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Respect • Responsibility • Aspiration

A warm welcome to Term 4, where the evenings are beginning to get lighter and spring is finally on the horizon!

We will be continuing teeth brushing this term, we see that the children are showing lots of interest and enthusiasm for this, making it a part of their daily routine.

We welcome you to meet your child’s key person for a Parent review, please sign up on the Tulip Room door if you have not yet already! We also look forward to seeing you all for our trip to Ninja Warrior the beginning of this term and are excited to be planning more local trips in very soon!

 Have you been given a reflective focus planning sheet?

It is more than likely you will have been given a sheet by your child’s key person at some point during a single term and these are to reflect on how we can support your child at nursery. We would love to hear back from you so that we can use our

Reflective Planning to follow the interests of your children.

During their play, we extend their learning and from our observations and interactions, we then carefully plan how to support your child. 

We continue to look forward to going for our regular local walks, planning more trips and getting out into the community.

Reminders

We will continue to be athletes using the outdoor classroom and trym trail at least once a week and remind you to bring in spare clothes and welly boots as appropriate, as we will be exploring the outdoor environments in all weathers.

Spare clothes

Please don’t forget to bring a bag of spare clothes for your child. Children at this age are always get wet and dirty through water play and messy play. Your child will really appreciate having their own clothes to change into. If your child has come home in any of our spare clothes then please send these back to us as soon as possible, or if you have any donations of spare clothes, these are always greatly received.

Interactive Learning Diary

Are you signed up to see your child’s learning diary? If you need any help accessing your account, then please let us know. If you are new to us, you will receive details of how to log on to see your child’s learning diary by your child’s key person. You are also able to upload pictures and information about things you do at home, which we always love to see!

Lunches

For the families that attend a 12pm session, whilst we understand that your children will become hungry before nursery, we would like to encourage you to give them a mid-morning snack so that when they arrive at nursery, they are ready to sit down with their friends for lunch.

Polite reminder about packed lunches. Please ensure that lunches are healthy, balanced and varied. Please remember that NUTS are NOT ALLOWED, and grapes need to be cut in half. No chocolate please (chocolate on biscuits is ok) 

We discourage any sugary drinks, No FIZZY (flavoured water is fine). We also provide milk and water during the session.

Please see the following link for some healthier lunch box recipes and inspiration, or speak to a member of staff if you would like some advice.

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes#lunchbox-recipes

The adults in our room are:

Miss Kat Silverthorne – Room Leader

Miss Gemma Warren – Early Year Practitioner 

Kerrie  – Early Year Practitioner 

Super Skills

Term 1 – Communication

Term 2 – Resilience

Term 3 – Caring

Term 4 – Curiosity

Dates for your diary:

20th February—Ninja Warrior trip

4th March– Mothers Day sale

13th March-Parent reviews

20th March—Parent reviews

28th March– Graduation

29th March—Last day of term

Early Years Telephone Drop-in 0300 125 6279 Wednesday 9.30am-12pm (during term time)

 

 

Home Learning

Our core story this term is The Tiger who came to tea! We will be capitating your child’s sense of wonder creating open discussions, provide real-life experiences, explore small world play and arts and crafts relating to this well loved story to really bring it to life!

Makaton

Gemma has kindly made this Makaton video for our parents! We use Makaton in our Nursery to help with communication and understanding.  Why not watch and have a try!

Other Useful documents

Baby Talk Parent Workshop flyer – Septetmber 2022

Writing-at-home-booklet – Sea Mills

Need help with potty training and toileting your young child?

https://www.eric.org.uk/  This is a valuable website with lots of information to help you and your child with this learning.  Attached are some leaflets from the website to give you the information you need to understand difficulties children have with toilet training, with suggestions to support and what is important to look out for to keep your child healthy.

Downloads:

ERIC Thinking about potty training now your child is 2

ERIC potty training

ERIC potty training children with additional needs

ERIC Thinking about going to school

North Bristol Early Years Speech & Language Therapy Team Telephone drop-in:

Call 0300 124 5832 to chat to one of the Speech & Language Therapists for advice and find out about available support (Term-time only) – Thursday 9.45am – 12.15pm  

Speech and Language

Look at what we have been doing!!

Term 3:

Some of our recent activities including yoga and sciece week!

Term 2:

Some of our recent activities of ‘diversity week, celebrating autumn, Halloween, our trip to the Bristol zoo project, creating firework pictures, our EYFS Diwali event and being engineers!’

2 Year Old Nursery

Two Year Old Places

We are now offering a limited number of paid places for our Two Year Old Nursery room. You can choose a mixture of mornings and afternoons but there must be a minimum of 3 sessions per week.  £20.00 per 3 hour session (9am-12pm, or 12pm-3pm), £40.00 for the whole day (9am-3pm).​ Please see Stuart Huggett in the Two Year Old Nursery if you are interested or wish to reserve a place for when your child turns two.

Some 2-year-olds in England can get free early education and childcare.

You must be getting one of the following:

  • Income Support
  • income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
  • income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
  • support through part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act
  • tax credits and have an annual income under £16,190 before tax
  • the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
  • the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
  • Universal Credit

Children are also entitled to a place if:

  • they’re looked after by a local council
  • they have a current statement of special education needs (SEN) or an education health and care plan
  • they get Disability Living Allowance
  • they’ve left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order