Dear Parents / Carers
COVID Update:
Here is the link to the latest Government Guidance for OOSC Settings: Guidance for parents and carers of children attending out-of-school settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Children & PCR tests – If your child has a PCR test, please can you let us know and please confirm the result. Thank you.
Omicron – Updated Government Guidance – Just a reminder there are new rules due to the Omicron variant. Here is a link to the Governments latest information: Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance and support – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) In addition, all individuals who have been identified as a close contact of a suspected or confirmed case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, irrespective of vaccination status and age, will continue to be required to self-isolate and asked to book a PCR test.
This Week – It has felt a bit like Santa’s Workshop this week in the OOSC with all the Christmas activities which have been taking place. Everyone has been keeping super busy. The children have been using boxes to make gingerbread houses and stables for our nativity scene. We also made some cardboard gingerbread men, decorating them using paints. We have been using special glass painting pens to decorate jars – the children worked really hard and came up with some amazing festive designs. We painted our salt dough decorations which we made last week. We designed and made our Christmas crackers, complete with jokes and snaps. Some of the children ventured out to play in the fresh air! We had lots of Christmas craft with paper stars and snowflakes, along with amazing Christmas jumper designs. Some of our older children watched Elf!
Next Week – Next week we will continue with our ‘Christmas’ theme and we have lots of festive activities planned. We will have all the following activites for every session: Football, festive quiz, colouring and finishing off our salt dough decorations!
Monday – We will start the week making cloud dough, this is made using flour and oil and is a great sensory activity. We will use the cloud dough to enhance our snow scenes. We will also use lego and figures from around the playhouse to bring them to life! We will finish decorating our cardboard gingerbread men.
Tuesday – We will continue with our glass painting. The children are loving this activity. We will be making xmas decorations: paper chains, snowflakes, stars and much more!
Wednesday – We will be holding our Christmas Party with party food and party games to celebrate Christmas & the end of term!
Thursday – We will be having a festive movie evening with popcorn and hot dogs for a nice relaxing afternoon, it’s going to be a busy week.
Friday – We will be making our Xmas table decorations using foliage from local gardens, with their permission, of course! We will also make some festive Christmas pom poms with lots of glittering wool, they’ll be other xmas decorations to make and take home. And lots of festive music for those wanting to have a Christmas dance!
Outside activities all week: There will be connect 4, giant Duplo, the mud kitchen, construction vehicles, football and Meccano along with our role play tray.
Buying Safe Toys this Christmas – The Child Accident Prevention Trust has lots of great advice on their website for buying safe toys online. Here is a link if you would like to have a look: Buy safe toys | Home | Child Accident Prevention Trust (capt.org.uk)
Peterborough Soup Kitchen – We know this is an expensive time of year but, if you have any items that you can donate to the Soup Kitchen, they will be very much appreciated. The Peterborough Soup Kitchen is a local charity for homeless and disadvantaged people from in and around the city. For this winter they really need the items detailed below, if you can donate, please bring in your item(s) by Friday 17th December 2021. Lucy will be dropping off your kind donations on Saturday 18th December.
- Tinned tuna • Tinned corned beef • Tinned fruit • Tinned custard • Tinned meals e.g. meatballs • Pasta sauce • Cakes / biscuits / crisps • Pot noodles • Coffee / drinking chocolate • Canned soft drinks • Gents Toiletries • Gents socks / gloves / hats is
Have a lovely weekend and stay safe!
Kind regards
The Playhouse Team