Nursery learning: 01.12.23

 

Important information  

• Next week the nursery children will be taking a trip in small groups to the local post box with their special Christmas cards. We will be walking sensibly with our teachers.

• Reception school applications: Please be aware reception application deadline is January 15th 2024. Outcomes will be released April 2024. Please use this link to apply for your child's primary school place for September 2024 https://www.eadmissions.org.uk/

• Nursery Christmas dinner: 13th December (30 hour children only)

• Nursery Lapland Day: 15th December

• Nursery closes Tuesday 19th December for Christmas holidays

• Nursery reopens Thursday 4th January 2024

• Christmas decoration donations- If you celebrate Christmas and you find that you have any spare baubles that you no longer require, we would love to have them so the children can decorate our tree in nursery. Thank you!

Oral health & Potty Training Virtual workshops

The below information has been sent to us on behalf or The London Borough of Havering

Hello

 

Please see attached the posters for our Virtual Oral Health and Potty Training workshops coming up in January 2024.

 

Please advise that all families will need to be registered with Havering Children’s Centre’s before attending. Please see below link:

https://consultation.havering.gov.uk/childrens/c80f8d8e

 

Families will need to email childrenscentres@havering.gov.uk to register their interest.  

 

Kind Regards

 

Catherine Shepherd |Early Years Practitioner, Early Help Service

London Borough of Havering

Elm Park Children’s Centre, Diban Avenue

Elm Park, Hornchurch, RM12 4YH

 

t  01708 431687/07812 496888

e catherine.shepherd@havering.gov.uk

Focus play this week:

This week the children have been working on talking turns during our singing activity. Each person chose their favourite instrument and named it from our basket. By the end of the game the children had learned a new song, identified the names of instruments and took turns playing their instrument along side their friends. 

Book of the week:

This week the children have been listening to the book Colour me happy. The children really enjoyed naming the colours and discussing our emotions. Some of the children were able to discuss the similarities and differences between Colour me happy and our zones of regulation we use to check in with our emotions at nursery.

Please click the link to watch Colour me happy

Christmas concert:

The children have been practicing for their Christmas concert on Monday 4th December. We kindly ask parents if they can please practice singing the songs at home. 

Thank you

Please click the link to practice singing:

Wriggly Nativity

Donkey Plodding

When santa got stuck up the chimney (First verse and chorus only)

Jingle bells (first verse and chorus only)

We wish you a Merry Christmas  

Our learning fun this week:

This week the children have been busy making their special Christmas hats for our Christmas concert using glitter, glue and all the fun things children love at this time of year.

We can't wait to see as many of you on Monday as possible.