St Marys Team Park on the catwalk

Even the teachers strutted their stuff!

Eid Party Mornings

We had a wonderful time at the Eid party. Some children chose to have henna applied. The children had some delicious food brought in by our kind parents, we then asked parents to draw the raffle tickets and announced the winners of the raffle. Each child then showed off their beautiful party clothes in our fashion show and were beaming with pride. The party ended with lots of dancing. Thank you so much to all the mummies that joined us for the party, we had a wondeful morning.

Chocolate Raffle

A big big thank you goes out to Ayesha and Muskaan's mumy for creating some beautiful hampers for our chocolate raffle.

The draw took place during our Eid party and winning tickets were drawn by our parents at random. Here are the winners

 

Muskaan Ahmed

 

 

                                                                              Roxy

                                                                      Imaan Hamid

                                                          Hamzah and Haroon Ahmed

                                                                 Aysam Jahangir

                                                                      Ayesha Sheth

June Attendance

Congratulations to all the children who have 100% attendance for the month of June.

Ibrahim Khan
Alisha Hussain
M Ayaan Mehmood
Zahraa Dodia
Manahil Aslam
Rocco Steele
Hamzah Ahmed
Besaan Abdulwanis
Haroon Ahmed
Imaan Hamid
Suhaib Sajjad
Ayesha Sheth
Aiza Ahmed

 

 

 

 

Nimrah Aslam

M Noor Hussain

Kenzie Hibbert

Zaynab Satia

Zainab Khan

 

The Isiah Trust

This is my beauitiful 20 year old niece. She lives a comfortable life, works as an accountant, loves her make up and fashions such as Ted Baker

A couple of weeks ago she went to Kenya for 2 weeks to work with orphaned children. She funded her own trip and went to live without basic comforts such as hot water, electricity and tv caring for and teaching the young children. Some of these children live on the local rubbish tips in the area and spend their days and evenings scavenging for food scraps and items that their parents can sell to make money. Her stories of how difficult the children's lives are and how humble they are for the things they do have, has inspired me to choose The Isiah Trust as the chariety to donate to. Further information about the Isiah Trust can be found on their website http://www.isaiahtrust.org/

They are a charity, working to help some of Kenya’s most desperate children find a new beginning. They work on the streets of the 3rd largest city, Kisumu, with children who have no where else to live, children who find their food on rubbish dumps and whose comfort is a glue bottle.

Kisumu is in the Nyanza province of western Kenya, where poverty and disease leave children orphaned and alone, and where the HIV/Aids pandemic is costing a generation of people their lives. Over 70,000 children are orphaned every year in Kenya alone. For some of these children, the streets of the towns and cities are their only hope for survival. And yet in those streets there is danger, sickness and despair. Into this world, the Isaiah Trust is working to bring hope, education, training and a new future. Thinking about others and giving during the period of Ramadam and Eid we have raffle tickets on sale for 50p each to possibly win our chocolate hampers that have kindly been put together by our nursery parents.

Chocolate Raffle

Please remember to bring in your chocolate donations for our chocolate raffle. Tickets are now on sale for 50p a strip.

Partnership with Parents Feedback

Thank you so much for the parents who returned their questionnaires. I have read and shared your many lovely comments with staff and responded to suggestions for inprovement. Here are your responses:

 

“Variety of activities, indoor and outdoor”

“Friendly, relaxed atmosphere”

“Listen and act on concerns”

“It’s a lovely atmosphere at nursery all the time”

“Team working (working like a family)”

“………………. says she loves her nursery”

“Very welcoming”

“Feel they are always one step ahead”

“Get parent’s involved”

“Activities are unique each week”

 

Suggestions/Improvements

Too much homework given – Activities given at nursery to complete at home are always optional. They are given to extend children’s knowledge and opportunities to learn further. They strengthen links between staff and parents and nursery and home, encouraging children to talk about nursery at home and vice versa. They also show our parents the kind of activities children do in nursery sharing good practise and ways to support children’s learning at home. Parents should not feel under pressure to carry activities out if they are busy. These activities are not recorded anywhere if they are not completed.

“It would be better to concentrate more on learning numbers and letters, especially for pre-school children”

“I would have liked my child to have had a head start on phonics or name writing before school” – There is so much involved in the process of children learning these skills before the end product is visible. We do an awful lot of activities in nursery that develop children’s reading, writing and numeracy skills. These are skills that need to be developed they don’t learn them overnight. They are going on every day through routine activities, daily play and adult lead activities. The provision is pre-school, where children are encouraged to develop skills across the seven areas of learning that they learn BEFORE their learning experiences at school are taught. Below is a quote from our Ofsted inspection report, one of the categories we received an Outstanding grading in was our quality of teaching, learning and assessment. If anyone would like to come in and learn about the different activities that we do to promote these areas of learning they can come and have a chat with Amanda.

“Staff demonstrate expert knowledge of how young children learn. They observe children carefully and are very intuitive, knowing when and how to best support children's learning during their play. Staff ask children a range of ambitious questions and allow them sufficient time to think about different answers. Children are thoroughly challenged through a highly effective balance of adult-led and child-initiated experiences. They learn to count, compare and recognise their names frequently during their play. Staff use a range of highly successful strategies to help children who speak English as an additional language to make excellent progress. Staff plan for experiences based on their assessment of children and their acute knowledge of their interests and ways of learning. Assessments are effectively shared with staff, parents and other professionals and children make rapid progress from their starting points. “