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Nursery Newsletter 07/03/2025

7/3/2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have thoroughly enjoyed our book fortnight; sharing lots of stories brought in from home and especially dressing up as their favourite book characters! Thank you!
Through our story this week, “I can eat a rainbow”, the children really enjoyed making ‘fruity kebabs’. With a maths focus, we added ‘one more’ piece of fruit onto the skewer then ate the fruit one by one learning ‘one less’. It was very tasty!

In our expressive arts and design, the children have absolutely loved creating new colours from primary colours and white. Their delight at making new colours has been a pleasure to observe, as they wonder what other colours they could make!

In nursery, the children always enjoy playing some of the early years games on our interactive whiteboard using a programme called Education City. Please find the details below so you can play along at home!

https://www.educationcity.com
Click on Subjects, then select English Maths or Science. Then EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage)

For your login details to access Education City click the link and use your 'Parents Hub Password' to access your Nursery Page.
You'll find this in your emails from Miss Wood.

Nursery Page

In nursery, we are learning to: -
Count and recognising numbers and to add two small amounts together
Practise to hear the first sound in a word – p p panda, n n nose, m m mummy and the matching letter
Write our name and holding the pencil a tripod grip, when ready.
Use our imagination in our role-play ‘hospital’ to develop language and understanding about people who help us.
Notice seasonal changes in the school grounds; new growth. Spring seems to be one its way!

Dates for your diary:
Wednesday 19th March – Odd Shoe Day – School Council Fundraising Event
Friday 11th April – School Finishes for Easter Break
*Nursery school visit to Tatton Farm has been booked for ALL nursery children together on Wednesday 18th June 2025

Thank you so much for your continued support,
The Early Years Nursery Team

Nursery Newsletter 13/02/2025

13/2/2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have had a great half term and have been enjoying their learning through our whole school quest, ‘When Do I? Where Do I?’ They really showed interest in looking at and thinking about old toys that you and their grandparents used to play with. In circle time, we talked about ‘Where do I live’’? encouraging the children to talk about their families and their homes too.

Mental Health Week gave the children opportunities to join in with a range of activities to help them begin to recognise and share their feelings. We also talked about our friends and collectively, created a collage ‘kindness garden’ which now enhances our role play home area. This week, we have enjoyed listening to a colour poem, which helps children begin to connect their emotions and emotion-words to feelings and colours.

Next half term, we will be starting off with Book Fortnight. It would be lovely if the children could bring in a favourite book to share. Please make sure their name is in their book and I’ll endeavour to read them all with the children over the course of time! As nursery is very much part of the main school, we will also be celebrating Book Character day. Children are welcome to dress up in their favourite book character clothes, but please don’t feel you have to buy anything special for this event. I have a good collection of dressing up clothes here in nursery, if needed.

Later in March, the school council are aiming to raise money and donations for Stockport Food Bank and Make-a-Wish charity. They are asking the children to wear ‘odd shoes’ on this day. It sounds fun to do, but please could you make sure that footwear is even as they are still learning to coordinate their movements and I don’t want the children to feel off balance. Perhaps you could add different things to trainers or wellies eg coloured laces/bows, tie in/tape on a small toy? It’s up to you!

Thank you so much for your continued support,

The Early Years Nursery Team

Dates for your diary
Monday 17th February to Friday 21st 2025
Nursery will be closed for February half term.
Monday 24th March – Book Fortnight begins
bring in a favourite story book to share
Tuesday 4th March, Wednesday 5th March and Thursday 6th March
Parents Consultations
Wednesday 5th March
‘Book Character’ Day
Wednesday 19th March
‘Odd Shoes’ Day – School Council Fundraiser

Nursery Kindness Garden –Children’s Mental Health Week

3/2/2025

The children across the nursery have been busy creating a Kindness Garden together.

We talked about what made us feel happy and how we can make each other smile in circle time!

The children explored a range of materials to make their flowers and then had lots of fun painting, cutting and sticking and finally adding sparkles and glitter to this masterpiece!

We hope our Kindness Garden is enjoyed by all those who are visiting our school, as it will be displayed in the school hall.

The Early Years Nursery Team

Nursery Newsletter

14/1/2025

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have settled back well into nursery and are enjoying playing with their friends again.

Last week, the children enjoyed talking about their new toys and also had lots of fun playing in the snow. We also launched our new whole school Quest, ‘When Do I? Where Do I?’, and started talking about our families and our homes.

This week, we are learning more about toys and would like parents/grandparents to talk to your child about toys you/they used to play with. We will be looking at a range of toys, books and games from the past and beginning to recognise how they have changed. Please feel free to send in a photo through Tapestry or your child could show a toy from the past and say who it belonged to (we’ll be very careful!).
Also, in nursery, we are continuing to learn: -
● Counting out small sets of objects to match a numeral
● Practising to hear the first sound in a word – s s s snake a a a apple t t t tiger – sounds s a t p i n
● Writing our name and mark making activities
● Sorting toys e.g. old/new soft/hard, have wheels/no wheels, animals with 4 legs etc
● Using our imagination in our role-play toy shop’ to develop language and beginning to count pennies
● Noticing seasonal changes in the school grounds, such as frozen puddles, shadows in the winter sun, freezing and melting etc.

As the weather continues to be cold and now wet, could you make sure mittens/gloves and hats are brought in please. Labelled where possible as they often go astray.

Thank you so much for your continued support,

The Early Years Nursery Team

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