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. 

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