Castle Nursery Markenfield

Friday, 4^th September 2015

 

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

Tomorrow, Saturday 5^th September we are holding a party for our 20^th Anniversary from 10am until 1pm at Shalford Village Hall, although the parking is restricted. If you know any of our ‘old’ families, please see if they would like to come along as it would be lovely to see everyone. We look forward to seeing you all there!

 

Friday 11^th September is Grandparents day, please invite all grandparents to come into nursery and have a taster session of what the nursery provides for your children. Lots of fun games and activities will be happening on Friday afternoon between 2pm and 4pm. Please can you inform a member of staff if you would like your child’s grandparents to attend. Children who do not normally attend on this Friday are still welcome to come and have lots of fun!

 

Pre-school would like to invite the children that attend on Thursday 10^th September to come into nursery dressed up as their favourite superhero!

 

Please may we ask parents to encourage the children to hold onto the blue rail whilst walking up and down the stairs, we have noticed that the children have been holding onto the red rail or the wall, this is to ensure the children’s safety. Thank you

 

 

Policies

 

 

 

Please find attached our arrival and departure policy.

 

 

Snails

 

The focus in the snails this week is settling in, sensory bottles and the garden. The children will be able to experience a range of activities, including lots of cuddles, sensory bottles, stacking cups, puppet play, singing songs, mirror play, holding our own cups, gluing and sticking pictures. Garden activities this week include sand play, sensory bags; push along toys, train and cars and heuristic play. 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 – Monday

 

 

 

 

 

Caterpillars

 

This week the Caterpillars team will focus on looking at animals through puppet play and happyland and creating animal masks. Activities this week include playdough, cornflour play, sponge painting, heuristic play, gluing and sticking, sensory bags, chalking, and sand gloop. Garden activities this week include, wobbly bridge, looking at books, bubble play, pop up toys, mark making. 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

Holly – Wednesday

 

 

 

Ladybirds

 

The current interest in the Ladybirds this week is woodland creatures. The children will have the opportunity to take part in feather painting a hedgehog, sand play with funnels and containers, dancing to music, gluing and sticking on a fox mask, woodland creature flash cards, woodlice hunt in the garden, and grandparent day activities. Garden activities this week include pavement chalking, big bricks and balls, bubbles and puzzles, dinosaurs in the sand pit, and running games. 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

Hannah – Thursday

 

 

 

Bumblebees

This week the children will focus on exploring textures using our whole body. Activities this week include action flash cards and acting them out, insert puzzles, drawing with pencils focusing on the pencil control, using scissors, dancing with musical instruments and ipod music, learning about pre-positions, compare different sized bears, soft play, moon sand textured play, gluing and sticking, cornflour play, making playdough and using different cutters. Garden activities this week include chalk drawing around our bodies, water painting, mud play, balls and bats, ring games, and having a teddy bears picnic with role play food. The story of the week is ‘Millie shares’.  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.

 

Bumblebees will be beginning the planning of their autumn display board, so if you are out and about over the next few weeks and would like to bring in any leaves or twigs that you may find, this will be very much appreciated. Thank you

 

Days off     

 

Jenni – Tuesday

 

Jani- Friday

 

 

 

 

 

Butterflies     

 

 

 

This week the butterflies will focus on Superhero’s and Villans. The activities include drawing our own superhero’s, small world in the sand, playing with the train track, superhero storytelling, playing with the small world house, musical statues, role playing superhero’s, looking at rhyming words, alphabet soup – rhyming, practising unzipping and zipping our jackets. The letter of the week this week is ‘Rr’ and the number of the week is ‘9’. 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                         

 

Jade – Monday

 

Tara – Tuesday

 

 

 

Leanne is day off Monday

 

 

 

Michelle is day off Friday

 

 

 

Arrival and departure procedure

 

Aim of policy

 

To give clear guidance on how we record arrivals and departures to the setting.

 

Points to consider

 

At Castle Daycare and Preschool we do not allow children under 18 to collect children from the setting.

We keep records of each child’s full name, address and date of birth as well as hours of attendance.

 

Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to do this by:

 

We ask every parent and carer to record their child’s arrival and departure on our registers. Staff will check these registers frequently to ensure the children have all be signed in and out correctly.

 

Staff are also required to sign in and out of the premises.

 

All visitors to the setting are required to sign the visitor’s book and record: their full name, the name of their organisation or link to child, the purpose of their visit and accurate details of arrivals and departure times.

 

During the settling in sessions Parents are asked who, if anyone, is allowed to collect their child. Parents set their own password which can be given to people the parent has nominated to collect their child. Parents are asked to inform the nursery of who will be collecting their child even if it is one of the nominated people.

 

In rare circumstances the nursery may allow a child to be collected by someone other than the Parent or nominated person, if requested to do so by the parent.    In these circumstances we will:

• Ask the parent to give the person collecting the password
• Ask the parent for  the person collecting full name and description
• When the person collecting arrives we will check the password and ask for id before allowing them to collect the child.
• The person collecting will be asked to sign the child out and record the correct departure time.