Welcome to this month’s newsletter, where we look back on the Month of May!

We have welcomed the sunshine with open arms as we have spent time outdoors celebrating outdoor learning day. We practised our baking skills as we baked a range of items for world baking day, and we also celebrated the Kings Coronation taking a visit to the local care home to create Coronation Crowns.

Baby Cottage

The Baby cottage have moved their ball pit around and added more balls and they have absolutely loved leaping in it and hiding! We have spent lots of time outside in the garden with the weather getting nicer, we’ve explored puzzles in the garden, making marks with paintbrushes and water and we also celebrated The coronation! We found items of the same colour as the flag and had fun trying to match the colours up in the tufftray!
Lots and lots of fun getting messy too!

Baby Barn

This month the babies have been enjoying getting super messy, trying different ways to explore the messy play, they have also loved caring for the babies where we have been setting up little picnics for them and also washing them to make them nice and clean! Our babies spent some time baking cinnamon swirls on cooking day which they loved too!

Toddlers

We celebrated the Kings Coronation by having a party in the garden with all our friends and families, we made party streamers and danced around the garden, we created our own tea parties and waved flags for the King, we ended the afternoon by indulging in a gorgeous picnic in the garden! We ate like Kings and Queens thanks to Carey and Nick!

Toddlers celebrated world baking day by making some scrumptious pizzas! We spread our sauce on the pizzas and sprinkled on our cheese! After we cut up our peppers and added them to our pizzas, we also tasted the peppers and they were very tasty!

Rising Three’s

This month we celebrated the kings coronation by having a tea party with our teddies from our homes.
We also done lots of lovely activities outside with Tim, we have been making bird feeders and scarecrows. We have also been very busy planting sunflowers and tomato plants which had got to big for the windowsill so it was time to get them planted outside.
We have also been very lucky to have Carey from the kitchen come up and make some yummy mini quiches with us.

Preschool

Pre school have been showing an interest in sticks this month so we decided to make our own paintbrushes with them to make marks with. We have been focusing on numbers and matching them to the correct amount of objects by singing different songs such as currant buns and 12345 once I caught a fish alive.

We have also been working together to construct different balancing courses thinking about to ensure it is safe

We were also lucky enough to have a visit to the local care home where we created Rangoli Pictures as we got involved in the Around the world day for India.

Sign of the Month

Parent News and Reminders

Suncream - If you haven’t already, please can we ensure that you are bringing a labelled bottle of suncream for us to store at nursery - Now the weather is getting warmer, and the UV is getting higher the children will be wearing this a lot more.

Preschool Leavers - For our school leaver children, could I please remind you to return your farm trip letters, as well as making us aware if you will be attending the Preschool Graduation so we can start to prepare for the graduation event, we also request that you make us aware of any dietary needs. This year it will be held on Saturday 22nd July from 11.30am - 1:30pm. This will consist of a graduation ceremony with a BBQ along with activities and time for the children to all play together before they venture off to school.
As we all start to prepare for the transition to school we will start to have visits from teachers and will start to prepare our moving to school documents, if you haven’t already please could you let the girls know what school your child is attending and if you would like to add your name to the list outside preschool then feel free too. Cathy would also like parents to provide their children with a P.E Kit, for the team to support and encourage self dressing and independence.

Last dates - I would also like to remind parents that children’s last day before they head to school will be 31st August for All year round children. Some weeks in August are not fully funded for these children, so a polite reminder that if you would like your child to finish earlier then the 4 weeks notice still applies.
Term time children will finish on Friday 14th July.

Fathers Day - Fathers day is on Sunday 18th June this year - to celebrate we will be providing Bacon Rolls at drop off on Monday 19th June for all the fathers and grandfathers - if you would like to have one on this day can we ask that you drop us an email to book this so that we can order the correct amount of food.

Little Dots Photography - Little Dots Photography is offering all Snapdragons parents a 10% discount on any photoshoot of your choice. Sophie is a natural light photographer with a studio based in Keynsham, specialising in capturing timeless images of maternity, newborn, older babies and family. For more information and how to book a photoshoot with Little Dots Photography please visit the website www.littledotsphotography.co.uk

Meryton Care Home Open Day - As some of you are aware we have recently connected with the local care home in our community - Meryton Place - They will be holding an open day on 28th June 2023 to show off the lovely home to the community serving afternoon tea, giving tours and handing out goodies. They would love you to join if you would like to see where the children come to visit

Staff news and changes

This month we have seen some changes within our nursery.

We unfortunately have waved goodbye to Nancie (Toddlers) and Honey (Baby Cottage) who are embarking on a new adventure.

We are also waving goodbye to Celeste (Toddlers) and Grace (Baby Cottage) as they head off on Maternity leave.

We are lucky enough to welcome some new faces to our team and are also waiting for a few others to join, so we will keep you updated as soon as these changes have happened

We have recently had Kaila, Kia and Elaine join our team.

Kaila - Will be taking part in an apprenticeship and has joined our Baby Cottage Team.

Elaine - Has joined our Rising 3 Team.

Kia - Will be taking part in an apprenticeship and has joined our Toddler team.

We are looking forward to seeing what fun adventures June brings us and we are hoping the sunshine is here to stay.

Love the Snapdragons Keynsham Team x

May 2023