printed material
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Mel is off Tuesday,
Nilem is off Monday and Shula is in all week
Bluebells
Monday – Megan’s group will be listening to St
George’s Day music promoting different ways to move to music
Tuesday – Chloe’s group are celebrating St George’s
Day by junk modelling and creating a variety of shields
Wednesday – Donna’s group is using the shape
flashcards to encourage shape recognition and mathematical language
Thursday – Almu’s group are reading the story ‘A
Squash and A Square’ supporting early literacy skills
Friday – Chloe’s group will be making soda bread
for Passover while talking about what Passover is
Donna is off Monday and Friday, Chloe is off
Thursday, Megan and Almu 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: using our whole bodies to
take part in an obstacle course in the garden
The children are taken part in a series of
exercises. They will work together to complete the obstacle, supporting each
other while doing so. They will be encouraged to experiment with different ways
of moving and they will be supported to adjust their speed and direction
throughout.
The letter of the week is: V
The children will be:
Writing the letter V with stencils
Talking about our favourite vegetables
Painting letter V on the easel
Playing the volcano game
Looking at the V alphabet bottle
Talking about different sorts of vehicles
Playing with the violet puppet
Leanne is off Wednesday, Hector is off Thursday and
Becci is in all week.
Emergency closure policy
Aim
of Policy
To
give clear guidelines if bad weather or building issues should cause a nursery
to close.
Points
to consider
In
the event that bad weather or building issues (such as fire, flood or heating
breakdown) makes one of the Castle sites inoperable the staff and children will
be relocated to one of the sister sites.
If
the shortage of staff limits the number of places available the following
priorities will take place:
- Children of Emergency Services and medical staff
- Children of teachers or school workers/ children of bank workers/ children of staff at utilities companies and children of public transport workers
- All other working parents
- Children of non working parents
In
the event of staff shortages, parents with current DBS forms may be asked to
support the nursery team in order to maintain smooth operations.
The
manager or person in charge will inform the parents of the children attending
that day of the change by telephoning them.
Answer
phone messages will be updated and we will try and keep parents as informed and
up to date as possible through emails, our blog and our website.
The
operations manager will be informed immediately about the site change.
Ofsted
will be kept informed at all times of changes in circumstances.
0300 123 1231
Surrey
Early Years will be kept informed at all times of changes in circumstances.
01372 833833
Financial
decisions will be made by the Director or the Finance Director.
Kind regards,
Jess Smith
Manager, SENCO
No comments:
Post a Comment