Castle Nursery Markenfield
Friday, 09th October 2015
Dear
Parents and Carers,
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
Please can we ask that parents
picking up at 1 or 2pm to be on time as we are having an increasing amount of
children being picked up late which is putting us over ratios as we have
children that also come in at 1pm.
We have some exciting times ahead in
our babies and 18-24’s room with both Amy and Abi starting a project through
surrey county council called the Wonder years programme. This will entail us
looking at the provision in both rooms and bringing in lots of new ideas. This
starts with an Audit of both rooms which will take place on Wednesday 23rd
September.
You may have noticed a couple of new
faces at nursery in the last week; we have had 2 new starters, Andrea in our
Ladybirds room and Amanda in our bumblebees room. We also have two new staff member
starting with us in the coming weeks; Ellie will join the Bumblebees team on
the 12th October and Emily will join Caterpillars on 19th
October.
As some of you may already be aware
Alisha is expecting her first baby and will leave for Maternity on 09th
November, she will be slightly reducing her hours here to 3 days per week from
next week.
Dates for your diary:
The nursery will be celebrating our 13th
Birthday on Thursday 22nd October, we ask all children to wear their
PJ’s for the day and we will have a party tea.
Thursday 12th & Friday
13th November – Kids Klub will be here to take a video of the
children on a Christmas sleigh. If you would like to attend please see Michelle
for a time which would be suitable for you. Kids Klub will be here all day.
Please may we ask parents not to dress their children in blue or purple on the
day as this will interfere with the colour settings on the film.
Thursday 5th November – We
will be holding a bonfire party between 6pm – 7pm. There will be sparklers and
a bonfire for all to enjoy. We will be providing food; if you have any dietary
requirements please see Michelle. We look forward to seeing you there!
Policies
Please
find attached our Lost/Missing child policy.
Snails
The
focus in the snails this week is Autumn activities and sensory play. The
children will be able to experience a range of activities, including treasure
baskets, sensory bags, Mirror play, Cornflour play, building with blocks and
pop up toys. Garden activities this week include sand play, sensory balls,
cloth books, and mirror 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 exploring Autumn and Winter colours
through sensory play. Activities this week include building towers and knocking
them down, cornflour play, duplo, gluing and sticking to create a bonfire,
exploring ICT toys, table painting, large Lego, mirrored pebbles, and water
play. Garden activities this week include water play, bikes and trikes, sand
play, tunnels and tents and water and sand play encouraging the children to mix
it together. 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 – Wednesday
Alisha – Monday & Tuesday
Holly – Thursday
Ladybirds
The
current interest in the Ladybirds this week is Autumn and Sensory play. The
children will have the opportunity to take part in exploring leaves in the
builders tray, sponge painting, singing action songs, water play with leaves,
leaf painting, playdough and rollers, gluing and sticking creating a collage of
leaves and cornflour with leaves. Garden activities this week include collecting
leaves, exploring the ball run, trains and track, pedal bikes, dancing with
ribbons and pom poms. 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 – Thursday
Hannah – Monday
Bumblebees
This week the children will focus on autumn shape activities.
Activities this week include emotion flash cards, leaf play, and painting with
leaves, finding leaves in the garden, exploring colour change, counting what we
find (leaves), drawing lines and circles, playing on the computer, gluing and
sticking. Garden activities this week include finding leaves, playing with
water and guttering, chalk drawing on the floor, water painting, sand play,
role play picnic, balancing games, and parachute and ring games. The story of
the week is ‘Doing the animal Bop!’.
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 – Last day Tuesday 13th
Jani – Monday
Amanda – Thursday
Butterflies
This
week the butterflies will focus on Cultures. The activities include self-portrait
plates, maps and globes, cooking muffins and culture art work . The letter of
the week this week is ‘Dd’ and the number of the week is ‘5’. 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
Jade – Monday
Tara – Tuesday
Leanne – Monday
Michelle is off Friday
Lost/missing child policy
Aim of policy
To give
clear guidelines on what to do should a child go missing or become lost.
Points to consider
Castle
Daycare and Preschool recognise
the responsibility it has when caring for children throughout the day. This includes children within the Nursery
setting and children who are taken out for visits into the community.
We
recognise there are a number of situations where a child could become lost and
these are:
·
Where a child wanders off on an outing
·
Where a child escapes from the outside area
·
Where a child is taken from the Nursery by an
unapproved adult
·
Where a child is lost within the Nursery
Castle Daycare and Preschool aim to do this by:
·
Alerting
the member of staff in charge immediately. They will make enquiries of the
relevant members of staff as to when the child was last seen and where.
·
Remember
the safety of the other children, with regard to supervision and security.
·
Ensure
the remaining children are sufficiently supervised and secure, one or preferably
two members of staff should then search the building/ outside area straight
away.
·
If the
child cannot be found within five minutes then the police and parents must be informed. The operational team must also be informed at
this time.
·
Continue
to search, opening up the area, keep in touch by mobile phone.
·
When the
situation has been resolved members of staff should review the reasons for it
happening, complete a risk assessment and ensure measures are taken to ensure
it does not happen again.
·
A full and
detailed report must be made to the Nursery Manager and a copy sent to the
Operations Manager and Ofsted.
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