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 emergency closure policy (building).

Snails

The focus in the snails this week is treasure baskets and heuristic play. The children will have the opportunity to play with the new treasure baskets. Activities this week include exploring the ICT toys, sensory bottles, shape sorters, pop up toys, singing nursery rhymes and joining in with custards music class. The additional focus in the Snails this week is senses, the children will be encouraged to explore a range of toys and activities that support their five senses. 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.

 

Amy – Day off Monday. 

 

 

Caterpillars

This week the Caterpillars team will continue to 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, heuristic play, pop up toys, gluing and sticking, painting, exploring play dough and enjoying soft play. In the garden the children will be exploring sand play by filling and emptying containers. The caterpillars will also be focusing on carrying out bonfire and firework pictures.

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 – Friday

Alisha – Tuesday

 

Ladybirds

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is music and movement. Activities this week include dancing with peers, mark making in cornflour, decorating fireworks, singing nursery rhymes in the garden, exploring different sounds of musical instruments, chalking in the garden and mark making in sand using their feet. The story of the week is ‘whoosh around the mulberry bush’.

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 – Annual leave all week

 

 

 

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 our coats. The children will be encouraged to develop their mathematical skills by completing a simple insert puzzle, recognising numbers and counting on the abacus. The children will also be encouraged to find and discuss different shapes they find within the environment. To help the children develop their understanding of the world, the children shall continue the car park and construction site from last week as they really enjoyed these activities. The children will also explore building a big tower using duplo, playing with dinosaurs in leaves and sand and to connect interstars together, creating shapes. Activities to support creative development include playing in snow, cling film painting, gluing and sticking with natural objects that the children find in the garden (leaves and sticks), hand and feet painting to create fireworks, an experiment on mixing water and food colouring to create different colours and using the spray bottles to paint. Literacy development shall be supported, this week by reading the story of the week ‘Monkey Puzzle’ and colouring in different shapes and talking about the shapes they know, supporting the children to remember words of nursery rhymes, singing the alphabet and letter lollies to find the letter of their name.

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 and training Thursday

Jenni – Wednesday and training Friday pm

Alba – Wednesday

Hannah – Annual leave Tuesday

 

 

Butterflies     

This week the butterflies will be focusing on bonfire night. The activities will include tie dye a firework picture, making rockets, firework prints and discussing the safety around fireworks by writing up rules to stay safe. The children will also be focusing on rhyming words, turn taking games, experiments with tools and looking at sinking and floating, why does this work? The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘H’ and the number of the week, which is number 16.

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 – Training Thursday and day off Friday                 

Lee – Thursday Afternoon                  

Tara – Monday

 

Michelle is day off Monday

 

 

Emergency closure policy

 

Aim of Policy

 

To give clear guidelines if bad weather or building issues should cause a nursery 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 Castle sites inoperable the staff and children will be relocated to one of the sister 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 nursery 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

 

Surrey Early Years will be kept informed at all times of changes in circumstances.

                                                01372 833833

 

Financial decisions will be made by the Director or the Finance Director.