Week Commencing 31st May 2021
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 31st May 2021
Drop off and collection times for the next two weeks
WC 31st May 2021
| Drop off times | Age group | Entrance to use |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am-8:25am | 3-5 age group | Garden back door |
| 8:30am-9:00am | 2-3 age group | Main door |
| 8:30am-9:00am | Toddlers | Garden back door |
| Collection times | Age group | Collection point |
| 5:00pm – 5:25pm | 3-5 age group | Garden back door |
| 5:30pm – 6:00pm | 2-3 age group | Main door |
| 5:30pm – 6:00pm | Toddlers | Garden back door |
WC 7th June 2021
| Drop off times | Age group | Entrance to use |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am-8:25am | Toddlers | Garden door |
| 8:00am-8:25am | 2-3 age group | Main door |
| 8:30am-9:00am | 3-5 age group | Garden door |
| Collection times | Age group | Collection point |
| 5:00pm – 5:25pm | Toddlers | Garden door |
| 5:00pm – 5:25pm | 2-3 age group | Main door |
| 5:30pm – 6:00pm | 3-5 age group | Garden door |
Breakfast club
Lunchtime collections
| Drop off times | Collection times | Entrance to use |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am - 8:25am | 1.00pm – 1:25pm | 2-3’s – nursery front door. |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | 1:30pm - 2.00pm | Toddlers and 3-5’s – Office door |
Who can I contact within my child’s age group?
This week’s menu
This week we are following our Week 2 Spring/ Summer menu.
There are no planned changes to our menu currently. If there are any unplanned changes these will be share with you on your child’s individual handover sheet.
Staff Holidays
Tuesday 1st and Thursday 3rd June– Corrin
Friday 4th June– Emma E
Tuesday 1st + Wednesday 2nd – Tabitha + Tasha
Thursday 3rd + Friday 4th – Hayley
All week – Abby
Please remember nursery is closed on Monday 31st as it is a bank holiday.
Car park safety and etiquette
We understand our car park can be a busy place during our collection and drop off times however we would like to remind everyone that we must always remain respectful and courteous. There are small children within the area, and we need to ensure we are being positive role models for them. We thank you in your cooperation in this.
COVID-19 update
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.
• Please remember if your child is isolating and therefore not attending nursery you will not be charged nursery fees during this time.
• If your child goes home from nursery in the morning with a COVID-19 symptom you will be charged for your morning session but not the afternoon session.
• If your child goes home during the afternoon with a COVID-19 symptom you will be charged for a full nursery day.

We will of course keep you updated as we receive new updates over the next few months.
The babies have been…
Exploring how to make marks using cotton wool, string, and paint. As well as continuing to explore their senses whilst playing in pasta, rice, crazy foam, and spaghetti. The babies also have loved sharing a variety of stories this week including our bug book.
Next week we will be…
Supporting their new peers in settling into the nursery, creating sun pictures using their hands to create prints, exploring the water tray whilst pouring and tipping the water from jugs and containers, as well as moving their bodies in a range of ways to music.
Toddlers have been…
Enjoying lots of time in the garden this week and have developed their hand eye coordination by throwing bean bags and balls through hoops. The Toddlers have also continued to explore how to make marks, this time using one handed tools (a paintbrush) to make marks on the paper.
Next week we will be…
Exploring water play whilst in the garden, beginning to identify and show an interest in nature whilst exploring our sensory trays and continuing to explore mark making using farm animals in the mud!
The 2-3’s have been…
Exploring how to catergorise objects and shapes, develop their mark making skills whilst using their fingers and tools to create marks in flour as well as having a go at trying a variety of fruits and vegetables.
Next week we will be…
Creating and exploring our space sensory tray to explore our moon dust, cornflower and spare shoes to create footprints on the moon. The children will also be having a go at using scissors to make snips in different coloured spaghetti as well as using the dinosaurs to create a dinosaur swamp, slime tray.
The 3-5’s have been…
Our new topic is – ‘Following our children’s individual interests.’
Our Topic activities have been creating an animal safari, developing our imaginative role play when ‘working in a hairdressers,’ creating ice creams in our messy play and exploring our emotions through music and movement. Some of the children also shared pictures of their Eid celebrations during circle time.
Our Phonics focus has been writing our own names in glitter and singing our Jolly Phonic songs to develop our knowledge of the most common letter sounds. (S,a,t,p,I,n.)
Our Mathematical focus has been measuring our peers using nonstandard units, matching numerals to quantity
Next week we will be…
Our new topic is – ‘Following our children’s individual interests.
Our Topic interests will be continuing to develop our interests in football by playing imaginatively at our football pitch small world area. During this time, we will also be developing our number recognition with the football players numbered shirts and recording how many goals we score. We will also be exploring the book of ‘Ten Little Dinosaurs’ to explore our interests in dinosaurs as well as creating a dinosaur jungle.
Our Phonics focus will be exploring the initial sounds in words whilst playing our phonics cupcake game. We will also be having a go at forming recognisable letters within our sand and using our CVC phoneme frames to have a go at recording a range of CVC words, identifying the initial, middle, and last sound in words.
Our Mathematical focus will be exploring number and the order that we count forwards and backwards. We will be trying to form our own numerals on post it notes, as well as driving our cars down numbered tubes and ramps during our garden play.
