Dear
Parents and Carers,
Forest
School
The
children were all very excited to set off for forest school today as it was the
first session after a little break. The children were all excitedly singing
songs in the mini bus on our way to the forest. We went to find somewhere to
put up a tent and all helped Lee to put it up. We had a play in the tent and
then sat down to have some yummy snack. After snack Lee went to hide and left
arrows using sticks to lead us to him, he lead us in a big circle where we
found him back sitting in the tent! We then split into groups and took turns
hiding and placing the arrows, we had lots of fun!
Father’s
Day week
Thank
you to everyone who has made it to the stay and play sessions this week, all
the children had lots of fun with you!
A
reminder that we will also be having a Father’s Day breakfast tomorrow (Friday
17th June), so come along and have a bacon sandwich with your child
for breakfast. Pop in any time between 8.00am and 9.15am.
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 or Charlotte.
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), Free
Early Education for Two year olds and Early Years
Pupil Premium funding.
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 are discovering the
electronic toys developing an awareness of ICT
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group will be exploring the
role play clothes promoting an understanding of pretend play
Wednesday – Shula’s group are making shapes and
marks using clay enjoying a sensory experience
Thursday – Shula’s group will be playing naming
games encouraging the children to find their own features
Friday – Mel’s group are developing their
understanding of questions while searching for shells in the sand pit
Charlotte is off Monday and on training on
Wednesday, Mel is off Tuesday, Nilem is off Monday and Shula is in all week.
Bluebells
Monday – Donna’s group are choosing their favourite
songs and singing them with their friends promoting language skills
Tuesday – Donna’s group will be using the dinosaurs
to practice their number skills, they will be counting and sorting the
dinosaurs into groups
Wednesday – Almu’s group are looking at factual
family books developing an understanding of our family members
Thursday – Megan’s group is looking at their
favourite books encouraging an interest in literacy and story books
Friday – Chloe’s group will be playing self-care role
play games with their friends promoting an awareness of daily routines
Donna is off Thursday and 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: story fun!
This week the children will be reading the ‘Runaway
Train’ in small groups. The children will be encouraged to listen to the story
throughout. They will then be all supported to think of an alternate ending to
the story. They will be encouraged to listen to each other’s ideas. The
activity will be extended and the children will then create a picture of their
own train!
The letter of the week is: E
The children will be:
Drawing the letter E with stencils
Playing the guessing game with animals beginning
with the letter E
Finding things that begin with E around the room
Painting the letter E on the easel
Singing the ABC song
The Number of the week is: 9
The children will be:
Holding up 9 fingers
Thinking of numbers that have number 9 in? (9, 19,
29)
Counting to 9
Thinking of the differences between number 6 and
number 9
Jumping 9 times
The shape of the week is: Triangle
The children will be:
Spotting triangles around the room
Counting the sides on a triangle
Drawing triangles and colouring them in
Making a triangle with our hands!
Leanne is off Monday, 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
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