Welcome to Kesh Community Nursery

My name is Mrs Read and I am the Nursery teacher. 

Mrs McCaughey, Miss Verner, Miss Little and Mrs Robinson are our Nursery assistants and Mrs Middlemas, our caretaker, also volunteers in Nursery. 

This year we have a busy class of 30 pupils.  

This page will help to keep you up to date with what our little class have been up to.  See our Photos Gallery for a glimpse into our everyday activities as well as our daily diary on Seesaw for parents. 

A FEW USEFUL LINKS:  

From our friends at GETTING READY TO LEARN who provide the funding for our home lending packs: INFORMATION FOR PARENTS: 

https://www.gettingreadytolearn.co.uk/parents/

* A very useful link from the team at RISE - lots of excellent advice for parents to support children at home in a wide range of areas including speech and language, physical skills, behaviour support etc - well worth a look! 

https://view.pagetiger.com/RISENI/parents 

Forest School Families:  Inspiring family outdoor play together - why not look here for some exciting ideas from our friends at the Northern Ireland Forest School Association  

https://www.forestschoolsni.com/families

JANUARY 2025

A very happy new year and a warm welcome back to nursery, we look forward to a fun and exciting new term ahead.

Our Interest Topics this month are Winter weather and animals  and life in the Polar Regions.

The children will have opportunities to explore life in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. They may choose to visit the nursery igloo and polar explorer’s boat, discover the amazing creatures in these regions by playing with the various resources, look at maps and books or help make snow for the small world area. They will have plenty to keep them busy! Please view the Seesaw App for a more detailed outline of the learning and play opportunities.

Thank you for continuing to join us in our Seesaw journal.  It makes a good way to talk to your child about their day in nursery and as usual we love to hear what they remember and say, this helps develop their thinking skills, increases their memory and language skills.

Big Bedtime Read

Our Big Bedtime Read will recommence each Monday from Monday 13th. We really appreciate your commitment and help with this. As the Education Authority website states, “Spending just 10 minutes per day reading, talking and playing with your child helps develop their thinking skills. Problem-solving skills, turn taking skills, language and social skills”.

Important dates for your diary:

Applications for Nursery and Primary one places 2025 will open on Friday 10^th January 2025 at 12 noon and close on 24th January 2025 at 12 noon. 

Admissions | Education Authority Northern Ireland (eani.org.uk)

Happy Healthy Kids Packs will begin to go home later this month The packs will go home on a Tuesday and are to be returned on a Monday with the Big Bedtime Read Packs.  Hopefully you will enjoy all the activities and they will help you reinforce some of the skills the children will have been working on in nursery too.  

Tip of the Month             

I spy game. You could play The I Spy Game to help your child learn various mathematical concepts for example, I spy something big/small, long/short, up /down, wide/ narrow something straight / crooked for example.

Try rolling up some socks to use as ‘snowballs’ to aim at targets/boxes to practise those aiming and throwing skills ahead of the real snow arriving! Great for focus, direction and spatial awareness too.

‘Play is the highest form of research’

– Albert Einstein

Some of the poems we will be looking at this month:

I'm a little penguin

I’m a little penguin

Black and white

Soft and Cuddly,

What a sight.

I can’t fly at all

But I love to swim,

So I waddle to the water

And I dive right in

The North Wind shall blow

The North Wind shall blow

And we shall have snow

And what will poor robin do then?

Poor thing

He’ll stay in the barn and keep himself warm

With his head tucked under his wing

Poor thing!

Five Little Snowmen

Five little snowmen standing in a line

1,2,3,4,5 so fine

Melt in the sunshine with a sigh

We’ll see you next year, now bye bye!

(Continue to count down until none are left)

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Nursery 2022-23

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