| Homerton Early Years Centre – Weekly Bulletin
15th October 2025
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| Message from the Head Teacher:
Dear Parents and Carers
Now that Autumn has arrived and the leaves are turning so many beautiful colours we have been doing quite a number of autumnal activities using leaves for printing, or conkers dipped in paint for conker rolling abstract paintings. If you have time at the beginning or end of the day the park next door to us is looking beautiful and is a great place to enjoy playing with your children and meeting other families.
Thank you to everyone who has started to bring in books for our fundraising book sale which takes place next Tuesday 21st October and continues for the rest of that week. You can donate and then buy books, either by bringing in cash, or donating via the school bank account. Thank you to Tracey in the office for organising this great fundraiser which is to raise money for an air conditioning unit in our kitchen, which can at times get unbearably hot in the summer months.
Our music classes with Davina Shore have now started. Davina is a very experienced music teacher who previously worked at the Kings Choir School in Cambridge. She teaches using the Hungarian Colour Strings approach to music teaching and the children love her classes. As she works as a consultant for us so we ask for donations of £25.00 per term to cover the cost of these classes. Thank you to everyone who has already paid for their contribution for this class.
We really enjoy celebrating festivals and cultural events with children in the Centre. If you or your family particularly celebrate a festival or event then please come and talk to class staff to see if we can also do the same here in the Centre, possibly with some help from you! We love to have parents sharing stories at Circle times so please do let us know if this is something you would also like to do. |
| Medical Update: We have had a few cases of Covid recently so please can you keep your child at home if they are showing cold/flu type symptoms and are feverish. We have a policy of 24 hours with no temperature before a child can return to Nursery following a temperature, this is both to reduce the spread of infection, and to make sure that children are feeling well enough for their busy days here. |
| Some of the Learning this week and throughout the year…
I am attaching our Homerton Curriculum Goals below so that you can see some of the aims and activities we have for children whilst they are at Homerton. We use these alongside the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum as Homerton’s educational programme. The goals focus on fun educational activities and events in each curriculum area both in the Nest and Nursery.
Curriculum Goals … our hopes and aims for the children at Homerton
Goal 1 To settle in and become a confident person, building relationships and learning how to express yourself and listen to others. Goal 2 To be able to follow a recipe Goal 3 To design and make a model or musical shaker Goal 4 To use body safely in space, developing gross and fine motor physical strength, balance and spatial awareness, as well as learning how to move safely, both for yourself and others, when climbing, or using wheeled vehicles.
Goal 5 To Create your own dance to a piece of music Goal 6 To Sew using beads and running stitch Goal 7 To make up your own story Goal 8 To start to write letters of your name Goal 9 To start to understand and care for yourself, your world and the people and places within it. Goal 10 To become curious and confident mathematicians
At Homerton staff also work with you and your children to help them develop the valuable life skills of:
Throughout the year in this section of the weekly bulletin I will be putting photos of activities relating to the goals, so here are few from this week’s activities across the Centre.
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| Dates for your diary:
Half Term holiday – Monday 27th October- Friday 31st October. Holiday club will be running during half term week. Please note the Centre is now fully open on Monday 3rd November and our Training Day is now taking place on Wednesday 12th November so the Centre will be closed on that day instead. Our training day will be focusing on early writing skills. |
| Reminders and Requests: Please can you make sure your children have warm clothing and waterproof coats and boots for the coming half term as we go out in all weathers.
As we really like to encourage independence, please can we ask that children walk into the Centre rather than being carried. Could we also ask that parents arrive on time so that children don’t miss out on events such as music or cooking which take place early in the sessions. Drop off times for the Nursery are 8.45am-9.15am and for the Nest it is 9.00am-9.30am. Please ring the office if you know you are likely to be late so we can book your child a lunch that day – many thanks for your help with this.
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