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Meithrin: Summer Term Letter 2026

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome to the summer term! We hope that this term will bring lots of dry weather for us to enjoy our beautiful grounds.  Please remember to send in named sun hats and ensure your child is protected with sun cream before coming to school. Please do not send bottles of sun cream in children’s school bags.

We’d like to say a big, warm welcome to our new friends and families that are joining our class this term. We’re excited to get to know you and know you’ll be settled into our Nursery routines very soon!

Our topic this term will be ‘A Sailor Went to Sea’. We will be diving into a range of exciting seaside stories and adventures to inspire our learning.

At the start of the term, we will be basing much of our play and exploration around the story The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch. The children have already shared some fantastic ideas, and we are looking forward to bringing these to life. They would like to build their own lighthouses, find out how lights work, and make and pack their own delicious picnic lunches.

Through these activities, we will take part in imaginative and creative experiences including storytelling, role play, construction, art, and numeracy. We will explore numbers through practical activities such as counting, measuring ingredients for our picnics, comparing sizes when building lighthouses, and solving simple problems through play.

After half term, our focus will move on to Pirates and ocean adventures. The children will have opportunities to make treasure maps, explore floating and sinking, and design and build their very own boats to test. Numeracy will continue to be developed as we use positional language, count and sort treasure, and compare weights and sizes when testing our boats.

We will also learn about water safety at the beach and discover a variety of fascinating sea creatures. It promises to be a very busy and exciting term full of hands-on learning, creativity, and seaside fun!

Our Nursery Week

Monday

Book Bags

Please can children continue to bring in their book bags on a Monday. Children will have the opportunity to choose a story book to bring home to share with you and their family. Book bags will be returned to you on a Tuesday.

Ben & Betty

Please remember the children are welcome to bring in their ‘Ben & Betty’ Sound of the week item to share with the class every Monday ( we will send a text if plans change!) when they will have the opportunity to share their items with their friends. We will keep these safe on our special shelf for the children to see. Please remind children that their items will be returned safely on a Friday! Our sound will be ‘s’ next week (week beginning - 20.4.26).

Tuesday - PE

PE will be on a Tuesday. This will be used for a range of physical activities. We will be doing sessions outdoors when the weather is appropriate, so please ensure your child comes suitably dressed in trousers or leggings and wears suitable shoes for them to move freely during these sessions.  

Wednesday - Forest School

Our Forest School sessions will continue to take place on ‘Welly Wednesday!’. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately for the weather, including a sun hat and sun cream (fingers crossed for sunshine!). In warmer weather, children do not need to wear waterproofs, as these can become uncomfortable. However, please ensure they are wearing clothes you don’t mind getting a little muddy!

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Amser Snac

We will continue to 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

Children will be cooking up some tasty treats as part of their activities. e.g., we will be making picnic foods inspired by The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch and even making our very own ice cream later in the Summer term. Please can we ask for a contribution of £3.00 towards the cost of ingredients by 4^th May. Again, we really appreciate your support in order for these activities to go ahead.

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Things to Remember

Please can you 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!

We need your help!

Outdoors

A little reminder for our outdoor area; We would welcome any pots, pans, baking trays, utensils, tea sets, plastic picnic sets etc. to help us resource this area.

Creative

We always have a home for any junk modelling resources as well as collage materials, so please send in any unwanted materials…. remember your junk is always our treasure! 

We are looking for:

• Ribbons
• Buttons
• Sparkly Bits
• Loose part materials e.g. milk bottle lids, shells, pebbles, corks, curtain rings etc.
• Kitchen roll tubes

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 Summer Term of learning, laughing and achieving together at Pen y fro Nursery!

Many thanks,

Mrs VerBruggen (Class Teacher)

Mrs Barratt (Teaching Assistant)

Mrs Edwards (Teaching Assistant).