Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
Theatre
bugs –
Up
Coming Events
18th
May - National Outdoor Classroom Day
12th
June – Father’s Day Week
16th
June – Father’s Day breakfast
Menus
The new menu’s will go live the w/c the 15th May. We will be
making the last few changes to them next week. So please let us know any
further feedback. I will then send over the finalised summer menu’s next week.
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 playing the ‘Tap Tap
Box’ game developing new vocabulary
Tuesday – Nilem’s group is exploring media and
materials while painting on a large sheet of paper
Wednesday – Leanne’s group will be building
relationships while playing ball games with friends
Thursday – Sammy’s group are developing their
awareness of animals sounds while discovering the animal puppets
Friday – Leanne’s group is singing ‘Five Little
Ducks’ building an understanding of number names
Charlotte is off Friday, Leanne is off Monday,
Nilem is off Monday and Tuesday and Montse and Sammy are in all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Spring
Monday – Donna’s group is developing their
knowledge of the world around them while discovering the small world animals
and resources
Tuesday – Ruby’s group are building their
understanding skills while playing ‘Simon Says’ with their friends
Wednesday – Donna’s group will be practicing their
shape recognition while playing with the shape flashcards
Thursday – Megan’s group is finger painting
encouraging an interest in writing skills
Friday– Carla’s group are following rhyme while
playing musical instruments along to their favourite songs
Donna is off Friday, Carla and Ruby are in all
week. Megan is on holiday 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 an interest in
writing and letters
This week the children will be developing their
writing skills. The children will be supported to write their name in colourful
sand using their hands or tools. The children will start off by recording their
name using the voice recorder, they will then be encouraged to listen to the
initial sounds and be supported to link the sounds to the alphabet to create
their name in the sand. The activity will be extended and the children will be
supported to write the alphabet in the sand.
Topic of the month: Dinosaurs
The letter of the week is: X
The children will be:
Writing the letter X
Making the letter X out of playdough
Talking about X-rays
Thinking of words that begin with X
The Number of the week is: 4
The children will be:
Counting up to number 4!
Writing the number 4
Holding up 4 finger’s
Jumping 4 times
The shape of the week is: Pentagon
The children will be:
Talking about how many sides a pentagon has
Making a pentagon using playdough
Drawing a pentagon
Leanne is in on Tuesday, Becci is off Tuesday and
Ines is in all week.
Jenni and Consuelo are in all week and I am off on
Wednesday.
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:
Inclusion policy – talented and gifted children
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 including children who
may be talented or gifted.
Points to consider
In order to be able to
confidently identify talented or gifted children it is important to have a
shared idea of what that means. Below is a definition of gifted, talented and
more able children:
Gifted – The top 5% of age
related intellectual or academic ability within the
setting.
Talented – The top 5% of
age related practical or creative power or other natural ability or tendency
within the setting.
More able – children who
have the potential to or who are working above age related expectations in
academic or practical subject areas within the setting.
Childcare and Learning Group aims to achieve this by:
- Having regular, well thought out observations so that all children’s needs can be identified
- Having a talented and gifted coordinator who will attend training and support the child, family and key person.
- Where the attainment of a child significantly exceeds the expected level of attainment, practitioners may use materials designed for use with older children, or extend the opportunities for work within the area or areas for which the child shows particular aptitude.
- Individual Support Plans (ISP’s) may be used to identify areas to support and develop and well thought time scales put into place.
- Adopting a differentiated approach to ensure appropriate stretch and challenge for all children within group activities.
- Balance must be found between stretching and challenging the child to develop them and ensuring they are still allowed to be a child.
The talented and gifted coordinator in this setting is: Becci Stone
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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