Batley Parish J I N C of E School Nursery Newsletter Monday 28thNovember 2016
Dates for Your DiaryNursery Christmas Sing-a-long and stay and play- 12.12.16
Christmas party- 15.12.16 All children to attend in the morning with Reception class. No afternoon nursery.
School closes for Christmas- 16.12.16. /
Our Class Learning
This week we will becontinuing our learning about Christmas. We will be learning the nativity story and talking about where baby Jesus was born.
The stories we will be reading this week will be ‘The Nativity’, ‘Shh Santa’, ‘Alfie’s Christmas’
Thank you to everybody who has sent us baby photographs, celebration photos and family photographs. We are really enjoying looking at them with the children.
Please continue to send your photos to the emails below.
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Messages to Parents
Sing-a-long and Stay and Play
On Monday 12th December we will be holding our nursery Christmas sing-a-long. We will also be using this day as a stay and play. Nursery will open at the usual time and we will then invite you to return at 10:30am if your child comes in the morning, or 2:30pm if your child attends the afternoon session. You will be able to support your child with Christmas activities in nursery before they start their sing-a-long at 11:30 or 3:30where you can enjoy a mince pie. If your child does not attend on this day please feel free to bring them for the morning or afternoon stay and play and stay for the sing-a-long.
Finishing Times
Please remember that nursery morning session finishes at 12pm and the afternoon session finishes at 4pm. We do open the door a little before these times to allow you to come and see what your child has been learning and to allow enough time for you to speak to the team. If your child has been in nursery for a full day the finishing time is 3pm. For the flexi children we will bring them to the door at this time to save disrupting and upsetting any of the children staying until 4pm. Thank you for your cooperation regarding this.
Library Day- Wednesday.
This week on our parent learning sessions we will have the classroom set out with lots of shape activities. Please feel free to stay after helping your child with their library book and engage in some shape activities.
Voluntary Contribution
Thank you to everybody who has paid the £1 contribution. It has bought us some ingredients to make salt dough for our Christmas decorations.
Mud Kitchen
As I am sure some of you were aware Miss Adams and Miss Dack were on a course last Tuesday. The course was a ‘Mud Kitchen’ course and it was fantastic. Please scroll to the bottom of this letter to read more and see how you could help us to enhance and develop our ‘Mud Kitchen’.
Parents comments/ suggestions
If you have any comments or suggestions that you would like to make/ ask about your child’s learning, please feel free to do so here and then place in the Parent’s Comments box.
MUD KITCHEN
Dear parents,
In collaboration with the children we are developing our mud kitchen at nursery and it would be fabulous if you could help us develop it and kit it out.
What is a Mud Kitchen?
‘There is little more important in our physical world than earth and water and they are truly intriguing things, especially when they interact. Mixing soil, water and a range of other natural materials has a foundational role in early childhood which has deep importance and endless possibilities for well-being, development and learning. The breadth and depth of what these experiences offer young children is truly remarkable.’*
(Extract from Making a Mud Kitchen
Mud kitchens provide something quite different to a soil digging patch, whilst also being much more easily managed. A mud kitchen includes elements of the much-loved domestic corner and cooking from indoor play, which are then hugely enriched through the special nature of being outside. We are planning that the mud kitchen will become a core element of our continuous provision outside.
To allow the children the freedom to play, explore and learn to their full extent in the mud kitchen it is really important that children are encouraged to feel the textures of the materials with their fingers, transfer liquids from one container to another to, splash, slop, stir and whizz. To create sticky mud and explore its adaptations.
This means the children will often become dirty.
Therefore it is necessary for every child to have a change of clothing with them each day.
How you can help.
We are looking for items to build the mud kitchen with.
Do you have any unwanted:
Pots and pans, jugs or funnels
Bakeware Bun tins, Cake tins
Bowls and containers
kitchen utensils of any sort
Any unusual, utensils such as an ice-cream scoop,
turkey basters ladles, slotted spoons and skimmers Scoops, Rolling pins colanders, chopping boards
Small containers Sweet tins Small baskets Large tubs
Unusual containers such as jelly moulds or ice-cube trays.
washing up bowl
An old cook book with good pictures in
Also we require items to build the kitchen with such as
An old cupboard
A small dresser or Shelving
Work tops, planks, wooden logs and stumps.
Even something to be the cooker
Please ensure any items you supply: Are made from strong materials that do not shatter dangerously they are clean and well maintained cosmetic damage is fine but please check for breaks and sharp edges.
Thank you very much