End of Summer Term 2025 – Friday 18 July 2025

Beginning of Autumn Term 2025 – Monday 1 September 2025

Autumn Half Term Monday 27 October 2025 to Friday 31 October 2025

The Department for Education has published a new document EYFS Nutrition Guidance This is to help nurseries ensure we are delivering healthy snacks, in our case, and to help support our families with awareness of healthy eating. The document also highlights links that can be accessed with suggestions of cooking activities that can be enjoyed with children both at home and at nursery. Cooking with children helps promote their awareness of healthy eating and also helps develop language and communication skills. To access the guidance visit the gov.uk website and search for Early Years Foundation Stage Nutrition. If you would like a paper copy please speak with Paula A recommendation within this document is that nursery’s ask parents/carers to refrain from bringing birthday cake and/or sweets into their children’s nursery to celebrate their child’s birthday. It suggests that if parents/carers wish to mark their child’s birthday with their child’s nursery friends maybe items such as stickers or bubbles etc be brought instead. We will be following this recommendation at our nursery from now on. Thank you for your understanding and support with this. We are encouraging children to think about healthy eating and oral hygiene

We are having lots of fun this month exploring minibeasts. We have found spiders and spider webs outside in the playground and also inside our nursery using our magnifying glasses and torches . We enjoy counting how many spiders are inside and finding them as they move around nursery. Our butterfly eggs have hatched and the caterpillars have now formed their chrysalides. We will shortly be moving them into their special net where we can observe them transforming into butterflies. We have all chosen a name for the butterflies and we will pull names out of the hat to see what names they are given. We have explored slugs, snails, frogs and ladybirds learning about their life cycles and what they do such as creating trails. We will continue to explore worms and bees.

Our garden is coming on very well. Our vegetables are looking amazing and we take turns to look after our plants by ensuring they have plenty of water to keep them growing. Our flowers are looking very pretty by our entrance door. Lucy and Rupert continue to visit us on a Monday and Friday afternoon to help us develop our listening and concentration.

Our children that will be transitioning into reception classes have been trying really hard with their read, write, inc learning about the sounds of letters and trying hard to form the letters. We also link the sounds to objects.

Lots of information and advice for families regarding their child’s early years can be found by searching Foundationyears.org.uk. This site also has information on the early years foundation Stage which is guidance that we follow when planning our learning intentions at our nursery

We are introducing a new system. There will be a box in our reception area for donations of quality, clean, toys that families are welcome to take for themselves or others they know who might benefit from donations. We are trying to help with the cost of living and recycling issues that our country is facing. If you have toys / resources that you would like to donate to the box please speak with Paula

We have been busy this month exploring gardening, transport, colours and shapes. Our garden is coming along very nicely with our potatoes, carrots, peas, beans, pumpkins growing well. Our children get very excited about their vegetables growing. The children also really enjoy seeing the birds that come and feast on our bird table. Your little ones have been bringing home the sunflower seeds that they have planted and we are looking forward to seeing the photos of the children with their plants when they start growing and then seeing how tall they grow. We hope the care leaflet has been useful for you. We will make a display of the children’s photos.

We have also been continuing with our phonics program, read, write, inc with our school leavers learning the sounds and formation of our letters. The children are trying really hard with their phonics and we are sure this will help when they transition into their reception classes.

Lucy and Rupert puppets have continued to visit and the children really enjoy joining in the games and rhymes that Lucy and Rupert play with them. This is really helping to develop listening and concentration skills.

We have been having fun with new resources that have been purchased. We have a new road mat for our cars and lots of new tools for our workbench. The tools have particularly been well received and we have many budding enthusiasts into the construction industry

We have been discussing oral health with the children and we have a chart to see what colour toothbrush is the most popular. The colour pink was the winner and the children enjoyed talking about strawberry toothpaste being very tasty. After research and discussion with a couple of our families we have decided that we will join the growing number of nurseries that are encouraging the children to clean their teeth at nursery after lunch. If your little one goes home at lunch time please let us know if you think it would help your family with teaching your children the importance of teeth cleaning and we will adapt your child’s session to include this. Each child will have a named toothbrush and the toothbrushes will be kept separate from each other for hygiene purposes. If you would like further information regarding this please speak with Paula

We wish you all a fun and happy May half term

We hope you all had a fabulous half term and are looking forward to all the fun we will have at nursery this second half of spring term 2025

We will be learning about all the different roles people have in our communities and how they help us

This week we have been exploring doctors, nurses, dentists and opticians. We have had lots of fun role playing different health people. We have also enjoyed helping our s for snake character with his tooth brushing and fillings that he needed

We will be learning how farmers help us by growing healthy foods for us and looking after their animals so that we can have things like milk and eggs

We will also explore our emergency services and hope to have a visit by our community police officers. We will learn about how our refuse collectors help us to recycle our unwanted items, how shopkeepers and park keepers play their roles in our community.

We will be exploring different celebrations which include Ramadan, Eid, pancake day, St David and St Patrick day, Red Nose Day and Easter

We will continue exploring phonics through read, write, inc

The black box on the wall in our main room is for any suggestions you would like to make about nursery. We welcome all of your suggestions as we work together for quality.

It was so lovely to have all of you come along for our first family day at the end of the Autumn Term. We really hope you enjoyed joining in craft activities with your little ones and seeing some of the activities and resources that the children enjoy

We look forward to spending time with you at the end of Spring Term. If there are any activities you would like us to plan for this event please let us know

We were really disappointed when we received the news that the hot dinner price from Telford and Wrekin was going to be £4.40. We had hoped it was going to be the same as school, as the dinners would have been combing from school. School dinners cost £2.90.

Some of our parents are using mini flasks for their children’s lunches for items such as soup, rice, beans, jacket potatoes and things like that. You are very welcome to send such things rather than cold packed lunches