St Giles Nursery School

Early Years colleagues please see the poster below for details of Early Excellence Training to be hosted here at St Giles Nursery. Please feel free to share with anyone that may be interested.

Dear Parents and Carers, this is a gentle reminder that we are closed on Monday as it's a Bank Holiday. Enjoy your long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday.

Here is next week's lovely menu.

Garden Room Book of the Week.
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This week in the Garden Room ŌĆśRising 3ŌĆÖsŌĆÖ, we will be learning lots about early maths, whilst learning about gardening and Spring. The children will be encouraged to plant flowers in pots using forks and mud... ŌĆ£but how many flowers can they plant in a pot?ŌĆØ If the pot has a number ŌĆś3ŌĆÖ on it, can they count and plant 1..2..3 flowers? Another pot may show a different number, ŌĆ£but I wonder if that number is more or less than their first pot?ŌĆØ There are open ended yellow and gr...een resources added to the playdough to provoke their imaginations.....ŌĆØwhat could we create with all these objects? Maybe we could use the green tissue paper as leavesŌĆØ, ŌĆ£my flower has 1, 2, 3 leaves, I wonder how many hours has?ŌĆØ And finally, we are encouraging the children to develop stronger fingers by threading beads onto pipe cleaners in plant pots. ŌĆ£Mine has 1, 2, beads on it, but yours has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...so yours has a lot more than mine!ŌĆØ
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This week, in The Garden Room, we have enhanced our house with compost, herbs and gardening tools. The children will be able to explore the compost using the tools use their senses when touching, and smelling the herbs. They will be using their Communication and Language skills (Speaking) when learning new words. We have a box with different sized holes cut out of it. The children will be learning about different sizesas they try to post items...Mathematics (Shape Space and ...Measure). They will learn that some balls don't go in some of the holes. We have a tray filled with lemons and chives and parsley and mint. The children can explore and use their senses when handling and smelling them. In our malleable tray, we have rice, plant pots, and a variety of scoops and spoons. The children will be using their Communication and Language skills (Speaking) when filling up the pots they will also use their Mathmatical skills ( pShape Space and Measure) when filling and emptying the containers. Our story this week is ŌĆśJaspers BeanstalkŌĆÖ. We have lots of props to tell the story with. The children will be able to use them and tell the story themselves.
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Term Dates Reminder Monday 6th May 2019 - Bank Holiday - Nursery Closed THURSDAY 23rd May 2019 - Last day of term 5 Monday 3rd June 2019 - Term 6 begins Monday 22nd July 2019 - Last day of term and school year

Just a reminder that we have an open afternoon at Forest School for Castle Room Hornbeam group this afternoon. It's not too late to come and join us.

If your child has been attending the iDANCE classes on Friday's afterschool these will start again tonight. If you are interested in your child taking part then places contact Miss Hannah on the details below.

Our most recent newsletter is now available to view via our website on the link below.
We ask that you take a few minutes to read the newsletters when they are published as they contain details regarding current events in nursery.
http://www.lincolnstgilesnursery.co.uk/ŌĆ ”/ŌĆ”/04/April-2019.pdf

Garden Room Book of the Week
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Explorers Book of the Week
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Castle Room Book of the Week
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Our lunches are proving very popular so far this term. Here is next week's menu. If your child stays for lunch and you would like to order a school lunch please speak to the office. All lunches are priced at ┬Ż1.50.

A fabulous well done to L and his family who completed the Lincoln Mini Run in the holiday. He has chosen to donate his sponsorship money towards our walking bus fund. A huge thank you and well done.

Castle Room parents and carers - Next week we will be holding a Forest School Open Week. Please see the posters in the classroom which have details of your child's group. We look forward to seeing you there.

We are getting ready to learn and play at Nursery on Tuesday. Please remember to apply sun cream and put some in your childŌĆÖs changing bag to protect them from the Sun.We are getting ready to learn and play at Nursery on Tuesday. Please remember to apply sun cream and put some in your childŌĆÖs changing bag to protect them from the Sun.

This week we are very proud to share that we have been part of a cooking project for the last 18 months and have been published in a book this week. We believe that healthy eating and food confidence is so important in the early years and are proud to be involved in this process.

Here is something to be thrilled about!! https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/ŌĆ”/am azing-lincoln-nurserŌĆ”