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Term Dates

Chagford Montessori Nursery School - Term Dates

Term or holiday

Dates for 2022

   

Easter holiday

Monday 11 April to Friday 22 April 2022

Summer term

Starts: Monday 25 April 2022
Half term: Monday 30 May to Friday 3 June 2022
Ends: Thursday 14 July 2022

Term or holiday

Dates for 2022 - 2023

Autumn Term Starts: Monday 5 September 2022
Half term: Monday 24 October to Friday 28 October 2022
Ends: Thursday 15 December 2022
Christmas Holiday Monday 19 December - Monday 2 January 2023
Spring Term Starts: Tuesday 3 January 2023
Half term: Monday 13 February to Friday 17 February 2023
Ends: Thursday 30 March 2023

Easter holiday

Monday 3 April to Friday 14 April 2023

Summer term

Starts: Monday 17 April 2023
Half term: Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2023
Ends: Thursday 13 July 2023

 

Term dates are advertised on our website, in newsletters and on the notice board.

 

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Education for Sustainable Citizenship (ESC)

Education for Sustainable Citizenship

We are excited about participating in the OMEP Early Childhood Sustainable Citizenship Award initiative. It very much lies with Maria Montessori’s view of ‘Cosmic Education’ and her emphasis on the interdependence between all life on Earth, our having a role and responsibility in our lives, and being ‘citizens of the world.’

Watch this 5-minute video to find out more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt9NE78VVNY

What is involved?
Children work towards stickers for their Passport, and initially, this will be for the Bronze level. To achieve a sticker, your child will need to complete activities, or show knowledge or a skill – all at pre-school level and aimed at 3 and 4-year olds. We would like some parents to volunteer to coordinate Zoom sessions to help support those participating – could this be you?

What are these activities?
These are detailed in the five ‘i-care’ booklets for each level, and we will give you these for the Bronze level so that, you can work on these with your child. The booklets are on Environmental Education, Social and Cultural Education, Economics, Emergent Literacy and Numeracy (the latter two recognise the importance of these life skills).

When will my child receive their Passport?
When your child has completed an ‘i-care’ booklet your child will receive a passport and be able to put a sticker in it to recognize that they have completed an I-care booklet.

How does Chagford Montessori achieve the Bronze Award?
We have to audit our setting, curriculum, activities and approach in the same three areas that your child will be working in: Environmental Education, Social and Cultural Education and Economics (the three pillars of sustainability). We have begun the audit and have to decide on areas that need most development, and work on making improvements or implementing changes. We will inform you what these are in due time. We will then have to evidence the improvements and changes we make and prove that a minimum of 60% of families have engaged with the Award through your children participating with the booklets and Passports. We are hoping to do this in collaboration with you during this academic year.

Please follow the links for further information:
https://schemaplay.wordpress.com/esc-award/

http://www.omep.org.uk/omep-uk-early-childhood-sustainable-citizenship-award

Download the I-CARE booklets and get started!

Download I-care Environment

Download I-care Social&Cultural

Download I-care Literacy

Download I-care Numeracy

Download I-care Economics

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Tapestry

Access your child's learning journal here: https://tapestryjournal.com/

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A guide to using Tapestry can be found here: http://eyfs.info/video_tutorial/_/tapestry/

 

 

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Infection Control

For your information we have made a link to the Health Protection Agency's (HPA) publication on infection control. Please refer to this if your child is ill as we base our Health and Safety policies on the HPA guidance. Please click here to view.

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