Week Commencing 21st August 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

This week’s events:

 

In 2 Sports – This week at in 2 Sports we looked at speeds and observed how quickly balls could roll down the hill. We then continued to practice our tennis skills by hitting balls with our rackets in between two cones!

 

Up Coming Events

Next week - 23^rd August - Sunflower Summer picnic

30^th August – Bluebells Summer picnic

W/c 4^th September – Grandparents week

7^th September –Parents evening

 

Parent’s Evening

Date for your diary, parents evening is Thursday 7th September.

Pop in anytime between 6.30-8.30, to chat to your child’s key person.

The Pre-School team will be completing a ‘Going to School’ presentation at 6.30pm to let you know what we do in the Pre-School to get your child ready and excited for school.

You can also have a look at the next room if your child is due to move up and have the chance to talk to other parents.

Hope to see you all there!

 

Grandparent’s week

We are celebrating our Grandparents!

The w/c 4th September we are having Grandparents stay and play sessions which all Grandparents are invited to!

Please ask and pass the information on to all grandparents.

There will be a sign-up sheet for anyone interested. Please talk to the staff in your room.

 

Sunflower Summer Picnic

A reminder that Sunflowers summer picnic tea is NEXT Wednesday 23^rd August (3.45pm-5.00pm). Parents, Carers and Grandparents are all invited. If your child is not in on that day please come along with them J

 

Facebook

As a group we have decided to create a Castle Nursery and Preschool Facebook page to promote the company, engage with parents and team members across our nurseries. If you would be interested in following this page, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/Castle-Nursery-and-Preschool-790319011138020/. We will be regularly adding events and photos to the page.

Menus

There will be a few changes to the tea menu over the next few weeks as one of the Markenfield chefs will be on holiday. The changes will be on the menu board.

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: People Who Help Us

 

Monday – Charlotte’s group is playing hide and seek games with the toy animals developing interactions with others

Tuesday –  Montse’s group are creating simple structures while discovering the building blocks

Wednesday – Leanne’s group is expressing themselves through actions and sounds while exploring the ‘People who help us’ resources

Thursday – Nilem’s group are naming objects developing language awareness

Friday – Sammy’s group will be building an awareness of people around us while exploring the small world equipment

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

 

Bluebells

 

Topic of the month: Summer

 

Monday – Donna’s group are building their shape understanding while exploring the shape puzzles in the room

Tuesday – Ruby’s group is exploring the role play and ICT phones developing language

Wednesday – Megan’s group are discovering the whiteboards and dry wipe pens encouraging an interest in early writing

Thursday –  Donna’s group will be water painting in the garden promoting manipulative skills and motor movements

Friday– Megan’s group is playing parachute games in the garden supporting making relationships and turn taking

Donna is off Friday, Megan is off Monday and Thursday, Jenni is in all week and Ruby is on holiday all week. Maria starts on the 29^th August.

 

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: Shape Hop Scotch

 

The children will be playing a game of shape hop scotch. The children will be given a selection of bean bags with a particular shape on it. They will be supported to match up the bean bags into the matching shape on the hop scotch they have created. Additionally, they will have lots of fun going up and down the hop scotch naming all the shapes they recognise.

 

Topic of the month: Vehicles

 

The letter of the week is: M

 

The children will be:

Talking about words beginning with the letter M

Dancing to music!

Writing the letter M

Having milk for snack

Setting up the easel with M stencils

 

The Number of the week is: 19

 

The children will be:

Counting to 19

Clapping 19 times

Writing the number 19 in sand

Making the number 19 out of Lego

 

The shape of the week is: Diamond

 

The children will be:

Looking at the diamond shape and talking about its shape

Spotting diamond shapes in our environment

Counting how many sides and corners a diamond has

Making a diamond shape with our hands

Becci is off Tuesday, Leanne is in on Tuesday and Ines is in all week. Almu is also in Monday, Tuesday and 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.

Follow the link below: www.interactivelearningdiary.co.uk

 

Our Policy of the Week: 

 

Temperature reduction medicine administration policy

 

Aim of policy 

 

To ensure that the administration of non-prescription temperature reducing medication (such as Calpol) is administered correctly and safely to any children who require it.

 

Points to consider

 

Paracetamol Suspension will only be administered in an emergency and with permission obtained from a parent or authorised guardian. This policy refers to EYFS 2014: 3.44-3.46

 

Childcare and Learning Group aim to achieve this by:

 

Temperature reducing medication will be kept on site as an emergency provision only and must be kept in a labelled container in the medication cupboard.

Temperature reducing medication is for the use of the reduction of body temperature in the setting children who have a body temperature exceeding 38°C unless the child’s core body temperature is naturally lower, this should be requested in writing by the parent.

 

 

If temperature reducing medication is required due to a raised temperature you should:

• Contact the parent to request further permission and check that medication has not already been given. This is to ensure a child does not overdose.
• Complete a medication form, writing in the parent’s signature box as the top of the form that permission was given verbally and also previously given in the registration form.
• Check the dosage given on the side of the medication to determine the dose required.
• Only senior staff are allowed to give medicine.
• Senior staff to give medication and record on medication form.
• The medication form must be witnessed by another staff member.
• If the temperature does not reduce within a reasonable amount of time, the maximum time will be 1 hour after Calpol has been given and this time will depend on how high the child’s temperature is) then the parent will need to collect the child.
• After having temperature reducing medication the child must meet the criteria of the well child policy, as well as having a lower temperature, in order for them to remain at the setting.

 

To help lower the child’s raised temperature:

 

• Take off the child’s outer clothes, leaving them in simply their vest and pants/ nappy. (Cover with a cotton sheet if they shiver). Please keep privacy in mind.
   
• Keep the room at a normal temperature (18- 20°C) or cooler by opening windows and use a fan to circulate the air, but do not aim it directly at the child.

 

• Give plenty of fluids to drink.

 

• Sponge the child’s body and head- not hands and feet- with lukewarm water with a face flannel.

 

• When judging the child’s fitness to stay at the setting take into account the well child policy.

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill Team