Blog Post
Week Commencing 4th April 2022
Wonderland Day Nursery • April 22, 2022
Wonderland Weekly News
WC 4th April 2022
This Week's Menu
This week we are following our Week 2 Spring / Summer menu.
Working in partnership at Wonderland
If you would like a catch up with your child’s key carer at any time or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate in giving a member of the Management Team an email to arrange this. Our doors are always open. Corrin can arrange permanent session changes and Toni is able to book in extra sessions on your behalf. If you have any invoicing queries please email our Accounts Team on the address below.
Accounts – accounts@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Babies – Corrin – corrin@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Toddlers – Nichola (M-Thurs)– nichola@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
2-3’s – Toni – toni@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
3-5’s – Emma E – emmaedwards@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
Important dates for your diary
2nd April – Ramandan begins.
11th April – Living Eggs.
Thursday 14th April – Vaisakhi.
Friday 15th April – Good Friday – Bank holiday – Nursery Closed.
Monday 18th April – Easter Monday – Bank holiday – Nursery Closed.
Thursday 21st April –
Queens Birthday.
Updates to drop off and collection procedures
We are continuing to ensure the foundations are in place to allow all parents and carers to drop off and collect their children from inside the nursery building. However, everything will stay the same until we communicate anything different with you.
Thank you to those parents who have sent over some up-to-date photographs of individuals who are able to drop off and collect your child from Wonderland. This includes the individuals who we are used to consistently seeing, including the children’s Mummy’s and Daddy’s.
Please can we ask those parents who have not sent in their own pictures and pictures of individuals who are able to collect and drop off their child at Wonderland to please do so using your child’s Tapestry account. This can be completed by creating a new observation and adding the pictures to the observation. Within the text box in the observation, please can you write who is who in the correct order.
We will be in touch within the next few weeks to share when you are able to drop off and collect from inside the nursery building! We thank you for your patience and cooperation.
Staff changes at Wonderland
We are pleased and proud to announce that the following staff members have been successful in securing the following roles within our Wonderland Team. We are also delighted to share; Kelsie has returned to Wonderland.
Emma Bonnett - Baby Room Team Leader
Emily Hendricks – Toddler Team Leader
Kelsie Pope – Senior Room Leader within the Toddlers
Nicole-Ella Burdis – Deputy Team Leader – 3-5’s
Karin Cohen – Third In Charge - 3-5’s
3-5’s Graduation Party
We are pleased to share with you that this year we can have our Graduation Party for our 3-5 children who will be leaving Wonderland during the Summer Term.
We will be inviting two adults per child (who is leaving Wonderland) to join us on:
Thursday 21st July – 2:45pm – 4:00pm
Our party will take place within our nursery garden, where the children will have a Graduation presentation and a party tea.
If your child does not attend Wonderland on a Thursday afternoon but they are leaving Wonderland during this coming Summer Term, they are more than welcome to come into Wonderland to be a part of the Graduation celebrations during this time.
If you would like to attend our Graduation Party, please email Emma Edwards to book your place:
emmaedwards@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
COVID-19 Update
We have the following live chases of COVID-19 within the Wonderland Family. Babies: none. Toddlers: 2 children and their parents. 2-3’s: none. 3-5’s: a staff member.
Carpenter needed!
If you are a talented carpenter or know of an individual who could complete some work needed at nursery. Please email Corrin Burdis at
corrin@wonderlandnursery.co.uk
The Babies have been...
Exploring shape and capacity through exploration of carboard box play, searching for and investigating their shaker eggs and creating marks using a range of stamps, their hands, fingers, and bunnies with paint.
Next week they will be...
Decorating their own socks using a range of resources to celebrate Autism Awareness Month, continuing to develop their understanding of cause and affect spinning their cog table to turn on the lights, practicing their hopping on the animal hoppers as well continuing to explore their heuristic play baskets.
The Toddlers have been...
Making marks using their fingers and paint, washing and splashing with the dinosaurs in the water tray to create bubbles and getting to grips with one handed tools and equipment within our mud tray in the garden!
Next week we will be...
Continuing to explore how to make marks using a variety of resources, beginning to create their Easter cards and exploring a range of shape sorters and inset puzzles.
The 2-3's have been...
Practicing their cutting skills by pretending to be a hairdresser and create snips in the pretend hair (paper.) Developing their gross motor movements by traveling over wooden blocks and tires whilst creating an indoor obstacle course, as well as continuing to develop their imaginative play using the dinosaurs in the sand. The children have also explored mixing colours together and fishing for items hidden underneath the bubble water.
Next week we will be...
Exploring dipping string into paint and using this to make marks as well as taking part in a shape hunt around nursery.
Pre-school – The 3-5’s
Our new topic is – Spring and new life.
Our Phonics focus have been…
Developing our fine motor skills whilst exploring the playdough area, using letter stamps to create our names and identify initial sounds.
Our Mathematical focus have been…
Searching for different sized worms within our garden play and creating a range of shape pictures. Some of the children have been exploring shape properties such as corners and sides.
Our Topic focus have been…..
Observing our cocoons and drawing pictures of the changes we noticed, building a range of different constructions and towers with our peers as well as moving across the A-Frame in a range of ways.
Next week we will be...
Our new topic are – Spring, new life, Autism Awareness Month, Ramadan.
Our Phonics focus will be…
Playing ‘Kims Game’ to develop our listening skills when identifying hidden objects underneath our coloured blanket.
Our Mathematical focus will be…
Developing our awareness of subitising by singing a range of number songs of quantities up to five, such as 5 Little Firemen and matching pairs of socks together to develop our awareness of the same and different.
Our Topic focus have been…..
Creating our very own puzzle piece and fish to swim in our Wonderland Sea. Each fish will represent an individual child and link to us learning and celebrating Autism Awareness Month. The children will also be sharing the story of Rameena’s Ramadan.
Thank you for your continuing support.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend.
The Wonderland Management Team
