April 2025
Nursery Information…
A polite reminder that we are closed Monday 5th May and Monday 26th May.
If your child is also term time only their last day at nursery will be Friday 11th July.
A huge congratulations to Katie our nursery chef who has completed her level 3 qualification with distinction.
Staffing update
Emma our Deputy head of babies will be leaving us towards the end of May, she is sadly moving onto another setting to explore her future career path. We thank her for her 7 years of service at Snapdragons, we wish her lots of luck in her new venture.
Lucie our Toddler practitioner will be moving to Preschool 3 to gain experience in a new age group, Frith our preschool staff member will be moving to Toddlers from the beginning of May.
Throughout the month, we have been exploring our local outdoor environments, where we have been visiting our lovely local parks and wide-open fields.
Our curious babies were busy picking an assortment of colourful flowers to use in our flower tuff tray. While the imaginative toddlers collected a variety of flowers to create wonderful live drawings. Pre school then picked flowers to fill up their flower pots which they created before leaving for the walk!
Preschool One have been manipulating play dough into various numbers, matching them to the corresponding number cards. This creative activity has allowed them to develop their fine motor skills while they explore different and exciting ways of rolling, squishing, and stretching the play dough to form the numbers that they recognised and have recently learned.
Preschool 3 we have been exploring colour. We have experimented by choosing colours to mix together to create new colours. We have also found out how to make colours lighter and darker when using paints.
Toddlers have been exploring rainbows and using fine motor skills to guide their play. They painted with shaving foam and used tools to reveal a rainbow. They then used paintbrushes to wipe away different lines in the tuff tray play which strengthen their fine motor skills. They worked together to learn new skills and shared their creations with one another.
