Nursery: 13th-17th September 2021: stay and play

Nursery: One Hour Stay and Play sessions

This blog shows some highlights from this week including:

• Stay and Play

• School uniform

• Reminders

• Key Information

Quote of the week:

“This is such a lovely nursery, you all look very nice. It’s a lovely environment compared to the ones we’ve visited.”

New Parent

“We can not thank you enough for how much you cared about our family. It means so much to us how much you thought of us during such a hard time. We can't thank you enough. ”

Existing parent

The nursery team would like to thank all the parents for all of your amazing praises this week regarding our performance and environment. We are truly grateful for all of your feedback.

Reminder:

Can Parents please bring in a CUP, Wellington boots and a drawstring bag with spare clothes by next week. Please LABEL  all your children's belongings, including both shoes. Please ensure your child knows what their cup and wellies look like.

Thank you

Stay and play

 

This week the children had their first stay and play sessions at nursery. It was an opportunity to explore their new nursery environment, play with their new teachers and find out about the nursery routines. The children were very excited to see all the toys, play with the activities and engage with the free flow access to the garden. 

Nursery School uniform

GIrls winter uniform: Tops: Navy jumper or cardigan White polo top Bottoms: Black/navy leggings Navy/grey skirt  Navy/grey pinafore dress Navy/black/grey jogging bottoms Footwear: Trainers with velcro straps (any colour) Shoes with velcro straps with suitable grip on the sole	Boys winter uniform: Tops: Navy jumper or cardigan White polo top Bottoms: Navy/black/grey jogging bottoms Footwear: Trainers with velcro straps (any colour)

Stay and Play

 

Next week it is the Stay and Play settling in sessions! 

Parents may wish to drop children at the door or settle them inside, then leave if they wish.

 

Here are the dates and times for the different sessions:

 

AM sessions for 2 year olds and 15 hour children:

21/09/2021 22/09/2021

8:30- 10am (Doors open from 9:50am)

 

PM Sessions for 2 year olds and 15 hour children:

21/09/2021 22/09/2021

12-1:30pm (Doors open from 1:20pm)

 

30 hour Children's Sessions:

16/09/2021 17/09/2021

9-12pm (packed lunch) (Doors open from 11:50 am)

 

Session Routine:

 

1. Stand on a coloured spot and wait to be called forward by Mrs Luca who will tick you off the register and give you a coloured sticker name label.

2. Your child may feel confident to leave you at the nursery door. If so please say goodbye and reassure them you will be back to collect them at the end of the session. You may wish to come inside and ensure your your child is settled before leaving them. Please ensure when you are leaving you inform your child you are leaving and will be back to collect them at the end of the session. If you feel your child is not ready for you to leave, you may come inside. We ask for you to take a step back in one place so your child can explore the environment. This way your child can develop relationships with their teachers whilst knowing where you are and return to you for reassurance when required. Please speak to your child before you come in about the nursery in a positive way and that eventually they will stay and play with their friends and you will always come back to collect them so your children know where you are and feel safe during the session, whilst having fun.

3. 15 minutes before the end of the session the teachers will raise their hand to signal that we must all stop, raise your hand and wait to listen to what the teacher has to say. If someone hasn't noticed the hand signal you can tap them on the shoulder using gestures only and no speaking. It will then be tidy up time.

4. When tidy up time ends, your child will go to an area of the classroom to sing a song with a key worker; please stand aside quietly if you have decided to stay..

5. At the end of the session, the main doors will open so that all parents can rejoin their child; please wait for the practitioner to dismiss your child before leaving.

 

We cannot wait to see you all!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Information

Important dates: 21st-23rd September: Short stay sessions 23rd Sept 8:30-9:30: School nurse drop in 27th September: Full time sessions commence 25th October: Havering Half Term (Nursery closed) 2nd November: Nursery reopens Christmas Holidays (Nursery closed): 20th Dec (Back 4th Jan 22)   INSET Days Nursery closed to children: 1st November 2021 4th January 2022 21st February 2022 6th May 2022

 

If you have any questions please contact nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk or for more urgent messages speak to a member of staff or contact the school office: 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk

The Nursery Team

EYFS: Health Visiting and School Nurse

 

I think my child needs additional support?

​Some children will require support that is additional to, or different from, that received by children of the same age to ensure they benefit from education. This may be due to disability or health, learning environment, family circumstances or social and emotional factors, where a referral for additional support may benefit a child’s learning.

What is SPA and how do we help our community? 

SPA is the Single Point of Access for Havering, supporting Health and Mental Health service referrals. We are a one stop service providing advice from Health Visiting, School Nursing, Mental health support and Transitions within school for children aged 0-19 years old.

You can access these services via the Single Point of Access (SPA):

Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

0300 300 1635 

emailing us at nem-tr.haveringhv@nhs.net

What support can I access?:

Health Visitors 

Health visitors work closely with young children and their families, alongside other support services to ensure children's health needs are met and they have a safe environment to live. We help support the health and wellbeing of your whole family through early intervention and prevention strategies, as well as promoting physical and social wellbeing from birth to five years old.

School Nurse

The school nursing team provides a public health service focusing on promoting the Mental, Physical, Social and Emotional wellbeing of all school-age children, working in partnership with other professionals and agencies such as Schools and Health Visitors.

The school nursing team offers support and advice on a multitude of health-related topics such as; Healthy living, lifestyles, and relationships.

Next School Nurse drop in date: 23rd Sept 8:30-9:30 in the conference room

Havering child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)

Havering CAMHS offers help to  families with children & young people from birth to their 18th birthday who are experiencing emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties. We are a multi-disciplinary team based in Havering and offer support in a variety of areas such as assessment of development problems, autism, hyperactivity, depression, and early onset psychosis. We help children and families during difficult times in order to support a family’s ability to cope with difficult emotions or behaviour.

What is additional support?

• An opportunity to learn strategies for your child to use at home and in school

• Gain insight and understanding into your child's needs

• A chance to get support or professional advice from knowledgeable practitioners

SPA (Havering) contact details

Contact our service for more information

Single Point of Access (Havering)

Yew Tree Resource Centre

20 Yew Tree Gardens

Romford

Essex.

RM7 9AA

Opening times

Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm

Weekends and Bank Holidays, 9pm to 5pm

Tel: 0300 555 1253 or 0300 300 1570 (Option 2 for Havering)

Email : nelft.haveringreferrals@nhs.net

Reception Curriculum Letter

Term: Autumn 1

Dear Parents and Carers, 

Welcome to Reception! We have had a wonderful start to the year, getting to know all of our amazing children and are looking forward to the year ahead.

Please contact the school office if you need to pass on messages throughout the day, e.g- change of adult picking up. The school office will then let the class teacher know. We have an open door policy and are happy to talk to parents/carers at the end of the day, once we have dismissed all of the children.

Important information from us

Spare clothes

Thank you to those who have already sent in spare clothes for your child. If you haven’t yet done this, can we ask for you to get this into us by the end of the week. Please ensure all items are labelled, that you provide a full change of clothes including socks and underwear (this does not have to be uniform) and it is in a labelled bag. If you are able to, please also provide wellies as the children have access to the mud kitchen within their play.

Lunches

Please discuss the lunch options with your child each morning. Please ensure they know if they are having a blue, red or green lunch. If you need information on the lunches, please ask your class teacher to provide you with a menu.

PE

The child’s PE day will be on a Thursday. We request that your child comes into school wearing their PE kit. This should consist of black/navy jogging bottoms or shorts, a white t-shirt and trainers. They will not need to change back into their uniform so there is no need to send this in as well.

Reading

Next week you will receive your home reading folder. In the folder you will find a reading record and on the front page it will tell you what day your child’s reading day is. It is very important that your child brings in their folder on that day or we will be unable to change their books.

You will receive a reading book/sheet that you will work through with your child. This should be read a number of times in order to build confidence and fluency. You will also receive a bedtime story that you can share with your child throughout the week.

Phonics

The children have begun our RWI programme and will be learning a new sound each day. We will also be focussing on oral blending (Fred Talk) and hearing the initial sounds in words. When learning to read we use pure sounds, not letter names. Please watch this video as an example of how to say each sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkXcabDUg7Q

Throughout Autumn 1, we will be focusing on learning to recognise, blend and write the following sounds:

Week 3

13.9.21- m, a, s, d, t

Week 4

20.9.21- i, n, p, g, o

Week 5

27.9.21- c, k, u, b, f

Week 6

4.10.21- e, l, h r, j

Week 7

11.10.21- v, y, w z, x

Week 8 

18.10.21- Assessment week- which sound is each child confident with?

Please support your child by going through these sounds with them at home. We practice letter formation every day in reception but your child will greatly benefit from 1:1 practice at home alongside this. If you are able to support your child in this way, please watch this short clip on letter formation so you teach the correct phrase alongside each sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O-levOoRV0

Literacy

Stories are a key part of our curriculum and high quality texts will be used throughout the day to foster the children’s love of reading. This half term we will be focusing on texts that promote kindness and confidence. We begin with Rainbow Fish and will immerse ourselves in the book for 2 weeks with writing opportunities, art and games planned around the story. We will then move on to Super Duper me and Elmer. Please check out our blogs to see what the children have been up to.

Maths

We will introduce a number of the week each week beginning with zero. The children will work on number recognition and representing the number in different ways. This will deepen the children’s number sense and basic math skills. We will also be looking at counting accurately and matching number to quantity. These basic skills will set us up for the rest of the year. The children will use a range of resources to show their mathematical thinking and will practise and revisit concepts until they are confident enough to apply it independently to a range of situations and talk about their process.

Communication and Language

We will be encouraging the children to speak in full sentences to express themselves. Focusing on a key text each week will allow children to become familiar with the story and retell the story using their own words. We also will be singing lots of songs in class.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development

This half term we are focussing on settling the children into their new environment, ensuring they are aware of expectations and rules of the setting. We will be working on sharing resources and taking turns.

Physical Development

This term there will be a big focus on fine motor activities to strengthen our hand and finger muscles for writing. These are all of the ‘fiddly’ activities you will see around the classrooms, such as threading, using tweezers, cutting etc. We will still be working on our gross motor skills in the outdoor areas as well as starting PE lessons next week.

Key Dates

Monday 18th October and Tuesday 19th October- Parents Evening

Week beginning 13th September- Baseline assessments in school

Workshop for the children- TBC

Friday 22nd October- Last day of Autumn 1

We look forward to working with you over the upcoming year and encourage you to speak to your class teacher if you have any questions. If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is: reception@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Kind regards,

The Reception Team

EYFS: Children Centre Autumn Timetable

 

Why might I want to join these groups?

• An opportunity to learn strategies to use with your child at home

• A way to meet other parents in Havering

• A chance to get support or advice from Early Years Practitioners

How can I get involved?

Choose your preferred session and email this to: childrenscentres@havering.gov.uk 

They will send you the link and password to join the Zoom class.

If you need to speak to one of the practitioners for virtual one-to-one advice, guidance or support please email your contact details to request a call: childrenscentres@havering.gov.uk

Contact Details

Email: childrenscentres@havering.gov.uk

Local Children Centres:

Hilldene Children Centre

Chippenham Road Children's Centre

Ingrebourne Children's Centre

Website: Children Centre Page

Nursery: Parent Meetings

This blog includes an overview of the following:

• Parent Meetings

• Stay and Play

• Key Information

Welcome to the weekly Nursery Blog!

Parent Meetings

This week parents and carers had a meeting with a nursery practitioner. It was an opportunity to verify important information about their child, meet the staff if they were new to the school, find out about the nursery routines and ask any questions they may have had. The 3 and 4 year olds drew a picture of themselves which will be on display in the nursery next week. The two year olds had an opportunity to choose from a variety of small activities, either a photo or their work will also be displayed.

Here are just a few examples of some of the children's proud work!

Stay and Play

Next week it is the Stay and Play sessions!

Here are the dates and times for the different sessions:

AM sessions for 2 year olds and 15 hour children:

14/09/2021 15/09/2021

8:30-9:30am (Doors open from 9:20am)

PM Sessions for 2 year olds and 15 hour children:

14/09/2021 15/09/2021

12-1pm (Doors open from 12:50pm

30 hour Children's Sessions:

16/09/2021 17/09/2021

9-10am (Doors open from 9:50am)

Session Routine:

1. Stand on a coloured spot and wait to be called forward by Mrs Luca who will tick you off the register and give you a coloured sticker name label.

2. Go into the nursery and have a look around the inside and outside area with your child; visit the toilets with your child so they know where they are and feel safe to use them during the session; most of all have fun and join in with the play! Parent and carers may want to stand to the side during the session if their child is confident to play alone. Remind your child to tidy things away before they move onto the next activity/ game.

3. At 9:15am the teachers will raise their hand to signal that we must all stop, raise our hand and wait to listen to what the teacher has to say. If someone hasn't noticed the hand signal you can tap them on the shoulder using gestures only and no speaking. It will then be tidy up time.

4. When tidy up time ends, your child will go to an area of the classroom to sing a song with a key worker; you can join them for this or stand aside quietly.

5. At the end of the session, the main doors will open so that all parents can rejoin their child; please wait for the practitioner to dismiss your child before leaving.

We cannot wait to see you all!

Key Information

Upcoming dates:

• Week beginning 13th September: Stay and Play Sessions
• Week beginning 20th September: Short stay sessions
• Week beginning 27th September: Full time sessions commence
• Week beginning 25th October: Havering Half Term (Nursery closed)
• Week beginning 1st November: Nursery reopens
• Christmas Holidays (Nursery closed): 20th Dec- 31th Dec

INSET Days Nursery closed to children:

• 1st November 2021
• 3rd January 2022
• 21st February 2022
• 6th May 2022

If you have any questions please contact nursery@broadford.havering.sch.uk or for more urgent messages speak to a member of staff or contact the school office: 01708 342880 or office@broadford.havering.sch.uk

Kind regards,

The Nursery Team