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In the Birth to 2s room children have enjoyed exploring sorting, investigating, and being outdoors.

We have welcomed Hammid, Arissa, Isla and Alayna, who have all joined us this term. Welcome also to Connie, who will be working in Birth to 2s until April. She is studying to be an Early Years…

As usual there are lots of activities for families going on at St Edmund’s throughout the term that you are welcome to join in with – story time and lending library on Mondays and Fridays from 8.45 to 9.15am and 12.45 to 1.15pm, and singing sessions on Wednesdays at 8.45am and 12.30pm. Please come…

March has arrived and with the days getting slightly longer and the bulbs popping up it feels as though spring is nearly here. Hopefully the weather will soon start to get a bit warmer too as we approach Easter.

Nearly 50 parents attended Better Together day on 17th February. As we are part of…

Today I walked into Yellow Class and I loved what Dina had set out - pallettes with different things in each section of the palette, powder paint, foam, gel. She said the children were enjoying mixing and I thought it was lovely to have small quantities in each section - for experimentation etc. I…

Sticks can be great as a drawing material on light boxes. For making spiders? For using as imaginary phones? I think the light boxes need my attention as I was thinking about was how I (we) don’t use the lightboxes well enough, I prefer to set them up with possibilities using the scrap materials,…

Welcome back everyone after the holiday, and happy new year!

We now have 4 story sessions each week during term time:

• Monday 8.45 to 9.15 am
• Monday 12.45 to 1.15 pm
• Friday 8.45 to 9.15 am
• Friday 12.45 to 1.15 pm

The Lending Library has changed its opening times to Mondays and…

Dear parents/carers,

Welcome back and happy New Year. I hope you all had a restful break and hopefully, like me, you are ready to get back to the usual routine.

Staff changes

We know how important it is for you and your child to build a really good relationship with your child’s key…

Welcome to Abdul, Bobby and Yasmine who are joining us this term. Good luck to Hammad, Ayra and Mustafa who are moving up to Blue and Green rooms. We have had some changes recently in our room. Babies have enjoyed exploring the new torches, the new cause and effect wall, and the new layout of the…

In Red and Yellow Class we are moving on to our new topic ‘Once Upon a Time’. Through this we will celebrate the art of storytelling. The children will explore a range of stories from different cultures, experience many traditional tales and listen to stories in different languages. We will be…

Blue Room

Last term Santa came to visit! All the children enjoyed meeting him. This half term we are going to be celebrating pancake day, making lots of pancakes for all the children to enjoy.

 Welcome to Hammad and Ayra who have joined us from 0 – 2s, and to all those children who have…

We have been exploring different autumn colours by collecting leaves in the park and then making autumn pictures using leaves and red, yellow and green paint.

Welcome to Amelia, Mustafa and Ismail who will soon be joining the baby room. Laiba, Musa, Fathema and Alishba have started their visits…

In Red and Yellow class we have spent a lot of time getting to know each other. Everyone has settled in and is beginning to form relationships with other children and adults.

The children (and staff) loved our core story ‘Hug’. Thank you to all families who brought their puppets in for us to…