Welcome back to the spring term !
Settling into the spring term......Carrying on with the Christmas theme as children play out their experiences, they have enjoyed wrapping presents, learning to select, learning the skill to wrap securely with their own style.
There has been lots of lovely role play already this week at Towerview Playschool. The children have been involved in playing doctors, and today (Thursday) a small group have instigated a Christmas game, dressing up as Santa with a sack and delivering ( the pre-wrapped) presents around the setting.
This week the children have been learning to programme ICT
toys. They have been learning to take turns and discovering ‘cause and effect’
as they play with the ‘Bee Bot’ robot. Children have loved programming the ‘Beebot’ and watching it move round
the tray.
Much puzzle making has been going on with some children moving
to new levels of mastering the jigsaw. Some have also chosen to play board
games and showing increasing counting skills and number recognition.
The
little ones at Broadway Playschool have been enjoying being outside despite the
cold weather. We
have seen semi frozen puddles and watched the scudding clouds – predicting if
we will have snow !! They have been chalking
on the tough trays making circles and lines. The story sack this term is ‘Kippers
Toy Box’ and we have all enjoyed the story.
Tempest Photographers are in on Wednesday 8th February
9am at Towerview Playschool - all children and families welcome from both settings.
Spring newsletter just gone out and on the web site from next week, Behaviour Policy, & Data Privacy notice (see below)
Privacy Notice: Early Years Settings January 2017
Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998
Your child's early years setting is the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. The setting collects information from you, and may receive information about your child from a previous school or setting. The setting holds this personal data and uses it to: ensure that the early years setting receives appropriate funding; provide appropriate pastoral care; support your child’s teaching and learning; monitor and report on your child’s progress.
This information includes your child’s contact details, characteristics such as ethnicity, special educational needs and any relevant medical information.
The law requires the setting to pass some information to the Local Authority and the Department for Education (DfE). The setting will not give information about your child to anyone else outside the setting without your consent. If you want to see a copy of any information held by the setting about you or your child, please contact them directly. As well as information about your child, the setting may also securely transfer copies of your completed Parent Declaration Form/s and copies of your invoices/bills.
What the Local Authority does with data on children attending early years settings Worcestershire County Council holds this personal data and uses it to: ensure that the early years setting receives appropriate funding, including supplementary payments for children with Special Educational Needs and Early Years Pupil Premium; meet funding requirements for early years places in Worcestershire ; ensure there are sufficient early years places in the Local Authority support your child’s teaching and learning; assess how well the early years setting is doing; ensure that the setting is administrating the funding/free entitlement appropriately; enable the Local Authority to carry out other specific functions for which it is responsible, such as school admissions and Children's Centres. This will include providing the receiving school (Reception) with information about your child’s early years provision; to include the name of the setting, the level of funding received (Early Years Pupil Premium and Special Educational Needs) and any specialist agency involvement.
Access to information is conducted on a strictly need to know basis. Information is held securely and confidentially. Information will be securely shared across the Local Authority and with Local Authority commissioned Partners. Information is retained in line with Worcestershire County Council’s Document Retention Policy before being securely disposed of/deleted from electronic systems.
If you require more information about how the Local Authority (LA) and/or DfE store and use your information, then please go to the following website:
http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/datatdatam/b00212337/datause
If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE as follows:
Commercial and Change Team Worcestershire County Council County Hall Spetchley Road Worcester WR5 2NP Email: miacfc@worcestershire.gov.uk
Public Communications Unit Department for Education Sanctuary Buildings Great Smith Street London SW1P 3BT Email: http://www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus Telephone: 0370 000 2288
