Autumn Term Week 1

Welcome to all our new and returning families, it has been a pleasure to welcome you all and to settle the children in! They are amazing!

We are so proud of how they have settled in and I know there are a few tears but these soon stop once we have a cuddle and start to play and they have made so much progress already, learning the routine and the environment, joining in with circle time and singing and exploring and making friends. The Star children from last year are settling into their new Sun and Moon groups, making friends and enjoying being back.

As a staff team we are thrilled with the groups and will be working hard to get to know all the children, seeing what progress they make and building relationships with you all.

We start the new year with simple and relaxing activities, collage, painting, car play, bikes and home corner, some family role play, stories and singing, lunchtime routines and having snack. The helps to settle the children as we have lots of time to sit with them and help them explore. We start to listen in to their interests and write observations to help with our planning. Next week we are going to use jobs as a theme as the children really liked playing with the cars and other vehicles so think this will be really fun – starting with building a fire engine outside for role play and we will also have dressing up inside with a theatre and music, dancing and singing so let us know of any favourite movies or songs!

Your key person will be in touch via Tapestry so let us know if you have any issues with the app or logging in and accidents and other observations and memo’s will come out regularly.

We hope you are all feeling more settled after a whole week if you have new children starting and we look forward to a great year ahead.