Welcome to Belmont Nursery

Class teacher:

Mrs Roberts 

Early Years Practitioners:

Miss Ayres, Mrs Towell and Ms Pasebani

Names on clothes

Some children have started to lose their jumpers/fleeces already. Can we please remind you to NAME ALL of your child’s uniform, including coats and shoes. Otherwise newly purchased items will be lost. Thank you.

Please also put names on water bottles and lunchboxes.

Shoes

Please can we ask that you send your children in to school with shoes with no laces as we are finding it very time-consuming constantly having to re-tie them.

Thank you for your support.

Library Books

After the half term holiday each child will bring home a library book and a ‘reading for pleasure’ book and they will need a book bag.

Library day will be each Friday.

Please can you return books in the book bag on Tuesday. 

Learning this week

If your child says they do nothing at Nursery, try these ideas

• • If possible go for a walk as walking seems to work well to encourage  chatting
  • Share one great thing about your day and encourage your child to tell you something great about their day
  • Ask silly questions such as, “Did you play on the school roof today?” “Did you wear wellies on your hands in school today?” Hopefully your child will then correct your misunderstandings about school by telling you something that really happened!
  • If your child doesn’t want to chat then tell them something about your day such as what you had for lunch. Then they can see the conversation modelled when you ask, “What did you eat today?”
  • Play a game when you get home from Nursery. Play for a few minutes and listen to your child as it can be amazing what snippets of their day they start to chat about when engaged in role play!

Key Dates:

Home school partnership evening, 24th September:

There will be a welcome talk from our Headteacher, Mr Venn-Coffey, at 5:30pm, followed by a Nursery presentation led by the teacher at either 6:00pm or 6:30pm. Please note the teacher presentations will be identical, so you only need to attend one of the two sessions.

The partnerships evening will introduce you to Nursery, share what your child will be learning throughout the year, and explain how we can work together to support their learning and development. We will share key information about the Nursery day, routines and other important aspects of school life. There will also be an opportunity to ask any questions and find out how you can support your child at home.

Other Key Information:

Snack

As part of our afternoon snack we ask that you please kindly donate plain rice cakes for the whole class snack. Due to identified allergies we are no longer able to accept breadsticks.

Home School Communication Book

You will receive a Home School Communication Book next week. This book is intended to be an additional way for parents and school staff to communicate information. If you have something that you would like to tell us, please write in the Home School Book and hand it to the member of staff who is on the gate. We will read your comments and reply either in writing or in person. Please note that this book is not for communication about going home arrangements.

Reading at Belmont

A prime focus for us is to instil and develop a love of reading for all learners. In order to encourage your child to become a lifelong reader, it is important that they learn to Read for Pleasure. As such, the children choose two books each week from a selection of story and fact books. This is at the heart of our commitment to encouraging our children to become lifelong readers. These books come home with the children on their library day and must be returned before another book can be borrowed.

Please remember that you shouldn’t expect your child to read these books alone. Please read the books to or with them. Discuss the pictures, enjoy the story, predict what might happen next, use different voices for the characters and explore the facts in a non-fiction book. The main thing is that everyone has lots of fun!

There are two types of reading books that your child will have access to at home:

1. A Reading for Pleasure sharing book.
   Children will not be able to read this on their own. This book is for you to both read and enjoy together.
2. A Library book.
   As above, please spend time with your child reading and discussing the book together.

Helping your child with reading

Nurturing young readers

Reading for pleasure books

As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.

Please find links to two book lists that have a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don’t already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.

The books come from the ’50 Recommended Reads for Nursery’ list which can be found here.

Think Equal

Think Equal is a global initiative that seeks to end the discriminatory mindset across our world and ensure positive life outcomes for our children. Together with world experts Think Equal has designed a programme to teach social and emotional learning to early years (3-6-year-olds). Think Equal’s vision is a safe, free, equal, cohesive and sustainable world. Through the power of narrative we provide young children with a profound grounding in social and emotional skills and competencies including: equality, empathy, and peaceful conflict resolution. We provide the concrete tools with which to build a strong foundation for individual and societal progress, making communities safer, healthier, more equal and just.

This complimentary resource has been put together to help you to support your child’s social and emotional development in the home in fun and engaging ways. It  is to be used alongside the Think Equal programme and stories being used in school.

The Home Kit serves as a platform to reinforce topics covered in the classroom, fostering meaningful conversations at home. Through a variety of resources, games, and exercises, you can nurture your child’s growth and help them become empathetic, compassionate, and resilient individuals.

Autumn Learning Tree

Please see the Autumn Learning Tree for more information about our learning this term: