| Homerton Early Years Centre – Weekly Bulletin
9th October 2024
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| Message from the Head Teacher:
Dear Parents and Carers
Our parent Governors have now set up the parent whatsapp groups for each class. Thank you to them and the parents who volunteered to be parent representatives in each class. If you would like to join the whatsapp group for your child’s class please look on the board outside our main entrance to scan the appropriate code. The purpose of the groups is to make it easier for you to communicate with other parents in your class, for example if you want to arrange any social activities for your children, or yourselves. We also ask Parent Governors to post information about up-coming events or activities here for us eg if we have a raffle or special event for parents.
The following parents are your point of contact for each class:- East Room – Parent Governor is Christine O’Farrelly, Mum of Caelan East Room – Parent Representative is Merve Olku Onal, Mum of Ozzie South Room – Parent Representative is Claire Stannard, Mum of Frankie West Room – Parent Represetative is Gizem Ozdemir, Mum of Elis Nest Green and Yellow Room – Parent Representative is Tabitha Goldstaub, Mum of Nel in Nest Green.
Your child may have talked about being ‘Homerton Owl’ for the day, so I thought you might like to know a little bit more about this important role in our Nursery classes. The child who is the ‘Homerton Owl’ for the day will find a special owl badge to wear in their name pocket in the morning. They then spend the session doing important jobs, for instance taking the lunch register to Angela, our cook, or leading the class down to lunch or out into the garden etc. Here are some photos of children who were ‘Homerton Owl’ doing some of their special jobs.
Homerton Owl changing the stop to go sign on the door and helping the teacher at Circle time.
During our morning ‘Circle times’ up until half term, our ‘Homerton owls’ also have the opportunity to tell the class about their ‘All About Me Book’. They show photos of their family, and often tell us about their favourite story, or song, which is then read, or sung, with the whole class. Circle time is a very social time as children enjoy telling each other about the people, and events, that are most important to them. If you have not yet returned your child’s ‘All about Me Book’, please could you do so.
Now that Autumn is upon us, the class staff have requested that you please bring in conkers, seeds, or other seasonal objects for the children to enjoy in class. The weather has also changed suddenly so please can your children have a warm, waterproof, coat and spare clothes to change into as children go out in the garden in all weathers, even when it is raining.
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| Medical Update: We have had a few children getting temperatures and finding that colds and coughs are increasing. Please keep your children at home if they are unwell so that illnesses don’t spread to others, your support with this is much appreciated. |
| Some of the Learning this week
Music sessions have started this week We employ a specialist music teacher, Davina Shore, who works with most of the children on a weekly basis. Her music sessions are really fun and pitched at this age group. This week the children were playing a variety of different musical instruments whilst singing familiar nursery rhymes.
The Nest have been looking at Autumn leaves and doing some collaging and painting with them.
Celebrating birthdays Some classes have also had birthdays to celebrate at circle time. The child whose birthday it is has a special pretend birthday cake with the appropriate number of candles on it. This is a great opportunity for children to do some group counting and particularly learning about the numbers 2, 3 and 4!
Children have also been having fun exploring in the rain – jumping in puddles and catching raindrops with their tongues! A good reminder that we go out in all weathers, so please provide waterproof clothing, welly boots and spare clothes for your child to change into once they come back into the classroom.
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| Dates for your diary:
Half Term holiday – Monday 28th October-Friday 1st November. Holiday club will be running during half term week. Please note the Centre is also closed on Monday 4th November for a Staff Training day on Performance Management. The first day back for children after half term will be Tuesday 5th November. Thursday 14th November 7.45-8.45pm Nursery Parent information evening on playing and learning at Homerton. This evening is just for Nursery parents. The Nest parents will be having a 1:1 meeting with their class staff later in the year.
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| Reminders/Requests:
Homerton is a mobile phone free Centre, so just a reminder to please put phones away when you are on site.
Please remember that green exit buttons are just for the adults to press.
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With Best wishes from us all
Alex Pearson
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