Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
Forest
School –
This week at Forest School we made our own necklaces. We had to find special
branches that were soft and easy to create a hole through the middle! We had
great fun. We then all made a fire together, we warmed some yummy hot chocolate
on it and melted marshmallows for snack!
In2
sports -This
Monday we had our session with our new coach, Pasha. We had lots of fun and we
used our super listening ears! Coach Pasha split our rooms into three
teams and we all had a go at playing tennis! We were carefully dribbling the
ball side to side and then squishing it like a tomato when it wanted to
run away!
Theatre
bugs –
National
Outdoor Classroom Day
Next
week we are taking part in National Outdoor Classroom Day on Thursday. We will
be making dens in our own garden, making our own treasure maps of the garden
and taking part in treasure hunts, following insects, bubble blowing and lots
more!
Up
Coming Events
18th
May - National Outdoor Classroom Day
12th
June – Father’s Day Week
16th
June – Father’s Day breakfast
Menus
Thank you for all your feedback on the summer menu’s a few updates have
been made and the changes along with the new allergens will be sent out next
week. The new menus will now go live the w/c the 22nd May taken into
consideration the feedback given.
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).
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
Topic of the month: Creating Music
Monday – Charlotte’s group are naming parts of
their body developing an awareness of themselves
Tuesday – Charlottes’ group is building their
listening and attention skills while listening to different sounds they can
hear in the garden
Wednesday – Leanne’s group will be developing their
hand eye co-ordination while building towers with their friends
Thursday – Sammy’s group are exploring wooden
puzzles and shapes supporting an understanding of numbers, shapes and colours
Friday – Nilem’s group will be playing hide and
seek games in the garden encouraging relationships
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Leanne is off Monday,
Nilem is off Monday and Tuesday and Montse is in all week and Sammy is on
holiday on Friday.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Spring
Monday – Megan’s group will be matching animal
sounds to pictures supporting listening and attention skills
Tuesday – Ruby’s group is making shaped jam tarts
for all their friends while talking about the ingredients and shapes we are
using
Wednesday – Donna’s group are creating different
creations while exploring paint and paper on the art easel in the garden
Thursday – Donna’s group will be exploring the
water trays while filling and pouring jugs with our friends
Friday– Carla’s group are choosing and
investigating a toy in the pre-school room developing confidence in new
environments
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: ‘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: Dinosaurs
The letter of the week is: Y
The children will be:
Writing the letter Y
Making the letter Y out of playdough
Setting up the easel with letter Y stencils
Thinking of words that begin with Y
The Number of the week is: 5
The children will be:
Counting up to number 5!
Writing the number 5
Singing ‘5 Little Speckled Frogs’
Holding up 5 fingers
The shape of the week is: Cube
The children will be:
Talking about the cube shape
Counting how many corners and sides a cube has
Finding cubes around the room
Leanne is in on Tuesday, Becci is off Tuesday and
Ines is in all week.
Jenni and Consuelo are in all week.
I will now be working Monday - Friday, so I
will get to see you all every day of the week J If I am not here at the beginning or end of the day and you have any
queries please speak to Charlotte.
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.
Our Policy of the Week:
Supporting children and families with English as an additional language
(EAL)
Aim of policy
At Childcare and Learning
Group we welcome everyone into our settings. This includes children who speak
languages other than English. To speak a language other than English will be
celebrated and not seen as a disadvantage or deficit for the children or family.
Our strategy to support these children will be implemented by all staff
members. Staff members will be given support and information to enable them to
promote these strategies. It is the responsibility of the staff to be flexible
and creative to ensure that effective communication takes place.
Points to consider
It is important to identify
the child’s first language before they start at the setting, and to establish
whether the parents are able to converse in English or if they will need
alternative support to understand the routines and learning environment their
child will experience.
Children from different
cultures may find our setting unfamiliar, it is important that we include
pictures, in the environment, with which the children can identify. They may
include a variety of houses, landscapes, families or children playing.
See the Inclusion policies
in addition to this policy
Childcare and Learning Group aims to achieve this by:
The setting environment
strives to be multicultural with a variety of multi-cultural books and
resources. The displays around the settings also reflect multiculturalism.
Steps to support children with EAL:
- On the settling in sessions, we ask parents for key words in the child’s first language to enable us to use these to communicate with the child.
- We will keep language simple and literal initially so the child has the best opportunity to understand.
- We will give instructions to the child individually and with eye contact as we understand generalised instructions may be hard to follow.
- We will give the child time to respond as we recognise it takes time to translate.
- We will have key words relevant to the child on display with pictures around the room, to help staff communicate with the child and for the child to tell us what they want.
- We will encourage the child and their family to teach children and staff the names of objects in their own language.
- We will model correct sentences, without correcting the child, when they have tried to communicate.
Working with parents
Parents from other
countries may have no personal experience of setting as we know it. It is
important that sufficient time is given to explain to them the key principles
of our system and the routines their child will experience.
When completing the
registration form we will take down the details of the country of origin, the
religion, the language and key cultural needs of the child, these may include
dietary restrictions which will be shared with all staff and our chef to ensure
no misunderstandings.
All parents are encouraged
to contribute to the learning of their child by visiting, sharing significant
events/festivals and doing activities.
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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