Head of School's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Working Together to Inspire Our Children

At Oxhey Nursery School, we are always looking for ways to make children’s learning meaningful, exciting and connected to the real world around them. One of the most powerful resources we have is you – our families – and the wealth of skills, experiences and interests you bring from your everyday lives.

To help us better understand our nursery community, we have created a short online form for parents and carers. This form asks about your profession, interests and hobbies, and whether you might be happy to share any of these with the children. By learning more about you, we can:

Help children understand their local community and the different jobs people do.

Offer real-life examples that bring our topics and projects to life.

Show children a wide range of possibilities for their futures.

The form has been sent to you in the body of this email and will not be included within this newsletter. In that email, you will find a link to the Wufoo form, which you can complete online at a time that suits you.

We would be very grateful if as many parents and carers as possible could complete and return the form. Your involvement can be as simple as answering the questions, or, if you wish, you can indicate an interest in visiting the nursery to talk briefly about your job, demonstrate your profession, share a hobby, or support an activity.

Thank you, as always, for your continued support and for everything you do to help us give the children the very best start. We truly appreciate your time and partnership, and we hope to hear from many of you through the form.

Reminders

Half Term - Monday 16th-Friday 20th February

Parent Consultations - Monday 23rd - Thursday 26th February. Your booking link has been e mailed to you.

World Book Day - Dress as your favourite book character - Thursday 5th March

Red Nose Day - Wear Red - Friday 20th March

Last Day of Spring Term - Friday 27th March, School Closes at 1pm - No Tea Club. Return for Summer Term Tuesday 14th April (Monday 13th closed for Inset Day)

Nursery Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Nursery room will begin a new book called 'Going on a Lion Hunt' written by David Axtell.

They will begin the first week of this book partaking in the immersion stage; they will be going on a pretend safari, searching the room and garden for safari animals; can they find the lion among them all? They will explore other parts of Africa and link this to previous reading ('Handa's Surprise') and they will explore the textures that appear within the book.

Their key words will help them with their understanding of their book: slam, around, through, lake and swamp.

The rhyme will focus on their maths knowledge of patterns. They will sing the rhyme 'Clap your Hands and Wiggle Your Fingers.'

Through this rhyme, they with explore the pattern ABABA by CLAP - WIGGLE - CLAP - WIGGLE extending this to other body parts.

Willow Room

Book & Rhyme of the week

Willow room will begin a new book called 'My Grandpa is Amazing' written by Nick Butterworth.

They will begin the first week of this book partaking in the immersion stage; they will explore photos of their grandpas/dads and explore being an amazing dance like the grandpa/grandad in the book.

Their key keys will help them with their understanding of their book: Grandpa, amazing and afraid.

The rhyme will focus on their phonics of voice sounds.

They will sing 'The Voice Sound Song.' Through this rhyme, they will create actions to help them to orally re-tell the rhyme.

Conker Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Conker room will continue their book called 'Oh No George' written by Nick Butterworth.

They will begin the first week partaking in the immersion stage. They will explore items they love, tidy up a ruined area and explore similarities and differences with dogs and humans.

Their key words will help with their understanding of their book; love, good, thinks and ruined.

The rhyme will focus on their phonics of voice sounds. They will sing 'The Voice Sound Song.' Through this rhyme, they will create actions to help them to orally re-tell the rhyme.

Home Learning

Each Wednesday, the packs will be found outside main reception. There is a display to show you which group’s turn it is and a signing out folder for each pack.

These are to borrow and return the following week.

Groups for Wednesday 25th February are:

Busy Fingers - Robin

Story Bags - Dormouse and Owl

Maths Pack - Woodpecker

Success Story of the Week!

Dear Parents,

This week at Oxhey we’ve had a truly  wonderful sight… LABELS!

We’ve noticed more children’s jumpers and clothing are now clearly labelled with their names, and we cannot tell you what a difference this makes.

As you can imagine, it’s quite a challenge for staff to work out which green jumper belongs to which child—especially when many of them are logo jumpers and look almost identical.

Seeing those name labels makes it so much easier for us to reunite children with their own belongings and keep everything where it should be.

We really value the way you support our school uniform here at Oxhey, and we are very keen to support you in getting your children’s clothes back home.

Please do keep up the brilliant effort and continue to label all items of clothing—jumpers, cardigans, coats, hats, and anything else that might be taken off during the day.

We also have a small favour to ask:

If you could have a quick look through your children’s clothes at home for any items labelled “Oxhey” (these are items we have labelled in school so we know they belong to us), we would be very grateful if they could be returned.