Nursery News 10th February 2025

NURSERY NEWS

10th February 2025 – Edition 361

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A. Parent Consultations. A reminder…

B. An Evening Event, For Big Nursery Children: Bedtime Stories Thursday 6th March 2025 at 5pm

C. February Half Term Holiday dates

D. What are the children learning about this week?

 

A: Parent Consultations. A reminder…..

Big Nursery Consultations will be taking place during this week, week beginning 10th February 2025. These consultations will be on the telephone, will last 5 minutes and be at the following times:

Mrs Cashmore Monday 10th February between 3:15pm and 3:35pm

Mrs Brinkley Monday 10th February between 3:15pm and 3:50pm

Miss Gaffney Tuesday 11th February between 3:15pm and 4:30pm

Miss Tyler Tuesday 11th February between 3:15pm and 4:05pm

 

B. An Evening Event, For Big Nursery Children: Bedtime Stories Thursday 6th March 2025 at 5pm

All Big Nursery children are invited to bring a parent along for a bedtime story at Willow Nursery School. (Big Nursery children are Green Red and Yellow group, those who will leave Willow in July 2025.)

Children and parents will join your child’s keyworker for a bedtime story. Children can come in their pyjamas and bring a teddy bear or favourite cuddly toy with them. Older and younger brothers and sisters are welcome, but please remember the stories will be aimed at 3 and 4 year olds. Parents will be asked to monitor the behaviour of brothers and sisters, and will be expected to take noisy or wriggly children out of the story circle so as not to upset the quiet atmosphere created. We expect stories to last approximately 30 minutes (perhaps less for the youngest children) and we will then have warm ‘Hot Chocolate’ and cookies together.

 

C. February Half Term Holiday dates

We are approaching our February Half Term Holiday. The school will be closed from Monday 17th February 2025 to Friday 21st February 2025

 

 

D. What are the children are learning about this week?

The theme this week is Chicken Licken

This week the children will be learning the story of Chicken Licken and his friends, and how they go on an adventure to tell the King that the sky is falling. The children will have the story read to them throughout the week and they will be encouraged to retell it in different ways.

 

Children will have the opportunity to make hats based on their favourite character from the story, play the ‘Lucky Ducky’ game and use the magnetic story board to sequence story. Children will be learning the names of all the characters and staff will point out that the names all have rhymes in them, they will work on learning other words that rhyme, including nonsense words.

There will be lots of conversation starters in each room to promote the children’s language skills, staff will encourage the children to think about the characters from the story and whether they are kind and trustworthy, or sneaky and not to be trusted.