Nursery News 28th Feb 2022

NURSERY NEWS

28th February 2022 – Edition 253

Find out About

1. Thank you for the donations of materials for our box modelling area.
2. Being considerate when queuing before the nursery day
3. Covid update
4. Dunstable Locality Children’s Centre
5. What the children are learning about this week

 1. Thank you for the donations of materials for our box modelling area.

Thank you all so much for saving your boxes and containers for our box modelling area. We have plenty now to keep us going for a few weeks!

2. Being considerate when queuing before the nursery day

Just a reminder when queuing up outside the school gates, that it is a public footpath and other pedestrians may need to use it. Please stay as close to the fences as you can to allow others to pass.

3. Covid update

From Thursday 24 February, the Government removed the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. However, the guidance COVID-19: people with COVID-19 and their contacts, published 24 February 2022 clearly outlines that: Children and young people and staff with COVID-19 should not attend their education setting while they are infectious. They may take an LFD test from 5 days after their symptoms started (or the day their test was taken if they did not have symptoms) followed by another one the next day (24 hours apart). If both these test results are negative, they should return to their educational setting, as long as they feel well enough to do so and do not have a temperature.

*If no negative test results are received prior to day 10 then self-isolation finishes at midnight on day 10*

4. Dunstable Locality Children’s Centre

The children’s centres in Central Bedfordshire have been developed in line with the needs of the local community so no one centre is the same. Children’s centres work with partners to offer a range of services to meet your child’s needs all in one place.

There is a core set of services they aim to provide:

• child and family health services including antenatal, postnatal, breast feeding and baby weighing sessions (drop-in)
• advice on parenting and parenting programmes
• information and advice to parents on childcare, early years provision and 2-year-old funded places
• early education and school readiness, early communication support e.g. speech and language drop-ins
• outreach and family support services including home visits
• a variety of drop-in session

5. What the children are learning about this week

The theme in nursery is nursery rhymes.

In Catkins, the children will be using different resources to decorate nursery rhyme pictures, while they are working they will be encouraged to sing nursery rhymes.

In little nursery, the children will use tools such as scissors, staplers and glue to make props to use when they are singing. The children will have great fun flipping pancakes for shrove Tuesday, after they have made their pancakes they will be able to eat them at the table.

In the garden, the children will have an obstacle course to complete as well as the chance to play a hook a duck game while they sing the song 5 little ducks.

In room 1, Mrs. Patterson will be making shape pictures with the children. The children will be asked to choose appropriate shapes for their pictures and Mrs. Patterson will model the correct mathematical language for these shapes.

In room 2, Miss Skai will be using toy cars dipped in paint for a mark making activity. Miss Skai will encourage the children to dip the wheels in the paint and then move the vehicles across paper. Together, they will look at the patterns left by the wheels and Miss Skai will ask the children to describe what they see.

Outside, the children will go on a nursery rhyme hunt. When the children find a nursery rhyme card, they will sing the song they have spotted. This is the perfect chance for the children to learn the words to many songs.