Forgewood Family Learning Centre

Due to ongoing building work at Braidhurst High School our nursery

car park will be unavailable for the foreseeable future.

Parking is available at the car park across from the school and surrounding area.

We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Newsletter Oct Nov

Our new Depute Head of Centre Louise Tiffney has been appointed and will be joining us at Forgewood Family Learning Centre on Monday 23rd October 2017.

The children and staff look forward to welcoming Louise to her new post.

 

 

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This week in the 3-5’s the children and practitioners have been having “strive for five” conversations, to encourage the children’s skills of listening and talking. The children have been talking about members of their family, drawing pictures and writing words related to relatives. The children have been working together sharing and taking turns in a range of experiences such as table top games and when building in the construction area.

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The children are practising their pre-writing skills, when signing in daily. They are making marks to represent their name and over time will gain control of the fine movements to form the letters in their name.
Children are beginning to retell favourite stories to their friends and book’s such as the tiger who came to tea are being acted out with the use of puppets.
Grounds for Learning Nurturing Nature programme has begun and the leaders Gordon and Kay have invited a group of 8 families to take part in this block. The photos show lots of fun being had by children and adults alike. Lots of people are asking to take part and will have the opportunity to in the next sessions.

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The Children have settled in and are beginning to follow the daily routines within the nursery. Signing in brushing our teeth, having snack and tidying up. Three Read has begun and it would be really helpful if the children could be in their welcome groups for 9am and 120pm at the latest to avoid interruption of the stories. The children are learning when to talk and when to listen in a variety of situations such as welcome and three read times.
The children are exploring the experiences and materials on offer to them and building friendships along the way, sharing ideas and resources as they go.
Our Speech and Language Language Land, Grounds for Learning Nurturing Nature and Community development and Learning Solihull classes have all begun this week, everyone has been so busy Practitioners Parents and Children.

Hello,

Glad to be back for a new term in the toddler room.  A big welcome to our new children, returners and Lorraine who has joined us from the annexe.

The children have been showing an interest in playing with the dolls and acting out familiar experiences such as feeding, bathing and changing them. They have also enjoyed using their senses to explore real food, pretending to make dinner and using new skills such as chopping. The children have been developing their independence skills at snack time where they have been using tongs to select their food as well as pouring and spreading. We have noticed that the children are enjoying filling and emptying using different containers, we have provided opportunities around the nursery for the children to extend this schematic play. Through the 3 read approach, we have been looking at and talking about nursery rhymes.  We have also been exploring puppets in the song box as well as listening to songs and rhymes using musical instruements.

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