| Homerton Early Years Centre – Weekly Bulletin
25th March 2025
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| Message from the Head Teacher:
Dear Parents
Just a reminder that tomorrow Wednesday 26th March we are holding our ‘Eggstravaganza’ celebration which focuses on Spring and New Life – this is an event for all parents and children to enjoy together in our garden at drop off time 8.45am-9.30am, so please do come along and enjoy this special event with your children.
Thursday last week was the official start of Spring in the UK with various Spring festivals celebrated here, and across the world recently, including Holi the Hindu Spring festival, and Nowruz the Persian festival of Spring.
Miriam’s Mum visited East Room on Friday and taught the children all about Nowruz, so I thought you might be interested in hearing about it too.
Happy Nowruz Nowruz means ‘new day’ in Persian and is the most important festival of the year in Iran. It is also celebrated in a number of other countries across the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, the Balkans and East Africa, and dates back at least 3,000 years. Nowruz marks the spring equinox, when night and day are of equal length. This is usually around 21st March. It’s the day when winter changes into spring in the northern hemisphere, and it feels like a new beginning. People prepare for Nowruz by providing a special table in their homes, where they place small dishes holding seven symbolic foods and spices. The names of these foods all start with the letter ‘s’ in Persian and so the table is called the ‘seven s’s’ (haft-seen). The dishes generally contain wheat or bean sprouts (sabze), vinegar (serke), apples (sib), garlic (sir), a wheat-based pudding called samanu, a red spice called sumac, and senjed, a kind of wild olive which is common in the region. Other symbolic objects can include goldfish, painted eggs, candles and a mirror. The seven s’s symbolise life, love, health and prosperity.
The seven foods that start with the letter ‘s’ in Persian
Miriam showed the children a special book all about the Nowruz festival and then everyone made hats to celebrate this Spring festival
Next week is the last week of term and we will be celebrating Easter with the children by singing some songs about eggs, chicks, frogs and bunnies as well as trying hot cross buns. This event is just for children and will take place during their session on Wednesday. Please do bring some money with you on Wednesday to buy a raffle ticket, the raffle will be drawn on the day and tickets are £1.00 each. We are hoping to buy some seeds and plants for the gardens and allotment so that the children can get involved in doing some growing projects over the Summer Term.
Last week I mentioned that Molly, Bernie and Bridget’s niece, was coming in to do an Irish dancing demonstration for the children, so a big thank you to her – please see the pictures in our Learning this week section.
Thank you also to Mitali for delivering such an interesting and fun workshop on Maths last week. We were a small group but everyone really enjoyed the session and I certainly learnt a lot about different counting systems across the world.
Thank you also to Sekou’s Dad from South Room who also came in to talk to that class about his job as a doctor. The children learnt all about their brains and how amazing they are.
Agnes’s Dad also came to teach the Nest children all about the planets
Our visits to Rock Road Library have continued with trips for West and East Room children taking place over the past week, a big thank you to parent helpers, for supporting these trips. Please see the pictures in the Learning this week section below.
On Wednesday 2nd April 9.30-10.30am we are holding a Coffee Morning with Bernie our special Educational Needs Coordinator. Please see the attached poster about this event.
Our lovely raffle boxes are ready to be won on 2nd April!
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| Medical Update: I am pleased to say there is nothing in particular to report this week. |
| Some of the Learning this week
Bernie and her niece Molly showed traditional Irish dancing costumes and shoes to the children
The children enjoyed watching Molly and learnt how to do some of the steps themselves
West Room visited Rock Road Library ….
…And enjoyed reading stories both in the children’s area and the beautiful garden outside
Yesterday some of our East Room children also visited the library
Our chicks went to see the Nest children
…who were also enjoying lots of varied physical play experiences in the garden
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| Dates for your diary
Wednesday 26th 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 2nd April 9.30-10.30 – Coffee Morning with Bernie our special Educational Needs Coordinator Wednesday 2nd April – Easter Raffle Friday 4th April – Term ends Monday 7th– Friday 11th April -Holiday club will be running. Melody has already sent out the booking forms for this so please return these promptly in order to get a space. Thank you |
| Reminders/Requests:
We are holding an Open Morning for future parents on Saturday 29th March 9.45-11.15am so do let any friends who might be interested know about this.
If you are interested in an excellent on-line parenting course then I can recommend the Solihull Approach Online learning, which is delivered in conjunction with the NHS please google solihullapproachparenting.com to find out more.
Please do join your class ‘What’s App’ group if you would like to as it is the quickest way for us to get a message out to parents, at short notice, via our parent governors. It is also a lovely way to arrange social events for your children. The bar codes for the What’s App groups can be found on the board outside our main office window, so do pop in to scan these. |
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