GBNFC at Grendon and Billesley Nursery

❤️Happy Father’s Day ❤️
Happy Father's Day to all our Dad's out there and all the Grandad's, brothers, partners , Uncles and cousins or that Someone Special who are all role models to our children.

This week (10-14th June) is Healthy Eating Week and this year’s Healthy Eating Week message is 'Give it a go!'

Whether that means having one extra portion of fruit or vegetables a day, being a bit more active, experimenting with a new recipe or using up leftovers – the British Nutrition Foundation’s Healthy Eating Week 2024 is all about giving it a go!

The daily themes are:

Monday: Get at least 5 A DAY – Fresh, frozen, dried and canned all count!
Tuesday: Stay hydrated – Have about 6-8 drinks a day. Tap water is a great choice.
Wednesday: Move more – Find ways to be more active every day.
Thursday: Focus on fibre – Have more wholegrain foods, fruit, vegetables, beans and lentils.
Friday: Reduce food waste – Aim for the right amount when you shop, cook and eat.

In Reception we offered a healthy start to all of our parents/carers where the parents were able to help themselves to fresh fruit and juice. In our Little Owls room we held a Someone Special workshop where the children got active taking part in a variety of obstacle courses and tasks and they enjoyed some delicious fruit at the end of it!

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This week is Mental Health Awareness and yesterday we invited the children and staff to wear green in order to support this! The management team also treated all the staff to a drink and a treat that was left in the staff room for the staff to enjoy. We hope that you all take time for yourself for wellbeing week.

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY!

GBNFC at Chinnbrook Nursery are looking for a new Deputy Manager. If you are interested please check out the job advert on Indeed. Please feel free to share this post!

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Just a reminder that children who are due to start school in Reception - September 2024 should find out their allocated school place tomorrow (Tuesday 16th April).
Good Luck 🤞

To celebrate Science week in Tiggers our pre-school room we have been enjoying different experiments. Here are our two favourites!

The skittles experiment.
We had a dish, skittles and water. We talked to the children about the experiment and they were very excited to find out what would happen. The children took it in turns to place a skittle of different colours round the dish. We then added some water. The children watched very carefully, watching the colours mix with the water. They shouted look it’s a rainbow. The children were able to name all of the colours.

Making paper caterpillars and watching them grow in size.
We started by making the caterpillars with paper towels and colouring them in with different colours, the children chose orange and green. Then we folded them around a pencil and scrunched the paper towel up and took it off the pencil, it made a caterpillar which the children found very interesting and fun.

In group time we gathered around the table to watch them grow, we used water and pipettes and the children had to use the pipette and pour it on top of the caterpillars to make them grow.
The children noticed that the caterpillars grew in size, “small to big” and the colours we put on the paper towels mixed together to make a different colour.
We had a lot of fun watching the paper caterpillars grow!

🌙⭐️ Ramadan Kareem to those families who are celebrating this holy month ⭐️ 🌙

📚Today is World Book Day and we are celebrating at nursery by wearing our Pyjamas or our World Book Day costumes we will be having lots of fun today sharing stories and doing lots of fun activities! 📚

We are looking forward to seeing you all dressed up or dressed comfy today 🙂

World Book Day - World Book Day Dressing up for World Book Day can be fun, but there are lots of ways to celebrate children’s reading choices! Get inspired with our tips, ideas, alternatives, and our low-cost costume resources developed with Oxford Children’s.

We would like to wish you all a very Happy St David's Day - “Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus”.

At nursery we make sure that we look after our environment and all join in by doing our part and throughout the day we help to clean up our classrooms. In Winnies room we had lots of fun chalking on the floor in the garden creating some masterpieces but at the end of the day it was time to clean up! We jumped into our wellies and all headed outside into our garden. Our teachers threw some warm soapy water over the floor and then it was time for us to do our part! We got the brooms, used the sole of our wellies and began zooming around the garden to scrub away all the chalk and make our garden floor all fresh and clean again! It was so much fun and we found it very funny!

To celebrate Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) the children in Nursery have been making their own pancakes! Even our little Roos got to taste some! Here are some photographs of our Little Owls making the pancakes! As you can see they put all of the ingredients into a bowl and then enjoyed giving it a good mix. They then ate the pancakes with the added treat of chocolate and strawberry sauce!!! How yummy!

Smiley Shen is one of the Startwell Characters and he has a very important message about how to look after our teeth. "Smiley Shen encourages us to keep our teeth clean and healthy. He tells us that even our first teeth, our 'milk teeth' are really important".

To support this message throughout the week Nursery have been giving out information to parents about how to keep the children's teeth healthy and clean. The children were very excited when they received their tooth brushes and toothpaste and they all promised they would use them to keep their teeth nice and clean! They also received some crayons and pictures to colour in!

Keep smiling everyone and make Smiley Shen very happy!

Startwell

In our Baby Roos room the children love to explore all kinds of different textures. They like to use their hands and mouths to do this. One of their favourite textures to explore is edible soil, which is broken pieces of weetabix-such a simple activity! We also mix it with cocoa powder, water and a bit of flour to enhance the texture! As it is Chinese New Year on Saturday the children in Roos have also had fun exploring noodles which we coloured red and yellow! We love to explore so many textures in Roos room!

It is National Story telling Week and the children in Little Owls LOVE the story of Goldilocks and the three bears and The Gingerbread Man. We therefore based our activities on these two books and the children had the opportunity to make Gingerbread men at the play dough station and they enjoyed role playing with the three bears and Goldilocks!

This week it is National Storytelling week. To celebrate in Eeyores we are exploring the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We are using our Sammy Skills to fill the different sized bowls ready for Goldilocks to taste and find out which one is ‘just right’ and learning lots of different describing words such as cold, hot, lumpy, sticky, sweet and salty. We have also been looking at the different sized bowls and spoons, matching them to the correct characters.

As it’s storytelling week, we have been taking it in turns to have a go at retelling the story, using both the book and our imagination to help us! We have had some amazing stories and some very interesting twists to the traditional story - some of which include Spider-Man and fairies!!

In Tiggers we have been very busy exploring how colours change when mixed together and used on different types of paper. First we used kitchen roll. We placed some kitchen roll on the table with some water colour paint and water. We showed the children what happened when the different colours mixed on the paper. The children followed the instructions given to them and were able to talk about the different colours they used and what happened to them. They were very excited when they added red to blue and it turned purple just like our Grendon uniform!

We then explored symmetry painting on tin foil. We showed the children how to fold the foil in half then open it up again. Using the different coloured paint the children then made different marks on one side of the foil. They then needed to fold the foil again and rub it flat with their hands. When they opened it up they could see the different patterns they had created. When they opened the foil the children used language such as a flower and a butterfly and very pretty to describe what they had created. We then put some of our beautiful pictures in a frame on the wall in the classroom for everyone to see.

In our Eeyores room we have been shaking our Startwell superhero bottoms so much to our new Startwell superhero program!

Startwell is a super healthy lifestyle program, where we teach and learn all about the ways to live a healthy lifestyle in Birmingham.

Active Azra is the name of one of our Startwell superheroes. She helps us to maintain a great level of activity throughout the day! We want to make sure that even though we maintain a healthy diet at nursery, we are having lots and lots of time getting the blood pumping in our veins!

We have been learning some of our cool new songs and dances, all linked to the Startwell program. We have to move our bodies so much our teachers could barely keep up as we jumped, skipped and skated all around the room to the words!

What kind of things do you do at home to keep yourself healthy?