Welcome to Nursery. This information pack will hopefully help answer lots of questions you may have about the routines this year.

Daily routine – Nursery starts at 9am and children are to wait at the Reception/Year1 gate where staff will meet you. At 11.20 the children will be collected from the same gate.

Seesaw – Thank you for signing up to Seesaw. When you download the app you will get notifications when photos are added to your child’s account and you can comment or like the photo/work if you would like to do so. We will also be using this app to send messages and reminders to parents and to share homework tasks. You can access

Seesaw on a tablet, phone, laptop or PC.

Twitter – Follow us on twitter to see some of the lovely things we do in school and for up to date news and events @CymerPrimary.

Name tags – Please make sure all of your children’s items are labelled (jumpers, t-shirts, coats, shoes etc). This makes it much easier for us to find and return lost items if they are named.

PE – Thursday

Please can you send your child to school wearing joggers/leggings and trainers with their school uniform on top.

Forest Schools – ‘Fun Forest Friday’

‘Forest Schools’ activities will take place on a Friday. Please could your child wear joggers/leggings/trousers to school on a Friday. We have all in one water proof suits to put on before we go outside. We have lots of wellies in school in various sizes the children can use .

Snack- Please can you send in £1 a week for snack.

Parent meetings – We are proud to operate an open door policy at Cymer Afan however due to the current situation we cannot allow parents onto the premises at present. If you have any concerns/worries just pop us a message on Seesaw or ring the school and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Homework- We send out some fun practical activities for you to complete with your child, these help reinforce skills we have been practising in school. Please share any photos of the tasks you have been doing on Seesaw.

Text Service – Please make sure we have an up to date mobile phone number as the school uses this service to keep you updated on school events or important and urgent notices. (e.g. school closure due to snow etc.)

Many thanks! We look forward to working with your children this year.

Mrs Rowlands

Nursery Weekly Plan

Monday Fruit – Fruit money is 20p a day/£1 a week.

Tuesday –

Wednesday – CAPER books to be returned

Thursday PE – please can children wear trainers and tracksuit bottoms/leggings

Friday ‘Fun Forest Friday’ – please can children wear old tracksuit bottoms/leggings with normal uniform on top, and a coat.

 

We have had a very busy start to the year! Our topic this term was ‘Marvellous Me’, where the children learned all about themselves.

During ‘body parts week’, we had help to label each body part by singing the song ‘Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’- we even tried singing it in Welsh! The children had to work very hard by helping to take care of baby Dafydd during ‘the stages of life week’. Together, we changed his nappy, gave him a bottle and learned how to bath a baby. For ‘Feelings Week’, we made faces for our weetabix using different types of fruit. We created a lovely family tree throughout ‘family week’ and made stick men during our Fun Forest Friday (inspired by the book Stick Man). For ‘Celebrations week’ we celebrated Shwmae Sh’mae day by tasting Welsh cakes and speaking the beautiful Welsh language. In addition, we planned a party for Cariad’s birthday! Finally, we looked at our beautiful community, and realised how lucky we are to live in such a lovely area.

Miss Newberry-Wall and Mrs Gray are proud of the way the children have all settled down and in to school life. Don’t forget to keep up to date with everything your child is doing in school by signing up to see-saw and checking twitter. Have a lovely half term; enjoy Halloween but stay safe!

 

Miss Newberry-Wall got soaked during our Forest School session this morning! What a way to cool ourselves down.

This term we finished our topic ‘Are eggs alive?’ For the first week back we looked at the season of Spring and went on a ‘Spring Walk’.  We decided to keep our courtyard clean and tidy by planting wild flowers and vegetables- we must remember to water them regularly! During ‘Frog’ week, we painted pebbles to create frogs and read the story ‘The Princess and the Frog’. To finish we week, we celebrated with a cinema morning filled with treats and laughter. For the final two weeks, we learned about ducks and ducklings. We were extremely lucky to have Mason’s ducklings in class. Sushi and Gina were so well behaved- we even got to pet and feed them!

We had a fabulous time dressing up to celebrate the Royal Wedding; all made a huge effort. We had a Wedding Photoshoot, played party games and decorated biscuits. It was a beautiful morning.

More recently, we have been making the most of this beautiful weather and completing our activities outdoors. We have loved using the balance bikes, playing outdoor games, going pond dipping, painting and enjoying our outdoor activities in the sunshine. We are looking forward to our next topic, which is based around the beach!

This morning we had two very special visitors in our class, Sushi and Gina. Thank you to MJ’s Mum for teaching us how to take care of ducks and ducklings.

Nursery made the most of the nice weather and had a fun filled PE session using our Balance

Ability equipment.

Nursery News

Spring Term (2) 2018

The children have enjoyed the start of our topic ‘Are Eggs Alive?’ We spent the first week back learning all about our country, Wales. The children enjoyed eating Welsh rarebit and tasting Welsh cakes! Due to our surprise snow days, the children celebrated St David’s Day a week later, where they all looked exceptionally smart in their traditional Welsh costumes or Rugby Jersey’s. During the second week, we learnt all about the story ‘Jasper and his Beanstalk’. The following week we read the story ‘Tedi Twt a Doli Glwt yn y ardd’ and taught Tedi Twt how to plant a sunflower. We also got to dress up this week to celebrate World Book Day; the staff were very impressed with everyone’s costumes. A superb effort was made. The library helped us to celebrate World Book Day by providing fun and engaging activities for the children.

More recently, we have been preparing for Easter with lots of Easter themed activities including measuring Easter eggs and searching for Easter eggs in our Easter egg hunt. As always the children have also been creative making Easter baskets and cards to bring home.