Parent News
Dear Parents and Carer,
We are holding a Parent 1st
aid course on Friday 27th February. This is held during the day and
we will provide childcare if this is required. Please see Michelle in the
office if you would like any further information.
Policies
Please find attached our child
protection policy.
Snails
The focus in the snails this week is
fine and gross motor skills. The children will have the opportunity to explore the
walkers and the standing beam, dinosaur run and balls, finding where they go
and explore how to make them run down, exploring shape sorters by combining
objects together and placing them in other objects, to explore the treasure baskets
by holding the objects and exploring this with their mouth. On Friday the
children will take part in Custards music class whereby the children will be
able to explore and copy movements in time to the music. Outdoor activities
this week include exploring the sensory soft toys, activity mats and
encouraging crawling, walking and standing. The story of the week this week is
‘seasons touch and feel’ story 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, annual leave Thursday and Friday
Caterpillars
This week the Caterpillars team
will be continuing to support new children to explore books and the book area
positively. Activities this week will include building blocks, heuristic play,
stacking cups, exploring the ICT toys, happy land people, exploring sand play
and sensory bottles and also taking part in custards music class on Friday. Outdoor
activities include reading stories in the garden, playing with sensory mats and
using the walkers and ride on toys. The book of the week is ‘funny bunnies,
rain or shine’.
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 – Thursday
Alisha – Monday
Stacy – annual leave Tuesday
Ladybirds
The current interest in the
Ladybirds this week is fine motor skills. The children will have the
opportunity to explore finger painting, animal threading, pom pom painting,
coloured ice cube painting, role playing making cups of tea for our peers and
key people. The children will also be able to explore cornflour play and
creating pictures using stickers. Outdoor activities include ball games –
rolling and kicking the balls, completing puzzles, hiding small compare bears
in the sand, building towers with small bricks and water play with sea animals.
The story of the week is ‘Cleo’s counting book’.
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 – Wednesday
Naomi – Friday
Bumblebees
This week the children will be
focusing on singing our favourite songs, reading stories, looking at numbers
and letters and exploring creative activities. Messy activities this week
include painting with brushes and mixing colours, string painting, drawing
using pencils, wet sand play, cornflour play with insects, painting on the
easel using sponges, tracing around stencils using crayons and making marks in
flour using our hands. Activities this week in the construction area include
using stickle bricks to create cars, using mobilo to build cars, building
towers using duplo, playing with the cars on the car mat to encourage children
to develop their language skills, moving the cars around in the sand tray,
making tracks. The children will also have the opportunity to explore the
purple car track and houses and playing with the dinosaurs in the sand tray
using the children’s imagination skills and building upon their language. Mathematical
activities this week include using the bean bags to recognise numbers,
completing different levels of puzzles, recognising the difference between
sizes using different items, drawing numbers on the small chalk boards, finding
different shapes in our outdoor environment, tipping and pouring in the water
tray and matching number to quantity. Literacy activities this week include
telling a story during a puppet show, reading our story of the week, which is ‘Dear
zoo’ and talking about what’s happened in the story, exploring and looking at
our family books, painting with water in the garden and singing the ABC song
and our other favourites and practicing drawing line and circles. In the role
play area this week the children will be making cups of tea with their friends,
having a puppet show by making up stories, dressing up in different clothes,
pretend to be in the doctors and listening to children’s heart rate, having a
teddy bears picnic and feed the babies. A cooking activity will also be taking
place this week; the children will be making ham and cheese twists. Outdoor
activities this week include, making an obstacle course for the children to
use, little sports stars, stepping stones and hoops, chalk drawing on the floor
and ring games.
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.
Please see a member of the bumblebee’s team so they can discuss
family books. These books are for the children to look at photographs of your
family so they can talk about their families during the day.
Days off
Jani – Friday
Jenni – Office based Monday, Day off Thursday
Amy – training on Friday
Butterflies
This week the butterflies will be
focusing on vegetables, fruits and nuts. The activities will include growing
seed sprouts, blind fold painting a particular vegetable from memory, fruit
tasting and discussion time, making vegetable soup and exploring vegetables in
a feely bag and decipher by smell and feel. Activities this week also include, drawing
pictures of our favourite fruit and vegetable, exploring our letters and
sounds, playing number bingo so the children can match number to quantity,
using scissors to cut various shapes and discussing what items are used for. Outdoor activities include, riding on the
bikes and stopping at the traffic lights, watering the plants in the garden,
planting the potatoes, playing group games in the garden and also playing ball
games. The children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘V’
and the number of the week, which is number 19.
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 – annual leave all week
Tara – Tuesday, annual leave Monday
Juan – Wednesday
Lee – Wednesday Forest School all day and out on Thursday
Jade - Thursday
Michelle is day off Monday.
Child
Protection Policy
Aim of policy
To
protect the welfare of every child in our care.
We
aim to comply with the local child protection procedures approved by the Surrey
Safeguarding Children board and make sure that all adults working with, and
looking after children are able to put these procedures into practice.
Points to consider
This
policy covers the following points:
·
Child
Protection/ Safeguarding
·
Current
safeguarding training
·
Suitable
people
·
Whistle
Blowing
·
Social
Networking
·
Common
Assessment Framework (CAF)
Use
of mobile phone is covered in the separate Mobile
phone and using images policy.
The following policies should be used alongside the
Child protection policy to form a full safeguarding procedure,
·
The Mobile phone and using images policy
·
Anti
bullying policy
·
Lost/missing child policy
·
Late/non collection of child
·
Arrival and departure procedure
·
Non attendance policy
·
Intoxicated persons policy
·
Multi agency working
and information sharing policy
·
Confidentiality
policy
If we have
a concern about a child we will share these concerns with parents/carers. However,
if sharing these concerns puts the child at risk of significant or further harm
we will seek advice from the duty manager at Surrey County Councils Contact
Centre first.