Pre-School Information Evening for Parents 1st & 2nd October 7.00pm

Just a little reminder that our pre-school information evenings are being held next week for all our parents with children on the older side in their pre-school year.  These evenings contain vital information on the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum and what this entails for your child. We highly recommend that you attend and each evening should last for approximately one hour. If you haven't already sent your reply slip back to nursery please ring the office and speak to Caroline or Emma to book your place.

Jeans for Genes Day

A big thank you to our parents for participating in Jeans for Genes Day on Friday 20th September.  We raised a total of £75.00 and it was lovely to see the children (and staff) sporting various denim clothing. I took great delight in being able to wear double denim and you don't see that very often!

Sainsbury's Active Kids Goodies

Despite the fact that a kid is actually a young goat, we collected plenty of tokens for our children due to the genorosity of all our lovely parents as usual.  We have banked a large amount of tokens for use next year and exchanged the rest for some lovely balls of all shapes and sizes.  Here's a few action pictures to say THANK YOU!

New topics 3/4 side

W/c 16th & 23rd September - Autumn Changes
W/c 30th September & 7th October - Autumn Animals
W/c 14th & 21st October - Harvest
W/c 28th October & 4th November - Festivals

Queen of Hearts Sports Day

Praneeth Lagisetty, a past pupil of the Queen of Hearts and current pupil at Bishop Stopford, visited the nursery in August and organised a special 'Olympic' sports day for the children.  He was assisted by his sister, Neha (also a past pupil), and mum Superna (definitely not a past pupil!). The children had a brilliant time competing in the various sports games that Praneeth had planned for them, culminating in an Olympic podium style trophy presentation at the end and plenty of medals given to lots of the children involved.  Hopefully, this will not be the last time that Praneeth organizes his special Olympic event and we look forward to next summer so we can do it all over again!

Waterstone's Trip

Some of our pre-school children had a literary treat at the end of August when Waterstone's invited us to attend a reading of 'Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam' by author Tracey Corderoy.  The book's illustrator, Steven Lenton, was also in attendance and the children concocted a new character with him namely 'The Queen of Hearts Silly Moustache Spider!'  The children thoroughly enjoyed their time at Waterstones and even had time to create masks and make biscuits before the short journey home. 

Autumn Term Nursery topics 2/3 side

W/c 2nd September - 'The Gingerbread Man'

W/c 9th September - 'Goldilocks & the Three Bears'

W/c 16th September - 'The Three Little Pigs'

W/c 23rd September - 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

W/c 30th September - Harvest/'The Enormous Turnip'

W/c 7th October - Autumn Changes

W/c 14th October - Autumn Colours

W/c 21st October - Autumn Animals

W/c 28th October - Nightime/Halloween

W/c 4th November - Divali/Bonfire Night

W/c 11th November - Preparing for Christmas

W/c 18th November - Giving & Receiving

W/c 25th November - Christmas Characters

W/c 2nd December - Colours of Christmas

W/c 9th December - Nativity

W/c 16th December - Fun & Games!

Phew, I'm worn out just looking at that list!  Our staff have been really busy planning plenty of exciting and fun topics for our children to explore up to Christmas.  We'd like to welcome all our new parents and children who are joining us this term - we are definitely going to have a lovely term.  The 3/4 side list of topics will be following very shortly.

ALSO A NOTE FOR YOUR DIARIES!  Our Christmas opening times are as normal in the run up to the big day but we are closing on Christmas Eve at 12.30pm and reopen on Thursday 2nd January 2014.