22 Street Lane Nursery - October 2025 Newsletter

Nursery Newsletter October 2025 Play • Discovery • Growth

October Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome to our October Newsletter, and as always, a very warm welcome to all the new families who have recently joined us. Autumn has definitely arrived here at 22 Street Lane! We have enjoyed watching all the leaves change colour and getting wrapped up in our cosy coats to explore our ever-changing environment at the nursery. We have lots of activities planned for October, including park walks, where the children can collect some exciting treasures such as pinecones, conkers and different coloured leaves. It is also Diwali and Black History Month during October, so the children will be celebrating both of these events, learning about inspirational figures, and participating in crafts linked to both events. We will be ending the month with our annual Halloween activities, including the Pumpkin Decorating Competition, our Stay and Play Events, the Halloween Disco, and Fancy Dress Day! To find out more, please read on...

October Newsletter STAFF NEWS

Welcome Erin! A warm welcome to Erin, who has joined our Swans Team as a qualified practitioner! “I’m so excited to start my new role as a qualified practitioner at 22 Street Lane! I have a passion for supporting children in their early years and love seeing them develop. I first began working with children at 16 and have gone on to complete my Early Years Educator qualification and BA Hons in Early Childhood studies.

Goodbye Connie! Sadly, we will be saying goodbye to Connie in October. Connie has worked for us for a couple of years as a member of our bank staff team, but will be returning home to Venezuela. Connie will be missed, but we wish her the best of luck for the future!

Welcome Back Alex! We would like to say a huge welcome back to Alex, who will be returning after maternity leave on Wednesday 8th October. Having previously been the Nursery Manager since 2016, Alex will be working with us two days a week and will taking on a new role as our Early Years Strategic Manager. Alex’s role will focus on compliance, quality and curriculum standards through carrying out regular audits, staff

mentoring, and safeguarding practices. Alex will also assist with supporting staff development, work with the rest of the Management Team on operational improvements and further development within the setting. Shosh, will therefore be continuing in her role as the Nursery Manager, alongside Bec and Charlotte, who are both Deputy Managers.

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NEWS

Country of the Month, October 2025: India During September, rather than focusing on one Country of the Month, we spent lots of time getting to know all of our new children and families who have joined the Nursery and celebrating everywhere that everyone is from! The children have enjoyed learning all about various countries, including Greece, Spain, China, Ireland and many more, whilst also participating in lots of ‘All About Me’ activities and trying out some new classes too.

Our Country of the Month for October will be India, as this ties in beautifully with our Diwali celebrations on Monday 20th October. Oli (our Nursery chef) will be cooking some traditional Indian meals, and the children will be joining in too. As Diwali is known as the ‘Festival of Lights’, the children will also be celebrating by making their own lights, listening to Indian music and also trying a bit of traditional Indian dancing! If any of our families have anything exciting to share with us around their own celebrations, we would love to include these during the week! Did you know? About 1.5 billion people live in India, which makes it the most populated country in the world!

Nursery Closure - Staff Training Day The Nursery will be closed on Thursday 30th October for our staff training day. We have two staff training days per year, and we ensure that these are on different days each year. We thank you for your support.

October Newsletter NEWS

Macmillan Bake Sale A huge thank you to everyone who donated to our Macmillan Bake Sale. We raised an amazing total of £428.00! Thank you for your continued support – it means so much!

Update: New Winter Menu Coming Soon We believe that a healthy, nutritious diet is vitally important for growing minds and bodies, that’s why our Chef Oli, and Kitchen Assistant Kim, take great pride in preparing fresh, nutritious and delicious food each and every day. Our continued strategy is to focus on well-balanced, seasonal and nutritious food that children love to eat. We are currently working hard to devise a new and exciting winter menu, which we hope to share with you all over the next couple of weeks! Please Note: The new menu will begin from Monday 10th November

World Mental Health Day: Friday 10th October To celebrate World Mental Health Day on Friday 10th October, the children are welcome to come dressed in their favourite outfit, costume or colours! We will be encouraging the children to take part in creative activities to express feelings as well as practicing mindfulness through simple breathing exercises. We will also spend time outdoors in nature, read stories that touch on mental health themes and encourage gratitude and acts of kindness.

October Newsletter NEWS Diwali Celebrations: W/C Monday 20th October 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 throughout the week, 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!

Pumpkin Decoration Competition: Wednesday 29th October We will be holding our annual Pumpkin Decoration Competition on Wednesday 29th October. The children are welcome to decorate a pumpkin, the more creative the better! Please note that this is for fun and all pumpkins will be celebrated and displayed at the front of the nursery for everyone to enjoy. (If your child is not in on the Wednesday, then you are welcome to bring in your pumpkin from Monday 28th)

Halloween Fancy Dress Day: Friday 31st October On Friday 31st October, the children are invited to come to the nursery dressed in their favourite Halloween costumes. We will also be making some Halloween-themed masks, enjoying some spooky dancing, and Oli will be making us some themed snacks too!

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Dish of the Month

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

Ingredients • 1 block of Paneer cheese • 500g of washed basmati rice • 10g turmeric spice • 50g finely diced ginger • 50ml of good-quality soy sauce

• 30ml of sweet chilli sauce • 1 finely diced garlic clove • Mixed vegetables, pepper, cabbage and carrots, finely sliced and washed • 1 finely diced red onion • 1 cinnamon stick • 1 star anise

• 500g of washed spinach • 2 vegetable stock cubes • 5g of Chinese 5 spice

Method 1. In a deep pan, add the onions, garlic and spices to the pan and slowly cook on a medium heat. 2. Coat the cheese in turmeric and add a little salt and pepper, bake in a pre-heated oven for around 15-20 minutes until it’s golden and crispy, then set aside. 3. Once the onions are soft, add the remaining vegetables and cook for 5-8 minutes on a low heat. 4. Add the pre-washed rice and allow it to cook for a few minutes to take in the flavour. Make some vegetable stock following the packing guidelines, cover the rice and vegetables mix and cook on a high heat for 5-7 minutes. 5. Then turn off the rice mix and cover with foil to allow the last process to steam the mixture. Leave for around 10 minutes, making sure the rice is cooked through completely and make sure it’s fluffy. 6. Add the paneer to the mix, finish with soy sauce and sweet chilli and check the seasoning before serving.

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Black History Month: All October

We will be celebrating Black History Month at 22 Street Lane Nursery during October. The children will be exploring lots of books linked to diversity and equality, as well as looking at the work of famous artists throughout history and their impact on culture and the BLM movement. The children will have the chance to get involved with messy play by creating their own artwork using bright primary colours! We will also be making playdough faces and exploring why we are all unique, comparing similarities and differences.

October Newsletter Halloween Festivities Across All The Rooms!

This Halloween, we’re inviting parents and carers of Chicklet, Duckling and Gosling children to our spooky ‘Messy Stay and Play’ sessions! Please RSVP with the date you’d like to attend on the Tapestry post for your child’s room. Spaces are offered on a first-come first-served basis, but please note that we are only able to offer spaces for one parent/carer to attend on the dates below.

Chicklets Ducklings Goslings Ducklings Goslings

Monday 20th October Tuesday 21st October Wednesday 22nd October Thursday 23rd October

3pm - 4pm 14 3pm - 4pm 12

3pm - 4pm

13

3pm - 4pm 12 3pm - 4pm 12

Friday 24th October

For the Cygnets and Swans Rooms, we will be hosting a spooky Halloween Disco on Thursday 23rd October. All those children are invited to come in their costumes for a spooktacular party from 5-6pm! There will be a disco, games, activities and Halloween themed snacks. More details will be shared on Tapestry soon! Please note that Parents/Carers are to drop off their child and collect them after the hour.

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Chicklets Room News

The Chicklets have had a lovely September and have done so well settling into the room over the past month! We have been on lots of lovely walks to Roundhay Park and the flower gardens; the Chicklets enjoyed seeing the ducks and the swans in the lake and feeding them some yummy oats! The children also enjoyed looking out for other things in their environment, such as cars, dogs, and lots of trees! The Chicklets have also been getting involved with lots of different messy play setups this month, and we noticed our babies really enjoy water play! They enjoyed splashing in the cool blue water, and trying to find all the different sea animals. We also explored ice texture play in the water, we explored with our hands and felt how cold the ice was on our fingers... ’brrrr’! We watched as the ice started to melt, and all the sea animals were free to swim in the water, which was so much fun! Lastly, we have been enjoying the ‘In The Zoo’ lift-the-flap book, so following on from this interest, we set up a zoo-themed tray that all the Chicklets got involved in! We explored different messy play textures using our transporting schema to transport the messy play to and from in our hands. We spotted all the different zoo animals and spoke about the different noises they make! We’re looking forward to more fun throughout October!

CHICKLETS ROOM

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Ducklings Room News

Everyone in the Ducklings Room would like to give a warm welcome to all our new Ducklings and parents! September has been such a wonderful month as we have been getting to know all of the children and starting to form strong bonds. At the start of the month, we had an ‘all about me’ theme to help us get to know our little Ducklings’ interests and settle them into nursery life. We have done lots of small group times in our Sensory Room, where we have read stories and spent some quality time together! A lot of the Ducklings love the outdoors, so this has been such a great way to form stronger bonds in our garden area where we have done some lovely singing sessions, worked together to build sandcastles in our sand pit and read lots of stories in our cosy tipi! We have been on lots of walks for the children to get outside and explore! We had so much fun going to Roundhay Park to see the ducks, the flower gardens where we spotted all the different coloured flowers and the Tropical World gardens where the Ducklings loved to relax and have some yummy snack! In the room, we have had quite a lot of Autumn themed activities for the children to explore! We went into our garden to find leaves and twigs to enhance these setups; the Ducklings were so helpful doing this with us! The children have also loved getting involved in our weekly sessions of ‘Shake, Rattle and Boogie’ and ‘Baby Bloom’ , and it’s so lovely to see them joining in by singing, using the musical instruments to make sounds and building their confidence throughout the sessions - well done Ducklings!

DUCKLINGS ROOM

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Goslings Room News

We’ve had a fantastic start to the new term in Goslings as we welcomed our new children and began getting to know their individual interests. Activities have been inspired by the children’s choices, including creating dinosaur worlds, zooming cars and aeroplanes, and making potions and pretend food in our ‘Rainy Day Café’. This month, we also focused on emotions and feelings through stories, discussions, and creative play in the book area. As part of our ‘All About Me’ theme, the children looked at themselves in mirrors, shared family photos, and celebrated what makes everyone unique. We extended this learning outdoors with a group walk to the flower gardens at Roundhay Park, where we explored nature, played games, and enjoyed a picnic together. Our weekly classes have brought lots of excitement - Shake, Rattle & Boogie, now on a Tuesday continues to be a favourite, with lots of clapping, dancing, and singing. We also introduced a new session, Baby Bloom, which had us dressing up as animals and pirates and rowing imaginary boats! We celebrated Rosh Hashanah with a variety of hands-on activities, including apple printing, playdough modelling, and baking a delicious apple, cinnamon, and honey loaf. Shanah Tovah to all our families who celebrated! We can’t wait to see all of the fun that October brings.

GOSLINGS ROOM

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Cygnets Room News

We have had a fantastic start to the new term in Cygnets! We’ve absolutely loved welcoming all of our new children and families. The children have settled in brilliantly, and we’ve had a fun-filled month packed with exciting activities and new experiences.Throughout September, we’ve been focusing on our ‘All About Me’ theme, helping the children learn more about each other. We have made lots of self-portraits and completed home learning all about us! As the seasons begin to change, we’ve been doing lots of Autumn-themed activities. The children have explored natural materials like leaves, pinecones, and conkers, using them in imaginative play and craft activities. We especially enjoyed making beautiful autumn wreaths to celebrate the season! Some of our Cygnets even ventured out on walks to Roundhay Park, where they collected lots of autumn objects and observed the changes in nature. The children also really got stuck into baking oat biscuits and lemon cupcakes for our Macmillan Bake Sale! We’ve been busy trying out some fantastic new classes, including Dance Lab, Debutots, Rugby Tots, and Football. These sessions have been so full of energy and fun, and it’s been amazing to watch the children try new things and build new skills. We are so incredibly proud of how well all of the children have settled into Cygnets this month. We can’t wait to share all of the wonderful things we get up to next!

CYGNETS ROOM

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Swans Room News

It has been such a lovely start to the year in Swans, and it’s been a pleasure getting to know all the new children and their families! The Swans have been busy taking part in ‘Show and Tell’ group sessions with their peers, where we’ve been sharing holiday snaps, weekend adventures and getting to know about each other’s home life and families. We have also been completing some family and self-portraits, which have allowed the children to explore their own specific features and also celebrate our friends’ features too. We have also started with a few of our extra curriculum classes such as Rugby Tots, Mini Kicks, Number Train, Debutots and Dance Lab. The children have all shown enthusiasm and lovely listening skills during these sessions, and we can’t wait to see the skills they develop. We have also been continuing these skills throughout our focused activities in the room to support the children in building their interest further. Next month, we will start Forest School sessions for the children which you will all receive updates on in regards to when it is your child’s turn and what they get up to during their time in the woods with Emily. We will also be hosting our annual Halloween Disco on Thursday 23rd October, which all the children are invited to. We look forward to seeing you all there!

SWANS ROOM

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2025 Events Calendar *Dates subject to change - Please check the website for the latest calendar

Wednesday 1st

Black History Month

W/C Monday 20th

Diwali Celebrations

Halloween Stay & Play (Chicklets, Ducklings, Goslings)

W/C Monday 20th

October

Thursday 23rd

Halloween Disco (Cygnets & Swans)

Team Training Day, Nursery Closed

Thursday 30th

Friday 31st

Halloween Fancy Dress Day

Wednesday 5th

Bonfire Celebrations

Monday 10th

Chicklets, Goslings, Swans Parents Evening

Tuesday 11th

Remembrance Sunday

Thursday 13th

World Kindness Day

November

W/C Monday 17th

World Nursery Rhymes Week

Wednesday 19th

Cygnets and Ducklings Parents Evening

Friday 21st

Children in Need

Thursday 27th

Thanksgiving Celebrations

Thursday 1th

Christmas Jumper Day

W/C Monday 15th

Chanukah Celebrations

W/C Monday 15th

Christmas Party Week

December

Tuesday 16th

Swans Christmas Nativity

Wednesday 17th

22SLN Christmas Dinner Day

Christmas Eve, Nursery Closes at 12pm

Wednesday 24th

October 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 that you do not let anyone in behind you. Thank you for your support. Birthdays Unfortunately, we do not allow parents to bring in birthday cakes treats to celebrate birthdays. If you would like to bring something in, we can suggest stickers, bubbles and other party bag fillers. If it is your child’s birthday, please tell us so that we can celebrate with a class disco! 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.

October Newsletter

*ATTENTION* Important Information - Please Read Drop Off and Collection Please remember that we open at 7.30am and close at 6.00pm, and anyone who picks up after this will be charged a late fee. 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 cooperation. Car Park Please can we kindly ask that parents ensure they are only parking in a single car parking bay. As you are aware, we have very limited space, and it is very busy a peak times. 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.

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