Dear Parents and Carers of our Kingston and Worcester Park nurseries,
Welcome to our newsletter for September 2017.
We celebrated a mixed bag of events throughout August, from International Left-handers Day to Play in the Sand Day. More importantly though, was the celebration of independence for Pakistan and India on August 14th. The children designed their own flags and kites, and we had a sing and dance to commemorate.
This month celebrates the birth of literary great Roald Dahl, as well as honouring the beginning of both World War II and the great fire of London.
We start the month remembering World War II. The children will be learning about the history of the war and will be making their own 3D structures of shelters, aeroplanes and tanks. They’ll also be designing their own tea stained postcards and letters to send home.
On 2nd September 1666, London erupted into a fiery blaze that lasted for three days. To remember the day, the children will be learning about fire safety and building scale models of houses from the era. This will also link in with our termly ‘people who help us’ talk, and the children will be looking at the emergency services we have available and what they do to help.
September 8th celebrates all things language. The children will be creating their own imaginative props for their favourite stories and will be re-telling them in an exciting way to their classmates. They’ll also be making story sacks, listening to story music and even writing their own stories.
To celebrate Roald Dahl’s birthday, we would like the children to come dressed as a Roald Dahl character. We will be reading some famous stories including ‘James and the Giant Peach’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Matilda’ and the ‘BFG’.
The children will be enjoying the fun of talking like a pirate to celebrate the annual ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day'. We would like the children to come to nursery dressed as a pirate, too. We will be making pirate hats and masks and will have an exciting treasure hunt!
To raise money for the charity Jeans for Genes, we would like the children and team to wear their jeans to nursery for the day and bring a donation of £1.00.
Please can Parents also bring in an old pair of jeans that the children can use to decorate with sequins and glitter.
Languages are an important cultural staple for many countries. To celebrate the European Day of Languages, we will be learning the importance of different languages and how much fun you can have learning them.
The children will be learning key words in different languages and sharing their own languages with each other.
To celebrate Roald Dahl’s birthday on Wednesday 13th September, we would like the children to come to nursery dressed as a character from one of Roald Dahl’s famous stories. If your child has any Roald Dahl stories, please can they bring them in to read during the day.
We would like to ask any Parents who speak a second language at home with their children to email the nursery with key words in their language with an English translation that we can use to learn for the European Day of Languages. Please email worcesterpark@starsdaynursery.co.uk or get in touch here.
If you would like your child to take part in the Jeans for Genes day, please dress them in their favourite jeans for nursery and bring £1.00 for the charity donation. If any Parents have any old jeans they could provide for the children to decorate, this would be greatly appreciated.