Croeso i Meithrin!

Welcome to Nursery!

Nursery Summer Term 2024 

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome back for the summer term! We hope that this term will bring lots of sunny 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.

During the first half of this term our topic will be ‘A Sailor went to Sea’. We will be having lots of adventures with Pirate Pete and his shipmates, learning about our wonderful coastline and the oceans beyond our shores.

Our topic after half-term will be ‘Olympic Games, Paris 2024’. This will be a chance to learn about France and its culture through its language, food, art and buildings. We’ll also have our own mini–Olympic Games on Sports Day!

We have hall time on Tuesdays and Fridays. This will be used for a range of physical activities including gym, dance, yoga, parachute games, Busy Feet and Sticky kids. Nursery children do not need PE kit, but it would be really helpful if you could dress your children in joggers/leggings and trainers for these days, because we may go outside for the lessons.

Cooking sessions will take place when linked to our activities and we ask for a £2.50 contribution towards the cost of ingredients, and other consumables, for this term.

Forest school will be held on a Wednesday morning. Please give your child wellies and puddle-suits/waterproofs to bring with them, and they will change before they go out. This is so that we can spend some time in the classroom first thing, preparing for our learning outside. It would be super-appreciated if you could label all their forest school bits and bobs, and the bags, too! Children will also have access to our meadow area and will be taking part in lots of outdoor activities throughout the term.

Please send in water and a healthy fruit/vegetable snack for the children each day. We are striving to be a healthy school, and we encourage healthy eating. It’s part of our routine to talk about where our food comes from and how good food and exercise affects our bodies. Thank you for always cutting your children’s grapes lengthways and avoiding them becoming a choking hazard! 

Warm welcomes

We are delighted to welcome some new children to our class. Our older children have been doing a great job of making them feel at home and helping them with the routines. You should be so proud! We are also very lucky to have Mrs Phillips who has joined us as our brilliant new TA. We will soon be having Mrs Verbruggen back after her maternity leave. She will be joining our Nursery team in mid-May. We’ll all be sure to give her a big warm welcome!    

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have anything you want to ask or tell us. There’s no such thing as a silly question here!            

Here’s hoping for a sunny summer term!

Diolch yn fawr, from Mrs Coles and the Nursery Team