Week Commencing 17th May 2021

Monday 17th and Tuesday 18th– Charlotte J

Tuesday 18th – Emma C

Friday 21st – Sarah B + Emma F

As we all know the Governments Roadmap is on track and planned Step 3 easements will go ahead on 17th May, the Prime Minister has confirmed. Therefore, we have been issued updated Guidance from The Department for Education and wanted to share with you all that the following is still in place.

• Bubbles remain in place.

• Drop off and pick up times remain in place.

• Face coverings remain a requirement unless you are exempt.

• Social distancing remains in places.

• Visitors remain prohibited within the nursery building unless they are an educational professional who is here to work with a specific child for a specific need.

• Lateral Flow tests should still be taken twice a week if you have none of the COVID-19 symptoms stated below.

• You MUST still ensure a PCR test is taken by anyone in your households who shows symptoms of COVID-19, cough, temp, change or loss of sense of taste or smell.

• 10 days isolation is still in place.



We will of course keep you updated as we receive new updates over the next few months.

If you have any concerns regarding your child’s speech or communication development our Hertfordshire, SEND Local Officer has provided us with the following telephone number:

Now lockdown is easing why not take part in ’30 Days Wild’ during the month of June. Make the most of nature and exploring the great outdoors!



30 Days Wild is The Wildlife Trusts' annual nature challenge where they ask the nation to do one 'wild' thing a day every day throughout June. Your daily Random Acts of Wildness can be anything you like - litter-picking, birdwatching, planting for pollinators, puddle-splashing, you name it! To help you on your way, The Wildlife Trusts will provide you with a FREE postal or digital pack of goodies to inspire your wild month - including an activity passport and a wallchart to track your progress. If you take part, please share your Random Acts of Wildness on your child’s Tapestry account.

Developing their knowledge of Eid by creating moon decorations, exploring how to their bodies can make marks using paint, feathers and tissue paper whilst creating butterflies and sea animals. The babies have also planted their own cress and are watching them grow to develop their understanding of changes over time.

Exploring water play and small animals whilst cleaning the dirty animals to develop our understanding of hygiene routines. The Toddlers have also been using edible messy play to explore their senses and textures such as pasta, peach and coconut. During their garden play the Toddlers have also been climbing the nursery play equipment confidently!

Exploring how they can make marks in a variety of ways such as using animals to walk in the paint as well as using blocks and transport vehicles to create marks. The 2-3’s have also been exploring a variety of instruments and the sounds they make, developing their knowledge of how to keep their teeth clean by cleaning the dirty teeth!

Our Topic activities have been digging for dinosaur fossils in the garden, creating a range of different sized towers in a race with our peers, sharing our ‘Hey Duggee’ story books, bathing the babies in the water tray and talking about going to ‘big school’ whilst trying on our school uniform from our Wonderland Uniform Shop.

Our Phonics focus has been using our letter stones to identify phoneme sounds and having a go at constructing three and four lettered words. The children have also been threading Superhero’s and exploring playdough to develop their finger muscles.

Our Mathematical focus has been matching numerals to quantity, touch counting the correct corresponding number of dinosaurs as well as exploring capacity whilst playing in the water tray.

Our new topic is – ‘Following our children’s individual interests.

Our Topic interests will be exploring diggers and dumper trucks in the sand, role playing baking cakes whilst looking through our recipe books as well as creating mud pies and potions in our mud kitchen within the garden.

Our Phonics focus will be exploring rhyme and alliteration within The Room On The Broom Story using our puppets from the story, exploring segmenting and blending a range of words and recording these using phoneme frames and sorting objects into groups of the same initial sound.

Our Mathematical focus will be identifying one more than a given number as well as recording numbers using marks we can explain. As well as exploring measuring using nonstandard units.