Week commencing 1st May 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

This week’s events:

In 2 Sports –This week we warmed up by playing the traffic light game. We then built our football skills and practiced balancing the balls on top of cones then had to see how far we could kick the ball off the cone.

Theatre bugs –

Up Coming Events

18^th May - National Outdoor Classroom Day

12^th June – Father’s Day Week

16^th June – Father’s Day breakfast

 

Bank holiday

A reminder that it is bank holiday Monday next week (1^st May) we will open as usual on Tuesday 2^nd May.

 

Parent Surveys

Our survey is closing at the end of April, when we bring it all together and reflect on what you have said and start prioritising plans for development based on your feedback.

If you could spare a few moments to help develop our service for you and your children, it would be very much appreciated.

Active Kids Vouchers

Now’s the time to collect vouchers for sports and cooking equipment for our Nursery J

With your help we can buy some new resources from Sainsbury’s using the Active Kids vouchers we collect this year.

If you shop at Sainsbury or know anyone who does please collect the Active Kids vouchers for us. This will support us further to encourage your children to eat well, move well and live well in 2017.

Menus

The summer menu’s will be starting during May, please have a look through the attached menu’s and let us knows what you think.

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!

 

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 (EYPP).

 

www.surreycc.gov.uk/fis
www.surreycc.gov.uk/fee
www.surreycc.gov.uk/feet  

www.surreycc.gov.uk/eypp

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:  Planes

 

Tuesday – Charlotte’s group will be practicing holding mark making tools developing a palmer grip

Wednesday – Nilem’s group is using different shaped blocks to create their own structure developing number and shape awareness

Thursday – Leanne’s group are exploring trays of wet sand and jungle animals building an awareness of animal sounds

Friday – Sammy’s group is singing nursery rhymes with actions supporting understanding skills

Charlotte is off Wednesday, Nilem is off Monday and Tuesday, Leanne is off Wednesday, Montse is on holiday on Tuesday and Sammy is in all week.

 

Bluebells

Topic of the month: Sports

 

Tuesday – Ruby’s group are exploring media and materials while painting using role play utensils

Wednesday – Megan’s group is building an interest in reading while reading the big books with their friends

Thursday – Donna’s group are discovering the sensory box with peers developing relationships and turn taking skills

Friday– Carla’s group is developing language skills while having a pretend picnic in the garden

Donna is off Friday, Megan is off Thursday, 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: building listening and attention skills through stories

 

This week the children will be listening to the Gruffalo story with friends. They will then use the Gruffalo masks so they can take part in playing the different characters. The children will be encouraged to join in with repeated refrains and anticipate key parts of the story. This activity will encourage the children to listen with increasing attention. The activity will be extended and the children will create a picture linking to their favourite part of the story.

 

Topic of the month: Under the sea

 

The letter of the week is: W

The children will be:

Writing the letter W

Setting up the easel with the letter W stencils

Making the letter W out of playdough

Wiggling like worms

Thinking of words that begin with W

 

The Number of the week is: 3

 

The children will be:

Counting up to number 3

Writing the number 3

Holding up 3 finger’s

Counting how many friends are 3 years old

Clapping 3 times

 

The shape of the week is: Hexagon

 

The children will be:

Talking about how many sides a hexagon has

Making prints with hexagon shapes

Drawing a hexagon

Talking about the difference in a hexagon and a pentagon

Megan is in on Friday, Becci is off Friday and Ines is in all week.

 

Jenni and Consuelo are in all week and I am off on Friday.

Iteractive 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: 

 

Inclusion policy- diversity

 

Aim of policy

 

Childcare and Learning Group is committed to providing all children in our care every opportunity to achieve to the highest standards of their ability. This policy helps to ensure that this happens for all the children at our setting regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, attainment or background.

 

Points to Consider

 

Our setting aims to be an inclusive setting. This means that equality of opportunity must be a reality for our children. We make this a reality through the attention we pay to the different groups of children within our setting:

• girls and boys;
• minority ethnic and faith groups;
• children who need support to learn English as an additional language;
• children with special educational needs;
• gifted and talented children;
• Any children who are at risk of disaffection or exclusion.

 

Childcare and Learning Group aims to achieve this by:

 

Setting suitable challenges for children;

• responding to children’s diverse needs;
• overcoming potential barriers to the access to and development of individuals and groups of children within the setting;
• Providing other support to meet the needs of individuals or groups of children. (This may include accepting advice from a range of professionals.)
• Celebrating all children as individuals and ensuring a sense of belonging at Childcare and Learning Group.

 

We achieve inclusion by continually reviewing what we do, through asking ourselves these key questions:

• Do all our children achieve as much as they can?
• Are there differences in the achievement for different groups of children and if so what are the reasons for these differences?
• What are we doing for those children who we know are not achieving their best?
• Are our actions effective?

 

We aim to give all our children the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential. When planning for them, practitioners take into account the abilities of and differences between all of their children.

 

For some children we use strategies that may normally be appropriate for children of a different age group dependent of the individual needs of the child. This is done to ensure that all children are able to make progress at their own level and at appropriate different rates of development.

 

When the attainment of a child falls significantly below the expected level practitioners will enable the child to succeed by planning work that is in line with that child’s individual needs.

 

Where we have these concerns they will be highlighted to our SENCO who is: Becci Stone

 

Practitioners are familiar with the relevant equal opportunities legislation covering race, gender and disability discrimination.

 

All Practitioners ensure that children:

• feel secure and know that their contributions are valued;
• appreciate and value the differences they see in others;
• take responsibility for their own actions;
• participate safely in clothing that is appropriate to their religious beliefs;
• are taught in groupings that allow them all to experience success;
• use materials that reflect a range of social and cultural backgrounds, without stereotyping;
• have a common curriculum experience that allows for a range of different learning styles;
• have challenging targets that enable them to succeed;
• Are encouraged to participate fully, regardless of disabilities or medical needs.
• In our setting the play, learning, achievements, attitudes and well-being of every child is important. We follow the necessary regulations to ensure that we take the experiences and needs of all our children into account when planning activities for the children.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill Team