Nursery News 16th June 2025

NURSERY NEWS

16th June 2025 – Edition 375

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

B. Trying to be on time.

C. What are the children learning about this week?

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

Miss Howe’s Yellow group parents have been invited in to observe a 30 minute reading/writing activity on Wednesday 18^th June.

Mrs Cashmore’s Big Nursery Yellow group parents have been invited in to observe a 30 minute reading/writing activity on Thursday 19^th June.

The children’s skills are really coming along as we head towards the end of the year. We hope you will enjoy the opportunity to see your child working within a more structured, adult led session.

B. Trying to be on time.

Could we please ask that all families try to arrive on time for the beginning of your child’s session. As a Nursery School our role is to encourage good attendance and punctuality, to prepare families for school. We have a well ordered routine for admitting pupils at the beginning of the session. When children arrive a little late it can mean that the way in can become congested, with late parents trying to add lunch boxes and bottles to the lunch box trolleys. Staff are outside watching the safety of the arriving children. This becomes more difficult with additional people moving around.

When children arrive a bit later, after 9:00am, office staff will be putting lunchboxes on the appropriate trolley, escorting your child to their register area and marking your child in that register. There are 5 different rooms where children will be registering. A member of staff may only be able to bring in one child at a time. You may be asked to wait outside, until a member of the office team is able to open the front door and escort your child in.

We are finding that more children are arriving late. If your child does not arrive with their colour group, there is a chance that your child’s lunchbox will end up on the wrong lunch trolley, and not arrive for lunch when your child needs it, and your child will become anxious. This happened twice last week.

We do understand that some parents drop off at more than one school and cannot be in two places at once and you aim get here as soon as you can. This is fine.

We are just asking that you help to keep drop off time as safe and well ordered as possible, so we can begin our teaching swiftly. Thank you to those parents that help us by arriving on time every day, allowing their children to be escorted in by their Keyworkers.

We will also try our very best to get your children out of school on time. Please remember that very hot days in Nursery can be very draining. Children can, and frequently do, become cross and less tolerant in hot weather conditions, so we may find it more difficult to be at the front of school promptly for collection.

C. What are the children learning about this week?

The theme this week is The Smartest Giant in Town.

The children will be listening to and exploring the book The Smartest Giant in Town. They will get to know the characters and learn how they are all so kind to each other. The characters in the story talk about how they feel in different situations and staff will use this as a discussion point for the children to chat about their own emotions. This fits in nicely with our learning intention for the week, which is to ‘talk about how others might be feeling and respond according to their understanding of the other persons needs and wants’. We will be encouraging everyone to be considerate of each other and to remember to be kind.

We will be talking to the children about different things that may affect our mood such as being hungry, tired and hot. When the weather is hot, we give the children lots of reminders to take breaks from the sun, wear sunhats and to drink plenty. It is important that the children understand that it is okay to feel a range of emotions but also that there are different ways to manage the way we feel so that it doesn’t affect others.

As a staff, we work hard to teach the children to manage their emotions and to understand that the way they feel is important. We model different ways to communicate with each other and offer solutions to support the wellbeing of the children.