Week Commencing 30th January 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

This week’s events:

 

In2 sports -This week at In2 Sports we built our imagination skills while pretending to take cheese (footballs) from a cat (coach Dave) and we had to sing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ to make the cat fall asleep. We had a great time!

 

Forest School -This week at Forest School we practiced our climbing skills, while climbing up a bank using ropes to help us. We then discovered the Gruffalos house and had hot chocolate for snack together.

 

Theatre bugs –

 

Up Coming Events

Thursday 16^th March – Parents Evening

20^th March – Mother’s week

24^th March – Mother’s Day tea party

 

Bluebells Resources

Donna and Megan are taking part in a year training programme with Surrey CC to develop their environment further. They would like to ask if any of you at home have any old or spare wallets/purses, handbags, scarves, sunglasses, umbrellas or hats (winter or sun) or anything similar; they would love to use them in their role play area that they are developing further. Additionally, if you have any spare or old soft toys you no longer need they would appreciate using them in their story area that they are revamping J Many thanks in advance!

 

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:

http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/ 

 

This week’s planned activities are also on the ILD’S.

 

Buttercups

 

Topic of the month: Winter wonderland

 

Monday – Charlotte’s group are developing their awareness of different emotions while reading the ‘Feeling Great’ book and exploring the emotion puppets

Tuesday – Jessica’s group is singing number songs with friends to build early number skills

Wednesday – Sammy’s group will be building their listening skills and engaging their attention while reading ‘Elmer and the lost Teddy’

Thursday – Nilem’s group is discovering natural objects around them while investigating the treasure basket

Friday –Jessica’s group will be exploring media and materials while painting using their fingers, hands and feet

Charlotte is off Wednesday and on training Thursday and Friday, Jessica is off Thursday, Nilem is off Monday and Tuesday and Sammy is all week.

 

Bluebells

 

Topic of the month:  The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

Monday – Megan’s group is discovering the song box encouraging speaking skills and nursery rhyme fun

Tuesday – Megan’s group will be using the digger and the coloured blocks to practice their counting skills

Wednesday – Carla’s group are exploring the small world cars and garage with friends building relationships and turn taking skills

Thursday – Carla’s group will be building their imaginative skills while caring for the babies in the role play area

Friday –  Donna’s group is practicing their gross motor skills in the garden while playing football

Megan is off Wednesday, Donna, Carla and Ruby 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. 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: the ‘I Can Do’ sheets

 

This week the children will be having a go at the ‘I can do’ sheets to see how they are getting on with their literacy and maths skills. The children will be supported to recognise familiar letters and numbers. The children will then be encouraged to count as high as they can. The activity will be extended and the children will create a picture of themselves and will be encouraged to describe the marks they make.

 

Topic of the month: Transport

 

The letter of the week is: J

 

The children will be:

Writing the letter j

Making jam sandwiches

Thinking of words that begin with j

Jumping outside

Looking at the j alphabet soup can

 

The Number of the week is: 20

 

The children will be:

Counting up to 20

Organising 20 objects together

Drawing the number 20

Creating the number 20 out of playdough

 

The shape of the week is: Pentagon

 

The children will be:

Drawing a pentagon shape

Looking for pentagon shapes around the room

Making pentagon biscuits

Talking about how many side a pentagon has

Leanne is off Monday, Becci is off Wednesday 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: 

 

Non-attendance policy

 

Aim of policy

 

To give clear guidelines on what to do if a child expected at setting does not arrive.

 

Points to consider

 

This policy needs to be made aware to all parents upon starting at the setting so they understand it is to protect children rather than intrude into personal lives.

Under the Early Years Foundation Stage providers must be alert to any issues for concern in the child’s life at home or elsewhere. By understanding why the child has not attended helps us to form a picture of their life outside of the setting. This policy links to our Child Protection policies.

 

Childcare and Learning Group aim to achieve this by:

 

• Asking all parents to inform the setting if their child is going to be absent and the reason why.

 

Recording on the registers when and child is absent and why, using the following code:

S = sickness

H = holiday

A = unknown absence

 

• If a child is due in and has not arrived, the setting will wait a reasonable time, depending on the child’s session and usual pattern of attendance, before contacting the parent to find out a reason for the child’s absence.

 

• This reason will then be recorded on the registers.

 

• Patterns of non-attendance can be monitored through the registers.

 

• Where possible the setting would encourage parents to contact the setting rather than the setting contacting the parent.

 

• When contacting the parents the staff will do so in a sensitive manner whilst explaining the need for the phone call.

 

• If a child claiming Funding is off for more than two consecutive weeks or is regularly absent the manager will need to contact the Funding team.

 

• The MASH team may need to be contacted. Please discuss this with your Manager and Designated Safeguarding Lead.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill Team