Dear
Parents and Carers,
This
week’s events:
Forest
School – This
week at Forest School we have been doing some climbing on ropes, developing our
risk taking by trying to go down the slope. We also looked for bugs and
found some giant spider webs in the trees!
In
2 Sports –
This week at sports we have been practising how to hold a tennis racket with
two hands and hitting the ball to the ground. We played the traffic light
game and hide and seek around the garden. We also had lots of fun
balancing bean bags on our heads!
Up
Coming Events
Monday
6th November – Bluebells Bonfire party
w/c
13th November – Nursery Rhyme week
Friday
8th December – Christmas party
Monday
11th December – Carol service
Tuesday
12th December – Nativity play
Bonfire
night
The
Bluebell room will be having their Bonfire party on Monday 6th
from 4.00 – 5.00, they will be dancing with glow sticks and having pizza for
tea.
All
parents and children are welcome to join J
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 is a temporary
menu for this week.
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: Colours
Monday – Sammy’s group will be exploring the sea
animal flash cards and developing their vocabulary as they point to and try to
name the animals
Tuesday – Charlotte’s group are looking at
books about colours and talking about what they can see in the pictures
Wednesday – Leanne’s group are investigating the
shape sorter bus, supporting their awareness of shapes and spaces
Thursday – Nilem’s group will be moving and dancing
to music with the ribbon streamers and musical instruments
Friday – Montse’s group is learning how to operate
the electronic toys in the garden
Charlotte is off Wednesday, Leanne is off Monday,
Nilem is off Monday and Tuesday, Montse is in all week and Sammy is on holiday
all week.
Bluebells
Topic of the month: Space
Monday – Maria’s group are using different paints
and materials to create their own Autumn trees
Tuesday – Donna’s group will be listening to
nursery rhymes and joining in with the words and actions, developing their
language and turn taking skills
Wednesday – Donna’s group is celebrating
Remembrance Day by making their own poppy pictures and a poppy wreath
Thursday – Ruby’s group are developing their
understanding of weights and measures as they help to make their own playdough,
they will then talk about the different shapes they can make with it
Friday – Maria’s group will be learning about the
different parts of the body as they stick pictures of parts of the body to the
corresponding place on a template of a person
Donna is off Friday, Megan is on compassionate leave
all week, Ruby and Maria are 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 activity: Becci’s group are experimenting
with floating and sinking. They will be choosing a variety of objects and
talking about if they think it will float or sink and then testing it in the
water. Throughout the activity the children will be encouraged to ask
questions and observe what is happening.
Ines’s activity: This week Ines is encouraging the
children to speak about their experiences or any topic of their interest to
develop their use of more complex sentences during conversations. The
children will then be given the opportunity to make a picture about one of
their interests or of something that has a special meaning to them.
Almu’s activity: Almu’s group are playing a game
called ‘Roll and Cross’. They will be developing their listening
skills as they follow the instructions of the game, then rolling the dice and
counting how many spots there are and crossing the number out on their number
cards.
Topic of the month: Animals
The letter of the week is: X
The children will be:
Talking about words beginning with X
Looking at animal names that contain the letter X
Writing the letter X
Learning about x-rays
The Number of the week is: 10
The children will be:
Jumping 10 times whilst counting to 10
Writing the number 10 in the sand
Making number 10 out of playdough
Talking about what numbers make 10
Counting our fingers and our toes
The shape of the week is: Octagon
The children will be:
Counting how many sides an octagon has
Counting how many corners an octagon has
Drawing octagons on the chalkboards
Becci is off Tuesday and on holiday on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, 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.
Our Policy of the Week:
Emergency closure policy- buildings/ environment
Aim of Policy
To give clear guidelines if
bad weather or building issues should cause a setting to close.
Points to consider
In the event that bad
weather or building issues (such as fire, flood or heating breakdown) makes one
of the Childcare and learning Group sites inoperable the staff and children
will be relocated to one of the other group sites.
If the shortage of staff limits
the number of places available the following priorities will take place:
1.
Children of Emergency Services and medical staff
2.
Children of teachers or school workers/ children of bank workers/
children of staff at utilities companies and children of public transport
workers
3.
All other working parents
4.
Children of non-working parents
In the event of staff
shortages, parents with current DBS forms may be asked to support the setting
team in order to maintain smooth operations.
The manager or person in
charge will inform the parents of the children attending that day of the change
by telephoning them.
Answer phone messages will
be updated and we will try and keep parents as informed and up to date as
possible through emails, our blog and our website.
The operations manager will
be informed immediately about the site change.
Ofsted will be kept
informed at all times of changes in circumstances.
0300 123 1231
Financial decisions will be
made by the Director or the Finance Director.
Kind
Regards,
Jess, Charlotte and the South Hill
Team
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