Autumn Term 2025 – First Half Term

First Half Autumn Term Fun 2025

We hope you have all been enjoying listening to your children and hearing all about the fun they have been having this half term. We have been exploring lots of things all about ourselves. We are compiling books with the children all about themselves. We have been learning how to keep ourselves safe indoors and outdoors. We have been learning about the importance of healthy eating, hygiene and exercise. We have been having fun exercising with cosmic yoga. This can be found on you tube kids and is a great way or exercising with your little ones at home. We have been using our mathematical skills to measure how tall we are on our height chart and then we have made a note of this on our chart to see how much we grow over the year. We have also made a chart to see which is the most popular colour of toothbrushes that are used at home. We have carried out an experiment to see how easy it is to get germs on our hands and the importance of handwashing to prevent us from becoming poorly.

We have celebrated Rosh Hashanan, Yom Kipur and Sukkot over the last couple of weeks. During the last week of this half term we will be celebrating Diwali. Lucy rabbit continues to visit us on a Monday and Friday afternoon to sing songs and play games with us. This helps us develop listening and concentration skills.

Through our phonics we have explored letters a, b, c, d and e. To further develop our children’s awareness of phonics we would like the children to bring into nursery an object from home that has the initial sound representating our letter of the week We will then show our friends what we have found.

If you have not yet had chance to bring in photos of family members and/or pets there is still plenty of time and then we can add them to our displays

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted carried out our routine inspection on the 18 September 2025. Many thanks to our parents that had chance to speak with the inspector. As soon as the official report is published by Ofsted we will share this with you

Policies

There have been reviews of lots of our policies over the last half term. All policies can be found in the pink folder in the reception area. You are very welcome to read through the policies or ask for a copy if you would prefer. Any comments you would like to make with regards to the policies are more than welcome

Children Starting School September 2026

If your child is due to start school during September 2026 please complete your online application by 15 January 2026 at www.telford.gov.uk/admissions. If you put Coalbrookdale & Ironbridge C of E Primary school as one of your choices please contact the school office 01952 386620 or call into the school office as you will need to also complete the school’s application form.

Coalbrookdale and Ironbridge C of E Primary school are holding stay and play sessions throughout October, November and 8 January 2026 so that you and your child can gain a feel for their school community. If you would like to attend a session please contact the school on 01952 386620 or email A3315@taw.org.uk

Online Safeguarding Links

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

Nutrition Guidelines

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

Toy Box Donations and Sharing

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

Term Dates Update

Friday 24 October 2025 – Break up for Half Term

Monday 3 November 2025 – Return to Nursery for second Autumn half term 2025

Friday 19 December 2025 – Break up for Christmas

Monday 5 January 2025 – Start of Spring Term 2026