Nursery Healthy Eating - Stay and Learn

Thank you to the parents and carers who were able to attend the Nursery Stay and Learn session. The Nutritionist was able to give us all some tips on how to make healthy choices for children. 

The children then really enjoyed having their parents stay with them and complete activities related to healthy eating. They had the opportunity to make fruit skewers, snack a jack faces with vegetables and practice using their knives and forks with playdough. 

Mr Borrell also organised a very impressive pizza workshop for everyone. After modelling how to create a pizza and talking about the importance of using a variety of vegetables as toppings, the parents and children were then able to make their own delicious pizzas.

A big thank you to Mr Borrell (the chef) and Sharon (the nutritionist) for their time on the day. It was lovely to see the parents and children working together so well. We look forward to welcoming everyone again for our next Nursery Stay and Learn session on January 31st focusing on storytelling. 

Reception Certificates!

Congratulations to all our certificate winners this week! 4R certificates were awarded to:

Resilience - Victoria, Raffy, Eric 

Resourcefulness - JJ,Thea-Rose

Reflectiveness - Abdulkarim

Reciprocity - Annabel, Domenique, Rosie

There were lots of reading awards again this week!

Bookmark for reading 10 books: Emma, Kenzie, Lillie, Ralph, Francesca, Annabel

Bronze Star Reader: Flynn, Camila, Billie

Well done to Callum for making his teacher happy!

Well done to our Star Writer, Francesca!

 Remember you can record your bedtime stories in Reception. Keep on reading! 

Nursery Newsletter 26.11.18

Dear Parents,

This week our Stay and Learn session for parents is on Tuesday the 27th. The focus is on Healthy Eating, we have lots of fun activities for you to join in with. The morning session will start at 9.45 and the afternoon session at 130.

DATES: Christmas Bedtime Stories - 7th December at 5pm. Children can come back to school in Christmas Pyjamas to hear Christmas bedtime stories, drink hot chocolate and eat cookies.

Christmas Play 
Nursery are performing a donkey song. They will need to bring in grey or black t-shirts with grey or black trousers. We are creating our own headbands so please do not buy shop bought character costumes, t-shirts and trousers/leggings will be fine.

Maths

We are focusing on Shapes this week. The children are encouraged to identify and name simple shapes when playing games.

Communication and Language  
  The children are playing listening games to encourage them to hear sounds and sequence the order they hear sounds.
Our focus rhyme this week is 'Ten Little Dinosaurs'.

Malleable
The children will explore clay this week. They will be encouraged to think about the texture and how they can manipulate this to create their own dinosaur inspired creations!

 If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address is  eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk.     

 Kind Regards,

The Nursery Team

Ready, Steady, Smoothie!

The Reception children took part in their own healthy eating and smoothie masterclass this afternoon. The children started off with some activities to raise their heart beat including jumping jacks, running and some stretches. They then discussed how we need a balance diet and learnt that to keep healthy they need to eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

They were interested to find out that a portion size varies depending on the size of the person. The portion should fill the palm of your hand. We tested this out and found that for Darci this was 6 grapes, but for Darren the chef this was 10 grapes, as he was a lot bigger!

Next up.... smoothie making! Max, Francesca and Larissa stepped up as their class smoothie makers and everyone counted down as the ingredients were added and the blenders turned on. It was quite noisy! Then we got to taste our banana smoothies, they were delicious! We were now refilled and ready for the rest of the afternoon.

"Wow it's super noisy." Max 

"I can feel my heart beating fast." Ryan 

"It was yummy." Victoria 

Reception Newsletter 26.11.18

Term: Autumn 2                       Date: 26.11.18
Dear Parents and Carers,

The children all had a fantastic day during their Lidl and baking extravaganza! It was a very successful first school trip and a lovely experience for all of the children. They listened and behaved well despite high levels of excitement and the questionable weather! Thank you to all of our parents and volunteers, who without the trip would not have been possible.

We have a few jumpers and cardigans that can not be located as well Ryan’s bag of spare clothes. Please could you check if your child has taken something by mistake.

This week we will be reading Whatever Next. We will be discussing and writing about what we would take to space as well as acting out the story. We have also started practising our songs for the upcoming Nativity.

Communication and Language
The children will retelling and acting out the story. They will also be discussing what they would take to space.

Physical Development The children are working hard at writing their names independently as well as practising their letter and number formation.

Maths
We are looking at the language ‘more’ and ‘less’ this week. We will also be combining two groups of objects to find the total.

Literacy
The children will be using their phonics knowledge to write a list of items they would take to space.

Expressive Arts and Design
The children will be designing their own rockets as well as building some from construction materials as well as junk.

Dates for your diary
EYFS Nativity: Tuesday 11th December 10.30am or 2.00pm

Bedtime Stories: Friday 7th December 5-6pm
Come and join us in the classroom for Christmas bedtime stories, hot chocolate and cookies. Pajamas encouraged!

Christmas Jumper Day: Friday 14th December

If you would like to contact a member of the EYFS team via email the address it is: eyfs@broadford.havering.sch.uk.


Kind Regards,
The Reception Team

Nursery Stay and Learn - Tuesday 27th November

REMINDER: Nursery Stay and Learn - Tuesday 27th November

Times - 9.45 Start for AM children

1.30 Start for PM children

VENUE: School Hall 

Please come and join your children for a fun and informative session based on Healthy Eating. We have a short talk from a Nutritionist and practical cooking sessions led by a chef and staff. 

Alder Class...Ready, Steady, Bake!

Alder Class had a fantastic time shopping for baking ingredients, cooking, decorating and eating Elmer inspired shortbread biscuits today.