Nursery News 13th October 2025

NURSERY NEWS

13th October 2025 – Edition 386

Find out About:

A. Parent Consultations

B. Willow Pumpkin Patch

C. What are the children learning about this week?

 

A. Parent Consultations

We aim to offer all parents the opportunity to have a Parent Consultation with their child’s keyworker once per term.

Now it is time for Big Nursery parents to book appointments to speak with your child’s Keyworker.

These consultations are offered to talk about how your child is settling in and the progress your child is making. They are not compulsory, but if you would like an appointment please arrange this with your child’s keyworker when they are outside before morning sessions, or after afternoon sessions.

These consultations will be on the telephone, will last 5 minutes and will be available at the following times:

Monday 3rd November, Miss Skai’s Orange Group Consultations, 5 minute telephone consultations between 3:15pm and 4:20pm.

Tuesday 4th November Miss Howe’s Yellow Group Consultations, 5 minute telephone consultations between 3:15pm and 3:45pm

Tuesday 4th November Mrs Cashmore’s Yellow Group Consultations, 5 minute telephone consultations between 3:15pm and 3:55pm

Thursday 6th November Mrs Patterson’s Blue Group Consultations, 5 minute telephone consultations between 3:15pm and 4:20pm

 

B. Willow Pumpkin Patch

Mrs Patterson and Miss Howe are planning to set up a Pumpkin Patch in our outside area and are requesting donations of a pumpkin. They are looking for pumpkins of all sizes to add to the patch, so, if you are able to add one to your shopping list, please do! There are so many activities that can stem from having a collection of pumpkins, including; transportation of pumpkins in wheelbarrows and on bikes, pumpkin painting, hammering golf tees into the pumpkins, using the pumpkins in the mud kitchen and even opening up the pumpkins to investigate what’s inside. It will be a very exciting week, full of art, science and cognitive and physical development. Thank you for your support!

(We did this last year and it was an amazing success. The children had so much fun!)

 

C. What are the children learning about this week?

The learning intention this week is for the children to know some of the things that make them unique, and talk about similarities and differences in relation to friends and family.

The theme this week is ‘Happy in Our Skin’, so the children will be using mirrors to look at their reflections and adults will take these opportunities to talk to the children about what they can see. This can then evolve into an opportunity to discuss things that make us different and any similarities that we may have with each other.

Children will be learning the names of their friends and will be able to take photographs of each other using our i-pads. After the photographs have been taken, the children can analyse them to identify familiar features such as eye and hair colour. Staff will highlight the similarities that they may have with children and each other, they will explain that we are all unique even though we may have some similar features or habits.

Our seven C’s learning intention is for the children to be able to feed themselves. Staff encourage the children to be as independent as possible during lunch and snack times. They are asked to get their own lunch boxes and drinks bottles and to feed themselves with as little support as possible. Our aim is for the children to understand the importance of being able to do things for themselves and how things become easier with practise.