Opportunities to include Parents / Carers

On a weekly basis, the children will take home a self chosen library book, we ask you to read with your child at home as this helps considerably with their literacy skills. We also send out “Chatter Bags” with lots of ideas of how to support communication development.  

On a yearly basis, the children will bring home a variety of home schooling activities including :  

  • Fruit Bag 
  • Vegetable Bag
  • Physical Bag
  • Oral Health
  • Maths Bag
  • Colour Bag

 

We ask parents to uploaded photos to Tapestry, Its’ lovely to see the interaction these bags provide !

Fruit Bag

Fruit bag with ingredients and recipes to complete with their families.   

Vegetable Bag

 Vegetable bag with ingredients and recipes to complete with their families.   

Physical Bag

Physical bag including a hoop, bat, balls & beanbags with ideas on how to be physical with your children. 

Feedback from parent : Fruit Bag - "What a beautiful project this is!!!”
“Keen to get started, Jossie wanted to make the fruit kebabs for our dessert. He chopped the banana, pulled the grapes off their storks and separated out the orange segments. He then enjoyed putting the fruit on the stick and definitely enjoyed eating it. Once he was finished, he made another one with the fruit he had left. We’re looking forward to trying some of the other ideas” Thank you for sending it home. Lots of fun.”

Oral Health

Oral health bag providing knowledge of tooth care and fun resources such as books and craft activities. 

Maths Bag

  Maths packs to development their skills in counting .                     

Colour Bag

 Colour packs to development their skills in colour recognition.   .  

Feedback From parents: Oral Health Bag - “ My daughter enjoyed helping to cut out the "happy" & "sad" foods, she was able to pick which foods were healthy or bad and glued them to the correct papers saying Mommy these foods are bad for your teeth and these are good“
“My Daughter had great fun with the activity bag, she coloured in some dirty teeth and then cleaned them. We are now talking about going to the dentist and how they help us look after our teeth. These activities are lots of fun!”

Alongside the activities for families, we hold workshops for parents/carers to come into the setting and work with their children. This is a good opportunity for parents to see what their child can achieve through play and learn more about how the Nursery supports their child.   

Some activities we have held are: Mother Day afternoon tea, Fathers Day crafts, Christmas Lunch, Christmas craft sessions and Easter Activities. 

Christmas - December 2023

It was lovely to see so many parent joining us for th Christmas craft session. 

The sessions included painting, playdough, gluing, threading and colouring interactive activities for parents and children to enjoy.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. 

Christmas - December 2023

Parents Christmas Meal

Thank you to all the parents who attended the parent/child Christmas meal and to the Quinborne Community Centre for providing the food. 

Happy Christmas everyone 

Easter - April 2023

A big thank you to all the parents that attended our two Easter Craft sessions. 

The sessions were filled with lots of interactive activities for parents and children, we hope you enjoyed them. 

Happy Easter everyone