Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to our weekly blog, we aim to send out an update of events, developments, news and activities throughout each month; this will replace our existing weekly email.

It has come to that time of year where the weather is changing and it is starting to get a bit chilly, please can you make sure your children are well equipped with warm clothes, a coat and some wellies.   

Snails

The children will be looking at St Andrews day and Winter, they will be looking at winter clothing such as hats, scarfs, and gloves, decorating winter scenes and trees for a winter display, food play with baby rice, exploring snow like textures with animal figures, looking at winter stories and songs, exploring rain with water play and making snowflakes to decorate.

Days off – Sarah – Friday

Caterpillars

The children will be centring their activities around physical development, they will be stomping and jumping in puddles, using play dough, exploring movements to sounds and music, exploring paint with hands and tools, exploring wet and dry sand, soft play climbing and rolling. There will be Custards Music Group exploring music and movement to sounds with instruments, exploring tunnels inside and outside and painting with paint and cornflour.

 Days off  Jamie – Friday

Abi is on annual leave all week

Jamie is training on Monday

Ladybirds

The children will be centring their activities around cars and vehicles, they will be mark making using toy cars rolling the wheels in paint, reading Thomas the Tank Engine books, making a bus out of cardboard boxes, playing with different vehicles on the happyland mat and brio train track, colouring in cars, trains boats and aeroplane pictures, playing with vehicles in the garden and boats and water play.

 Days off – Julie – Friday

Julie is on training Tuesday morning

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at the story Handa’s Surprise, they will be making fruits with clay, moving like the animals in the Handa’s Surprise book (elephant antelope and birds), food tasting mangoes and pineapples, role play a safari ride using chairs in a line, counting small world animals, reading Handa’s Surprise using props and making animal masks.

 Days off – Krissi – Mon    Jenni – Thursday

Jenni is on training Wednesday

Butterflies

The children will be looking at people who help us, they will be junk modelling in the garden making an emergency vehicle, making the block area into a police station, discussing the different ways in which people help us, making the role play/carpet area into a hospital and taking turns in being the doctor, drawing emergency vehicles on the computer, small world hospital and fire station, drawing pictures of people who help us using different textures.  Could we please kindly ask for donations of pillow cases and tea towels for this year’s nativity.

Days off – Jo – Tuesday  Claire – Friday

Kay is on training Tuesday Morning

Lee is on training Monday and Thursday

Jo is on training Wednesday and Thursday

We would like to thank all parents for their patience and understanding with the 18-24’s room being out of action over the last 2 weeks. The decorating and flooring will all be finished over the weekend and we will be back to normal as of Monday

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.

We sadly have to say goodbye to two members of staff, Benita has moved on to pastures new and, with annual leave and time owing to her to take, will not be returning to Castle Nursery. Holly will be leaving us on Wednesday 12^th December for a new life in Blackpool.

We are currently interviewing for both positions and replacements will be announced shortly, for the interim period Jamie from Caterpillars will be supporting Julie, Elly and Amy in the Ladybirds.

If Benita is your child’s keyworker please see Michelle and for Holly’s key children please see Abi who will advise you of who will take over their key role.