September Newsletter
WELCOME:- We hope you have all had a great summer and looking forward, as much as us, to have all our little ones back in nursery, ready to start the Autumn term curriculum activities. This month we have lots of new starters and children moving up into the next care rooms. The team will be focusing this month on helping them settle into their routine, getting to know us and we them. We understand it can be daunting dropping your child off for their first session or moving up into a new care room but they are in great hands! The team will message you sending you regular updates on the app, photos etc.
CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES: A really exciting theme for little ones to delve into is the ‘Me and My Family’ topic. Children get to explore all sort of interesting facts about where they come from, and understand what it means to be a part of a family. We will be exploring the home environment with the children, discussing what different family set-ups look like, where do they live, what do we look like etc. Learning about ‘Me’ is also looking at different types of body parts, counting them, describing them – using their hands, looking at eye colours and measuring everyone height to see who is the tallest or smallest. Looking at a wide range of books about homes, everyone’s feelings, different cultures etc.
SUPPORT AT HOME:- Look at photographs at home of who different family members are, mix in some family friends and ask if they can find certain people. Look at different buildings of where families live, can they create a picture of their house using different materials? such as Lego, colouring using pens/crayon, using craft materials or maybe play-dough. A fun activity is draw around our bodies using chalks to compare shapes, this can be on large paper rolls, cardboard boxes or even the floor outside!
GOODBYE & GOOD LUCK:- To our staff member, Layla from the Foundation care room who leaves us at the beginning of September to go to Huddersfield University to complete her Teacher’s Training course. We wish her lots of good luck! And to Georgina who leaves us to start her maternity leave at the end of the month, we send her lots of love to her until her return next year!
HELLO & WELCOME:- We welcome our new 2 staff members Adiba who will be in our Foundation Class room and Olivia who will cover all between all the care rooms. We also welcome new children starters; Arthur, Violet & Hallie in the Under 2’s room. Aries, Lamiya, Roman & Kailo in our Pre-School room and joining our Foundation class room is Deelan and Ihaan! Welcome everyone!
STAFF UPDATES:- We are excited to share some exciting team news as we prepare for Georgina’s upcoming maternity leave and some new changes. Dominique will cover Georgina’s maternity leave in the Out of School Club. She will also help out in the Pre-School room during the transition. Molly is moving to the U2’s room as the new Room Leader. Congratulations to Anna-Marie on her promotion to Senior practitioner, whom will take over the Foundation room when Georgina starts her maternity leave. Another congratulations to Santana on her promotion to Senior practitioner who will help support Catherine in the Pre-School room while she does her deputy role! We are very proud of ALL our team, they each play a vital role, we know the children will thrive with these exciting new steps!
CELEBRATIONS: - This month’s celebrations starts with ‘International Literacy Day’ on the 8th, as a nursery we love reading books, so let’s all read our favorite book that day! This will then lead us nicely on ‘Roald Dahl Day’ on the 13th. ‘British Science Festival’ where we will be joining in with exciting experiments that take place from 16th to 20th. A super fun celebration this month is ‘Talk like a Pirate Day’ on 19th, let’s make it a challenge to talk like a pirate….’Ooh Arr!’ This year, the autumnal equinox begins on Wednesday 23rd as we officially enter autumn, losing an average of 4 minutes of sunshine every day until December 21st, the winter solstice starts. Let’s dig out the cosy blankets!
AUTUMN HALF TERM DATES: - Nursery education funding starts on Tuesday 1st September, providing 8 weeks of funding. Half term is W/C 26th October followed by 6 more weeks of funding finishing on Friday 11th December. Spring funding starts in January 2027
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY:- In Foundation room; Millie, Harlie, Sol & Haaniyah who turns four, in Pre-School; Eryn & Olivia will who will be three, Happy Birthday to everyone!
LOTS OF LOVE FROM ALL AT ABC!