22 Street Lane Nursery - November 2024 Newsletter

Nursery Newsletter November 2024 Play • Discovery • Growth

November Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers, Autumn is most definitely a magical time for children, and we have been exploring the season in so many ways. We enjoyed autumnal trips to Roundhay Park, and collecting the many natural treasures such as conkers, pinecones and colourful leaves. The children have taken part in lots of different creative activities, and we have loved seeing the autumnal home learning activities that you shared. The children then had a spooky time celebrating Halloween, where they had the opportunity to explore lots of messy play activities, attend a Halloween disco, go trick or treating, carve pumpkins, dress up and listen to spooky stories. It was lovely to see so many parents attend our Halloween Stay and Play sessions for the younger children and take part in our pumpkin competition. We hope that you had as much fun as the children! We have lots of exciting things planned for the children throughout November, so to find out more, please read on...

November Newsletter Bonfire Night: Tuesday 5th November

We must be super careful and cautious around the fire and fireworks! Check out our top tips to ensure your bonfire celebrations are fun and free from danger:

• Children should watch firework displays from a safe distance, well away from any fireworks and bonfires. • The area surrounding the display should be cordoned off, and any children nearby should always be supervised. • If anyone suffers with heart problems, bronchitis or asthma, it might be best to enjoy the display from indoors. • Turn the lights off to best enjoy the magical colours and lights! • Sparklers should not be given to children under 5 years old, and adults should never hold a baby whilst using a sparkler. • Any fires should be lit well away from any wooden, or other flammable material, building, shed or fences where children may be playing. • Sparklers should be kept well away from other people and held at arm’s length. • After use, sparklers should be placed into a bucket of cold water. • Ensure gloves are worn whilst holding a sparkler or stick a carrot into the end of the stick to form a protective grip that is easier for children to hold.

November Newsletter STAFF NEWS

Welcome Ellie! A warm welcome to Ellie who will be joining our Goslings Room as the Deputy Room Leader! “I’m really grateful for the opportunity to continue my experience in childcare by joining 22 Street Lane Nursery. I have worked in childcare for over 5 years, achieving both my Level 2 and Level 3 Childcare Diploma. I love providing exciting and enriching experiences for children and ensuring they are continually developing. I pride myself on supporting individual children and groups using a range of strategies to support all children in their learning. Throughout my time in childcare I have progressed into being a Room Leader, leading a team which has given me confidence, a wide range of opportunities and the skills and knowledge to support and help new people. I can’t wait to apply all of these skills to the deputy role and work closely with my leader to provide a fun and safe environment for both children and members of the team”.

Welcome Sarah! A warm welcome to Sarah who will be joining our Cygnets Room as a Qualified Practitioner! “As a former Primary School Teacher, I look forward to using my Qualified Teacher Status and BA Honours in Education to support me in my new role at 22SLN. I am eager to create exciting learning opportunities and shape our children into confident, inquisitive learners. In my free time, I love aerial hoop and spending time with my family back in County Durham”.

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NEWS

Goodbye Caitlyn and Alexia Caitlyn will be leaving us at the end of October to go on Maternity leave. We wish Caitlyn lots of luck and look forward to hearing her baby news soon! Sadly, we said goodbye to Alexia in October, as she has moved to another setting to continue her career in childcare. We wish Alexia the best of luck for the future!

Congratulations Emmy and Natasha! We would like to say a huge congratulations to Emmy and Tasha who both recently achieved their Level 3 Diploma! They have all worked so hard over the last 9 months and have built fantastic relationships with the children and families. Well done again, you are now qualified practitioners, and we love having you as part of our 22SLN team.

November Newsletter NEWS

Country of the Month, November 2024: Sweden During October, the children have enjoyed exploring Sweden as our Country of the Month! We learnt all about some of the famous landmarks such as: The Royal Palace, Ericsson Globe, and Kalmar Castle, the children designed their own Dala Horses (which are traditional carved, painted wooden statues of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna), created the Swedish flag and created their very own Ikea role play shop! So much fun! Some of the children also brought in some traditional Swedish stories, which everyone enjoyed reading and baked some Hallongrottor (Swedish thumbprint cookies made using raspberry jam!) Throughout November we will be celebrating the United States of America as our Country of the Month! We will be exploring different states of America and celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday 28th November with a traditional lunch. We will be exploring some Walt Disney classics along with looking at American traditions such as American football, baseball and basketball! If any families have any items to support our Country of the Month, we would be most grateful! Did you know? There are four towns in the United States named “Turkey.” They can be found in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

November Newsletter NEWS Parents Evening We will be hosting our Parents Evening later this month, where parents are invited to come along to Nursery for a face-to-face chat with your child’s Key Person about their development and how they have settled into their new rooms. If you are unable to attend an appointment on the date below, you can also arrange a telephone call with your child’s Key Person instead for a time that suits you. Please keep a look out on Tapestry to book your appointment. Wednesday 20th November: Chicklets, Goslings and Swans Monday 25th November: Ducklings and Cygnets Please note that we can only allocate 10 minutes per family.

Rosh Hashanah Celebrations: Wednesday 2nd - Friday 4th October Rosh Hashanah is the ‘Jewish New Year’ and the celebration of Creation. This year, the children all enjoyed learning all about the festival by reading themed stories and followed traditions such as dipping apples in honey and trying new fruits. The children also enjoyed making their own Challah bread with Oli, and learnt a new song called “Dip the apples in the honey!”

November Newsletter NEWS

World Mental Health Day: Thursday 10th October For World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10th October, the children enjoyed a variety of activities linked to feelings and emotions, as well as participating in lots of wake up shake up and a yoga session led by Zoe Jones! The Cygnets also enjoyed a relaxing spa day, where they placed cucumber over their eyes and practised meditation! They also had a foot spa and pretended to paint their nails!

Pumpkin Decoration Competition: Tuesday 29th October We wanted to say a massive ‘well done’ to all the children (and parents!) that took part In our pumpkin competition. All the pumpkins were fantastic, and you should all be very proud of yourselves! The winners have been chosen for each room and all the pumpkins looked fantastic in the reception and in front of the nursery over the week.

November Newsletter NEWS

Halloween Celebrations The children have had a spooktacular time celebrating Halloween! They took part in lots of Halloween inspired activities such as themed messy play, exploring pumpkins and Halloween arts and crafts. The children had so much fun at our Halloween Disco, the Stay and Play events and for our Fancy Dress day on 31st October! The children danced to spooky music and played lots of games! Everyone also enjoyed a Halloween inspired menu which included spooky brain jelly and roasted pumpkin risotto. We also wanted to give a massive ‘thank you’ to all the parents who came to our Halloween Stay and Play sessions, we hope that you had as much fun as we did!

November Newsletter NEWS Diwali Celebrations: Friday 1st November Diwali is the Indian festival of lights, usually lasting five days and celebrated during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika between mid-October and mid-November. Diwali symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”. We will be celebrating Diwali on Friday 1st November, and throughout the following week (W/C Monday 4th November), so that all of our children have a chance to celebrate! We will be lighting up the nursery, sampling lots of delicious Indian treats and creating colourful rangoli patterns. If you are celebrating Diwali at home, please share some photos on Tapestry, as we would love to see what you get up to!

Remembrance Sunday: Sunday 10th November Remembrance Sunday is a national opportunity to remember the service and sacrifice of all those that have defended our freedoms and protected our way of life. We remember the Armed Forces and their families, from Britain and the Commonwealth. The children will be creating their own poppies for Remembrance Day, which will be displayed in Reception for you all to see as a sign of respect. Please Note: We will be learning all about this event from W/C 4th November.

November Newsletter NEWS

Nursery Rhyme Week: W/C Monday 11th November For World Nursery Rhyme Week, the children will be participating in lots of rhyme inspired activities and music classes! We will also be highlighting our core nursery rhymes for each room, and the children will enjoy learning lots of new rhymes! If your child has a favourite nursery rhyme, we’d love to hear it! Did you know? • Nursery rhymes and children’s songs boost vocabulary and language development • They help children to develop literacy skills • They provide a fun way to support early numeracy skills • Nursery rhymes help children to develop social, physical and emotional skills.

World Kindness Day: Wednesday 13th November We will be celebrating World Kindness Day with the children by litter picking in the community and visiting the local residential home. We will also be visiting lots of places in the local community throughout the week and thinking of ways to show kindness to others too! Keep an eye out on Tapestry to see what we get up too!

Thanksgiving Festivities: Thursday 28th November We will be celebrating Thanksgiving as a Nursery by encouraging the children to find ways to express what they are thankful for. The children will have a thanksgiving meal together and we will be accepting foodbank donations this week as a way of encouraging the children to think of ways to give back to those in need.

November Newsletter

As part of our bonfire night celebrations, we will be re-creating our own pretend ‘bonfire’ with our Cygnets and Swans children. We will ‘toast’ marshmallows and have stories and sing around the fire! We will also be creating our very own pretend sparklers, taking part in bonfire themed crafts and sensory trays with all of the children! Bonfire Celebrations

November Newsletter Children in Need: Friday 15th November

The challenge this year for Children in Need is ‘To Make Life Lighter’ and go the extra mile to raise money in order to support more children and organisations that need the help. As a nursery, we will be raising money for this amazing cause through lots of activity challenges, such as dancing, fitness, cycling, running and sports! The children are invited to wear bright colours as part of the fundraiser too!

November Newsletter

Dish of the Month

Coconut Rice Pudding with Chinese 5 Spice Apples (Vegan)

See our past selections on: 22streetlanenursery.co.uk/dish-of-the-month/

Ingredients • 4 tins of coconut milk • 150g golden caster sugar • 45g butter • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 1 tin good quality solid pack apples (or 5 fresh apples) • Lightly toasted coconut flakes • 150g short grain rice

• 2 single star anise • 10ml maple syrup

Method 1. Start by washing your rice in warm water. In a large pan, melt the butter until sizzling and toast your rice for 2/3 minutes until it starts to brown a little. 2. Add your vanilla essence, sugar and coconut milk. Bring everything to a simmer on a high heat then turn it down and cover and cook for 40 minutes. 3. Lightly roast the coconut flakes in the oven until brown, on 180c for 5-6 minutes making sure you move them around. 4. Marinate the apples in Chinese 5 spice, maple and star anise. Cook in the oven for around 15 minutes until soft and nicely glazed. 5. Serve hot with the apples glazed on top and toasted coconut.

You could also replace the apples with mango and other fruits.

November Newsletter

Chicklets Room News

We have had a fabulous October getting to know some of our newest Chicklets. We are developing our PSED skills constantly, making new friendships, and becoming more confident in the room as the children settle into nursery life. This month, we have celebrated Halloween. The children have explored sensory play, such as jelly, ice, rice, cereal, paint and water. We enjoyed our Stay & Play where our lovely parents joined us! We hope that you enjoyed watching your little ones play and explore and had an insight into our Nursery day. This month we have also celebrated Rosh Hashanah. We enjoyed printing with apples and creating our own picnics. We spent lots of time concentrating on The Gruffalo story. This month we made an interactive display for the children to explore and to find the characters from the Gruffalo. The children have enjoyed lifting the pages and exploring the different textures. Next month is going to be another busy month for the Chicklets as we approach Bonfire night. We plan to have lots of creative activities to support this and may even make our own instruments to make sounds like fireworks!

CHICKLETS ROOM

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Ducklings Room News

What a busy October the Ducklings Room has had! We started off our month by celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Ducklings made their very own vegan apple and cinnamon loaf! The children enhanced their fine motor skills by taking turns to stir all the ingredients together in a bowl and tipping the mixture into a baking tray, we put it into the oven to bake and tried some for ourselves! Throughout the month, the Ducklings have been embracing the change in season by exploring our Autumn activities. We got stuck into our leaf print playdough table, as the children independently explored the activity by using the rolling pins to roll out the playdough and stick the leaves down to the pieces they created. The Ducklings loved making their own hot chocolate recipe, just in time for the cold weather! They used the spoons to mix and added some mini cotton wool (marshmallows) on top for the perfect touch! During October, it was World Mental Health Day, so we based activities around the colour yellow and wore yellow clothes to spread awareness. We had an ‘all things yellow’ tray where we sang ‘Five Little Ducks’ in small groups for that quality time together. We also had a relaxing session of calm music and mindful moments together. Our Halloween stay and plays were amazing, thank you so much to all the parents who attended them. The Ducklings had their own pumpkin patch to explore! They used the scoopers to transfer the pumpkin seeds across the tray and to share with their mummies and daddies.

DUCKLINGS ROOM

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Goslings Room News

This October, we have had a blast in the Goslings Room! We have explored lots of different activities, looked at lots of different people and religions and visited some more places in our community. At the start of the month, we celebrated Rosh Hashanah, we looked at traditional snacks and enjoyed baking our own bread. The children listened and danced to music whilst singing a song related to the celebration. As October is Black History Month, we explored different activities which were linked to honour the accomplishments of influential black individuals. We looked at traffic light systems, which were introduced in 1923 by Garret Morgan, as well as exploring ice cream cones as they were invented in 1897 by Alfred Cralle. The children enjoyed exploring lots of fun tuff trays as well as playing traffic light games in the garden. The Goslings have had so much fun exploring lots of spooky Halloween-themed activities and have had so much fun for our parents to stay and play. At the end of October, we will be celebrating Diwali by looking at colours, lights, and Rangoli patterns. We will be listening to traditional music and doing some fun traditional baking. We are getting ready for a busy November. We will be looking at Children in Need, Remembrance Day, Bonfire Night and celebrating Thanksgiving. We will also be looking at our feelings ready for World Kindness Day as well as singing some of our favourite songs for World Nursery Rhyme Week, we have so much to look forward to!

GOSLINGS ROOM

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Cygnets Room News

Throughout October, we celebrated Rosh Hashanah, Halloween and Mental Health Day. The Cygnets enjoyed making their apple and honey pictures for Rosh Hashanah by using different creative skills like glueing and sticking, painting and stamping. They also had different activities set up related to Halloween. The Cygnets enjoyed making pumpkin soup with different measuring tools; they made Halloween pictures such as ghosts, potions and pumpkins with a variety of materials, including different shades of orange tissue paper, pipe cleaners, paints, etc... We also had our Halloween disco where the children went trick or treating in the big garden, explored lots of spooky activities and also enjoyed their mummy sausages and biscuits as a treat to finish off the disco. To support Mental Health Day, we held a spa day in Cygnets Room. The children came with their dressing gowns and slippers and enjoyed relaxing with their feet in a foot spa. The Cygnets also enjoyed having some massages and cucumber eye masks, as well as having their nails painted. The Cygnets also did some yoga to help them with their deep breathing, which helped them to relax and stay calm. We are looking forward to celebrating Diwali and have lots of fun activities planned. We will be making Diya lamps and will be learning about henna patterns as well as creating Rangoli. We are also looking forward to taking the children on more trips throughout November. We will be going on the bus to the library, taking fun autumn walks in the park and walking to the local shops.

CYGNETS ROOM

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Swans Room News

We’ve had so much fun throughout October in Swans! Throughout October we have loved celebrating Halloween. We’ve had a wide range of activities for the children to explore in all areas within the room. In the creative area, we made some pumpkin, witches and bat pictures, as well as drawing a spooky haunted house. Many of the children also enjoyed making witches’ cauldron pictures using bubble paint and pipettes. In the messy area, we loved exploring the inside of a pumpkin using our different senses. This month we have been looking closely at Sweden! We explored the flag through a messy rice tuff tray as well as making the flag from a range of different materials in the creative area. Also, in the creative area, some of the Swans designed their own ‘Dala Horses’.We all enjoy taking part in baking in Swans. So, to celebrate Sweden, we made Rosenmunnar (Swedish thumbprint cookie). The Swans had so much fun weighing out and mixing all the ingredients together. We then added some jam into the middle. The children then took these home to enjoy with their families. In the Swans Room, we have started our Forest School sessions! The first group of children enjoyed exploring the forest and the natural materials around them. To start each session off we read a story relating to what we are going to get up to in the forest that morning. We have made some beautiful pictures from tree bark rubbings, built our own den and made our own stickmen through sticks we found in the forest. We can’t wait to continue forest school throughout the year.

SWANS ROOM

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2024 Events Calendar *Dates subject to change - Please check the website for the latest calendar

Friday 1st

Diwali

Tuesday 5th

Bonfire Celebrations

Friday 8th

Remembrance Sunday

Monday 11th

Chicklets, Goslings, Swans Parents Evening

Novmber

Wednesday 13th

World Kindness Day

TBC

World Nursery Rhymes Week

Wednesday 20th

Cygnets and Ducklings Parents Evening

Thursday 28th

Thanksgiving

Thursday 12th

Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 12th

Swans Christmas Nativity

December

W/C Monday 16th

Christmas Party Week

Thursday 19th

22SLN Christmas Dinner Day

Christmas Eve, Nursery Closes at 12 noon

Tuesday 24th

January

Nursery RE-OPENS for the New Year!

Thursday 2nd 2025

November Newsletter

*ATTENTION* Important Information - Please Read Notice - Glass Door We would like to remind parents to close the glass door behind them for the safety of the children. Please make sure you don’t let anyone in behind you. Absence Please note that we are unable to swap days or offer an alternative day if your child is absent from nursery. We are now extremely busy, and it is impossible for us to do this for all children. This is stated in our terms and conditions. Thank you for your co-operation. Labels in Clothing To avoid items being lost, please can you ensure that your child’s uniform is clearly labelled including their coats, hats, scarves and wellies. If your child brings gloves to nursery, we strongly advise for these to be attached and threaded through their coat to avoid any gloves going missing. Weather Appropriate Clothing With the cooler months upon us, please can you ensure that your child has appropriate clothing for colder and wetter weather, including coats, hats, scarves, gloves and wellies when appropriate. Drop Off and Collection Can we kindly remind you that we open at 7.30 am and close at 6.00 pm and any parents who pick up after this time will be charged a late fee.

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