Nursery News -13th April 2026

NURSERY NEWS

13^th April 2026 – Edition 405

Find out About

A. Dates for the Summer Term 2026

B. For families of children leaving us in July 2026 (Big Nursery Blue, Orange and Yellow Groups): Finding out the results of your application for Lower or Primary Schools.

C. What are the children learning about this week?

A. Dates for the Summer Term 2026

Welcome back everyone. We are now into the third term of the school year- The Summer Term. I just wanted to outline key dates across this term for your information.

Monday 13^th April 2026, Summer Term begins.

Monday 4^th May 2026. Bank Holiday Monday, School Closed.

Monday 25^th May to Friday 29^th May 2026, Half Term Week, School Closed                                    (25^th May is a Bank Holiday)

Monday 22^nd June 2026 is a training day for staff. School Closed

Thursday 16^th July 2026 will be the last day of term for all children. School opens for normal hours.

Friday 17^th July 2026 school will be open only for the Big Nursery children that are leaving us. The session will be a morning only session from 8:50am to 11:50am.

B. For families of children leaving us in July 2026 (Big Nursery Blue, Orange and Yellow Groups): Finding out the results of your application for Lower or Primary Schools.

Parents that have applied for Lower/Primary School Places will find out the results of their application this week. There is a National day when results are released.

This Information copied from Central Bedfordshire Local Authority website.

Finding out the results of your application for lower or primary school

When you’ll find out

16 April 2026 is the national offer day for on-time school applications.

If we have your email address

You’ll receive an email with the outcome of your application.

If we don’t have your email address

We will post your decision letter to you.

C. What are the children learning about this week?

The theme this week is animals and vets.

This week the children will be learning about animals that we might have as pets and how we should take care of them. The children will be able to relate to their own experiences as they may discuss their own pets and how they look after them at home. Staff will discuss the importance of making sure our pets have enough food and water as well as a comfortable bed and home. They will share with the children that if our pets get poorly, we will take them to a veterinary surgeon, just like a person would visit a doctor.

To support this, there will be vet role play areas set up for the children to use their imagination and learn through play. There will be plenty of soft toy animals that need treatment, food, water, medicine and comfortable beds. Staff will model vocabulary to support the children and extend their play.

The learning intention this week is to learn how to catch and throw large balls, bean bags and other items. Children will be shown how to throw items to each other in a safe environment and how to hold their arms out in front of them to catch these items.

The learning intention from the 7 C’s is to be able to recognize small quantities without counting. We will be playing simple games where the children will try to estimate how many items are in front of them, without counting. This is a tricky objective to master so we will play lots of games to support this. We want children to be able to look quickly at groups of 1, 2 or 3 objects and accurately identify how many items there are without using their counting skills.

You can help your child to master this at home. Use small objects such as coins, buttons or Lego bricks. Hide 1,2 or 3 items in your hand and briefly open your hand to show your child. Then close your hand around the objects and ask your child ‘How many items did you see?’