Nursery News 14th July 2025

NURSERY NEWS

14th July 2025 – Edition 379

Find out About:

A. End of Term arrangements July 2025- A reminder

B. Leavers Day –Tuesday 22nd July – 8:50am-11:50am- A reminder

C. The end of the 2024-2025 Academic Year is rapidly approaching.

 

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A. End of Term arrangements July 2025- A reminder

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

This day will run as a normal Monday. Timings of the day will be the same as all Mondays.

 

B. Leavers Day –Tuesday 22nd July- 8:50am-11:50am-A reminder

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. Children should arrive at 8:50 am and wait outside as usual.

 

C. The end of the 2024-2025 Academic Year is rapidly approaching!

 

We find ourselves rapidly approaching the end of another year at Willow. I have some ‘Thankyous’ that I would like to share. Firstly, I would like to thank each and every parent who has chosen Willow for their child. Parents rarely realise that our funding is directly linked to the number of pupils we have, so without your children, there would be no Willow. Thank you to those parents who have kept us well stocked with fruit for snack time. The children have really enjoyed the ice-pops that parents have provided during the summer term. Parents have been very generous this year. We have enjoyed hundreds of ice pops! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to our collection of boxes and tubes for the children to build models with. This year there has been a small group of children who love to build detailed models. All support is very appreciated.

 

A very big thank you is given to the parents and grandparents who have given their time regularly throughout the year to support the teaching and learning in the classrooms. This support really alters the adult to child ratio’s we can provide. We can offer a wider range of activities, but ultimately the greatest benefit is there are more people to hold conversations with your children.

 

The 2025 Leavers are a very friendly bunch! As a whole they are a very young group:

-17% Autumn born children- Green Group our oldest children,

-22% are Spring born children- Red Group,

–61% are Summer born children, Yellow Group our youngest children in the year.

 

Let me just say, that as a group, they have kept the staff on their toes! There are a lot of very individual strong personalities within this group, and they still require quite a lot of friendly adult support to resolve conflicts. They are a very creative group, with lots of good ideas for their play. They do make us smile.

 

There are some very strong friendship bonds that have formed already. Some friendships will last all the way through to Secondary School. Willow children do care for each other. The children going to nearby schools already have a network of friendly faces who will look out for each other day to day. The children joining schools further away will be able to confidently make friends due to their experiences at Willow.

 

This year is the first year that we have been able to deliver all 12 core books to our pupils, spending three weeks looking at one book. This group have really engaged with this new style of teaching. They love these stories!

 

The new funding strategies that are around now mean that our pupils are generally starting earlier and attending for more terms than ever before. This September, for the first time, we are now able to enrol children at age 2 who are entitled to 30 hours for working families funded places.  The uptake has been good. We are building our termly Keyworker cohort from the age of two now. We know this will have a positive impact upon children’s behaviour and well-being. Some children will be with us for 8  terms!

 

What will the next year group bring? Blue, Orange and Yellow Group (our 2026 Leavers) are developing well. When I walk through there are happy, chatty children, all playing well together, I think we have another strong year group on the horizon.

 

So to the families that are staying with us, I look forward to seeing the progress that your children make in the next twelve months as they grow and mature, and I hope all the children will experience some fun with us during that time.

 

The only thing left for me to say is ‘Have a Safe Summer’.

 

Leigh Davies