Weekly Bulletin 28 June 2023

                                            28^th June 2023

Friday 30^th June – Nest Trip to Nightingale Park

Tuesday 4^th July am – South Room Trip to Nightingale Park

Wednesday 12^th July – Goodbye parent and child event. We suggest  11.00am for Nest, South and East Red/Purple parents to attend and 2.30pm – for West and East Blue/Purple parents parents. The East Purple parents can choose whichever slot suits them best but Nest parents please come in the morning as some children sleep in the afternoon.

Wednesday 19^th July 2023 – Claytime artists visit

Wednesday 19^th July 2023 – Term ends

Remaining Class trips to Nightingale Park

Wednesday 28^th June am – The Nest

Friday 30^th  June am – The Nest

Tuesday 4^th July am – South Room Trip to Nightingale Park

Please can we request that on the day your child’s class goes to Nightingale Park you arrive by 9.10am.  Parent volunteers please also arrive by 9.10am and class staff will run through all the information you will need for the trip.

Please remember to apply sunscreen on the morning and provide a hat and appropriate clothing for whatever the weather is that day, including raincoats if they are likely to be needed.   Children will also need to wear comfortable shoes for walking – socks and trainers are probably best. Thank you

Parking

Thank you to everyone for not parking on the yellow lines your support in keeping children safe is much appreciated. Please also respect that our car park is for staff only, as we have so few spaces, and again need to keep children safe as it is also The Nest entrance.

Dear Parents and Carers

The children are really enjoying so many activities including our trips to Nightingale Park.  A huge thank you to all the parents who have helped with these trips, which just would not be possible without your support. Everyone had a lot of fun doing our activities. The activities were collecting and making book marks with flowers, doing some observational drawing of the pond area, going on a treasure hunt around the garden, and enjoying a story with a well-earned biscuit and drink under the willow dome. Some of the classes also did some singing and parachute play under a shady tree at the end. The children coped really well with the 15 minute walk to the park.

Last week our butterfly eggs arrived.  They are now at the caterpillar stage and are growing fast, please do have a look at them in class when you are dropping off in the mornings.

Some classes have just started to dig out the potatoes that were planted right at the start of term and the children have been enjoying firstly finding them in the mud, and then counting out the number they have grown, before finally washing, cooking and eating them!

Next week you will be receiving your child’s special books, which I hope you, and they, will really enjoy having. I would like to thank the class staff for all the hard work they have put in to making them so special. I hope in the future they will be a treasured reminder of your child’s time at Homerton.

On the 12^th July we have an end of year singing celebration for children and parents to attend.  The event takes place in the main nursery garden at 11.00am and 2.30pm.  Parents can attend either time but we suggest that Nest, South and East Red/Purple parents come in the morning and East Blue/Purple and West parents come in the afternoon. Please enter via the park pond gate.

Most of the pictures this week are from the Nightingale park trips, which focused particularly on learning about, enjoying and understanding nature.

Children have also been finding out about growing at the allotment, picking some of the beans we have grown and looking at the marigold flowers. Our gardeners Stella and Kate have done such a great job creating and maintaining this beautiful allotment garden for us.

There has been a lot of maths measuring as well with an activity using ribbons, of different lengths, to measure and find objects that are shorter, longer or the same length as their ribbon. Children were so excited sharing their mathematical findings with the adults in the garden.