St Paul's Nursery, Portsmouth

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New menu for after half term

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🎃 Places Where Kids Eat Free (or for £1) During October Half Term 2023 👻
Updates will be added here 👉 https://moneysavingcentral.co.uk/kids-eat-free

Free half term activities:

Halloween Disco:
https://www.portsolent.com/events/kids-club-halloween-disco-party-1

Arts & Crafts at Port Solent:
https://www.portsolent.com/events/kids-club-silly-scott-creation-station-11

Wilder Paulsgrove:
https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/events/wilder-paulsgrove/?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=GovDelivery

Royal Armouries Fort Nelson - spooky activities 🎃:
https://royalarmouries.org/fort-nelson

Various activities at Portsmouth libraries 📚:
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October at Portsmouth Libraries This page is where you will find a selection of low cost or free events and activities for kids this October at Portsmouth libraries.

.....and just like that, our first half term has come to an end. Don't forget the Nursery will be closed next week for the October half term holiday. We hope you all have a happy and safe week, see you soon.

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Our book of the week is ‘WOW! said the Owl’ by Tim Hopgood. 🦉 A book all about colours. 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚪️⚫️🟤

If you would like you share this story at home:
https://youtu.be/uRCwbSpjm6U?feature=shared

Author Tom Hopgood reading his wonderful book:
https://youtu.be/g9yp9W2Ljd8?si=IkDHKa6zJTiTJOao

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Digital Strategy - Parent/Carer Stakeholder Survey St Paul's Catholic Primary School As part of our ongoing commitment to, we would like to ask you to spend 10 minutes completing this form to help us gain an insight into the resources that families have access to support learning from home and your opinions around the use of technology. If you have any questions, please email Mrs Sa...

During group time today all of the children helped to make different flavoured Gruffalo crumble! Don’t worry we didn’t use a real Gruffalo! 😂)
Ladybirds - summer fruits
Bumblebees - strawberry
Butterflies - apple
Dragonflies - peach

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Please help us support local charities with our Harvest Food Collection

This week the children have been enjoying listening to the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

You can watch an animated version at:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00pk64x/the-gruffalo

This week the children have had lots of fun discovering different textured play. This has included: playdough, shaving foam, pasta, rice, ice, squashy paint in balloons and jelly.

There will be a special menu tomorrow for warm lunches. Red option is hot dog and green option is pizza.

Today the school (yrs 3/4) had a visit from some farm animals. The nursery children were very excited to see two pigs (Oreo and Cookie) and two sheep (Cojo and Charlie.) 🐖 🐑 😊

Today the ladybird 🐞 group used props to act out the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

This week during group and story times the children have been enjoying listening to the rhyming book ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ by Janet & Allan Ahlberg. We made puppets of the different characters and had fun using these to tell the story.

Did you know we have 5 adult and 4 baby giant African snails 🐌 as nursery pets?!
The children have enjoyed watching them move around their tank, looking for dandelion leaves to eat! 🐌
Some of the children were also excited to be able to hold a snail. 🐌😁

Happy weekend everyone! 😊

We are so excited to start our first full week of the Autumn term tomorrow. Here are a few reminders for you all:

•School dinners will need to be booked and paid for through Scopay in advance (book today for tomorrow). If you have not activated your Scopay account or received your letter, please provide a packed lunch for your child. We can not reheat food at the nursery.

•Please ensure all paperwork is completed in full, including funding forms and supply your child's birth certificate and proof of address, dated within the last 3 months. Unfortunately, children will not be able to be left without completed paperwork. Please ask a member of the team if you need support with your paperwork.

•Please label all of your child's belongings with their name. Don't forget to provide a drink bottle, change of clothes, nappies and wipes if needed.

We understand tomorrow may be an anxious day, please call the Nursery on 023 9232 6069 any time to check in on your little one. Please leave a message if we are unable to answer and a member of the team will get back to you.

Have a lovely evening and see you tomorrow.

Have a great weekend everyone! 😊
We look forward to seeing you all next week, for the start of the nursery term. 📚✏️🚗🧸

The 2024 school applications open online on Monday 6th November.

St Paul's Catholic Primary School are carrying out open days on Wednesday 11th October and Wednesday 8th November. To book a time, please call the school on 023 9237 5488 or email [email protected].

It was great to see so many of our returning parents/carers and children, as well as welcoming our new families, at our settle sessions today. 😊
Please remember to bring back all relevant paperwork tomorrow. THANK YOU!

Today we received an exciting letter from Buckingham Palace; in recognition for the colourful card we sent to celebrate King Charles’ coronation! 👑🇬🇧🥰

Can you help us? We are currently collecting exciting and creative toys and resources for Sept 2023.
Any donations are gratefully received. Thank you for your continued support. 🥰

Free stay and play sessions throughout the city.

With just one more week left of the summer holidays, here are a few reminders.

The Nursery will reopen from Wednesday 6th September for settle sessions ONLY. Settle sessions are for new and returning children. Please email the Nursery if you are unsure of your settle dates and times [email protected].

The Nursery will be back to normal sessions from Monday 11th September.

Don't forget you have until Thursday 31st August to apply or renew your 30 hour funding code, through the childcare choices website. If it is completed after this date, funding will not be applied until January 2024, this does not affect the statutory 15 hours funding.

Don't forget to apply for your 2year old funding code through the Portsmouth Council website.

We can not wait to see you all, enjoy your last week.

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To all of our amazing preschoolers…
We are so proud of you! 🤩
GOOD LUCK at BIG SCHOOL 📚
We will miss you. Love from the St Paul’s Nursery Team 🐝🐜🦋🐞 xoxo

Don't forget the Preschool Graduation is tomorrow at 2pm in the school hall. If your preschool child does not normally attend a Monday, please can you drop them off at the nursery from 1.30pm. Parents/family will be allowed to enter the hall from 1.45pm.

The nursery will close to toddler children at 12pm tomorrow, we will remind you on the gate in the morning. Thank you for your support.

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Date for your diary.......26th July

Free afternoon of fun at Paulsgrove & Somerstown Family Hubs.

Come along to find out about the exciting new services available for families in Portsmouth.

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New to Reception Parents
Stay and Play date 12/7/23
During this stay and play parents will have an opportunity to purchases uniform bits directly from the school. Due to the internet not working today please ensure you have the correct change if you would like to make a purchase.

UNIFORM PRICES UNTIL END AUGUST 2023
Ties £3.30
PE Bags £3.30
Small Book Bags £7.00
Large Book Bags £9.00
Water Bottles £1.25

Bruno update.
Some of the children have been asking Sarah this week if Bruno is OK in his new home. Sarah just wanted to share with the children that Bruno has settled in really well and is very happy in his new home. Bruno has his big rabbit hutch from Nursery with all his toys and some new ones too. Bruno has become good friends with Sarah's cats Gizmo and Jess, they love playing in the garden together. Sometimes Bruno can be a bit cheeky and sneak in the house and help himself to Jess and Gizmo's treats but they don't mind sharing.