Happy Christmas

 We would like to thank you all for the wonderful and generous gifts you have given us. We wish you all a Merry Christmas.

 We look forward to seeing you on Monday 9th January 2023.

 Best wishes from

 The foundation team.

🎅🎅🎅

Let it snow

 What a performance. The children really enjoyed singing for you this week and we hope that you enjoyed it too. It has been very busy and festive in foundation, and we have been making cards and enjoying lots of glitter and glue. I think they have definitely got into the Christmas spirit. We have been so lucky with the snow and the children have spent time outside making snow angels and snowmen. Only 3 school days left before we break for the holidays. We are all looking forward to a break and we hope that some of the awful bugs will disappear.

Please remember to collect your child at 2 o'clock on 21st December.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

I thought I would start with this one as this was Aris after he had been outside. He said he was warming his feet on the fire!

How amazing is that.

Ho Ho Ho

 Christmas has arrived in foundation and this week we have created a Christmas card factory. The children have enjoyed writing cards, putting them in envelopes and posting them in our post box. We have learnt about the Christmas nativity story and have continued to practice our songs for the show.

The children are looking forward to performing for you but please do not be surprised if your child doesn't sing or gets upset if they see you, this is completely normal, and we will make sure that they are ok. It can be a little overwhelming to be in the hall with lots of adults. Hopefully they will all be ok.

We have been looking at shapes this week and the children have enjoyed using with geometric shapes with the play dough. The teachers supported the children with learning the names of the shapes. 

We decided to collect some natural resources we put them in water to see if they would freeze outside during the night. The photographs show the results. The children were amazed.

Not long to go now before we have our break. I think the children and the adults are ready for a few relaxing days. 

DATE REMINDERS

12th Dec performance to the school        Christmas clothes required

13th Dec Morning performance              Christmas clothes required

14th Dec Afternoon performance            Christmas clothes required

15th Dec afternoon party.                         Party clothes

If your child does not come to nursery on those days, you can swap your days around.

I hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson

Ho Ho Ho

  

This week we have been practicing our songs for the Christmas concert. The children are very enthusiastic, and I am sure they will have been singing the songs at home. They are looking forward to performing for you on the 13th and 14th of December. Please can you dress your child in Christmas clothes on Monday 12th, Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th December as we will be performing the concert for the school on the Monday. This can comprise of any Christmas festive clothes that you have at home. Please do not go out and buy new clothes for this.

We now have a post box in the setting so the children can bring Christmas cards in if they wish. I have provided a list of the children names for nursery and reception.

Class list- Reception 2022/23                                                                   Nursery list 2022/23

Rukaya                                                                                                         Raphael

Aris                                                                                                              Lottie

Stevie                                                                                                           Beau

Isabella                                                                                                         Amalie

Enzo                                                                                                            JJ

Nancy                                                                                                          Ivy

Malikai                                                                                                        Jayden

Arthur                                                                                                         Charlie

Ayda                                                                                                           Pedro

Natalia                                                                                                        Musa

Hollie                                                                                                          Jackson                            

Arianna                                                                                                       Anabia

Jude                                                                                                            Christian

Saim                                                                                                           Amelia-Mable

Spencer                                                                                                       Chloe

Ava                                                                                                             Enoch-Eli

Isla                                                                                                              Elyana

Archie                                                                                                        Olivia

Sienna                                                                                                         Amelie

Yuvan                                                                                                          Matilda

Teddy                                                                                                          Isabelle

Henry

Atrisa

Reeya

Edon

Louis

Freya

Edith

Jeyda

Arielle

The children are really getting into the Christmas spirit, and they have been enjoying the outside sleigh reading area. The only thing missing is a nice cup of drinking chocolate!

There seems to be a lot of bugs around at the moment, with lots of children with the same symptoms. We are hoping that the cold weather will get rid of them soon. 

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson:)

Volcanoes

  I am very happy to be back at work after an illness which has taken a while for me to recover from. It was so nice to see the children and they all seemed happy for me to be back. This week we have been focusing on our phonics and have used initial sounds to play games. We have played what's in the bag and have also played I spy. The children are now recognising their own name and are learning to recognise the other children's names in the group. 

Following on from the children's interests we have carried out a volcano experiment. The children were fascinated with the eruption, and we have looked at books and researched on the internet interesting facts about erupting volcanos.

Next week we are going to be changing the room around to prepare for some winter activities.  We have also started to learn our Christmas song so apologies if they start singing them every day.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson :)

18.11.22

                                        

Hello all,

This week we celebrated Anti Bullying Week in school. We wore odd socks on Monday to symbolise how we accept and celebrate that we are all different. On Friday we have dressed up in spotty clothes for Children in Need. We have discussed with the children the idea of charity and the importance of helping one another. The children had fun making spots on the giant Pudsey Bear.

The children enjoyed playing with sand and water which are the new additions to our classroom learning environment. During play, they have been learning about size and capacity of containers.

Next week we will learn about volcanos and will do volcano eruption experiment.

Have a great weekend!

Early Years Team

Poppy's Day

This week we began to look at the artwork by Stephen Wiltshire. This is something we will be continuing into next week. The children are going to reproduce some art in the style of Stephen and also learn about his life. On Friday we talked about Remembrance Day. We listened to a story called "Poppy's Day" on CBeebies. This is a child friendly story all about remembering. The children were excellent at understanding elements of this story, and it was a good example of how we should remember others. 

The children made their own poppies with paper, paint and tape. 

Next week we are going to be focusing on our listening skills. The children are now very comfortable in the setting and have a good understanding of routines. This is exactly what we want from them but now and again it means that they want to sit and chat during focused sessions. We are going to be playing lots of games that involve taking turns to talk and listen to others. We will also be going for a walk around the grounds to see the changes to the trees since we last looked.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson.

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 This week we have celebrated Diwali with the children, which is the Hindu festival of light. 

The world Diwali means 'rows of lighted lamps' because houses, shops and public places are decorated with small oil lamps called 'diyas'. Diwali always falls sometime between October and November, but the exact date varies each year as the Hindu calendar is based on the Moon. This year Diwali was on 4 4th October. The children really enjoyed learning about this festival, and we created our own Rangoli patterns and diva's.

The children have come back full of energy and ready for learning after their break. It's good to see that lots of the bugs from last term are gone, fingers crossed.

We have talked about bonfire night and the children are looking forward to seeing some fireworks.

Next week we are going to be learning about an amazing artist called Stephen Wiltshire.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson.

 This week we have been discussing the importance of equality. We have learnt how important it is to have an understanding of how we should respond fairly to the individual needs and identities of all others. Allowing everyone the opportunity to have an equal chance to live their lives as they choose. 

During carpet sessions we have been describing our friends. The children were good at identifying what's on the outside eg hair colour and clothes. We helped the children to describe what was on the inside. They were very good at this and were able to identify kindness, happiness and other emotions. They even picked up on some of the activities certain children liked to do. 

Although equality has been our school focus this week it is something that we try to embed in all our daily teaching.

We hope you have a great break and look forward to seeing you on the 1st November.

Mrs Robinson:)

CONKERS

 We have had another busy week of learning in foundation. The children have enjoyed creating with the junk boxes, tape and scissors. Could you please send in your recyclable boxes and plastics to us as we use so many every day. 

The children have been using conker's, acorns and leaves to count and make patterns. Thank you to all parents who have brought these in for us to use, they are a fantastic resource.

We have started to learn about the Gingerbread man and the children have been learning some song to help with the sequence of the story. We have also spent time playing games with our names. Please continue to support your child to recognise their name at home. 

The trees are really changing, and Autumn is definitely with us. We are going to go for a walk on Monday around the grounds to observe the changes that are taking place.  Can you please make sure your child has some wellie boots for school as the ground is now beginning to become wet.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

Regards

Mrs Robinson:)

Welcome to our nail bar.

 Its was lovely to see some of you at the Harvest coffee morning today. The children have enjoyed practicing the songs throughout  the week and I think you will agree they performed really well.

This week we have made a wormery with the children as they have been investigating the habitats of worms in our garden. The children can now watch the trails that the worms make as they move around the wormery. 

We have  been observing the changes in the trees as they start to change colour. The children will continue to observe and record this over the next few weeks.

The children have enjoyed junk modeling using recyclable boxes. Could you please bring in your recycle stuff so that the children can be creative with them. They have made robots and have used scissors, tape, paper and string to create all sorts of amazing things. 

On the 7th October it was  National Poetry Day. We celebrated this day by writing a poem about a rainbow and we read lots of rhyming books that the children really enjoyed as they could join in with the verses.

I think the highlight of the week has been our new nail bar. We have observed the children making nails using playdough, for each other so we decided to make our own nail bar in the setting. It has created an amazing learning environment where the children chat and practice communication and language whilst interacting with each other. It is a very exciting for me to see how they are absorbed in high quality play based on real life experiences. I have even had my nails done and Mrs Custis also had a manicure this week.

Please send in your family photo if you have not already done so.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs Robinson