Parent News

Dear Parents and Carers

 

Wednesday 5^th Nov we are having a bonfire night at the nursery between 6pm and 7pm; there will be a little bonfire and sparklers for the children and parents to enjoy. We will be serving Hotdogs and Jacket Potato with Chilli Con Carne.  Please may you inform a member of staff within your child’s room if you would like to attend.

 

Please can parents also see their child’s key worker to book in a review around your child’s development. These meetings will be placed during the working day, preferably before you pick your child up in the evening or afternoon. 

Policies

Please find attached our sleeping children procedure.

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is treasure baskets. The children will have the opportunity to create new treasure baskets using different sound, shape and textured objects. The children will also explore ICT toys, musical instruments, mirror play, family pictured cubes and exploring paint using sponges and brushes. In the garden this week, activities include, sensory balls, chalk pictures and mirror play. There is an additional focus this week whereby the Snails will be enjoying autumn activities which will then create a display board, lots of playing and exploring with leaves. The story of the week is ‘soft touch animal books’.

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.

Children are invited to dress up for Halloween on Friday 31^st October.

Amy – Day off Monday and annual leave Wednesday.            

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on the book corner by encouraging the children to use the book box appropriately and to use and look at the books with care. The children will have the opportunity to explore different activities such as, tents and tunnels, sand play with cars, ict toys, black and orange ice play, heuristic play, creating bonfire pictures and to decorate biscuits using black and orange icing. The caterpillars will also be focusing on carrying out Halloween activities.

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 – Wednesday.

Alisha – Monday.

Stacy – Tuesday

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds is babies. Activities this week include making a spider, dressing up, bathing babies, gluing and sticking on pumpkins, dressing up babies, singing number rhyme songs, pushing the babies in the pushchairs and creating cat masks. The story of the week is ‘smile baby smile’.

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.

Children are invited to dress up for Halloween on Friday 31^st October.

Days off   

Abi – Day off Thursday

Naomi – Annual leave Thursday and Friday

 

Bumblebees

This week the children will be encouraged and supported with their self-help skills, therefore we will be focusing on putting on and taking off shoes and also to help set up the lunch table, putting out cutlery and bottles. This week the children will be carving pumpkins. The children will be encouraged to develop their mathematical skills by connecting together magnetic shapes, looking for shapes within the environment, using the abacus to count to ten, connecting puzzle pieces together and doing experiments in the water tray. To help the children develop their understanding of the world, the children shall take part in building a tower by turn taking, to encourage and help the children make a construction site, to make a multi-story car park by using boxes, talking about animals that are in a zoo and to create the zoo and to build a train track together and then play alongside each other. Activities to support creative development include cornflour play, bin bag painting, mixing and identifying colours, junk modelling to prepare for our bonfire, then to paint flames on to the bonfire, also using materials that create sparklers (lollipop sticks and glitter), hand painting to create fireworks and cling film painting. Literacy development shall be supported, this week by reading the story of the week ‘The very hungry caterpillar’.

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.

Children are invited to dress up for Halloween on Friday 31^st October.

Days off      

Jani – Wednesday

Jenni – Tuesday  

Alba – Monday

Hannah – Annual leave Tuesday

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies will be focusing on Halloween by enjoying a selection of activities. The activities will include making a spider web picture using glue and glitter, pumpkin carving, Halloween masks, using monster stencils and making ghosts out of tissue paper. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘E’ and the number of the week, which is number 3.

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.

Children are invited to dress up for Halloween on Thursday 30^th and Friday 31^st October.

 

Days off    

Stani – Friday                    Lee – Thursday Afternoon                    Tara – Tuesday

 

Michelle is day off Monday

 

 

Sleeping children procedure

 

Aim of policy

 

To ensure all sleeping children are cared for to a high standard when sleeping.

 

Points to consider

 

All children who sleep at nursery must sleep in an appropriate bed or cot. It is inappropriate for children to sleep in rockers, bouncers, prams or any other equipment that is not for the purpose of sleeping.

 

Whilst a young child or baby is sleeping, there needs to be enough staff to ensure that sleep checks are thoroughly carried out in accordance with the supporting paperwork. 

 

Sleep checks must be at a minimum of 10 minute intervals and will include a temperature and breathing check with the minimum of disturbance to the child.

 

Clothing and covers must be checked and consideration given to the room temperature.