Keeping you up to date!

The children were so excited to come into nursery on Monday to find it had been decorated for Christmas! 

We have been busy for the last couple of weeks preparing for our Nativity... you are in for a real treat - please remember to bring your ticket with you. 

We are still challenging the children with their name writing and appreciate the support at home. 

Lots of the children are learning letters and sounds in phonics, here's a little something to help you learn the actions for supporting at home...

Group 1

s           Weave hand in an s shape, like a snake, and say ssssss

a           Wiggle fingers above elbow as if ants crawling on you and say a, a, a.

t            Turn head from side to side as if watching tennis and say t, t, t.

i            Pretend to be a mouse by wriggling fingers at end of noise and squeak i, i, i.

p           Pretend to puff out candles and say p, p, p.

n           Make a noise, as if you are a plane – hold arms out and say nnnnnn.

In phonics it is important to remember to use soft sounds, so when saying the sound that 'S' makes, say 'ssss' instead of 'suh'

Hello!

We are now in Autumn term 2. This has brought us some excitement as the children now do Commando Joe on a Thursday. This involves fun and fitness and the children are loving it! We are also in the run up to Christmas... so we have started our singing practice for our Christmas performance 'A Wriggly Nativity (with an icy surprise!)'. The children are already sounding beautiful - we know you'll love it.

Thank you for all of your support this term with the Poppy Appeal, Operation Christmas Child and Children in Need. It really is appreciated as your help and contributions go a long way, so thank you again!

Name Writing Challenge
We are challenging the children to write their name by the end of this term. This involves the correct formation and pencil grip. We are practising at Nursery and we would love it if you could also support at home. The children may get a little treat if they hit this target...

Winter Fair Workshop
Calling all keyholders... do you have any old spare (unused) keys that you could donate to us for a little Christmas activity? Please bring them into Nursery if you do.
We would love it if you could join us for our workshop on Wednesday 10th December 2:00-3:00pm.

Many thanks for your continued support
Miss Rose and Mrs Morledge

Welcome back!

Hello and welcome back to nursery!

We hope you had a brilliant summer. The children have settled back into nursery well and the new hippos are adapting to full time nursery wonderfully.

This term our topic will be 'Journeys' - last term the children were eager to learn about trains, aeroplanes, seaside... so we thought this topic would include all of their interests.

An update on some of the changes...

• Miss Duckmanton and Mrs Basavci are now part of the nursery staff team doing a job share, replacing Mrs Garratt who now works in reception. Miss Duckmanton works on a Monday and Tuesday and Mrs Basavci Wednesday - Friday.
• We no longer have 'Pride Vine' as a display and home-school link. We have now replaced this with an 'I like' wall ('Me gusta' in Spanish). This is to enable you as parents and carers to write next to your child's photo anything that they like, are interested in, good at etc and we can then use this in our planning and assessment.
• The children will be doing Spanish every week with Senora Cooke - our base country is Spain so we will be learning about the language and culture.
  

We will keep you updated regularly

Mrs Morledge and Miss Rose

A brief update...

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update on what's been happening in nursery.

As you know, we have been part of an Early Excellence Outdoor Project. We have introduced the children to one of the collections (Building and Construction) and this week, we'll be introducing another; Den Play and Camping. The children have responded incredibly well and even we have been so wonderfully surprised by how imaginative they are, as well as using high order skills such as collaborating, negotiating and reasoning.

Transition is going great, the older children are very excited about going into reception and in our group discussions talk about how excited they are to play with the new toys! Overall the children have done brilliantly this year - they're very independent and have made fantastic progress, we're all really pleased and we will certainly miss them! Luckily, they'll only be next door and they will still be accessing nursery's outdoor area so we will continue to see how they grow!

REMINDER: Final Transition visit for children moving up to F2 (reception) on Friday 11th July.

Summer Term 1

Hello,

We hope you had a lovely Easter and a restful break. The children have been telling us all about their school holidays and have been eager to talk about what they've been up to.

Next week is 'Healthy Lifestyles' week. We have lots of exciting activities coming up, including a visit from a Paramedic and an activity to help 'Georgie Grub' to get rid of his germs. We will also be doing some activities related to our DrugAware programme. This involves emphasising the importance of staying away from the medicine/cleaning cupboard and making sure children are aware of how to stay safe with medicines.

At the end of last term, we decided to ask the children what they would like to learn about as we are placing more emphasis on following the children's interests. We had various responses, from space to chicken nuggets! But the most popular answer was 'animals'. Yesterday we asked the children what they already know about animals and today we asked what they would like to know (we have pinned up some of the responses on the nursery windows for you to see).

So this term we will have lots of focus on animals. However we have kept track of all of the responses and will incorporate the interests in some way - whether that be a theme week, an activity or trying to include more books based around their interests.

As you know we are now in the summer term which means that lots of you will be thinking about your child moving up to Foundation 2 (reception). We will keep you updated with details of transition and will send out a transition programme so that you are fully aware and can talk to your child about it. In nursery, we have begun to talk to the children about the possibility of them having a new teacher and new classroom as a small, initial preparation for the change.

Please note:

• We still have PE every Friday - please ensure your child wears appropriate PE clothes - no tights, no earrings. 
• The children still change their book on a Wednesday - please bring a book bag or reading folder

Thank you