Parent News
Dear Parents and Carer,
Now that the warmer weather is upon
us, please could we ask you to provide your child with sun cream and hat, both
named please. Thank you.
If you have no yet booked your
termly meetings, please do so by seeing your child’s keyworker to book a time
and day that is convenient with you.
Please see your child’s keyworker
if you are interested in organising a playdate. Your child’s keyworker will be
able to provide further information about this. Dates and times are arranged to
be most convenient with you and are carried out during the working week.
Forest School sessions begin again
today for our pre school and 2-3’s children.
Those attending should have been given a pack containing a front letter
and permission slip. Please could we ask
those parents, who have not yet done so, to return the permission slip? Unfortunately we are unable to take children
for whom we do not hold a permission slip.
French begins again this
week. Again, please can we ask for the
slips and payment to be submitted if you wish your child to continue attending
French lessons? Thank you.
Policies
Please find attached our transition
policy.
Snails
The focus in the snails this week is
physical activities. The children will be encouraged to use the walkers to
promote gross motor skills and will have the opportunity to move to music,
concentrating on different parts of their body.
Heuristic play will give the children opportunities to explore and
experiment using fine motor skills and will take place outdoors. 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 focus on sand play. Activities this week will include filling and emptying
containers and exploring wet and dry sand with animals. The children will also
get to take part in activities such as gluing and sticking with sand, painting
with rollers and role play. Outdoor activities this week include investigating
the ICT equipment and practice moving on the push bikes.
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 – Monday
Ladybirds
The current interest in the
Ladybirds this week is messy play. The children will have the opportunity to paint
using pom poms, vegetable printing, table painting and water painting. Outdoor activities include kicking balls, an
obstacle course and exploring the tents and tunnels. The story of the week is ‘Alien
tea on planet Zum - Zee’.
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 – Monday
Naomi – Friday
Bumblebees
This week the children will
continue to focus on mark making. Activities this week include painting using
stamps and sand, making a height chart, chalk drawing and making number bunting.
The children will also have the opportunity to participate in games such as
colour bingo and the letter factory. The golden rules will also be focused upon
this week, where the team will talk to the children about emotions and practice
making faces in mirrors depicting particular feelings. The children will also
be practising their self help skills by serving their own lunch and tea and
practice putting their own shoes on. Outdoor activities this week include chalk
drawing, ball games, water play with sea animals and using the parachute and
tunnels to make a den. The story of the week is ‘Dance of the dinosaurs’.
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 – Friday
Butterflies
This week the
butterflies are continuing to focus on spring. The activities include planting
seeds in the garden, looking at plant life cycles and making seed head pots. The children will also be looking at sounds
and letters in the form of rhyming games, action words and naming shapes. The
children will be focusing on the letter of the week, which is, ‘G’ and the
number of the
week, which is number 8.
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
Tara – Tuesday
Jade – Annual leave all week
Use of Tablets/ iPads
in the Nursery
Aim of policy
To give
staff clear guidance on how tablets/iPads are to be used.
Points to consider
Using tablets
is now part of our role as practitioners. However they do need to be used
responsibly and in the correct way, this policy highlights what is meant by
“using the ipads responsibly”
Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to
achieve this by:
As the
children’s learning journey is now an online portal system: Interactive Learning
Diary ILD, the use of iPads and tablets is now commonplace in the nursery.
Staff must
use these tablets responsibly. It is important to make sure that Practitioners
do not “hide behind” the iPads and not interact with the children in their
care. The iPads are there to enhance the practice not impede it. Think about
how long you are using the iPads for, when you are working with the children.
Make sure that you are only using the iPad for short periods of time when
working with the children. Observations/photos and videos can be saved so the
work is not lost.
Each room
will need to look at the best times that observations can be completed by
staff. Each room will also need to work together to ensure that when a
practitioner is using the iPad to record observations, the rest of the team are
working with the children.
Only
websites/apps that have been approved by the manager are allowed to be used by
staff.
The tablets
should be securely stored when the nursery is closed. To ensure the iPads are
not abused by practitioners their user history should be checked every week.
The person responsible
for checking the weekly iPad history in this nursery is:
___________________Michelle
Smith_________________________________________
Readiness for School Information Session
This Friday April 17th 4pm – 5pm
Session
to include:
· Strategies
we use to prepare your child for school.
· Expectations
of child development when they start school
· How
you can help prepare your child for school
· Characteristics
of effective learning
· Pre
school reading and writing
· Question
and answer time
Many thanks
Michelle
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