Nursery News 26th January 2026

NURSERY NEWS

26th January 2026 – Edition 397

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A.Problems with our Phones and Internet.

B.Parent Consultations.

C. What are the children learning about this week?

D. Willow Lending Library.

 

A: Problems with our Phones and Internet.

Unfortunately, we are having some problems with our phones and our internet. Our phone calls are randomly cutting off mid call. We are very sorry if this has happened to you. Calls are cutting off on incoming and outgoing calls. If your call gets cut off we will try to ring you back, if we know who you are.

We buy into ICT support services, and our support technician is trying to resolve this. We are contacting our internet provider, and our telephone provider, where checks are being done and tests are being carried out, but we do not know what the problem is yet.

The staff are all finding this very frustrating, and I’m sure parents are too. I can only apologise to everyone and let you know that we are chasing this up daily to enable our services to be working again.

 

B: Parent Consultations.

We aim to hold Parent Consultations every term. Little Nursery Consultations will be taking place during the week beginning 9th February 2026. Parent Consultations are not compulsory, but if you would like an appointment please arrange this with your child’s keyworker when they are outside before sessions begin. These consultations will be on the telephone, will last 5 minutes and be at the following times:

Mrs Brinkley Monday 9th February between 4:30pm and 4:55pm

Miss Gaffney Tuesday 10th February between 3:15pm and 4:00pm

Miss Gaffney Wednesday 11th February between 3:15pm and 4:00pm

Miss Tyler Thursday 12th February between 3:15pm and 3:35pm

Miss Allen Friday 13th February between 3:00pm and 4:05pm

Details of Big Nursery Consultations will be in next weeks’ newsletter.

 

C. What are the children are learning about this week?

What are the children learning about this week?

The theme this week is The Three Billy Goats Gruff

This week we will be reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff in school and there will be lots of learning opportunities based on the book.

Children will be able to retell the story outside, there will be a bridge for the children to ‘trip trap’ across, while pretending to be a Billy Goat and they can take it in turns to be the angry troll, just like in the book. As the children play, they can include repeated refrains from the story such as ‘who’s that trip trapping over my bridge?’.

There will be a variety of small world scenes for the children to explore and become familiar with the story and its characters. As the children play, they can extend invitations for their friends to join them and take on different roles. We also have the story available in different formats, such as pictures on the magnetic board and also on the interactive screens in the classrooms.

The learning intention this week is for the children to understand the concept of heavy, light, long, short and more or less in meaningful contexts. This means we will explore differences in size, length, weight and capacity.

Staff will also support children with our 7C’s learning intention of the week, which is to safely use a wide range of tools. Children will be shown how to use scissors, sellotape dispensers etc. safely and effectively.

 

D. Willow Lending Library.

We have had a number of new families joining us this term, so we just wanted to remind parents that we operate a lending library of children’s books.

 

Willow Lending Library

Welcome to Willow outdoor lending library. We are open every day from 8.15-8.45am and from 3.00pm-3.30pm.

Please choose 1-2 books with your child and write the names of the books under your child’s name in their colour group folder before taking them home to read together.

You can change the books as frequently as you wish.

Please look after our books.

*Please ensure that you have left the library area at 8.45am prompt before children start to enter the school gates in the morning. THANKYOU J

 

Top Tips for Reading with your child

  • Let your child choose what they would like to read.
  • Make sure there are no distractions.
  • Sit close together. Encourage your child to hold the book and turn the pages too.
  • Look at the pictures. Talk about what can be seen on the page.
  • Ask questions and talk about the book. Give your child time to talk.
  • Have fun – there is no right or wrong way to share a story.