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Meithrin: Autumn Welcome Letter 2025

Dear Parents/Carers,

Croeso! Welcome back to a new school year and we hope you had a lovely summer filled with lots of happy memories! We would like to give a warm welcome to the new children joining us in Nursery for the first time. Children have settled in really happily and have enjoyed meeting new friends! We have already had lots of fun playing and exploring our environment and are excited for the new year ahead!

Our main focus for this term will be establishing our daily routines such as finding our peg to hang up our coats, finding our name for the register, washing our hands before snack and other self-help skills such as putting on shoes, putting our coats on and so on. We will also be considering friendship and will be talking about sharing and caring and being kind to one another.

Our topic this term is ‘Marvellous Me!’. We will be exploring ‘Cynefin’ and belonging through a range of learning activities all about ourselves and our families. We will be talking about our bodies and how we use them in different ways as well as investigating our senses. We will be reading lots of exciting stories to help us including; ‘Funny Bones’ and ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what can you see?’. Later in the term, we will also be exploring special celebrations, including Birthdays, Harvest and Christmas. The children will be helping to plan and choose topic enhanced activities, which will be complimented by focused tasks that will develop Literacy, Numeracy, Digital Competence and Welsh through play, songs and creative activities.   

We love learning from people in our community. We’re already looking forward to a special visit from a local optician, who will help us learn all about the importance of our eyes. If any of our parents or family members are nurses, doctors, or dentists, we’d be thrilled to welcome you in for a visit too. We’d love for the children to hear about the wonderful work you do and how you help others!

Ben & Betty

We will begin the ‘Ben and Betty’ phonic immersion scheme after half term. This follows alphabetical order, beginning with ‘a’ the week after half term. I will let you know more information closer to the time.

Book Bags

Nursery children will be able to choose a story book from school to take home and share with you. Story books will then be changed each Tuesday. This will start from Tuesday 16^th September. New children will also be given a reading record, these are for staff to record the story book chosen by your child and for you to comment on your child’s enjoyment of the book and their understanding of the story/text when you share it with them. If you wish to purchase a school book bag, please order from Bergoni: https://www.bergoni.co.uk/products/pen-y-fro-primary-bookbag.

Hall Time

We have hall time on a Tuesday and Friday Morning. This will be used for a range of physical activities including gym, dance, yoga, parachute games, Busy Feet and Sticky Kids.  Please ensure children come to school in suitable clothing for our PE sessions; including t-shirts, leggings and trainers; please can we ask for no laces if possible! Diolch!

Forest School

At Pen-y-Fro we are very lucky to have such extensive outdoor areas, which give our children the space and freedom to play and explore. There will be a choice of outdoor activities so please ensure that your child brings a named coat to school each day.   

Forest school will be held on a Wednesday morning. Please ensure that your child comes to school dressed appropriately for this as it means we can get outside straight after registration and it allows the children to have more time outdoors.  As our weather can be extremely changeable please assume that we are going out whatever the weather is like first thing as it often improves through the morning; Now that the autumn term is here it would be advisable to send gloves, hat and scarf as it gets colder. Forest school will start from Wednesday 24^th September

Amser Snac

We will stop for a Healthy fruit snack and water each morning. Please provide your child with a tub of pre – prepared fruit or vegetables and a water bottle. Please can you ensure that fruit, such as grapes and cherry tomatoes, are cut appropriately into quarters to ensure children are able to eat them safely.. Please can snack tubs be labelled clearly with your child’s name and these can be put onto our Snack trolley outside the classroom each morning! It is also helpful if children are able to open their water bottles independently and are also able to recognise their own snack containers.

Cooking

Cooking sessions will take place when linked to our focus activities, we kindly ask for a £3.00 contribution towards the cost of ingredients each term. Please can cooking contributions be sent in to school by the end of September. We really appreciate your support to ensure these exciting learning experiences and opportunities can take place.   

Things to Remember

Please can you also ensure children have a spare set of clothes in their bags in case of accidents and a coat on colder or wet days. Again, please ensure these are all clearly labelled!

Health Concerns

Please can you come and see me if your child has any allergies that we should be made aware of or if they have any health concerns. If your child has Asthma, we will need to keep a spare asthma pump in school and an Asthma card will need to be completed. Please can you come and see me to get a form! Diolch!

Finally, just a gentle reminder to please keep special toys at home. We know how important they are to your child, but sadly they can sometimes get lost or damaged in nursery, which can be upsetting. We have plenty of fun and exciting toys here for all the children to enjoy and share together!

If you have any concerns or you would like to know more about the activities, please do not hesitate to come and speak to us at any time. We look forward to an exciting year of learning, laughing and achieving together at Pen y fro Nursery!

Many thanks, 

Mrs Katie VerBruggen (Class Teacher)

Mrs Barratt (Teaching Assistant)

Mrs Davies (Teaching Assistant).