ABC Family Nursery

Well what a busy month we have had.

During January the Pre-school have been visited by Deana the dentist, A Road Safety officer, Ambulance, and Fire brigade.  (see gallary for some pictures of what we got up to)

Even the younger children cam out to see the Fire engine.

We have also said farewell to Vicki, who has left to start her maternity leave for her first child, and we all wish her well.

The children have all settled in well to the refurbished rooms on the lower floor, and we have started introducing the birth to 5 years curriculum frame work for planning and learning.

One main feature from this is that children learn from their own experiances and are given a blank canvass in which for them to create, develop and learn.  Using the child’s individual interests we enhace and extend their learning.  for example if a child has an interest in playing with cars, the practitioner would extend the learning by discussing the number of wheels, colours, size, which one is faster, and so on. 

In addition to this there is also an emphisis on parental partnership, of which we are very strong on, please do make the effort to speak to your child’s key worker as often as possible t discuss your child’s interests, development, and also what you have been doing (such as visiting grandparents who live on a farm, or going to a wedding, or even going to a birthday party etc) as this helps us prepare for your child to have the opportunity to enhance their experiances.  For example last week a child at nursery turned 4 and had a party at Clambers, a large amount of the nursery children went and on the Monday they all were talking about the dragon. 

Talking of parties!

It is our 10th anniversary on 4th February.

For our comments file we would really appreciate it if parents could write the odd letter about the care we provide.  It is nice for both the parents and the team of nursery nurses to read on how we can improve and also on what we are doing well.

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