| Homerton Early Years Centre – Weekly Bulletin
2nd June 2025 |
| Dates for your diary:
Class Trips to Nightingale Park, we need volunteers on the following days so please can you let class staff know if you can help with these dates below – Thank you.
Wednesday 25th June 9.30am-11.30am – South Room Monday 30th June 9.30am-11.30am – East Red and some East Purple children Tuesday 1st July 9.30am-11.30am – West Room Thursday 3rd July 9.30-11.30am East Blue and remaining East Purple children
Nest trips are taking place on Wednesday 9th and Friday 11th July
Other dates Monday 16th June – Caterpillars arrive and we watch them turn into beautiful butterflies over the coming weeks as part of our work on understanding Life Cycle Wednesday 2nd July – Summer Celebration musical event in the garden for parents and children. Parents are welcome to attend at either 11am or 2.30pm. We suggest 11.00am for our Nest, South and East Red/Purple parents and 2.30pm for West and East Blue/Purple parents. Wednesday 23rd July – End of Term Thursday 24th and Friday 25th July – Whole Centre is closed Monday 28th July – Summer Holiday club begins. Forms for this will be emailed out by Mel later on this week
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| Reminders and Requests:
Nightingale Park Trips Sign-up sheets will be up outside the classrooms for parent/carer helpers to volunteer to come on the Nightingale Park trips. We are hoping that as we have given lots of notice many of you will be able to come along for this fun educational event. The trips will all take place in the mornings, but we can only go ahead with these trips if we have enough parent and carer support for each morning session, (each parent helper will be allocated children to look after, so I am afraid you cannot bring younger siblings). Please put the dates above in your diaries and let class staff know if you are able to help.
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| Message from Headteacher
I hope you all had a good half term. We have a busy term ahead with lots of fun activities including caterpillars arriving and trips to Nightingale Park. A number of teachers also visit from local primary schools to meet the children who will be coming to them in September. Our Nest children also visit the Nursery classes, and gardens, on a regular basis so that they feel confident coming into the Nursery in September.
This term we are also lucky to have quite a number of work experience students with us from secondary schools and sixth form colleges, so you may well hear about them from your children.
Our Holiday club was popular over the half term and children seem to have had a lovely time. Thank you to Melody, Bridget and Maria for running this for us. Some of the activities during the week included walks out to the local CO-OP shop, in order to buy lettuce for the West Room tadpoles, and a walk to the Addenbrookes site, where children saw the Air Ambulance helicopter arriving. They also met a falconer, who was able to tell them all about the falcon that he was flying on the Astra Zeneca complex.
West Room have been studying the lifecycle of the frog through having frog spawn in their room. The spawn has now developed into rather large tadpoles.
I am attaching the ‘What’s On’ for June so you can see the activities available to families in our area.
Our language of the half term is French so children will be learning to count, and say a few words and phrases, in French. Thank you to Tamsin in South Room for putting together our French information sheet. At the end of the sheet you will see crepes are mentioned – if you fancy making these with your children – there is a very easy recipe on the BBC Good Food website.
Please remember to order your photos directly from Helen Alderton, our school photographer, if you would like to have any. |
| Medical Update: It has been reported that a Nest child had Rotavirus (severe vomiting fever and diarrhoea), just before half term so this maybe something to look out for if your child develops any of these symptoms.
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| Some of the Learning this week
All the photos today are from our Really Wheelie trail took place just before half term – many thanks to all the parents who helped to make this event such a success. The children had a lot of fun whizzing around the garden, this week’s pictures are all from this event. If you would like to make a donation, following this event, then please send payment in the usual way. We plan to use any money raised towards paying for the materials for our new digging plots, which the children are really enjoying. A BIG thank you goes to Robin, who is Eloise’s Grandad, for making these replacement plots for us just before half term.
One, two, three GO!!
Children chose whatever form of wheeled transport they preferred to whizz around the garden
Each child had the chance to do three laps of our Nursery garden
There were lots of adults on hand to help with cheering the children on and ensuring they were safe.
This event helped children develop their gross motor and coordination skills
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Best wishes from all of us at Homerton
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