Nursery News 9th June 2025

NURSERY NEWS

9th June 2025 – Edition 374

Find out About:

A. An Open School Event: For Big Nursery Yellow Group Parents: Basic Skills

B. Parent Consultations July 2025

C. End of term arrangements July 2025

D. What are the children learning about this week?

E. Balance and Breathe with Shelley.

 

A. An Open School Event: For Big Nursery Yellow Group Parents: Basic Skills.

Miss Howe teaches some Big Nursery Yellow Group children ‘Basic Skills’ on a Wednesday morning. Mrs Cashmore teaches some Big Nursery Yellow Group children ‘Basic Skills’ on a Thursday morning.

The children move to a quiet space in Room 5 where they work in small groups (approx. 8 children) to learn reading, writing, mathematical skills and problem solving.

We would like to invite Miss Howe’s Yellow group parents in to observe a 30 minute reading/writing activity on Wednesday 18th June.

We would like to invite Mrs Cashmore’s Yellow group parents in to observe a 30 minute reading/writing activity on Thursday 19th June.

A further invitation letter will follow to Yellow Group parents so that we can match up time slots, so parents can join their child’s small group. Green Group had their Basic Skills groups in the Autumn Term 2024 and Red Group had their Basic skills group in the Spring Term 2025.

 

B. Parent Consultations July 2025.

We plan to have face to face parent consultations for all the children on 8th and 10th July 2025.  All consultations will be 5 minutes long. Staff will be in touch with you to arrange an appointment time.

So for Little Nursery…

All the Children who will be staying with us in September

Tuesday 8th July–

Miss Gaffney’s Blue Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 4:25pm

Mrs Brinkley’s Orange Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 4:20pm

Mrs Cashmore, Yellow Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 3:40pm

Miss Allen, (covering for Mrs McGrath) Yellow Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:00pm and 4:35pm

Miss Tyler’s Green group children, ( and Mrs Watson’s Red Group)  Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 4:15pm

 

So for Big Nursery…

All the Children who will be leaving us in July:

Thursday 10th July–

Mrs Patterson’s Green Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 3:45pm

Miss Skai’s Red Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 3:55pm

Miss Howe’s Yellow Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 4:05pm

Mrs Cashmore’s Yellow Group Children. Five minute appointments available between 3:15pm and 4:20pm

 

C. End of Term arrangements July 2025

The last day of term in July 2025 for all children will be Monday 21st July.

On Tuesday 22nd July school will open only for the Big Nursery children that are leaving us. The session will be from 8:50 am to 11:50 am. All Big Nursery leavers are invited to attend this session, regardless of your child’s normal attendance days. As children are attending for the morning only, no child will require a packed lunch. Children will require their water bottles. We are going to consult the children about what activities they would like to plan for their last day, and try to enable their ideas. There will be no charge for this session.

 

D. What are the children learning about this week?

The theme this week is the Royal Family and London.

The children will be learning about the Royal Family and tourist attractions in London. There will be lots of discussion on who the King and Queen of England are, where they live and all about their extended family. Staff will provide lots of media for the children to look at and to familiarise themselves with the Royal Family.

There will be plenty of role play opportunities for the children to explore this week. In Room 3, the cosy corner will be transformed into a magnificent royal area, complete with a throne. In Room 1, there will be a London bus set up for the children to either drive, or be passengers on and go on London adventures. In Room 2, there will be arts and crafts including crown making and collages. All of these wonderful resources should enable the children to use their own experiences and imagination to extend their play and involve others in their games.

We hope that all of our activities in school will promote discussions with the children, where they can share their own experiences of visiting London and seeing some of the sights for themselves.

 

E. Balance and Breathe with Shelley.

One of our current parents offers a wellness class and she has asked that I add her new poster to our newsletter: