Parent News

Dear Parents and Carers

 

Thank you to all the parents that attended the Forest School session on Sunday. Lee said this went wonderfully and is pleased with how the morning went.    

Policies

Please find attached our incident report procedure.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is using creative activities to create an autumn display board. The children will use leaves, pumpkins and trees to create the display. The children will also explore sand play, bricks to build towers, reading the story of the week ‘wibbly pig’ and to explore sensory bottles. Outdoor activities this week include exploring the bead mazes, mirror play, using the walkers to promote independent step taking and ‘catch a fish’ game.

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, Training Thursday and Annual leave Friday.                      

 

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on role play, exploring the kitchen, hats and bags, babies and clothes and having a teddy bears picnic. The children will have the opportunity to explore different activities such as, heuristic play, chalking, painting, play dough, shape sorters and singing with puppets. Outdoor activities this week include exploring tents and tunnels in the garden, building towers and saying some counting words and exploring animal puppets. The caterpillar’s team will also be focusing on the routine to help the new children settle. The caterpillars will also be carrying out activities that support Halloween. The children will be encouraged to look at their family books.

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 – Annual leave Monday, Day off Tuesday and Training Thursday.

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds is balls and rackets and sand play, building sand castles. Activities this week include ball and racket painting, play dough with cutters, sand pictures, and farm yard animals in the sand tray. Outdoor activities this week include racket bubbles in the garden, hiding animals in the sand, creating sand castles and practising our ball skills in the garden. The children will also be encouraged and supported to use their fork and spoon during meal times. The book of the week is ‘Spots playbook.   

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 – Training Monday, Day off Wednesday

Kim – Annual leave Friday

Naomi – Annual leave Tuesday

 

Bumblebees

This week the children will be exploring all areas of the room. The children will be encouraged to develop their mathematical skills by naming different shapes using the shape house puzzle, matching cards to identify the different objects, the children will encouraged to help set up a maths activity which will focus on following simple instructions, puzzles of six interlocking pieces, and using the zip animals to practice zipping and unzipping. To help the children develop their understanding of the world, the children shall take part in describing what the weather is like and what clothing is needed when playing outdoors, bug catching in the garden and to identify these with adult support, to explore soil and leaves using animals and dinosaurs and to build towers using small blocks. Activities to support creative development include painting using letters, to explore different textures using the feely bags, painting on the table using spray bottles. Gluing and sticking onto paper using resources of the children’s choice, drawing pictures of ourselves and making salt dough. Literacy development shall be supported, this week by reading stories, Monkey puzzle and The Gruffalo. Throughout the week bumblebees will also be focusing on Diwali and Halloween activities, the children will also experience making fruit skewers.

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 – Thurs              

Alba – Thursday and Annual leave Friday

Jade – Training Tuesday and Wednesday

 

Butterflies                       

This week the butterflies will be linking forest school into the routine by discussing about the tree they found in the woods with the door. To follow on from this discussion the Pre-school will be focusing on the story of the week ‘The magic faraway tree’. Creative activities this week include chalk drawing our own trees, large ones in the garden and smaller ones indoors. The children will also be encouraged to make people and/or animals that may live in the tree. The children that attend forest school will be encouraged to collect natural materials in which they can bring back to the setting to make stick men. The children will also be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘N’ and the number of the week, which is number 14.

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 – Wednesday, Training Tuesday                     

Lee – Thursday Afternoon                   

Tara - Friday

 

 

Incident report procedure

 

Aim of policy

 

To give guidance on when and how to complete an incident report.

 

Points to consider

An incident report is a report giving all of the details of an important incident that has taken place in the nursery (or elsewhere too). For example; a child arriving with an odd bruise, or a team member acting inappropriately, or a parent makes a complaint, or a child telling a story of how they had been left home alone. See the children protection policies and risk assessment policy.

 

Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to achieve this by:

If something happens in the nursery that has staff alarmed or needing to question something, we always write an incident report. An incident report will get all of the facts out and will keep important information at hand for reference. It may even be the difference between saving a child’s life or future.

The manager may ask staff to write an incident report and they will need to know what to write. Below is a set of guidelines on how to write an incident report.

 

How to write an incident report

1. All incident reports are to be clearly printed or typed.

 

2. Complete the report thoroughly and accurately, including all relevant important information about the incident and persons involved (time, place, date, names, and address).

 

3. Be concise and to the point, while still being thorough and complete.

 

4. DO NOT write from emotions – facts only, remember that anything written is considered an official document).

 

5. DO NOT speculate – we are reporting facts, not opinions or predictions.

 

6. Complete the report IMMEDIATELY after the incident – details fade fast.

 

7. Take notes if necessary and flesh out the details later.

 

8. Remember all reports are official legal documents and could be used in judicial hearings and a court of law.

 

If your report is not satisfactory, management will require that you rewrite it.