Welcome to the first blog post of the new school year!  It is lovely to have the blog up and running again after such a strange six months.  Now more than ever, we hope the blog will help our parents and carers feel connected and up-to-date with all the wonderful learning through play that we get up to everyday in Nursery.

Although parents and carers can no longer come into Nursery at drop-off to take a peek at the invitations to play and the children’s display boards, we hope the blog will provide some insight into our Nursery environment.  We hope you will be able to find some time each week to show your child the photos on the blog and help them talk about their morning or day at Nursery.

Through our staggered start, we have now welcomed all of the children into Nursery.  We would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of our new families and we hope you and your children are starting to feel more settled as you become part of the St. Matthew’s community.  We are so proud of our 7 older children who have been so patient, understanding and, of course, incredibly kind and friendly towards the 18 new children who have joined us over the past couple of weeks.

The children have all been very busy exploring the Nursery environment, both inside and outdoors…

As their confidence begins to grow, we notice they become more willing to ‘have a go’ riding on the bikes…

…or taking on the challenge of completing a tricky obstacle course!

And, of course, we have all been getting used to our new routine: play-time, snack-time, garden-time, story-time, number-blocks, home-time or lunchtime & Little Acorns.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!