Dear Parents and Carers,
Nursery News:
Babies
bonfire and Halloween party
The babies are having a mini party on Friday 2nd November at
3.45 that all parents and children are invited too. If you are not in on that
day but would like to come please just let one of the baby team know.
Dates for your diaries
6th December – Babies and
Bluebells Christmas Parties
7th December – Pre-schools
Christmas Party
10th December – Babies and
Bluebells Carol Service
11th December – Pre-School
Nativity Play
This week’s activities and event-
In2 sports – This week in in2sports the children continued to build their
football skills by manoeuvring and kicking balls in different sized spaces made
with cones.
French- During French this week we have been learning
‘Head, shoulders, knees and toes’ in French practicing pointing to our body
parts.
Nature Club – During the weeks Nature Club the children decided they
wanted to explore the mud and made their own holly crowns.
Next 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: Halloween/ Autumn
Monday – Sammy’s group are singing
number songs, using puppets as a visual aid when they count during the songs.
Tuesday – Leanne’s group are promoting
their self-help skills by washing hands and choosing their own snacks.
Wednesday – Jamie’s group are getting
messy creating Halloween crafts with their hand prints.
Thursday – Hannah’s group will be
exploring books in small groups, encouraging children to point at pictures and
use single words.
Friday – Jamie’s group will be looking
at family books and photos building their understanding of family, friends and
community.
Leanne is off Wednesday, Jamie is off
Friday, Sammy is off Thursday, Friday and Hannah is on holiday all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Autumn
Monday – Megan’s group is discovering
the world around them while playing ‘What can you hear and spy’.
Tuesday – Donna’s group are
reading stories encouraging an early interest in reading.
Wednesday – Ruby’s group will be
exploring different shapes while exploring media and painting a picture.
Thursday – Chloe’s group is
building their imaginative skills while making their own doctors and nurse
kits.
Friday – Ruby’s group are
creating their own horse head out of collage materials and card.
Donna is off Friday, Chloe is off
Monday and Tuesday, Megan is off Thursday and Friday, Ruby is off Wednesday and
Carla is in all week.
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 group are exploring musical
instruments while tapping out simple rhythms and learning how sounds can be
changed,
Ines’s group will be creating their own
Halloween decorations. They children will be given a selection of resources to
choose from and will be encouraged to observe what happens when they mix
colours.
Topic of the month: Autumn
The letter of the week is: T
The children will be:
Talk about the letter T
Playing Tiger games in the
garden
Writing the letter T in the sand pit
Reading the ‘Tiger who came to
tea’
Talking about our teeth and good
hygiene
The Number of the week is: 3
The children will be:
Counting to number 3
Grouping 3 objects
Writing the number 3 on the art easel
Holding up 3 fingers
The shape of the week is: Circle
The children will be:
Making a circle shape with their hands
Counting the sides of a circle
Looking for circle shapes around the
room
Comparing the circle shape and
Semi-circle shape
Becci is off Wednesday, Ines is off
Tuesday and Eva is in all week.
Jenni and Ottilia are in
all week.
I
will be working 7.30 – 4.00 every day. So I will get to see
you all in the morning, If you have any queries in the evening please speak to
your child’s Room Leader or Jamie.
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
Facebook
Castle Nursery and Preschool Facebook
page 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:
Equality and diversity policy
Aim
of the policy
Childcare and Learning Group’s equality and
diversity policy recognises that all people have a right to their distinctive
and diverse identities and that all people are different and must be treated as
individuals.
Points
to consider
We provide a supportive, open environment where all
children and employees have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Childcare and Learning Group will manage the
provision of and access to high quality affordable childcare. We will promote equality and diversity
through our relationships with children, parents, families and carers.
Childcare
and Learning Group aim to
achieve this by:
• Ensuring
all children can be included.
• Providing children with activities and
learning opportunities to acknowledge promote and respect diversity in local
communities.
• Providing positive images and role
models which illustrate non-stereotypical roles, racial, cultural and religious
diversity and disability in a way that has real meaning to the children and
their families.
• Encouraging an understanding of
spiritual development by reflecting all faiths and encouraging the tolerance of
all faiths including the promotion and celebration of religious festivals and
their meaning. South Hill will aim to
enjoy and celebrate religious events that are personal/relevant to the
community we serve.
• Having in place policy and/or
procedures to deal with inappropriate practices and attitudes, action to be
taken should discrimination occur.
• Inviting
parents in the reviewing of our policies.
• Ensuring
all our publicity will demonstrate an understanding of equality and diversity.
• Using
language which is easily understood.
• Wherever there is a widely shared
specific need or where individuals have common needs, Childcare and Learning
Group will address these through a specific strategy.
• Recognising the need to monitor and
review our policies and welcome challenges from, and the involvement of, our
employees and customers in this process.
• Actively consulting with different
individuals and communities to ensure that the services which are provided are
responsive and reflect the diversity of needs.
• Valuing the diversity of all
communities, and making our services, facilities and resources accessible and
useful to every individual.
• Recognising that our ability to meet
these diverse needs is improved by having a diverse workforce which generally
reflects local populations and which has the skill and understanding to achieve
our service objectives.
• Committing to valuing diversity in our
workforce and to developing and training our employees to improve their ability
to meet our goals; within an overall framework of equality.
Childcare
and Learning Group:
• Believe
that our employees have an important part to play in making this happen.
• Require
every employee to recognise and discharge their own responsibility.
• Undertake to listen to our customers
and to involve them in the development of services which recognise and value
their diversity.
To ensure that we meet this policy at all times
each setting has dedicated Equality Officers who support all members of staff
by:
• Ensuring their team, room and garden
area are promoting equal opportunities in their practice and environment.
• Ensuring
cultures and festivals are equally celebrated and promoted.
• Ensuring the team has a good
understanding of cultures and festivals and therefore can promote them
correctly.
• Attending training on equal
opportunities, promoting inclusion, and cascade this back to the rest of the
team.
• Working
together with the other Equality Officers and manager to create:
o
A setting that ensures every child is given the
same opportunities regardless of their abilities.
o
A setting that positively promotes equality through
the genders and cultures.
o
A setting that gives every child an open and
accepting knowledge of the world around them.
The
Equality Officers for this setting are: Donna, Ines and Sammy.
Kind
Regards,
Jess,
Jamie and the South Hill Team
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