Sports relief

Dear Parents and Carers

This week we shall be supporting sports relief. The children in each age range shall be carrying out activities to support their gross motor skills, taking turns and working as part of a team, both indoors and outdoors.  Please see a staff member in your child’s room for more details.

To support ‘Sports relief’ the children are welcome to wear something red, on Friday March 21^st, whilst making a donation for the charity.  There shall be collection buckets in each room on Friday.  

Many thanks to those parents who have returned the parent survey.  These are invaluable when evaluating our practice and service.  Please could I ask that any remaining surveys which you would like to provide, be donated by Monday March 24^th.  The feedback shall be consolidated and published in April’s blog.

Being ever positive about the British summer weather, could we please ask parents to provide their children with a named sunhat and named sun cream for the coming summer months.  Thank you.

Policies

Please see the attached the policy for the late/non collection of a child. 

Snails

The current interest in the Snails continues to be sensory exploration.  This week the babies will explore wet sand and hand painting.  Alisha and Leanne will also give the babies some ‘tummy time’, encouraging them to roll.

Alisha – Tuesday   Leanne - Tuesday

Caterpillars

The current interest in the Caterpillars is building structures.  The books of the week will be a selection of the ‘Touch and feel’ stories. This week the children will be encouraged to walk independently, with support from their keyworkers, if needed. The children will also be supported and encouraged to complete simple puzzles.  Creative activities, this week include the exploration of  playdough and gluing and sticking.  Planned activities within the Snails and Caterpillars surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off Jamie – Monday          Tara - Friday          

Ladybirds

The current interests in the ladybirds are playing with balls in the garden and dressing up in the role play area.   The story of the week is ‘The loudest roar’.  This week the children will be encouraged to roll a ball to and from their keyworkers.  They will also be table painting to create their own marks. Planned activities within the ladybirds surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

The Ladybirds team would like to ask parents to provide photographs of family members, pets, friends and any other significant people in their child’s life, for their family books.  For more information, please see a staff member.

Days off   Abi – Monday       

Bumblebees

This week the children’s current interests are weather and role play.  The children will have the opportunity to explore ‘Happyland’ plat sets to extend their imagination.  Creative activities planned include painting pictures of weather conditions, using sponges and shading in pictures of  the sun, using different mark making materials.  The book of the week is ‘Splosh’, from the series of Kipper books.  Planned activities within the Bumblebees surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off    Jenni – Thursday     Jani – Tuesday

Butterflies                       

This week the children’s current interest continues to be  ‘Spring’. The book of the week is ‘Jack and the beanstalk’.   The children will be supported to develop their understanding of how things grow, decay and change.  Planned activities within the Butterflies surround each child’s current interest in conjunction with supporting and extending their development.  To find out what activities are planned for your child for this week, please see your child’s keyworker who will be happy to take you through the planning.

Days off   Stani – Friday   Tracy – Monday    

Late/non collection of child

Aim of policy

To give clear guidance to practitioners and Parents of what will occur should late or non collection of a child occur.

Points to consider

Castle Daycare & Preschool work in close partnership with parents and recognise the importance of sensitivity and empathy should this procedure need to be implemented.

In the event that a child is not collected by an authorised adult at the end of the day to cause as little distress as possible, we will ensure the child is cared for safely by an experienced and qualified practitioner who is known to the child.  Two staff members will stay with the child until the parent arrives. One member of staff will be ideally their key person the other will be a senior team member.

We will inform parents/carers of our procedures so that, if they are unavoidably delayed, they will be reassured that their child will be properly cared for.

Procedure to follow

If parent/guardian/carer is repeatedly late collecting their child it is the responsibility of the Nursery Manager/Deputy to discuss this with them.

In those instances where a parent is over 15 minutes late and has not made contact with the nursery the following procedure must be followed:

1.            Person in charge to attempt to make contact with parent / carer.

2.            Person in charge to notify the area manager who in turn will contact other management team members if needed.

3.            Person in charge to attempt to contact parent’s employer (if they work)

4.            Person in charge to attempt to make contact with those authorised to collect the child.

5.            If after all reasonable attempts to contact parent carers and emergency contacts have failed then the nursery manager will evaluate the situation, i.e. length of time the child has been left, whether it’s a reoccurring problem, or if contact numbers are disconnected. Upon which she will contact a member of the operations team before contacting Social Services.

6.            The last two team members on duty are required to stay with the child until collected.

Social services contact number: 03456 009 009

Emergency out of hours team: 01483 517898

Ofsted contact number: 0300 123 1231

7. Person in charge to keep Area Manager up to date at each stage. A full written report of the incident must be recorded by the person in charge.

8. Depending on circumstances, Castle Daycare & Preschool reserve the right to charge parents for the additional hours worked by our staff.

It is imperative that throughout the implementation of the procedure the child is not distressed.  The situation must be explained to all contacts calmly and clearly.