Head of School's message
We were delighted to take the rest of our children on a successful off-site visit to the local park this week. The children represented our school beautifully, showing enthusiasm, curiosity, and excellent behaviour throughout the trip.
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As part of our Healthy Me learning, the visit provided a real-life opportunity to develop vital road safety skills. Children practised stopping, looking, and listening carefully before crossing, and we were incredibly proud of how sensibly they followed instructions and kept themselves safe.
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Linked to our literacy focus on Rosie’s Walk, the park environment became a perfect setting for exploring prepositional language. The children enjoyed using words such as under, over, around, and on as they described their movements and adventures around the space—bringing the story to life in a meaningful and memorable way.
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We also saw wonderful progress in the children’s physical development, particularly their gross motor skills. The playground equipment offered excellent opportunities for climbing, balancing, and coordination, and it was fantastic to see their confidence growing as they challenged themselves.
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Overall, the visit was a rich and rewarding experience that deepened learning across several areas of the curriculum. Thank you to our staff team for their support, and to our families for helping ensure the children were well-prepared for the day. We look forward to many more exciting learning experiences ahead.
Dates coming up:
Monday 24th November - Pantomime visit in the morning.
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Thursday 11th December - "Winter Lights Festival" from 4pm to 5pm. Save the date! - more information to follow.
Friday 19th December - Last day of term and the Nursery will be closing at 1pm.
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Monday 5th January - Stay and Play 1.30pm to 3pm, all families welcome.​
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Tuesday 6th January - Nursery open.​​​​
Reminders:
We are sure you would want to join us in wishing Joanna well as she starts her maternity leave from Wednesday next week.
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Do not leave your car engine running/idling whilst you are dropping/collecting your child/ren from Nursery. It is not good for the environment or your children.
Spare Clothes - please donate any spare clothes as soon as possible as all of our supplies are running low, especially trousers. If your child/ren have come home at any point in our spare clothes, please wash & return promptly.
If your child/ren are absent for any reason you must let the school office know daily, either by leaving a voicemail or sending an email to admin@heathlane.herts.sch.uk.
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Book & Rhyme of the week
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The next Structured Stories Book is "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson.
We will start with the immersion phase of Structured Storytelling, where the children will explore the story through various engaging activities. They will learn about prepositions through participating in physical activities outside. This phase is crucial when developing understanding and language.
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Our key vocabulary of the text is "terrible", "tusk", "sneak", "knobbly", "roasted" and "poisonous". Please see below link to story;
Please see below a link to the story
The Gruffalo - Animated Read Aloud Book
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Next week's Rhyme of the week is going to be "Five little monkeys".
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This Rhyme will support the children's Maths Skills counting to five.
Language of the week
We are lucky to have a rich and diverse community with lots of different languages. Our language of the week is Portuguese, which is spoken by some of our children and their families.
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Please find below links of how to say "Hello" and "Goodbye" in Portuguese. You can practise with your child/ren at home.
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How to say 'hello' in Portuguese
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How to say 'Goodbye' in Portuguese
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Learning at home
Linking in with the start of our new Structured Storytelling "The Gruffalo" take a walk in the woods. See what you can see by looking all around you.
Healthy me, Healthy world
This Week during our Healthy Me sessions we are focusing on Road Safety. We will look at safe places to cross the road, different types of crossings and how to Cross the Road Safely. Remember to Stop! Look and Listen. Here is the link to a useful video about how to Cross the Road safely with your children.
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Success story of the week
This week we have been busy little bakers! The children worked together to make their very own sourdough starter named "Sally", carefully feeding it each day and noticing the exciting changes as it bubbled and grew. At the end of the week, they helped to mix, knead, and shape the dough before baking their very own loaf. The best part, of course, was tasting the delicious bread they made!
This hands-on experience has been a wonderful way to nurture their curiosity, build confidence, and celebrate learning together. Whilst also, linking strongly to the EYFS curriculum by using mathematics, communication & language and understanding the world.
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If you do any baking at home, please feel free to email in any photographs to be shared with your child/ren's keygroup.
