Nursery will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May. We hope you all enjoy your extra family day together.
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Wellbeing Wednesday
Aprils Wellbeing Wednesday
Health Message - Healthy Eating Fruit
Safety Message - Road Safety
Colour - Yellow
Thank you to all our parents who stopped yesterday for our Smile 4 Life demonstration and presentation. The day was a wonderful success. The children were so busy, involved in different activities. Susan carried out an activity with the children comparing tinned fruit to fresh fruit, using fruits from the Hungry Caterpillar story. She talked about the smell, taste, feel and look of the fruits, discussing children's likes and dislikes, encouraging them to be independent with their choices and promoting healthy eating. The children are also having the fruits from the story for snack all this week. Apples, pears, plums, strawberries and oranges. Susan encouraged children to choose their favourite fruit and record it with a mark on a chart, exploring mark making and representing number with marks.
Roxy was the lead in Road Safety and took the children in small groups to learn about crossing the road safely, focussing on holding hands, stopping at the road side and looking and listening for the traffic. The children who took part in this activity received a Road Safety certificate.
We also had a visit from Catherine who is a representative from the Smile 4 Life team and has been assessing Roxy with our accreditation. Catherine spoke to the parents about tooth kind issues and provided support and guidance.
The day was a hive of activity and enjoyed by all.
Health Message - Healthy Eating Fruit
Safety Message - Road Safety
Colour - Yellow
Thank you to all our parents who stopped yesterday for our Smile 4 Life demonstration and presentation. The day was a wonderful success. The children were so busy, involved in different activities. Susan carried out an activity with the children comparing tinned fruit to fresh fruit, using fruits from the Hungry Caterpillar story. She talked about the smell, taste, feel and look of the fruits, discussing children's likes and dislikes, encouraging them to be independent with their choices and promoting healthy eating. The children are also having the fruits from the story for snack all this week. Apples, pears, plums, strawberries and oranges. Susan encouraged children to choose their favourite fruit and record it with a mark on a chart, exploring mark making and representing number with marks.
Roxy was the lead in Road Safety and took the children in small groups to learn about crossing the road safely, focussing on holding hands, stopping at the road side and looking and listening for the traffic. The children who took part in this activity received a Road Safety certificate.
We also had a visit from Catherine who is a representative from the Smile 4 Life team and has been assessing Roxy with our accreditation. Catherine spoke to the parents about tooth kind issues and provided support and guidance.
The day was a hive of activity and enjoyed by all.
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Growing and learning
We
are looking for donations of artificial flowers and gardening items for our
topic if anyone has any spares at home, thank you.
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Greengrocers Trip
The children have been looking at mini beasts and reading the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Today we walked up to the Greengrocers to look at the different fruits and vegetables and find the fruits that the caterpillar eats in the story. Apples, Pears, Plums, Strawberries and Oranges.
Wellbeing Wednesday April
Wednesday 29th
April is Wellbeing Wednesday. Can all children please wear yellow. We will be
exploring particular fruits and talking about Road Safety.
Sunsmart
As the weather is
now getting warmer we have been implementing our Sunsmart policy. Copies are
available for you to view on the nursery door, name board outside and in the
cloakroom. Children should bring a suitable named outdoor hat to nursery which
can stay at nursery until the summer. Staff will ensure children wear their
hats during outdoor play. Any suncream should be applied at home before the
children come to nursery which will cover them during their time at nursery.
Children will also take part in some activities to raise their awareness of
Sunsmart Safety.
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Snack
After completing our survey about snack and asking all our parents, 99% of parents wanted to keep the snack at nursery and were happy to continue paying the snack contributions. Can all monies now be paid as soon as possible and thank you for your patience with regard to this matter.
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Banardos Big Toddle
In June St Marys @ The Park will celebrate it's first Birthday, we have some exciting ideas planned to celebrate. One of the events will be supporting Barnardos with a Big Toddle. The children will be doing a sponsored toddle around the park. Parents are welcome to join us for the event and further information will be available nearer the time.
National Smile Month
As our Oral Health Champion Roxy will be promoting National Smile Month from the 18th May to the 18th June 2015. To help us join in the fun we are looking for Family Smile photos, please bring in a photo of your family showing their smiles or email it to us at a.halstead@stmarysblackburn.ac.uk and we will display all our photos in nursery. Further activities and information will be going on in nursery during National Smile Month.
How does your garden grow...........................
We have had some reports from the children at how wonderful our Mummies daffodils are growing at home, if your daffodil was successful and is growing strong then please take a photo of it and email it to us at a.halstead@stmarysblackburn.ac.uk and we will display all the photos in nursery to create our own special daffodil garden.