St Marys, Award Winners!!

Susan and Amanda collected St Marys Nursery's Apprenticeship Award last night from Blackburn College's 2015 Awards. Along with Lisa who is the Manager of St Marys @ Wensley Fold we went down to Blackburn College for the annual awards evening. St Mary's were nominated for the Employer Award 2015 and won due to our dedication and commitment to our NVQ Modern Apprentices. Since the original St Marys Nursery opened at St Marys Sixth Form College in 2003, we have employed a regular intake of NVQ Apprentices who have trained to our high standards now for many years. We have high expectations of our apprentices and train them to the Outstanding quality that is required within St Mary's. St Mary's @ The Park currently have two NVQ Modern Apprentices. Fahmeeda is working towards her level 2 and Sarah is working towards her level 3. They have a day at college each week to support their work based learning. St Marys have managed to retain many of our modern apprentices who have successfully obtained permanent positions within our company and some have gone on to prove their knowledge, dedication and experience so much they have been offered senior positions within the company.

WORLD BOOK DAY

St Marys @ The Park were all dressed up for World Book Day, but can you guess who the teachers were......................................................

We were all characters from the Traditional Books we have been exploring at nursery

The Three Little Pigs
Little Red Riding Hood
The Gingerbread Man
Billy Goats Gruff
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and The Beanstalk

If you would like a chance to win a prize then please write all of our names next to your guesses on a slip of paper and return it to nursery by Friday 13th March. If more than one child guesses all the characters correctly then a name will be chosen at random from all the correct guesses.

Susan

Sarah

Fahmeeda

Roxy

Amanda

Newsletter

The March/April Newsletter is now available, please ask for one from a member of staff or pick one up off the parents noticeboard in the cloakroom.

Mother's Day Activities

W/C the 9th of March we will be celebrating our Lovely Mother Week @ The Park and we are inviting our lovely Mummies to  join us for an hour or so. If you would like to come and play at nursery then please speak to a member of staff and book an appointment. You are welcome to  carry out an activity with the children if you would like, sewing, cooking, reading stories etc or you can simply just come and play. Children will soon be bringing home special Mummy bags. Please fill these bags with a few items that are special to Mummy, photos, perfume, favourite scarf, book etc. The children will then show their key worker the items and we will talk about our Mummy during group time activities.

 

WORLD BOOK DAY

Thursday is World Book Day, to celebrate it @ The Park we are inviting the children to dress as a character from the stories we have been reading.

The Three Little Pigs                           Little Red Riding Hood      

The Gingerbread Man                          The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Jack and The Beanstalk                       Hansel and Gretel

If your child has any of the above stories they can bring it in to nursery. Our focus for the day will be using books correctly, exploring stories and characters, key phrases from the stories and using props to support story telling.

Wellbeing Wednesday

Today was our first official Wellbeing Wednesday. The children were invited to dress in red and bring their toothbrushes. We modelled good tooth brushing with the children encouraging them to clean their teeth at the back, behind, etc. and all children with toothbrushes cleaned their teeth. We discussed good and bad snacks to eat and when it is best to eat sweets and chocolate etc.
We also role played wearing our seatbelts in the car to emphasise our safety point of our Wellbeing Wednesday. Children talked about wearing their seatbelts in the car and parents were given an information leaflet about seatbelts.

 

"What could happen if you are not wearing your seatbelt?"

"police will take me away" - Ayaan P

"you might fall over" - Hasnain U

"the people's gunna fall out" - Malaika I

 

"Why do we brush our teeth?"

"so they don't get dirty" - Ayaan P

"we have to make our teeth nice and clean" - Zeeshan C

 

"When do we clean our teeth?"

"in the morning" - Hasnain U

"at night time" - Laiba A

"I brush my teeth every night cause I've got take away everywhere" - Maryam M

 

"What happens when you go to the dentist?"

"they sprayed in my mouth, they checked my mouth" - Maryam S

"go to the dentist and he tell you to brush your teeth everyday" - Zeeshan C

 

"What foods are bad for our teeth?"

"sugar" - Maryam S

"my brother's tooth come out" - Khadeejah A

"chocolate cake not good" - Iqra A

Tomorrow is our Wellbeing Wednesday, please dress your child in red clothes and bring your toothbrush in a named food bag. We will be exploring Wellbeing activities on tooth care and wearing seatbelts.