Friday 14 February 2025 – break for half term

Monday 24 February 2025 – nursery reopens

Friday 11 April 2025 – family afternoon – further details to follow

Friday 11 April 2025 – break for Easter

Monday 28 April 2025 – start of Summer Term 2025

Let’s Talk Pants
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/underwear-rule/

Online safety for children with SEND / NSPCC

Use Parental Controls to Keep Your Child Safe / NSPCC

Help keep children safe online with Techosaurus / NSPCC

Teaching Your Child about internet & Online Safety/NSPCC

Look, Say, Sing,Play -Brain-building tips NSPCC

Smartie the Penguin @ childnet.com

We have reviewed and updated the following Policies

Healthy Workplace
Immunisation
Medication
Health and Safety Policy
Superhero Policy

Policies are available for you to review in the policies folder in the reception area. If you would like a paper copy please speak to either Paula or Andrea

We very much enjoyed our visit by the dental nurses from Dawley Dental Practice. We helped clean the germs off the very large teeth and we helped a giraffe with a tooth that needed filling.

We learnt that we should not have too much sugar in drinks or food as this is not good for our teeth!

We hope your children have been sharing with you all the fun we have had at nursery since coming back after our Christmas break. To start the term we explored the season of winter. We hope the birds in your gardens have enjoyed the fat balls the children made for them. We have enjoyed feeding the birds, and squirrels, that visit our nursery bird table

This month we have been busy exploring our favourite stories. We have explored aliens, monsters, dinosaurs and pirates love underpants. We find these stories very funny but we also learn from these stories how our underpants are very private to us. We also explored the story of pantosaurus. We had great fun exploring the pirates are coming. We love being pirates 😍. We have thought about the days of the week along with numbers and healthy eating whilst exploring the hungry caterpillar. Over the next couple of weeks we will explore three billy goats gruff and guess how much I love you

We have thought about the letter sounds n, o, p and will have fun with activities before half term looking at an and r sounds.

We have really enjoyed celebrating Chinese New Year and the year of the snake. We had fun creating our own dragon dance. A

We are now at that time of year again when these events may occur. As a lot of our families might already be aware there are occasions when nursery has to close because of flooding or heavy snow. We will do our best to inform you as quickly as we can if this is going to happen. We fully understand that these closures can make things tricky and we will only make a closure decision when absolutely necessary. We will put information on our website, use the school closure line and make telephone calls to let everyone know what is happening

As you are probably aware there has been a problem with wasps in the reception area. School did arrange for a pest controller to come out to help sort this problem but it was a bit difficult because of late hatching wasps. We think this problem has now been sorted

We are currently trying to recruit a new member of staff to our team. Please speak with Paula for further details

Information has been given out this week to help you apply for your little one’s school place. For those families wishing their little ones to attend Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge Primary School please remember you need to complete your online application and also pop along to the school office to complete their separate application form. Closing date for applications is 15 January 2025

This will take place on Wednesday 16 October 2025 at 7.30 pm on teams. Thank you to all of you who have returned your slips