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Dear Parents
and Carers,
Happy New year to you all.
We hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
Nursery News:
Staff
News
Jamie
and Hannah have both had a great first couple of weeks, both of them spending
time in all rooms getting to know the nursery and routines. Jamie will based in
the Baby room, however will support the 2 – 3 room on a Friday until Chloe
returns from Maternity leave in February. Hannah will continue her floating
role and will move into a suitable room when required. If you have any
questions about the staff changes, please just let me know.
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:
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 – Sammy’s group will be singing different
nursery rhymes developing their listening and attention skills
Tuesday – Leanne’s group are building their
motor skills while rolling balls to their friends in a group circle
Wednesday – Jamie’s group is making marks on a
large sheet of paper using paint sticks and pencils creating different marks
Thursday – Nilem’s group will be discovering the
electronic toys investigating simple ICT equipment
Friday – Sammy’s group are building relationships
with others while playing group games
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 will be washing babies in
the water tray supporting self-care skills
Tuesday – Donna’s group are using a variety
of animals to encourage number skills and counting
Wednesday – Donna’s group is building an
understanding of familiar people to them while looking at the family board with
friends
Thursday – Ruby’s group will be reading
favourite stories building early literacy skills
Friday – Maria’s group are playing the Animal
sounds game developing recognition of different animal sounds
Donna is off Friday, Megan is off Thursday and
Friday, Ruby is in all week. Maria is on holiday Monday – Wednesday. 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: This week Becci’s group is
completing the ‘I Can Do’ sheets supporting their pencil grip throughout. They
will be looking at their letter and number skills throughout.
Ines and Almu’s activity: Their groups are going to
match different wild and farms animals using the world map to build their
understanding of the world around them.
Topic of the month: Winter wildlife
The letter of the week is: F
The children will be:
Talking about words beginning with F
Setting up the easel with F stencils
Feeding the fish
Learning the shape of the letter
Writing the letter F in the air
The Number of the week is: 18
The children will be:
Talking about the number 18 at circle time
Writing the number 18
Counting to number 18
Making the number 18 out of playdough
The shape of the week is: Square
The children will be:
Making a square with our hands
Talking about the difference in a cube and square
Making a square with our hands
Find square shapes around the room
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:
Access to visitors
Aim of policy
To give clear guidelines
with regard to any visitor to the setting.
Points to consider
Answering the door.
• The person who answers the
door must always identify the caller and seek identification if not recognised
before granting access.
• Only staff members who have
passed their probationary period will be allowed to answer the door.
• We will not allow access to
anyone who is not known, a member of the management team will be informed if
there is any doubt and we will carry out telephone checks if they are calling
on behalf of a company or organisation.
• We ask that parents also
take care when entering and leaving the setting and we therefore request that
parents don’t hold the door open for others, even if they think they are
another parent. If you are concerned that someone has entered the setting
in this way, please inform the setting manager immediately.
Authorised collection
• We are very careful when
allowing people into the setting as the children’s safety is of paramount
importance to us.
• We ask parents to inform us
of everyone who is allowed to collect their child. We use a password system to
ensure the children’s security.
• They should be people who
are familiar to your child and be over 16 years of age. We may store their
details and photographs on our computer system.
• We will not normally allow
any unauthorised person to take your child.
• There may however be very
exceptional circumstances (e.g. serious delay due to bad weather, transport
difficulties etc.) when we will allow your child to leave with someone who is
not on the list - ONLY if you have contacted us by telephone prior to
collection and provided us with a name, description and password.
• They will be asked to print
their name and sign the child out on the register. If we are in any doubt that
the person is different from the one you have authorised, we will refuse to let
them take your child until we have spoken to you again.
• We ask that you share these
procedures with all those on your list, or anyone you ask to collect in an
emergency, so that they understand we will question them, check their I.D. and
retain their details.
Other visitors
Whenever possible, we will
try to arrange visits by appointment. Any visitors - such as sales
people, college assessors, prospective parents, inspectors, gardener, handyman
etc., must complete the visitor's book on arrival and will not be left unsupervised
in the children’s areas.
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Jamie and the South Hill Team
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