Nursery Home Visits
Key working Groups
All nursery children are designated a Key-worker
in our setting. A key-worker has a special
responsibility to a small group of children. Your
child’s key-worker can be found on the notices in
the Nursery entrance corridor.
Our Nursery team conduct Home Visits and offer
Taster Sessions prior to all new children joining our
setting. This will help our staff get to know children
and families better and with the children settling in
to Nursery with some familiarity of friendly faces.
A key-workers role is to ensure your child’s
needs are recognised within nursery, are
addressed on an individual basis and are
assessed in the Early Years Progress Tracker.
A key-worker will help a child settle into nursery,
assist with and provide opportunities for Early
Years targets to be met, and is the first point of
contact for parents with concerns about their
child.
Any parent who wishes to have feedback on their
child’s progress at nursery can ask a member of
staff at any time or make an arrangement to see
their child’s key worker.
Home Diaries
We are providing Home Diaries for each child once a
week on a Friday with a homework sheet. Please
continue to read and return the diary next time your child
is at nursery.
You are welcome to add your own notes about what
your child has been doing with their time away from
nursery and add any concerns/questions you may have.
Snack & Lunch Times should be
Healthy Times!
Violets
Ustaadah
Rabia
Roses
Ustaadah
Rahima
Daisies
Ustaadah
Zenab
Lending Library
The lending library system encourages your child
to choose their own books to take home and
learn how to look after them.
We have a new scanning system in place to scan
books before borrowing so staff are aware which
books have been lent out and are due return.
We hope to begin putting this system to full use
in September 2015.
We would like to invite parents to borrow books
from our library to take home and share with your
child. Talk to your child about the story and ask
them questions about what has happened and
what was enjoyed most.
Borrowing is free, all we ask is that books are
returned in the same condition they were
borrowed. New book contributions are most
welcome!
Healthy eating is promoted in our Early Years. We have a
Healthy Eating Packed Lunch Policy in place and leaflets
are available for parents, please ask a staff member for one.
All Nursery and Reception children must bring in their own
healthy snacks for break-time, such as fruit, crackers with
cheese and salad or yoghurt and a drink of water or fruit juice.
Parents who are providing packed lunches please supply
healthy options and as time allows why not talk to your child
about healthy eating and let your child help select and prepare
their own food.
Healthy lunch items can include:
Sandwiches – brown bread with cheese, tuna, egg
and salad,
Pasta
Rice or chapatti with curry
Noodles
Salad vegetables and dip
Fruit
According to our policy we cannot allow children to eat
chocolate (including chocolate spread in sandwiches), biscuits,
crisps, peanut products or fizzy/ sugary drinks as part of their
lunch.
Also, if you are sending your child with food specific to a
country or ethnicity consider letting the staff know. This could
lend itself to a great teaching opportunity!
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