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Meithrin: Spring Term Letter 2026

Dear Parents/Carers,  

Happy New Year to you all! I hope you all had a very happy Christmas break and are ready for the new term ahead.

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 ‘Once Upon a Time’. We will be exploring a range of traditional fairy tales and well-known stories. To help us plan exciting and meaningful activities, we would love your support. Please talk to your child about their favourite fairy tale and record this on the attached sheet. We kindly ask that the completed sheet is returned by Monday 12^th January so we can use your child’s interests to help shape our learning.

Through these stories, we will take part in lots of imaginative and creative activities, including storytelling, drama, role play and art. We will also be completing activities related to Chinese New Year, St. David’s Day and Easter later in the term. It promises to be a very busy and exciting term full of magical stories and adventures!

We will be holding a magical ‘Once Upon a Time’ Immersion Day on Thursday 22rd January. Children are invited to dress up as their favourite fairy-tale character and will take part in a range of fun, story-inspired activities throughout the morning.

Our Nursery Week

Monday

Book Bags

Please can children now 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

The children have responded with such excitement to our sound of the week and we have been very impressed with all the exciting items the children brought into share so far!  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. Items will be returned on a Friday! Our sound will be ‘h’ next week (week beginning - 12.1.26).

Tuesday - PE

PE will be on a Tuesday. This will be used for a range of indoor physical activities, progressing to outdoor as the weather improves towards the end of the term. Please ensure your child comes suitably dressed in trousers or leggings and suitable shoes for them to move freely during these sessions.  

Wednesday - Forest School

We will continue to have our Forest School session on ‘Welly Wednesday!’. Please ensure children are suitably dressed in warm, waterproof clothing. Please ensure all hats and gloves are named!  

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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 on special occasions this term as part of their activities e.g., Chinese New Year, St David’s Day and Easter etc. Please can we ask for a contribution of £2.50 towards the cost of ingredients by 26^th January. 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 to help us resource this area.

Creative

We have been busy developing the Creative Area in our classroom and 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.

Dressing up

Children have been enjoying our dressing up corner, if you have any dressing up costumes/items that we could re – home then we’d very much appreciate it! Especially any Fairy Tale costumes.

Reading

Lastly, we are looking to develop our reading area this term, if you have any unwanted children’s magazines/catalogues then we’d love to give them a new home!  

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 Spring 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