Weekly Bulletin 13 March 2024

13^th  March 2024

Mid-March Parent Consultations for Nursery children in East, South and West Rooms – please sign up for a time slot on the sheet outside your child’s room.

Wednesday 20th March 8.45-9.30am – Eggstravaganza – Parent and child event focusing on life cycles held in the main Nursery garden for all parents and children to attend.

Wednesday 27^th March – Easter Raffle – cash only £1.00 per ticket

Thursday 28^th March – Last Day of Spring Term

Monday 15^th April – Summer Term begins

The Eggstravaganza is an event for parents and children to enjoy together and takes place on 20^th March – Please allow 15 or 20 minutes at the start of the session, between 8.45-9.30am, to accompany your child around the main Nursery garden, and learn about eggs and lifecycles together. If your child doesn’t attend until the afternoon that day, or attends on a different day, please do bring them along to this Eggstravaganza session, as it is both very educational and a lot of fun.

Children washing hands after going to the toilet

We have noticed that some of our children forget to wash their hands after they go to the toilet, so we were wondering if you could help by reminding your child to do this at home too – this all helps with prevention of sickness and diarrhoea and it is a good habit to get into. Your support with this is much appreciated.

Dear Parents

I am very pleased to be able to tell you that all 10 eggs hatched successfully by the end of last week. The children have been enjoying watching their daily changes and development.  The chicks have visited each class this week, and everyone has been observing, drawing and holding them. It has also been lovely to see so many adults in our Library area sharing in the excitement of the chicks. They are with us until Friday when they return to their farm, so if you haven’t yet had a chance to see them please do pop in at the beginning, or end, of your child’s session to see how they are doing. I hope you enjoy all the photos as the end of the bulletin featuring the chicks.

Next week our big event is the Eggstravaganza which takes place on Wednesday 20th March between 8.45-9.30am. This is an event for parents and children to come and learn about life cycles together, and fits in well with our current egg hatching project. All parents and children, both from The Nest and Nursery, are invited to spend 20 minutes at the start of the morning session exploring the activities that are set up in the main Nursery garden. Do come along if you are able to – it is a great learning opportunity for all.

This week we are having parent consultations for our Nursery children – please can we ask that you fill in the parent questionnaire that I am attaching again. We really value your thoughts and comments about Homerton, and the service we provide for families, so if you are able to complete the questionnaire, and return it to us either, in paper copy, or on-line, that would be very much appreciated. If you prefer to keep your responses anonymous then please do. Completed questionnaires can be put in the box outside the main office window.

Our Easter raffle takes place on the 27^th March. Tracey has made up some beautiful looking raffle boxes containing all your kind donations so thank you again for those. You can only buy tickets on the day, which will be £1.00 each, cash only please.  Proceeds from the raffle will go towards some of our summer activities and event.

It has continued to be rather wet this week and you will see just how much fun children have been having in our gardens as they love going out in all weathers. I am hoping it may be dry for our Eggstravaganza next week!

We wanted to wish all our Irish families a very happy St Patrick’s Day on Sunday 17^th March.  St Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. Molly, Bernie’s niece, is hoping to come and do an Irish dancing demonstration for the children next week.

Children in each class have been doing some observational drawings of the chicks

They have also had the chance to hold them at circle times

The children have been enjoying being pirates in the large sandpit area sailing their boat on the stormy seas and searching for hidden treasure

Relaxing whilst enjoying a book on the sofa and acting out our Core story ‘My Granny went to Market’ using our magic carpet as a prop

Improving our ball skills by learning how to throw and catch a ball and using a bat to push it all

Our garden focus this week is a spring treasure hunt, the pictures are hidden around the garden and children find them and then stick them on our Velcro board, counting how many of each picture they have found on the picture bar graph.