Dear Parents and Carers

Snails

The snails shall be exploring different textures this week including water, wet sand, leaves and twigs in the garden and cornflour with water.

Days off Jenni – Thursday

Caterpillars

The week the children in the Caterpillars room shall continue to explore the outdoor space.  They shall do this by exploring tunnels, puzzles in the garden, bubble play in the garden and heuristic play in the garden.

Indoors the children shall be playing with happyland animals in water and a role play tea party with cups. Tea pots and play food.

Jamie is on Annual leave all week.

Ladybirds

 Continuing their theme of transport, the Caterpillars shall be making their own transport modals out of duplo, exploring car and tractor marks in damp sand, singing transport songs such as wheels on the bus and row row your boat, making a soft play boat and  exploring the trains and train track pushing, pulling and making train sounds.

 Days off   Julie – Friday   Abi – Monday

Bumblebees

The current interest for the Bumblebees has changed from pets to sea life.  To promote this the children shall be making ice cubes with toy fish inside, making animal stained glass windows, sewing turtle shapes, reading the rainbow fish and making our own pictures of the fish we see, seaweed/coral pictures with cellotape, coloured water play and drawing in the garden on large pieces of paper.

Days off – Krissi – Monday                      Tash  - Friday

Tash is on annual leave Tuesday

Leonie is on annual leave Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

Butterflies

The week the pre school children shall be centring their activities around outdoor play and getting ready for forest school, they will be using tools and equipment in the mud kitchen, moulding and handling- encouraging children to make dens as well as balancing o beams, encouraging self help skills – putting on coats, socks and wellies with little adult help, using hammers and other one handed tools encouraging the children to further develop their hand eye co-ordination, small world toys outside, woodwork encouraging the children to use tools and prepare for activities in forest school and reading stories about the outdoors and talking about our safety and how we care and show concern for living things.

Days off – Jo – Tuesday     Claire –  Thursday

The pre school team would like to request any unwanted kitchen utensils parents may have for our mud kitchen, outside. Thank you.

Lee still needs a few things for Forest School these include an old working Digital Camera, plain eye masks and wellies. Thank you

We would like to remind you mummies that we are holding a Mother’s Day breakfast on Friday March 8^th.  We would love to see you there. If you would like to join us please could you see Michelle or Leanne.  Thank you.

We would like to remind parents that we do not allow children to bring in their own foods, if you have any questions concerning this please see Michelle or Leanne. Thank you

Can we also please remind parents to be wary when letting other parents through the door, if you do not know the parent please ask them to call the buzzer and a member of staff will let them in.

We have created a new parent are in the foyer here you will find a displayed copy of all our safeguarding and behaviour management policies. You can also find a full copy of our policies and procedures for your perusal in this area these are available for you to take home but we ask that you please sign these out.