Parent News

Dear Parents and Carer,

 

We are holding a Parent 1^st aid course on Friday 27^th 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.