Happy New Year to you all and welcome back after the Christmas break.  This terms dates: Monday the 6th of January to Friday the 14th of February, we will then be closed for the weeks half term break reopening on Monday the 24th of February.   

Terms Topics

This half term we are looking at the topics:  Winter and the weather, Ice, Artic lands and animals.  Our current weather is really helping us with the ice topic. Chinese New Year and its celebration.

Chinese New Year

We are looking at the Festival Chinese New Year on the 27th, 28th and 29th of January. We will be tasting Chinese food, noodles, rice with sweet and sour sauce, spring rolls and prawn crackers. We will explore the faith and customs and try to eat with chopsticks.  Please inform Dawn or your child’s keyperson if your child has any allergies to the Chinese foods mentioned above so that we can plan an alternative snack.     

Healthy Eating

We will be introducing packed lunch advice sheets to support parents to make better choices regarding healthy eating and the foods in lunch boxes. This is a role that we must carry out as part of the Early Years Foundation stage protecting children’s health, wellbeing and dental health. We explored lots of different fruit and vegetables last term in preschool trying to make them look inviting to eat, to encourage the children to try new things or things that they do not really like at the moment.  Our Santa faces and the Christmas trees were just a few. These will be sent out in the next few weeks.

Birthday Bear

To celebrate the children’s birthdays, we will be sending home our new birthday bear with a diary for parents to write a little about what their child did on their birthday so that we can then share this together in pre-school.  Pictures can be emailed to pre-school to that we can print them out and add to the diary.

Steph’s 40th Birthday

Steph will be celebrating her 40th Birthday on the 11th of February so we will be having a little party with Steph and the children with a birthday cake and lots of candles ha ha.

Valentines Day

We will be having a valentine’s party on Thursday the 13th of February to celebrate the word LOVE.  We ask that the children wear red for this event.

Garden Area

This was progressing along nicely, but the present weather conditions have halted work this week.  With the money raised at Christmas I have instructed Great Sankey Parish council to remove our old garden planters (which have rotted and are too fragile to move) to build us some new sleeper planters.  So, watch this space more to follow and we will invite parents in to see the new garden as soon as we can.  We will continue to explore the outdoors but in the local park and environment as we wait for the works to finish.

 We are also looking at going to Park Road school for sessions with the forest schoolteacher more information to follow.

 

If you require any more information on any item on this newsletter, then please do not hesitate to contact me.

Dawn Pre-school Manager