| Homerton Early Years Centre – Weekly Bulletin
9th 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 Cycles 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. Please respond to Mel’s email if you would like a place for your child.
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| Reminders and Requests:
Lunch supervisors required for September We are still looking for lunch supervisors for September for between 1-5 days per week working between the hours of 11.30am-1.00pm. If this is a role you think might suit you, or a friend or relative, then please come and speak to me. We would really appreciate your support finding new staff to join our existing friendly and experienced team.
Nightingale Park Trips Please sign up on the sheets outside your classrooms, or speak to class staff, if you are able to help with these trips.
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| Message from Headteacher
Dear Parents
This week we have two work experience students, Jessica and Sara from Sawston Village College working in East and West Rooms and we also have Joy, a student from Cambridge Regional College, with us in the Nest on the remaining Mondays of the term.
I am really pleased to say that all the classes have enjoyed going to visit our allotment plot. A big thank you goes to our allotment team of volunteers who have been helping to make the plot ready for the growing season. Children were arriving back at school this week with strawberries and rhubarb after their visits and did a very good impression of being the chickens that they had seen! Thank you also to Bob for planting up the posts and flowerbeds around the Centre which are looking beautiful.
Our final Core Book of the year is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. This text fits very well with our life cycle project on butterflies, which you will be hearing more about from your children, when they arrive as butterfly eggs next Monday.
Mitali and I have both done an on-line course on internet safety for children in the 3-8 age range recently and thought the links below might be very useful for you to look at:-
Downloadable book for children 3-8 on safety produced by childnet
https://www.childnet.com/resources/digiduck-stories/digiducks-big-decision/
Other Books regarding Internet Safety – Wesbster’s Friend- Hannah Whaley suitable for children aged 3-8 years. Webster’s friend can be used to discuss meeting strangers online, gaming, reliability, trust, speaking to an adult and using technology responsibly Webster’s Manners- Hannah Whaley suitable for children 3-8 years. Told in a rhyming pattern, Webster’s Manners humorously helps children learn about responsible use of technology, while which also reminds grown ups that they can lead by example in their Dot- Randi Zuckerberg and Joe Berger- suitable for children aged 3-8 years. Dot explores the need for children to balance internet use with offline world fun. ○ NSPCC: Guidance for parents on keeping Other useful links for keeping children safe online are below ■ Keeping under-fives safe online’: www.childnet.com/parents- andcarers/hot-topics/keeping-young-children-safeonline/? Internet Matters: Guidance for parents of pre-schoolers ■ https://www.internetmatters.org/advice/0-5/ ○ London Grid for Learning: Portal linking to various resources on parental engagement around online safety ○ NSPCC: Guidance for parents on keeping children safe online ■ www.nspcc.org.uk/onlinesafety Parent Zone: ■ Digital Parenting magazine – https://parentzone.org.uk/ projects/digitalparenting-magazine ■ Parent Info – https://parentinfo.org/ ○ Thinkuknow: Guidance and information for parents/carers from NCA-CEOP ■ https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
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| Medical Update:
We had a few cases of sickness last week which were mainly in The Nest.
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| Some of our Learning this week
Our Nursery garden focus last week was on using paint to create rather beautiful abstract ‘Jackson Pollock’ type pictures. Staff put up paper in the garden, along the fencing, and then children had a lot of fun flicking different coloured paints onto it using a paintbrush.
The end results were really interesting
The classes also visited the allotments to plant the sunflowers they recently grew
Where they found strawberries which had grown on our plot
And some rhubarb
Whilst the Nest children also enjoyed being creative using cardboard tubes dipped in paint to print
And visiting our Old Orchard Garden to look for minibeasts
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Best wishes from all of us at Homerton.
Alex
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