Rydale Children’s Nursery

We would like to extend a massive thank you to all our families who donated and supported us in completing the Race for Life Muddy Run! We may have some achy muscles today, but we are thrilled to announce that we have raised an impressive total of £1,170. Additionally, Rydale Nursery has generously contributed £330, bringing the overall total to an amazing £1,500!

We already can't wait to do it again next year!!!🐝

We did it 🩷🐝 and the sun made an appearance to dry us off 🩷

Well done everyone 🩷

We are ready 🩷🐝

Today’s the day we do the Race For Life Muddy Run!! 🏃🏼‍♀️🩷 Looks like the rain is in full force for us to get extra muddy! Wish us luck 😂🥰

Thank you for all the donations so far with our cash donations and online donations we have hit £1,020 so far which is absolutely incredible!

It is not too late to donate on the link below

Rydale Nursery team Some of our team from Rydale Children’s Nursery is taking on the Race for Life muddy run to raise money for an incredible cause. Every day, we care for children and support families, and we understand just how important it is to stand by one another through life’s challenges. Cancer has touched ...

We have a final opportunity for you to sponsor some members of our team. This Saturday, a group of us will be participating in the Race for Life Muddy Run 🏃🏼‍♀️. Every contribution, no matter how small, is appreciated! You can make cash donations at the nursery or use the link provided below for online donations.

The event will take place this Saturday at 11:30am in Markeaton Park, and we would love for our families to join us and cheer us on! 🩷

Thank you for your ongoing support 🥰

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/rydale-nursery-374

Look at some of our preschoolers in our new preschool uniform, don’t they look very smart 🥰

Thank you so much for your support 💖

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/rydale-nursery-374

The chicks all settled for the weekend at home with our nursery Manager Victoria and Riley 🐥🥰

We had a very exciting new bike delivery this week!

The children have loved showing us their balancing skills on the new balance bikes and how they could get around all the different objects in the garden. 🚲 🛞 ☀️

In line with Deaf Awareness Week, 4th-10th May.

We would like to share some links with you all. One of our after-school children, Gracie-Mae, was given an amazing opportunity to star in a TV programme, Tiny Tunes, which is being aired on CBeebies this week at 10:35 am.

It’s a joyful series that brings classic nursery rhymes to life with deaf and (CODA) hearing children of deaf parents singing, signing, and exploring the outdoors together. It’s designed to support deaf children and families in building sign language vocabulary and is also helpful for pre-verbal children. It's a great show for early years children. Each episode is 4-5 minutes long.

There are 30 nursery rhymes so far

Gracie-Mae is in the following episodes:

- Grand Old Duke of York

- Jack and Jill

- Row, Row, Row the Boat.

Here is some links which will take you to the nursery rhymes where you will find the ones Gracie-Mae is also in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vq14/tiny-tunes-series-1-14-jack-and-jill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vq2n/tiny-tunes-series-1-21-row-row-row-your-boat

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vq0d/tiny-tunes-series-1-10-the-grand-old-duke-of-york

A very big well done to Gracie-Mae; you have done amazingly, and we are all very proud as are your family! 🥰

If any of you get a moment, please check out the links below or the programme one morning this week.

All children have the right to access language, whether signed or spoken. Every deaf child is different and will communicate in different ways. They might use sign language, speech, or a mixture of both.

There are lots of reasons why families decide to learn sign language. Some families learn sign language because it will be their child’s first language. Other families raise their children using both sign language and speech so that their child can choose whether they want to use speech or sign language in the future.

In fact, even families who do not have a deaf child might still decide to learn sign language with their hearing children to support language development. Hand-eye coordination develops earlier than speech skills. Lots of young children can use simple signs, such as “milk” and “more”, before they develop the ability to say these words. There is evidence that early access to sign language contributes to good language development for both deaf and hearing children.

Some people worry that using sign language will mean their child does not learn to speak or learns to speak more slowly. In fact, learning sign language can help you to communicate with your child. As long as your child is exposed to good spoken language as well as sign language, there's no evidence that learning to sign will delay or stop them developing speech.

Learning sign language allows deaf children to communicate with other children who sign and enriches their experience and understanding of deaf culture.

Tiny Tunes - Series 1: 10. The Grand Old Duke of York In Tall Trees Forest, Lisa and the children play soldier skittles, learn signs for men, up and down, then sing and sign The Grand Old Duke of York.