Parent News
Dear Parents and Carers
We are celebrating pyjama day on
Wednesday 8th October for the nursery’s birthday, please come in
wearing your pyjamas so we can have a day full of fun activities.
Policies
Please find attached our procedure
for the ‘well child policy’.
Snails
The focus in the snails this week
will be settling in new children and nursery rhymes. The children will have the
opportunity to explore mirrors, looking at their reflection, bead mazes, treasure
baskets, sensory balls, musical instruments, stacking cups and shape sorters.
The children will also experience music, by singing nursery rhymes throughout
the week. The older children will have the opportunities to play and balance
using the standing beam and the musical piano, as well as using the walker in
the garden to encourage cruising. Creative activities this week include ice
cube play, flour glove play, and painting activities.
Planned activities within the
Snails 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.
Amy – Day off Monday
Caterpillars
This week the Caterpillars team
will focus on building towers using different construction materials. The
children will have the opportunity to play and explore using whilst building
towers, encouraging the children to notice changes in numbers. The children
will also be encouraged to use their spoon during meal times throughout the
week, to remember where objects belong in an insert puzzle. Creative activities
this week include chunky chalks, painting with feathers, and cornflour play. The
book of the week is ‘peek-a-farm’, as the children enjoy looking at the
animals.
Planned activities within the
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 Alisha – Monday – Friday Annual
leave
Stacy – Annual leave - Monday.
Ladybirds
The current interest in the Ladybirds
is transport. The children will be encouraged
to play on ride on toys in the garden, such as cars and bikes. The children
will also be able to explore a range of creative activities which include,
table painting with cars, painting with cars on paper, cars in damp sand,
decorating a bus and play dough with vehicle cutters. The book of the week is ‘wheels
on the bus’.
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.
Days off
Abi – Thursday
Bumblebees
This week the children will still be
exploring the new room layout and settling in children. The children will be
encouraged to develop their mathematic skills by transferring compare bears
into separate bowls dependant on size, identifying shape using a shape puzzle, number
sponge painting, and number puzzles. To help the children develop their
understanding of the world, the children shall engage in den making and reading
the story of the week, encouraging the children to do a car wash in the garden,
and build a happy land village. Activities to support creative development include
junk modelling, painting on foil paper, creating a collage using different
materials, and making pizzas. Literacy development shall be supported, this
week, through, reading the story of the week ‘Jack and the beanstalk’ and
painting with cars.
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 which is
now displayed on the large notice board outside the Bumblebees room.
Days off
Jani – Friday Jenni
– Annual leave Tuesday – Friday
Alba – Tuesday
Jade – Annual leave all week
Butterflies
This week the butterflies will be learning
about ICT and how to use the computer effectively. The children will explore
how to use the mouse whilst playing ‘mouse land’ on the computer, how to make
marks on ‘paint’ using mouse control, Alphabet soup and the counting game, all
to help with the children’s mouse control. Creative activities this week
include cotton reel painting, gloop play, and large paper painting. The
children will also be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘i’. They
will also be focusing on a number of the week, this is number 8.
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 – Tuesday
Lee – Thursday Afternoon Tara - Wednesday
Well child policy
Aim
of policy
To give practitioners and parents
guidance on how we judge a child to be well enough to attend nursery.
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
the Health Protection Agency to decide if a child is well enough to attend
nursery.
Castle
Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:
The definition of a well child:
- A
child who is not dependent on Calpol 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.
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
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