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EPG MONTHLY NEWS

NOVEMBER 2019

Reflecting on October, looking forward to November! and encourage your child to make healthy food choices. It is so tempting
Now that our children are settled down and to add a cake to your trolley as you walk around – for a treat only!
enjoying the routines and activities of the day, The teachers were all excited to have you join them for Open Day and
it’s the perfect opportunity to reflect on the share the interactive sessions. We know that your child was thrilled to
past month and all the progress that our have Mummy and Daddy help them with an activity. It is moments like
children have made. After a long summer these that we want you to treasure.
break it’s always a challenge to get back into
the routines of the day, getting up early, November sees more exciting times for our EPG families. Parent/
eating healthy snack, sharing and enjoying Teacher Conferences will be scheduled and we look forward to having
working together with our friends. For our returning EPG children this some personal discussions about your child and how they are getting on.
has been a quick and exciting process, but for some of our new families You may not know this but our EPG teachers will be presenting at our
I want to reassure you that although your child may still be having a annual EPG Early Years Conference in November, with the theme this
few challenges with the EPG day, they are well on their way to success year of Curricular Excellence. Professional development and sharing best
and we understand the need to work together and continue to support practice is essential to maintaining the highest standard of teaching and
your child as they settle down and find those special friends that make learning that you expect from EPG.
school fun.
As the cooler weather arrives, I wish you all active and family-fun
The highlight this month has been the Healthy Eating Shopping Trip filled weekends, returning fresh and ready for another week of fun
which I know the children have enjoyed. Investigating the different food and learning at EPG.
that keeps us healthy and using our own money to pay for them is such
an important experience for our children. I hope that you continue to Vanessa Temple
discuss the items that you buy when you have your family shopping trip EY Principal

Curricular Focus

At EPG we understand that resources of the highest quality are vital to of text, both fiction and non-fiction, different writing styles and uses
support the learning of our children. We use a range of wonderful all the necessary elements of early spelling and grammar that is needed
resources from Oxford University Press. These include the Oxford for well-rounded literacy development. In essence, it gives children
Reading Tree (ORT) core and supplementary readers, Floppy’s Phonics everything they need to become confident readers.
scheme to support phonics development and the Oxford Owl website which
gives our teachers access to hundreds of interactive activities, e-books and Reading is one of the most important things every child will learn at
other support ideas. school. It opens the doors to new worlds and allows children to become
independent in their choice of literature that goes beyond school and into
Why choose Oxford? This scheme is beloved by children around the adulthood. The joy of reading is one that we are proud to support here
world. It helps children to learn to read and to love to read. The ORT at EPG.
books have many well-loved characters and uses a wide variety of kinds

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