Dear Families,

What an amazing but short term we have had! Winter, Chinese New Year, the Amazon Rainforest, Life Cycles and Spring/Easter! All of our topics have been amazing and we've seen such excitement, creativity and amazing progress from each and every one of your wonderful children. It is so magical to see the wonder and awe in their little faces when exploring, experimenting and learning new things! Thank-you to all of you for coming to chat about your child last week and for working in partnership with us to find the best way to unlock your child's full potential together.

After the Easter holidays, we start the term with the Hindu festival of Holi (also known as the Festival of Colour, the Festival of Spring or The Festival of Love!), which is a fantastic gateway into the topic thereafter, Colours! Very exciting! We will be doing lots of colour mixing, learning about Primary and Secondary colours and even tints!

We wish you all a most wonderful holiday and a fun-packed, or just restful, Easter weekend! Don't forget to take lots of photos of special moments so you can share them with us, and perhaps add them to your child's Profiles.

See you in the Summer term!

Best wishes from the Nursery Team 

New life, Spring and Easter fun!

We talked about new life, Spring and Easter and how it it is all linked up. We also talked about how Spring can be a very mixed-up season of all sorts of weather! We have also noticed that our bulbs have begun growing in the Woodland Area and are a little disappointed that their flowers might pop out when we are on holiday! But when we come back, we are sure to have a much greener space!

P.E. in the big playground

What fun! We did runner beans, beans on toast, jumping beans, French beans (ooh-la-la!), jelly beans and frozen beans! We also practised our throwing skills.

Take-off! We are flying away for our Easter Holidays!

Bake Sale for Parkinson's charity

A big thank-you to Kitty's parents for organising an amazing Bake Sale for a charity that is very close to their heart. Thank-you all, too, for supporting this cause by buying a cake or making a donation.

On Thursday, the Easter Bunny came to visit!

We chatted about the different traditions that people might do during Easter and we all experienced an Easter egg hunt in the Nursery playground. Those last eggs were really tricky to find!

How is the metamorphosis going?

Our caterpillars are in chrysalises and we have been holding thumbs that they would emerge before the holidays. Unfortunately...no such luck! So we are very grateful to  Rocco's family for accepting the challenge of taking them home. The family will take special care of them until they emerge as butterflies and are ready to be released into the wild. Rocco's mum have been very kind to agree to take photos for us and, if possible, some videos. Thank-you!

But don't worry! We have ordered some more caterpillars for next term so that we are sure that we will all see the magical moment of the butterflies emerging! 

The Kindness Award

This week, the Kindness Award goes to Ms Juarez, of course! For being the most fantastic, kind, lovely teacher to every adult and every child...always! We'll miss you so much!

This week in Maths we have consolidating our knowledge about shapes. We have been recapping the names of some shapes and we have experimented with tessellations.

The 5 Shelves

We have been spending a lot of time at our 5 Shelves and learning how to use it. The children have learnt quickly learning that everything on the shelf is in a set of 5. We have already seem counting skills improving, especially at tidy-up time where the children know the rule that they have to make sure every container has its set of 5. The 5 jars have been very popular! How about making some 5 jars for your child to use to home?

Easter crafts!

Choose your favourite or think of your own. How about using egg boxes to make Easter bunnies and a little bank of burrows?

Have a look at these fun activities for children in London over the Easter break!

Don't forget to keep practising your name, your drawing and your counting every day!