October 2019
Wintery Woodland…
Welcome back to our October newsletter! We have been busy around nursery this month, organising parties and taking the children on trips. Lets see more…
Westonbirt Fun….
The children in Pre-School recently got the opportunity to visit Westonbirt Arboretum. They met up with some children from our Weston nursery and together they explored the woods, seeing what different natural resources they could find!
Back at nursery the children have been collecting and exploring autumnal resources such as sticks, leaves and conkers. They have been using these in a variety of different ways with Babies using their autumnal resources to explore play dough and Pre-School using them to create broomsticks from our book of the month ‘Room on the Broom’.
Spooky Sparks!
Across the nursery, children and staff have been busy preparing for the Halloween festivities. Both Toddler rooms, Butterflies and Dragonflies have been getting spooky with some slime and spider tough trays! They have been practicing their fine motor skills, using tweezers to find and pick out some creepy crawlies through ‘cobwebs’ and ‘slime’.
We were also busy preparing for our annual Halloween ‘Spooky Spark’ party. Thank you to those who came and joined us for an evening of games, spooky snacks and smores! We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! Here are some spooky snaps from the evening….
Dates for the Diary…
Thursday 7th November - Babies and Dragonflies (younger toddlers) Parents Evening
Wednesday 13th November - Pre-School and Butterflies (older toddlers) Parents Evening
Tuesday 12th November - Concept Photography
Concept photography are back with us, just in time for Christmas. If your child does not attend nursery on this date but you would like some photographs taken, please book in a slot in the office.
Thursday 12th December - Babies and Dragonflies Christmas Party Day: 2:30-4:00pm
Friday 13th December - Pre-School and Butterflies Christmas Party Day: 2:30-4:00pm
Parents are welcome to come along and join their children for our Christmas Parties! We will have lots of fun Christmas activities and a visit from a very special person! More information will be provided nearer the time. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask.
Wednesday 18th December - Christmas Jumper Day!
Thursday 19th December - Pre-School Nativity (school leavers only)
Our annual Pre-School Christmas Nativity is fast approaching! We are currently in the process of handing out invitations but if you have not received one yet please feel free to ask in the office.
Christmas Closures
The nursery will be closed from Wednesday 25th December 2019 and will reopen on Thursday 2nd January 2020. We are open Christmas Eve as normal, so please let us know if your child will not be attending this session. This will allow us to work out our numbers for meal times as we want to try and minimise waste over the Christmas closure. Unfortunately we will be unable to offer any swap sessions on this day.