April 2023
Welcome to this month’s newsletter, where we look back on the month of April!
This month we have welcomed in parents for Easter Egg Hunts, celebrated St George’s Day and we have also seen the arrival of bluebells in our Forest Area, which hopefully means the sunshine will be on its way!
Baby Barn
Babies have been enjoying the sunshine out in the garden, making obstacle courses to get across with the help of their friends. They have also loved learning to blow bubbles themselves and pop them too. We had a brilliant Easter Egg hunt and Easter games too with some parents. As well as, getting messy using animals and cars to make marks!
Baby Cottage
This month the Baby Cottage enjoyed celebrating Easter by doing lots of sensory Easter trays with tissue paper and lots of other Easter accessories. They have also really enjoyed using nets and a paddling pool to scoop up ducks in the garden! This is something they have all absolutely loved doing.
We have spent time in our sensory room, gazing out the window at our friends and been making marks in shaving foam and getting messy too!
Toddlers
Toddlers have been rescuing the animals that were swimming in the water using the net! We also used the stop and go signs whilst riding the bikes for beep beep day!
Rising Three’s
This month we have been celebrating St George’s day, we had the story of George and dragon on our projector. After we listened to the story, and we used the props ourselves to try and recreate the story with our friends. We then tried to recreate the England flag.
We have loved bringing our messy play out into the garden mixing water and mud together to make mud paint! We then used brushes and rollers to create our muddy pictures.
Preschool
This month Preschool have been celebrating St Georges Day, the children explored the different building in England and created their own England flags.
They have also been focusing on their fine motor skills doing observational drawings of different flowers and searching in the spring weather for some flowers outside.
Parent News Reminders and Events
There are 3 Bank Holidays in May - Please can we remind parents that we no longer open during Bank Holidays so we will be closed on Monday 1st May, Monday 8th May and Monday 29th May.
The Kings Coronation - On Friday 5th May we will be planning to take part in some Coronation Activities. We are planning a little garden picnic for tea and would like to welcome the parents in to join for some activities and a light tea if they wish. If your child attends this day, then please feel free to join.
Concept Photography will be visiting us on Wednesday 3rd May and Thursday 4th May - If you would like to book an appointment if your child does not attend these sessions then please let us know in the office.
Can we please remind parents who have been borrowing books from our sharing library to return them when finished so other families can enjoy them too.
A polite reminder when approaching the drive and on our nursery grounds we have a maximum speed limit, this is to ensure the safety of our families when approaching and leaving nursery.
Preschool Graduation will be held on Saturday 22nd July at 11.30am. This will be for our School Leaver children only. We will be providing more details of the day in the upcoming months.
We have recently connected with the Local Care home in our community - Meryton Place. We will be working together to bring some of our youngest children together with some of the older people of the community. We are planning our first trip next week with some of our Rising 3 children where they will be making Coronation Crowns together to celebrate the Kings Coronation. We are hoping that children of all ages within the nursery will get a chance to visit for various occasions throughout the year. We are really excited about working together!
If you do not wish for your child to participate in any upcoming trips to the Care Home, then please can you make the office away so we can update the children’s permissions.
Sign Of The Month
Day Nursery Reviews
We love to hear feedback to the service we provide at Snapdragons and for parents to share their own personal experiences here with us, which could include settling your child into nursery, the staff that look after your children, the environments we have to offer and any special occasions you have shared with us. So, we would like to ask our parents to complete the following Day Nursery Review by following the link.
Submit a Review - Snapdragons Nursery Keynsham (daynurseries.co.uk)
Thank you in advance for your time completing this.