News
January
2012
Welcome
back to a new term and a new year.
We hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas festivities and we wish
you all a very happy new year.
All the staff would like to thank you for your kind wishes, cards,
gifts etc.
We also have new children and parents joining us this term and
would like to welcome them to the pre-school.
Congratulations to Lisa who got married during the Christmas break.
She is now on her honeymoon and will return to pre-school Wednesday
18th January. Heather will act up as Room Leader and Pippa will
cover Lisa's sessions. Pippa has previously worked at the pre-school
and is NVQ3 qualified in Early Years Education and care.
As always our planning is centred more round the children's individual
interests and next steps in their development. We do however have
a loose topic woven into our activities which this half term is
Food. Incorporated within this topic will be Chinese New Year,
Pancake Day and Red Nose Day (details to follow). Our role play
area will be changed into a Cafe where children will be encouraged
to mark make when writing their menus and taking meal orders!
When discussing the different foods, assistants will be encouraging
the children who are able, to use their letters and sounds knowledge
to think about the phonetic sounds they hear. Some children may
be ready to further their knowledge into their mark making. Children
will also be sorting and counting items e.g money, comparing two
plates of food and being able to use mathematical language - more
than/less than/one more and matching quantity to numerals.
If anyone has anything that would be of interest to the children
that would support our topic, we would love to hear from you e.g.
Chinese clothes, photographs or anything maybe with Chinese writing
on.
In the event of snow and possible closure of the Pre-school, the
procedure we follow is if Lapworth Primary School is closed then
we will do likewise. Insufficient staff cover can also be another
reason why the pre-school would have to close. Our advice is to
look on the Lapworth Primary School website: www.lapworthschool.co.uk
which is usually updated by 7.15 am. The Pre-school website: www.lapworthpreschool.co.uk.
is also usually updated to confirm closure.
Please ensure the Pre-school is always kept updated with any change
in details e.g. contact details, medical conditions including
any food allergies etc. We would also like to highlight that we
can only let your child go home with a person listed on your Contact
Information form or if you have informed a member of staff of
another person who will collect your child. Even if we are familiar
with the person you have asked to collect your child, we still
need permission from yourself for that person to take them. As
an added communication, we ask for you to note who is taking your
child home (other than the usual adult that collects) on the whiteboard
which is situated to the left of the toddler room door.
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