Family photographs
As we’re getting to know everyone, we like to talk about our families and home life.
To encourage children to tell us more about their family life, please e-mail or bring a photograph of your child with their family to Nursery. These will be displayed in our home corner for children to look at and talk about with staff and their friends. [email protected]
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Let’s get busy.
This week, many children continued with their transition sessions and have stayed for a full day at Nursery. We’ve had lots of happy faces as children waved good-bye to parents and carers each morning.
Here are a few photos of our play and learning this week – you can see that children are very busy and happily, engaged in play. This is just what we like to see once children have settled into their new environment! We strive to make Nursery a happy and healthy place to learn.
We were really excited to pull up the carrots from our garden this week. Look how big they are. We washed them, cut them and enjoyed them at snack time. Yum, yum.
Now that children are familiar with our Nursery classrooms, over the next few weeks, you’ll start to see some changes in our areas of provision as we introduce new small world areas and themes for our learning.
Help at home – Can you sing the ” Wheels on the bus” nursery rhyme? Can you remember all of the actions? The Wheels on the Bus
Next week we will be reading our first focus story ” The Three Little Pigs”. We will be using story props to retell the story. The Three Little Pigs
Reminders
- Don’t forget to let us know your child’s current interests for our “What makes me tick” board.
- We need your child’s All about me sheet brining back to nursery, it’s not too late.
Getting to know you.
We’ve had such an exciting and busy week in nursery. Our returning children came back telling us all about their holidays, finding their friends and playing in their favourite places. We then welcomed our new friends at our stay and play sessions, grown-ups came too, to join in with all of the fun activities.
This week we’ve been busy helping the children to settle into their new environment. It can take quite some time to remember where everything is but the children are doing so well. They’ve been exploring all of the nursery provision, from building in the construction site to baking in the mud kitchen. We have had lots of fun!
Here are some pictures from our very busy first week in nursery,
Finding out what everyone enjoys playing is our next job. You can help us with this by adding a note to your child’s photo on our “What makes us tick” board. Whether its diggers or dancing to K-pop, we want to know. Ask your child’s key person for more details.
A few reminders
Please don’t forget your child needs a coat every day.
Please clearly name your child’s water bottle.
Don’t forget to register for your child’s milk with the dairy (details in your welcome pack)
Please return the” All about me” sheet – another way we can get to know lots about your child.
Best start in life
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written a letter to parents with a focus on ensuring children have the best start in life. It signposts parents to the best start in life website – there’s information on Best Start Family Hubs and support with your child’s early health and learning.
Welcome to Nursery
Hello everyone!
We’ve been busy this week meeting some of our new children at their home visits. It’s been lovely finding out about you all and what you like to do. We’re looking forward to getting to know you more when we welcome you to Nursery next week.
We are looking forward to welcoming back our returning children. We can’t wait see see how much you have grown and to find out about your summer holidays.
Nursery is now ready for the new school year. Have a look at the photos to see what you might like to play with next week. We’ve tried to make sure that there’s something for everyone to enjoy, including some of your favourite things that you told us about on home visits. We’ve got Paw Patrol, a farm, diggers, The Gruffalo and our mud kitchen bikes ready for you to come and play.
Where will you play?
A few reminders from home visits: what your child will need every day…
- A waterproof coat (named)
- A pair of wellies (named)
- A change of clothes (top, trousers/ leggings, underwear, socks)
- A filled water bottle (named)
Packed Lunches
Does your child have a packed lunch at school? If so, please download our Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches.
Did you know that popcorn is a choking hazard for children under 5? Lot’s of people don’t! The Food Standards Agency. has published the following advice on how to prepare food safely for your young child.
Getting to know you!
Happy Holidays
We say it every year, but we can’t quite believe it’s already the end of term!
Thank you for all of your kind words, cards and gifts this week. We hope that you all have a great Summer holiday and we’ll look forward to seeing some of you in Nursery in September and some of you, next door in Reception! We’d also like to say good bye to those children that are moving to other schools – we hope that you love your new school and make lots of new friends
Don’t forget Nursery opens for our returning children on Monday 08 September 9 -12 ( please follow the information in your transition letter)
Have a fantastic summer holiday.
Nursery team
Harvest time
You may remember back at the beginning of the summer term when the children helped to prepare the soil so that they could plant beans, carrots, strawberries and peas in the nursery garden.
Over the last few months they have watered and watched the seeds develop and this week it was harvest time for some of the crops.
The carrots had grown so big, the children really enjoyed pulling them up. They looked carefully at the roots and noticed that some of the carrots were longer than others. They washed and scrubbed the carrots, enjoying tasting them at snack time.
The strawberries had also ripened and were juicy and red.
The peas were growing fast too. We are hoping to be able to enjoy popping some pods before we break up for summer next week.
The children have really enjoyed nurturing these plants and have been checking on their progress daily.
Thank you for all of your “bean updates” too. It’s great to see how many of you will have some green beans to enjoy very soon.
We really have had ” green fingers” in nursery this summer.
What a busy week!
We enjoyed sharing our story What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside, there were lots of conversations in Nursery about the differences between the seaside and the countryside.
“There is sand at the seaside”
“I can see fields in the countryside”
” That’s the sea or the ocean”
The children enjoyed developing their cutting skills this week, snipping paper in the creative area and making long snakes to snip in the dough. We talked about using scissors carefully.
Outside the children were very busy using their imagination and creativity, gathering all the natural resources they needed to create their own dinosaur worlds.
Finding the ingredients they needed for potions and stirring them carefully.
Creating amazing tracks using ramps, crates, tyres and stands. What great team work!
More tracks were devised using shapes with the children balancing carefully along.
This week our Story of the week
Commotion in the Ocean
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive
During maths group times this week, we’re learning about positional language.
Help at home: Try to use positional language in your day to day conversations and during play. For example -Can you put your teddy underneath the box? The car is behind the garage. The monkey is on top of the tree. Put your shoes next to the cupboard. As you look at illustrations in a story, ask questions such as ‘Where is the cat hiding?’ or ‘What can you see in front of the fence?’
Reminders
Please ensure that your child has a complete change of clothes at Nursery every day ( including socks)
If your child is returning to Nursery in September can you please ensure that your child’s returners paperwork is handed into the school office by Monday 30th June.