19.09.16

Dear Parents and Carers

Nursery Newsletter

September/October

Welcome to our Nursery.

Nursery Staff

Nursery staff are: Mrs Sally Plume, (teacher)Mrs Diane Pryor (nursery officer), Mrs Tracy Brown (nursery officer), Mrs Paula Walton (nursery officer) and Ms Amanda Watson (Nursery Nurse – Inclusion). In addition we have the support of Mrs Lesley Tomkins, Mrs Mazerat Bashir,Mrs Rosella Crompton (lunchtime assistants),and Mrs Farah Lak, (Pupil and parent support).

We allhave many years of experience and qualifications in working with children and we all work together as a team.

Nursery Children

We have 64 children on roll – welcome to the new starters!

If you know of any children wishing to access a funded place at Nursery please ask them to contact us.

Term Dates

Please find attached a copy of this year’s academic calendar. We open and close in line with main school and will also have 6 training days a year. We have already hadone, Monday 5thSeptember. Future dates are,Friday 21st October 2016, Tuesday 2nd May 2017, Monday 24thJuly 2017, Tuesday 25thJuly 2017 and Wednesday 26th July 2017.

Nursery Top Ups

We currently offer the opportunity to top up the session and stay until 3.15pm, at a cost of £4.00. We also offer 3hour sessions – morning or afternoon - at £15.00.If you access these sessions, you will be invoiced for allocated sessions on a half termly basis. This can be paid for in cash, by cheque or with childcare vouchers.

We are currently in the process of employing a School Business Officer and the invoices will be prepared once this position is filled.

Themes for this half term

We are busy settling the children into new routines and providing new experiences for them. It is a time for us all to get to know each other.

  • Settling In

Activities, stories and play will be about new experiences, routines and feelings, as well as getting to know each other with and our Nursery.

  • Starting with a story

We often use a story as a starting point in Nursery to inspire the children with their learning and development. This half term our stories are:

  • When we went to the park – Shirley Hughes
  • Handa’s Surprise – Eileen Browne

There are links with autumn, harvest, early numeracy and early literacy skills with thesebooks and stories.

We sing a lot of number songs and nursery rhymes.We count lots of things around Nursery and we will be listening and discriminating sounds as an early start to phonics.

Please help your child to read their name every session as they arrive and promote our question through discussion at home.

Correspondence from Main School

There is a weekly newsletter from main school - thisis to keep you in touch with events throughout school.You are very welcome to attend any of the social events that take place.

Key Person

Your child has been allocated a ‘Key Person’. This is someone with whom to make initial contact and to pass on any little pieces of information, e.g. current interests or exciting events that are taking place for your child. Anything confidential will be treated as such within our Nursery setting.We pass on information to other members of Nursery or school staff on a need to know basis in the interest of your child’s safety and happiness.

The key person is also responsible for collating and recording evidence in profiles.

Your child’s key person is highlighted below.

Mrs PlumeMrs PryorMrs BrownMrs Walton

Thank you for your support: the boxes of tissues you have provided, fruit on a daily basis and big bird contribution every week. We are very grateful and appreciate all you offer.

We hope that you will not hesitate to talk to us should you have any queries.

Yours sincerely,

The Nursery Staff