January Newsletter 2025
Our teaching toolkit (Our curriculum) is set across ten themes, each month we focus on a different area. This months teaching toolkit focus was:
Thrive through secure attachements and positive relationships- to be able to build secure attachements and to be safe, secure and loved.
What have the Babies been up to?
The babies have been up to lots of lovely things this month. We have explored lots of different messy sensory play including corn flour and baby oil to make Cloud Dough. The babies have also explored painting in lots of different ways such as with animals, paint brushes and even rolling the balls through the paint. The babies have loved going to the garden this month and have explored the obstacle course, bikes, mud kitchen and the bridge and tunnel.
What have the Toddlers been up to?
Our toddlers turned into little bakers this month. We had some lovely new resources for our children’s kitchen and the toddlers could not wait to test out the chef hats. The toddlers made banana flapjack. We had to carefully measure the oats, mash the bananas and mix it all together. It was a lovely little afternoon snack. We have also explored all of the outdoor environments. The toddlers have enjoyed the bikes, the slide and the hula hoops this month. We also explored lots of messy play this month. We used the sponges to make marks ad used the blocks and ‘cement’ to become builders.
What have Pre-school been up to?
Pre-school started off this January, getting our their scrap books and drawing the lovely things they got this year for Christmas. The scrap books are a lovely way to collate the children’s pictures, idea’s and drawings so we can see the progression from the start of their pre-school journey, until they leave us to go to school. The pre-schoolers have come back from the Christmas break with a fascination for letters and all things maths! We have extended this interest, by setting up activities such as weighing with the scales and using the terms ‘heavy and light’ as well as looking at different letters in our names, and colourful shapes. We have also spent some time exploring our imgainations by building roads and villages with the blocks and ramps. We may have some mini architects on our hands.
Nominate a Star
Is there a staff member that you would like to be acknowledged for all their hard work this year or someone who you would just like to thank? At Snapdragons we run a reward scheme for our employees, nominations from parents mean stars for the staff that can go towards a range of different rewards and prizes which can include sweet treats, hampers, meal vouchers and even a trip to the spa, so if you would like to reward the staff remember to fill in the online form sharing your lovely words. Snappies Superstar — Snapdragons Nursery.
The Bristol Family Hubs have sent us some flyers for some training and support programmes for parents and carers that are free! There are contact details on the flyer if you would like to book yourself onto any training courses. Some of the courses are run online and some are face to face over the next couple of months!
