Nursery News, Autumn Term October 2014

Birthdays Harry Tomalin 2

nd September

Millie Callaghan 8th September

What have we been busy doing in Nursery

this half term?

Bob the Builder/Construction Focus We had fun making houses out of junk and using waffle blocks for giant construction both inside and outside. We played with small world Bob the Builder toys and enjoyed using our imagination. Of course we all enjoyed singing the song and trying to remember all the characters names.

Forest School Sessions

Did You Know? The Weston Hall at Pre-Prep is available for hire for parties or other events. Please contact the Pre-Prep office (01284 385412) for more details.

We warmly welcome

Frederique Barnes Emily Brown

George Brown Edward Childerhouse

Harry Tomalin

WELCOME!

POLITE REMINDERS :

*Please can you ensure that all of your child’s uniform is named. (We currently have an un-named jumper if anyone is missing one.) *After half term could all children have a coat with a hood as the weather becomes increasingly chilly and we will continue to use the outdoor environment in all weathers.

Stars of the Week this half term

Harry Tomalin Emily Brown Oliver Loveday Frederique Barnes Edward Childerhouse Max Carter

The Nursery children have been enjoying regular Forest Schools Sessions. This week the children made fabulous ‘Stick Men’. All the children enjoy listening to stories in the forest and other favourite activities include making mud pies, Gruffalo stew and pretending a fallen tree is a Space Ship and creating lots of imaginary journeys! If you are interested in finding out more about our Forest School sessions, why

not come along to our Nursery Open Morning on Saturday 8th November

at 10am and you can enjoy a sample of lots of the different activities that we offer.

Handa’s Surprise! We focussed on the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Browne and explored many different elements of Africa. We had great fun joining in with the African drumming workshop at Pre-Prep and made our own drums in the Nursery. The children showed particular interest in the various animals that live in Africa and they sorted out which ones they thought belonged in Africa and which did not.

We acted out the story and tasted all the delicious fruits as well as some Cous cous.

What else have we been doing? The children showed great interest in dinosaurs and volcanoes so we followed their interest into these topics and even set off our own volcanic eruption! We listened to the story ‘Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs’ and used this story for counting outside.

Harvest & Halloween As this half term has drawn near an end, we have been learning about Harvest and Halloween and you will see some wonderful scarecrows and spiders that the children have made and are on display in the classroom.

Open Day After half term we will explore the ‘Stick Man’ story by Julia Donaldson, culminating in our wonderful Open Day on Saturday 8

th November. Also do come and visit our

real ‘Stick family’, yes we hatched them ourselves!

Please note that we have regrettably had to cancel

the Pre-Prep Holiday Club. We apologise for any inconvenience this

may cause.

Day Nurseries Recommendations If you and your child

like our nursery, and we hope that you do,

please take the time to recommend us on

www.daynurseries.co.uk Our current score is 9.6

and rising!

Your feedback is invaluable to us.

Website These newsletters are

available at www.culford.co.uk

under the Nursery ‘Information

for Parents’ section

Culford School Nursery

Bury St Edmunds

Suffolk, IP28 6TX

01284 385415

Welcome! We would like to welcome Samuel, William, Sidney, Sophia, Eleanor, Luke, Freddie, Jack, Ianthe, Eleanor, Jack, Rosie, Katie, Harry, Grace, Isabella, Alex, Max, Matilda, Caiden, Jasmine, Ewan, Millie, Felix, Rupert, Elijah, Jackie, Penelope and Rylee and their parents/guardians to our Weekly Friday group. We hope you will make them all feel very welcome.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Great African Welly Walk

We had fun on our ‘Great African Welly Walk’ this week. The children and parents all enjoyed a stroll through Culford Park, wearing very colourful wellies, to raise money for ‘Farm Africa’ which helps African farmers grow themselves out of poverty and end hunger forever.

Fun, music & play time at Parent Baby & Toddler

Now offered here at Culford. Babies love swimming!

Babies have a real affinity with water, and because they’ve spent 9 months

floating in the womb, being in warm water feels much

more familiar to them than being on dry land.

To find out more visit... www.waterbabies.co.uk

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Baby Area We have been delighted to

welcome lots of young babies to our ‘Parent, Baby & Toddler Sessions’. After half term we are pleased to announce that we will have a special ‘baby area’ with baby bouncers,

bumbos and playmats for the younger members of our group to use. We hope you will enjoy

using them.

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Anyone who would like further information about the

school, please ask the Nursery staff or contact

Admissions on 01284 385308

Dates for your diary

Have a lovely half term. We return on Friday 7 November,

10am-12pm.

Themes for next half term: 7 Nov: Firework art 14 Nov: Children in Need activities 21 Nov: Visiting photographer 28 Nov: Christmas art 4 Dec: PTA Christmas fayre (3pm at Pre-Prep—all welcome) 5 Dec: Nativity & Christmas party (9.15am at Pre-Prep)

Our last Parent, Baby & Toddler session of term: 5th December.

Parent, Baby and Toddler