Little Stars Nursery, Sacriston

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Did you know that you may be able to receive funded childcare for your 2yr old if you are not working and receive certain benefits.

This is called the play and learn scheme, more information and how to apply can be found at

Funded childcare sessions for two year olds (Play and Learn) - Durham County Council Some two year olds are entitled to funded childcare from the term after their second birthday at 'Play and Learn' sessions. This could be at a nursery, playgroup or with a childminder.

Family Hubs are offering the following programmes and courses to parents of children aged 3 and 4 around speech and language and school readiness. These are suitable for any child where parents have concerned about their child’s speech and language development or worries about them starting nursery or school.
If you would like any further information you can contact the Family Hub team at [email protected]

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31335/WellComm-early-language-screening-session

Currently for children aged 3 and 4 years - WellComm is a tool to identify children who may be experiencing struggling with their speech and language development, and provide strategies and activities for parents to use at home.

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31336/Let-s-Talk-at-Home-course

Let's Talk at Home is a course for parents and carers of children aged three to four years.
These play-based sessions are fun, practical and filled with talking tips to help develop your child's speech, language and communication skills, at home using their favourite activities.

https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31337/Incredible-Years-pre-school-course

This course is aimed at parents of children aged three to six years. It looks at how you interact with your child, and helps you to promote your child's social, emotional and language development to get them ready for school.

Family Hubs also have information for parents in booklet form and replicated on the website looking at understanding language, spoken language and speaking clearly.
https://www.durham.gov.uk/article/31334/Courses-to-support-you-with-your-child-s-speech-language-and-getting-ready-for-school

All of these courses are free and families can request a place by clicking on the relevant link

WellComm early language screening session - Durham County Council WellComm is a tool to identify children who may be experiencing barriers to speech and language development, and provide strategies and activities for parents to use at home.

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Just a little reminder that we will re-open on Wednesday 4th September and look forward to hearing what all our little stars have been up to over the summer holidays.

Our little stars have enjoyed their last few weeks and had a great time at fun Friday 🤩🎶🤩🎶
We hope you all have a lovely holidays and look forward to seeing those who are returning to us on Wednesday 4th September 😁😁

Children collected pine cones for our new outside area, creating and designing them themselves to hang outside x

Enjoying the new outside area last week x

The children are definitely enjoying our new outside area, we don’t think we’ll get them back in 😂😂😂
A massive thank you to DF Landscaping for a wonderful job 😁😁

We’ve had a lovely first two weeks back after the summer holidays, with our little stars settling back into nursery. They’ve had great fun expressing themselves and making some new friends.

What a lovely half term we’ve had 😁 some of the things our little stars have enjoyed are, making flags for the coronation, planting their own seeds and getting the garden ready for the when the seeds grow, learning about bees and making their own bee creations. They’ve been making most the most of the lovely weather and love to be outside playing.
Hope you all have a lovely half term and we will see you back on Monday 5th June 😁

We’ve had a fantastic first week back. Starting the week off with Dawn’s special birthday, lots of discussions about what we have been up to over the Easter holidays and we’ve enjoyed the good weather 🎊🥳 🐣☀️

This term we have had lots of fun and learning opportunities both inside the nursery and in the garden.
We hope all our ‘Little Stars’ have a fantastic Easter break and we’ll see them all next term 🏡📖🛝🐣

WORLD BOOK DAY 🌍📚📖📕

We have really enjoyed the last few weeks of Autumn. Especially visiting our local woods, parks and playing and learning in our garden. The children have particularly enjoyed the theme of the Gruffalo.
We are now SO EXCITED to officially start CHRISTMAS!
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“LEST WE FORGET”

This week we have been teaching the children all about Remberance Day. They worked together to make a Poppy and place it at the village cenotaph. We also visited St Bede’s Church 🙏🏻

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This week we have been learning all about Guy Fawkes (Bonfire Night), making fireworks and most importantly how to stay safe. We even had a visit from Red Watch at Durham Fire Station who reinforced our learning.
Thank you so much to the Red Watch Crew Durham County Durham & Darlington Fire & Rescue Service

🎃💀HALLOWEEN PARTY 👻🎃

Today we enjoyed our annual Halloween Party. We had lots of fun being creative, party games, listening to stories, Halloween themed party food and of course lots of spooky dance moves 👯‍♀️💃🕺🎃👻💀

We have had so much fun outside over the last couple of weeks enjoying the good weather.
We’ve really enjoyed learning all about the Autumn season, the village that we live in and also using our fab gross motor skills to have lots of Autumn adventures!
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This morning we had another AMAZING ‘Forest School’ session. The children (and staff) all enjoyed pancakes with different fruits and as a treat, toasted marshmallows. 🥞
Jenny brought and used her fire pit and taught the children all about how to stay safe whilst using it. 🔥
Thank you so much Jenny, we had so much fun once again and can’t wait till next time!