Our First Blog



Dear Parents / Carer’s

Welcome to our first Weekly blog, we aim to send out an update of events, developments news and activities throughout each month. This will replace the exsisting emailed weekly newsletter.

 I would like you to join me in saying a very well done to the staff that participated in the Guildford Raft Race on Saturday 7th July. The guys did an amazing job coming 8th out of 16 and completeing the race in 57 minutes. I would also like to thank those parents who came to show their support especially the Stennett family who kindly helped the guys to transport the raft to the river. Well done again to Lee, Jo and Claire from butterflies, Sam and Krissi from Bumblebees, Tash from Ladybirds and Sarah from Snails you did brilliantly.

As most of you should be aware the Olympic Tourch will be making its way through Guildford this Friday 20th July, we would like to remind parents to think about their journeys as there are a lot of roads being closed in the Guildford area in the late afternoon. Please make sure you leave in plenty of time to pick your child up as late charges will be in place.

I would like to remind all parents of our Teddy Bears picnic on Wednesday tea time. All children and parents are welcome, if you do not attend on Wednesdays please let your childs room know if you would like to join us. 

Snails

This week the babies will be concentrating on the Olympics, the children will be stacking rings on hoops, painting with hoops to create Olympic rings, water play with Happy Land People and making medals with sensory materials.

Sarah –  Day off Friday, Sarah will also be on annual leave for the week of 23rd July.

Caterpillars

The Caterpillars will be looking at Seaworld, the children will be enjoying activities such as colouring water snails pictures, painting seaweed and shells, exploring the water tray with boats and fish, looking at sea world books and heuristic play with sea shells and wet and dry sand. They will also be having a pirate day on Thursday so please come dressed as a pirate.
 Days off:  Abi -Monday, Jamie- Fri

Ladybirds

The Ladybirds will be looking at Farm Animals, the children will be making tractors out of box modelling, messy food play with flour water and paint to play with alongside farm animals, making cotton wool sheep, singing farm songs, farm storys and farm animal finger puppets.
Days off: Benita - Monday   Emma - Friday

 

Bumblebees

This week the children will concentrate their activities around Dinosaurs, they will enjoy treading Dinosaurs in sand to make footprints, Dinosaur books, Making Dinosaur biscuits, creating Dinosaur masks and learning the names of Dinosaurs
Days off : Sam Wednesday   Krissi - Thursday
Nikki is on Annual Leave Wednesday, Thurday and Friday

Pre – School

This week’s interest for the pre- school is Healthy Practices, they will being joining in activities such as talking about people who help us such as Doctors, Dentists and Opticians, tasting fruit, plant experimenting "why do we need to drink water", make and mold soap to wash their hands, role play bedrooms and bedtime and singing Miss Polly to explore what happens when we are poorly.We are also trying to invite a Doctor/Nurse into nursery to talk to the children about how they look after people when they are poorly so if any of are parents our Doctors/Nurses and would be happy to come in please see Jo in Preschool.
The Preschool Team would like to remind parents of school leavers that have received a development summary please can these be returned completed to a member of staff. If you have not received a copy, it is ready for collection. The Preschool plan to post all summaries to school on Wednesday 18th July.

Days off:  Jo -  Tues  Claire - Thursday

The Preschool staff will also be spending a day at our South Hill Nursery this week in their Preschool to share ideas.
Jo will be at South Hill on Monday, Claire on Wednesday and Lee on Friday.

Many Thanks

Leanne