BROOKHURST PRE-SCHOOL Stepping-Stones

BROOKHURST PRE-SCHOOL ‘Stepping-Stones’ NEWSLETTER January 2018 Happy New Year and we hope you all had a good Student Christmas break. May we take this opportunity to thank You may have heard your children talk about another you for all your kind wishes, cards and gifts. teacher; Miss Moffatt will be joining us every morning and for a couple of afternoons until half term whilst We will be holding our Parent’s Evening on Thursday 1st doing her teacher training. February 2018 between 6.00pm and 8.30pm. A notice will be displayed in the cloakroom for you to place your child’s name on against a time slot.

Curriculum Clothes/Coats A notice is displayed in the cloakroom showing the Can you please ensure that the children are wearing focuses for each half term, together with activities and appropriate warm clothing to enable them to play their links to the Early Years Foundation Stage. These outside as much as possible. Please can you make sure will be added to the new web site once up and running. a coat is left each day. Please can you ensure the children can manage their We are enjoying our current focus on ‘Polar Bears’ and own clothing to develop some independency with Penguins’ and have been using positional and directional toileting language to take our interactive ‘Bee Bot Polar Bear’ on Shoes a Journey. We try to encourage your child to change their own Moving on to our next focus, and all time favourite with shoes to pumps and back again please if possible can the children, we will have lots of fun playing you help by providing shoes that they can manage to ‘Superheroes’. This will encourage lots of interaction put on independently and we will offer to support and role play!!!! them with the fastenings. Before half term we will be introducing the book ‘The Train Ride’ to the children and will be using different Please could you ensure all clothing is clearly marked transport vehicles to talk about sequencing. The with you child’s name. Thank you. children will also be introduced to time through a ‘Daily Sequence’ and a ‘Station Clock’

Dates to remember for this term: Treasures/News Closed for Planning Monday 29th January 2018 If your child would like to bring a treasure or something Parent’s Evening Thursday 1st February 2018 to show relating to our current focus or something of Last day of term Friday 16th February 2018 interest please could you make sure it is small enough to Re- open Monday 26th February 2018 fit in their pump bag. Alternatively if you child has some news to share with the group please provide them with a small note/photograph so we can talk about it. Illness When the Preschool children are given Parent If your child has been sick, had diarrhoea or has a partnership activities to take home please could you temperature please can we ask that they be kept at home complete and return the feedback forms. These help to for 48 hours after the last incident to ensure that any enhance the overall picture of your child’s development bugs are not being passed on. Medication Please can you inform us if your child has any prescribed medication. If you give your child any medication before bringing them into preschool please could you inform us e.g. Calpol, Inhaler, etc. Please also consider if they are well enough to come.