Dear
Parents and Carers,
Nursery News:
Staff
News
Sadly Nilem will be leaving us after an amazing 10 years here
at Castle. Nilem will be starting her retirement on the 26th
January. I hope you join us in wishing her a very happy retirement.
Up
Coming Events
5th
March – Mother’s week
9th
March – Mother’s Day tea party
Thursday
15th March – Parents Evening
This weeks activities and events
Forest
School – This
week at Forest School our new Forest School leader (Robert) joined us and Lee
for our first session after the New Year. They went for a long walk exploring
the woods and seeing what we can find in the environment around us.
In
2 Sports –
This week at sports we practiced our football skills where we worked in pairs
to throw the ball back and forth to each other developing our hand eye
co-ordination and turn taking skills. They finished off by playing hide and
seek with Hello Kitty!
Theatre
bugs –
Next weeks 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: New Year
Monday – Leanne’s group is singing ‘Happy and you
Know it’ encouraging listening and attention skills
Tuesday – Jamie’s group are exploring the
role play kitchen, cooking pretend food and discovering the equipment building
imaginative play
Wednesday – Nilem’s group will be singing number
songs developing awareness of numbers
Thursday – Leanne’s group are developing shape
awareness while reading ‘Peppa Pigs’ shape book
Friday – Sammy’s group is building self-care and
independence skills through daily routine activities
Jamie is off Monday, Leanne is off Wednesday, Nilem
is off Monday and Tuesday and Sammy is in all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Family
Monday – Megan’s group is building confidence with
counting while exploring the unfix game
Tuesday – Donna’s group are reading the story
‘Brown Bear’ encouraging an interest in stories
Wednesday – Ruby’s group will be discovering the
bean bags in the garden playing group games developing hand eye coordination
Thursday – Maria’s group are developing their
understanding of different emotions while reading an emotion book
Friday – Maria’s group is exploring the small world
jungle animals building an understanding of the world around us
Donna is off Friday, Megan is off Thursday and
Friday, Ruby and Maria are in all week. Jamie is in on Friday.
Sunflowers
In the Sunflower room each Key Person plans and implements
their own Key Group activity, but the room works on the same area and aspect to
ensure the activity is individual to each Key Group and therefore meets the
specific Key Group’s individual needs.
This will work alongside their weekly planned
activity list which you can see in the room and on the ILD’S.
Becci’s activity: Becci’s group will be taking part
in a puppet show creating their own stories developing communication and
language skills.
Ines activity: This week Ines’s group is completing
the ‘I Can Do’ sheets supporting their pencil grip. They will be looking at
their letter and number skills throughout.
Almu’s activity: Almu’s group are creating their
own passport to travel around the world building manipulative skills.
Topic of the month: Winter wildlife
The letter of the week is: G
The children will be:
Talking about words beginning with G
Setting up the easel with G stencils
Playing board games
Writing the letter G in the air
Talk about growth
The Number of the week is: 19
The children will be:
Talking about the number 19 at circle time
Galloping 19 times
Counting to number 19
Making the number pictures on the easel with number
19 stamps
The shape of the week is: Pentagon
The children will be:
Making a pentagon out of playdough
Find the pentagon shape in our puzzles
Counting its sides and corners
Becci is off Tuesday, Almu 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.
Facebook
Castle
Nursery and Preschool Facebook page to promotes the company, engages 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 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).
Our Policy of the Week:
No smoking/ vaping policy
Aim of policy
To highlight the setting
stance on Smoking.
Points to consider
Childcare and Learning
Group accept that smoking and passive inhalation of smoke is harmful to
health. The Company also adopts the position that this is particularly so
for children in the early stages of their physical development. Accordingly
we have a strict no smoking policy for all areas of the setting and external
play areas including staff room and adult space. This includes e-cigarettes and
vaping.
Procedures relating to the no smoking policy
By Law and by company policy, no one is allowed to smoke/vape in any
part of the setting or the external play areas
• If a member of staff is
found smoking/vaping in any part of the setting or external play areas they
will be subject to disciplinary action
• If a parent or visitor to
the setting is found smoking/vaping in any part of the setting or external play
areas their attention will be drawn to the no smoking policy and they will be
asked to extinguish the cigarette/put away their E-Cigarette.
Staff will be permitted to smoke/vape:
• During recognised breaks.
• In a location away
from the setting, external play areas, car park and the setting access areas.
• Provided that debris
arising from smoking/vaping is disposed of appropriately.
• Provided that they wear
cover over their uniform, do not wear the setting coats and wash their hands
(and freshen their breath if necessary), before returning to work with the
children.
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Jamie and the South Hill Team
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