Nursery News 22nd June 2026

NURSERY NEWS

Monday 22nd June 2026 – Edition 414

Find out About:

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

B. Review of the Year

C. Can you help with some Tissues?

D. What are the children learning about this week?

 

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

 

B. Review of the year

At this time of year, we carry out a big review of our school. In the last few days staff been talking to the Big Nursery children individually, to gain their views about their school, with regard to what they like, what they think they have learned and what they would like to see change. All school staff are busy filling in questionnaires too.

This information helps us to plan our areas for development next year.

I always ask parents for their views too at this time of year.

 

We usually ask just two questions:

  1. Please comment about what we do well at Willow.
  2. Please tell us one thing you would like to see at Willow that you would consider to be an improvement and/or development.

Please write a short email and send to office@willownursery.co.uk

 

If you wish your comments to inform my review, please send your email by the end of this week, Friday 26th June. I will then compile all the comments and respond to them in a future newsletter, on Tuesday 6th July.

 

 

C. Can you help with some Tissues?

Sometimes we ask parents for some specific donations that help our school.

We are in the hottest part of summer. We would hope that colds and runny noses would be over by now. However, this is not the case!

We have almost run out of tissues.                    So please, when doing your shopping, consider picking up a box of tissues for our children.  We really appreciate parents’ donations, as it enables us to have boxes of tissues close at hand, all around the school and in the garden, so we can do our best to keep children’s noses clean.

 

D. What are the children learning about this week?

The theme this week is transport – air and water

Staff will work with children to teach them the different types of transport that can be used on the water and in the air. Summer holidays are fast approaching and many children will be going on summer holidays. Some children are lucky enough to be travelling out of the country and this can be used as a discussion point to share personal experiences of air and water travel. There are many resources in school that can showcase different transport and how we use it, including books, toy airports and water play with boats and submarines which will all be available for the children to explore. Staff will model lots of language as they discuss things they have seen while on their own travels and they will encourage children to share their own experiences.

Our learning intention this week is for the children to practice skills of assertion, negotiation and compromise and to look at adults for support in conflict resolution. We will be assisting children as they consider the best way to solve conflicts no matter how big or small. Lots of praise and support will be given to children who try their best to show understanding and kindness to their friends. All children are different and have varying abilities when it comes to being able to problem solve, but being able to try their best or ask for help is key to them becoming successful.

We will focus on cutting skills this week and there will be plenty of books, magazines and paper for the children to cut. Staff will support the children in holding their scissors effectively to be able to make snips in paper and, for those that are able, to cut carefully and with purpose.

Our target for the most skilled children is to be able to neatly cut along a curved shape.