Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
In
2 Sports – This
week at in 2 Sports Coach Jack returned for a session! We had a great time with
him. We played Mr. Animal and we manoeuvred around the garden in different ways
pretending to be different animals. We then practiced our hand eye
co-ordination when throwing and catching balls.
Theatre
bugs –
Sunflowers
Graduation
A
big thank you to everyone who came to the Pre School Graduation is was a
fabulous afternoon and all the children had an excellent party day! We wish
them all the best on their new adventures at school J
Up
Coming Events
7th
September –Parents evening
Menus
There will be a few
changes to the tea menu over the next few weeks as one of the Markenfield
chiefs 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).
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: Under the Sea
Monday – Charlotte’s group is pulling pipe cleaners
out of colanders and putting pom poms into spaces on baking tins developing
hand eye-coordination
Tuesday – Montse’s group will be exploring
the farm animals toys building a knowledge of animals in the world around us
Wednesday – Leanne’s group are exploring media and
recognising their body parts while colouring a template of themselves
Thursday – Nilem’s group are developing their
self-awareness and understanding while finding and pointing to different body
parts
Friday – Sammy’s group will be discovering
different sensory bags learning new vocabulary throughout
Charlotte is on holiday all week, Leanne is off
Monday, Nilem is off Wednesday and Friday, Montse is in all week and Sammy is
on holiday on Friday.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Minibeasts
Monday – Megan’s group will be setting up a craft
table for the children to explore and use their imagination with
Tuesday – Donna’s group are discovering the
magnifying glasses in the garden developing an interest in the world around
them
Wednesday – Ruby’s group will be sharing the ‘The
Hungry Caterpillar’ Story sack while building an interest in stories
Thursday – Donna’s group are developing their
number skills while exploring the coloured compare bears
Friday– Megan’s group is building their
understanding skills while following simple instructions in a teddy bear game
Donna is off Wednesday, Megan is of Thursday and
Ruby is in all week. Maria starts on the 29th 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: building counting skills
The children will be exploring cornflour gloop with
their friends. The children will be encouraged to mix different colours and
talk about the textures. The children will then be supported to count objects
in and out of the cornflour gloop. The activity will be extended and the
children will be encouraged to categorize the objects.
Topic of the month: School
We will be:
Talking about going to school and which school we
are going to
Setting up the role play area as a school
Talking about what to expect when we go to school
Developing independence such as using the toilet
independently, putting our own shoes on and doing up our own zips and buttons.
The letter of the week is: J
The children will be:
Talking about words beginning with the letter J
Writing the letter J
Pouring using jugs in the water tray
Setting up the easel with J stencils
Jumping in the garden
The Number of the week is: 16
The children will be:
Counting to 16
Jumping 16 times
Writing the number 16
Talking about the number 1 and number 6 shape
The shape of the week is: Cone
The children will be:
Looking at the Cone shape and talking about its
shape
Counting how many sides a Cone has
Drawing a Cone shape
Creating 3D Cones out of paper and card
Becci is off Tuesday, Leanne is in on Tuesday and
Ines is in all week. Almu starts on the 4th September.
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:
Well child policy
Aim of policy
To give practitioners and
parents guidance on how we judge a child to be well enough to attend the
setting.
Points to consider
The health and wellbeing of
the children in our care is of the utmost importance to us. However as every
child is different we use the definition of a well child along with information
from Public Health England to decide if a child is well enough to attend the
setting.
A copy of the Guidance on infection control in schools and other
childcare settings is appendix 2
Childcare and Learning Group aim to achieve this by:
The definition of a well child:
- A child who is not dependent on Calpol, Nurofen or similar.
- A child with normal bowel movements.
- A child who participates in activities as they normally would.
- A child who does not require a greater ratio than normal.
Standard adult child ratios are:
- 1: 3 children under two years
- 1:4 children aged two to three years
- 1:8 children aged three to five
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
