Thursday, 31 May 2012

Jubilee

On Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th June, so that all children will get a chance to join in, we will be having a teddy bears’ picnic in aid of Action Medical Research.  We thought this year that we would combine it with the queen’s diamond jubilee, so would have a red, white and blue theme for this.
It would be great if your child could wear red, white and blue on these two days and bring with them a teddy or other cuddly toy. 
We will have a picnic with a red, white and blue theme and will make cakes, teddy biscuits as usual. 

We would be very grateful if you would donate £2 in aid of Action Medical Research which is a UK-wide medical research charity dedicated to helping babies and children.  We will collect all the donations and send it off to them.
We are really looking forward to this!









Tesco vouchers

Tesco have now finished the vouchers for school scheme so if you have any spare vouchers we would be very grateful.

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Diamond Jubilee

Erin was chatting to us today about the queen's jubilee which has prompted me to order some jubilee bits and bobs for crafting.  Think we might have a little jubilee picnic too that week to celebrate.

If anyone sees any crafty bits in the pound shops when they are out and about please will you let me know and I'll go and get them.  :-)

Thursday, 10 May 2012

New EYFS

As you may know, they EYFS is changing in September so Chris and I are on a training course tonight from 7-9 to get some more information on the changes. 

We will keep you informed of any alterations to policies etc as and when we do them. 

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Weekly Learning Journey sheets

There are some weeks that we don't get chance to fully complete a sheet to send home but this doesn't mean that we are not providing your child with lots of varied activities during the day, we just haven't had chance to record them!

We mainly complete the learning journey sheets in an evening and sometimes we don't get chance, due to family activities, and have to catch up with them the following week.  As you will appreciate, they do take quite some time to complete as we link many of the photos and observations to the EYFS learning and development records.   
 
If you don't get a sheet one week, please don't feel like you can't complete a sheet of paper at home letting us know what your child has been doing at the weekend.  We love to hear about their home life and any milestones they have reached.  Any sheet of paper would be ok, we will just slot it into their file here.  We know you're all busy people too though, so if you don't get chance to complete anything then please don't worry. 

We hope that you all enjoy the sheets that we create for you.  Although the EYFS doesn't require even half as many observations, we feel it is good for you, as parents, to be able to get a glimpse of your child's time with us.  We would have loved a diary of our children's lives whilst they were at playschool/nursery so hope that these files bring you lots of pleasure.  :-)

Thursday, 3 May 2012

More pictures of our week this week.....

We planted some sunflower seeds
We had a walk down Robins Lane to see the horses
We went to see the ducks at the duck pond

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

Our week so far.....

We made lots of music!
We had our morning snack outside - lovely apple pieces


We watered some plants
We played with the playdoh

Monday, 30 April 2012

Parking when dropping off and collecting

We know that there are sometimes cars parked outside our house at these times, but please would you not park across our driveway, but park a little way along the road and walk to our house.

There are three of us in the family who drive so there is a chance that one of us may need to leave or drive in to our driveway at these times of day. 

We appreciate your understanding with this. 

 

Monday, 23 April 2012

St. George biscuits

Yum!

week 3 this week

Happy St. Georges Day!

The children have made some fabulous flags this morning!

Monday, 16 April 2012

Learning Journey files

Please could these be returned as soon as possible please :)

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Sunday, 8 April 2012

Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Madhatters

We went to Madhatters today.  There is a photo on the children's blog for you to look at. 

Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Fun with letters

We played with the foam letters again today.  We slid them down a cardboard tube and saw whether we knew which letter sound came out of the bottom.  We also wrote lots of names and words and talked about the sounds at the beginning of words. 

Easter cards

Look at our fantastic Easter cards!

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Gorgeous weather for being outside!

We've had so much fun outdoors recently.  Yesterday we did lots of chalking on the patio and this morning we visited the ducks at the duck pond. 


Monday, 26 March 2012

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Easter crispy cakes

We made these today.  Yum!

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Foam letters

We made lots of children's names with the foam letters today. 






We had lots of fun playing outdoors too!



Monday, 19 March 2012

Week 2 this week

Happy Mothers' Day!

Hope you all had a lovely day yesterday and liked the cards that your children made. 

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Frog spawn

We went to the duck pond today and saw lots of frogspawn and frogs.  One was peeping at us out of the water!

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

CONGRATULATIONS!

.........to Tyler and his mummy and daddy on the birth of baby Kyle, born today weighing 7lbs 11oz.  Lots of love from all of us xxxxx

Monday, 12 March 2012

A surprise

The children made some lovely surprises only to be seen next Sunday ;).

Here they all are at the table, but obviously we can't show you a close-up!

Happy birthday Maggie!

Maggie is 9 today!  Happy birthday to Maggie Moo Moo!

Sunday, 11 March 2012

Friday, 9 March 2012

A big thank you

Thank you so much to everyone who came early for their children today.  Chris is still not feeling too good, but hopefully it won't last long (and I've asked him not to share it!!). 

Obviously we will let you know if we are unable to open on Monday, but fingers crossed it will be a short 'bug'. 

Thank you again, I really appreciate it.  Have a great weekend. 

Spring daffodils

Look at our beautiful daffodils!

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

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Tesco Vouchers for Schools and Clubs

We are collecting these again this year, so if anyone has any to spare we would be very grateful.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Feeding the swans

We've been to the duck pond again today.  The swans were very hungry and the others didn't really get much of a look in!

Monday, 5 March 2012

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Duck pond

We have just come back from the duck pond and the children are sat eating some lovely, warm toast so I though I would post a photo.

There weren't many ducks today, but we did see some Canada geese and 2 swans.