Harvest

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we originally posted out at the beginning of October, this year for Harvest, we are collecting as usual. In the spirit of supporting our immediate community, we have decided that we want to support our own school community in these times of ever-increasing cost of living for everyone.

We will be collecting non-perishable donations (tins of food, toilet rolls, toiletries etc.) for a ‘give and take’ bank – hence the name GATEway (Give And TakE)!

With the contributions that are generously shared by families, staff and governors, we will be setting up a regularly replenished box of non-perishable items – into which you can add items (box 1) if you can; or take items (box 2) should you need. These boxes will be outside the main office in the parent shelter.

If you can give something, please add it to the box. The box will be based on trust and not manned, and we are very much hoping that it may support those in need as we move into the winter months and while the cost of living is ever more.

Our project will begin with a Harvest Dress Down Day which will take place on Thursday 3rd November. Children can come in their own clothes in return for a donation.  

The Gateway bank will begin to be operational from Monday 7th November when you can bring additional items / take items from the ‘Give and Take’ boxes.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Earth day

With our children in nursery today we’ve talked about recycling and how important it is to help our planet!

These are the minds that we need to teach how important it really is to help the world they live in today.

For todays activities children have been using their recycling from home to model make their ideas. From rockets to cars to birds and an octopus their little fingers got stuck into creating, literally!

With the reminder of ‘ I love my world ‘ old paper plates were used for sponge painting on to represent Earth.

In the words of Sir David ” The future of humanity and indeed all life on Earth depends on us ”

Help wanted

Does anyone have any old saucepans, wooden spoons, colanders, plastic measuring jugs, metal spatulas?
We are revamping our mud kitchen in the forest and would love some items for the children to pretend to cook with and make mud pies!
If you do have any, please can you send them to Mrs Curnow via the nursery or office.
Thank you for your support.

Mrs Lisa Curnow

School dinner changes

Newdale would like to apologise on behalf of the school kitchen for the short notice linked to changes within the past week. The changes have been unavoidable due to technical kitchen issues which were only made apparent each morning. The admin team have communicated all changes as soon as possible.

 

School dinner menu changes for this week

Tuesday 18th October- The kitchen will be serving a different menu due to the change today.

Meatballs and pasta, vegetarian option veggie bolognaise and for pudding a selection of biscuits and cakes

Thursday 20th October (last day of term)- Week 1 Fish and Chips

Grandparents visit

What a great turn out for our grandparents day today, thank you to those that could make it, joining in our autumn messy play and have a little look around our nursery

I hope that you enjoyed the treats and drinks in the hall with your grandchildren. Thank you from all of the team at nursery.

Grandparents Tea Party- Nursery

Grandparents Tea Party – Nursey

Monday 17th October 2022

We are excited to announce that we will once more be holding our annual grandparent’s tea party on Monday 17th October 2022 for nursery children who attend on a Monday afternoon.

We respectfully ask that only Grandparents attend this event. Please could all Nursery Grandparents arrive at either the Ladybugs entrance or the rear garden entrance for Mighty Oaks ( depending on which class your child attends) for 2.15pm where you will then be able to spend 15 minutes in  your Grandchild’s class (if you have more than one child, we will try to gather them all together!).

At 2.30pm you will be invited to come to come to one of our refreshment areas with your Grandchildren for tea and cake / biscuits. We know it is tempting to sneak extra treats for your Grandchildren, but please do not, as we will only have catered for Grandparents. Children will get a biscuit!

Just before home time, your Grandchildren will return to nursery, and you will be asked to leave via the main entrance near the office. If you are taking your Grandchildren home, then you will be asked to sign them out from the nursery before entering the hall.

Safeguarding: please remember that if you are not the usual person collecting, the teacher will need prior notice that you are authorised to collect – this is best noted by the child’s parent in their home school book.

For Grandparents to attend this event confirmation will be needed via your child’s Parent Pay account.

This year we would like to link this event to the launch of our new GATEWAY project.  We are hopeful that some of our grandparents might be able to donate non-perishable food items or toiletries towards this project. These donations will undoubtedly support some of our families in our local community as everyone is feeling the pressure due to the cost of living.

Earth day

The nursery will be participating in Earth day on Thursday 20th October and we would value your support in this.  We would love to show children how we can reuse junk to play with and make models.  Please can you start to collect items for junk modelling ready to send in on the 20th.  We would love any clean cardboard (no toilet rolls) and clean plastic such as yoghurt pots.

In addition, if possible can your child wear something green that day.  This could be a hair bobble or sock.  Please don’t feel that you have to go out and buy anything new.

Thank you again for your support

Lisa Curnow