To end this year we are going to focus the children’s play, activities and experiences around their families to really cement their sense of personal identity ready for the forthcoming transitions. The role play area will be transformed into a home and the courtyard into a back garden, with a washing line, pond and mini allotment! The children will be learning to listen to their friends and help and care for one another too.   In addition, we will be singing galore with the focus on number songs to support the children’s knowledge and use of numbers and counting in play.

Main link to the EYFS

	Area	Aspect	Learning Intentions
	PSE	Self Esteem & self confidence	self-confidence & self-esteeem is about having a sense of their own value and understanding the need for sensitivity to significant events in their own lives and other people’s lives sense of community is about how children understand and respect their own needs, views,  cultures and beliefs and those of other people
	KUW	Communities	communities is about how children begin to know about their own and other people’s cultures in order to understand and celebrate the similarities and differences between them in a diverse society
	PSRN	Numbers as labels and for counting	numbers as labels and for counting is about how children gradually know and use numbers and counting in play, and eventually recognise and use numbers reliably, to develop mathematical ideas and to solve problems

The Bengeo Playgroup Fun Day on 14th May was a great success.  Thankfully the weather was kind to us which helped contribute to it being very well

attended. There was a great variety of stalls, bouncy castle, raffle which resulted in a fantastic total of £1,653.74 being raised. A big thank you to

everyone who made donations, helped on the day and supported the Playgroup by attending.

Bengeo Playgroup has joined Hertfordshire’s Buggy Buddies campaign to encourage children to use the outdoors to learn about the world and be happy, healthy and safe.  This is a campaign that can be shared between practitioners and fathers/mothers/carers with activities that can be carried out at Playgroup and at home.  Its aim is to;

• encourage fathers, mothers and carers to walk or cycle and be active on their journeys with children
• promote children’s outdoor activity and their understanding of how important it is to keep us healthy and happy
• help children to learn about our world and how to look after it and stay safe

Breeze the butterfly, Baxter the Bee, Webster the spider, Poncho the caterpillar, Pipo the ant and Luna the Ladybird have all been introduced to the children and gone down a storm.  Following the successful Walk To School Week, we will continue to embed the Buggy Buddies activities into each term. So watch out – there could be a friendly bug coming to you soon! If you have any questions about this compaign, please speak to Mrs Carol Perrett who is co-ordinating the materials and resources. Thank you.

Bengeo Playgroup was awarded a GREEN rating this month by Hertfordshire County Council to comply with the new Code of Practice.  A GREEN rating means that Bengeo Playgroup is providing high quality early years provision and making accurate reflections and evaluations of their practice.

Well done to the staff and Committee for all their hard work!

If you have any questions, or would like to see a copy of our submitted R.A.G. Categorisation Form, then please speak to Sally, our Playgroup Leader.