Little Owls Nursery City & Holbeck

🌟 LITTLE OWLS CITY & HOLBECK 🌟

🧸 Parent & Carer Learning Workshops 🧸

☕ Learn Together • Create Together • Share Together ☕

We are delighted to be planning a series of exciting workshops for parents and carers and would love you to join us!

Using additional funding, we hope to offer fun, interactive sessions where we can:

✅ Learn new ideas together

✅ Make resources and activities to use at home

✅ Share experiences and tips with other families

✅ Enjoy refreshments in a friendly atmosphere

📚 Workshop Themes

🔢 Mathematics

Fun and easy ways to support your child's early maths skills through everyday play.

📖 Books & Storytelling

Bringing stories to life and developing a love of reading together.

🎵 Songs & Rhymes

Exploring favourite songs and rhymes to support language and communication development.

🏠 Home Learning Challenge

At the end of each workshop, you will receive a simple activity to try at home with your child.

When we meet again, you'll have the opportunity to share:

⭐ What you enjoyed

⭐ What worked well

⭐ Ideas and experiences with the group

📅 Starting January 2027

👥 Small Groups of up to 6 Parents/Carers

📍 Held in the Little Owls City & Holbeck Office

☕ Refreshments Provided

💬 Interested?

Please leave a comment in the box below and tell us which workshop(s) you would like to attend:

☐ Mathematics

☐ Books & Storytelling

☐ Songs & Rhymes

🌈 We are really excited about this opportunity and hope you are too!

Come along, meet other families, learn together and support your child's learning through fun and play!

🌟 Welcome Back! Exciting Adventures Await This Term! 🌟

☀️ Good Morning Everyone!

We hope you are all well and enjoying the last few days of the summer holidays.

📅 Important Reminder

🚪 Nursery Closed

Monday 31st August - Bank Holiday

Tuesday 1st September - Staff Training Day

🌈 We Can't Wait to See You on Wednesday 2nd September

We are very much looking forward to welcoming all our children back to nursery and hearing about all the exciting things you've been doing during the summer holidays.

👋 A Special Welcome to Our New Families

Throughout September, we will be welcoming lots of new children and families to our nursery community.

💛 Please join us in giving everyone a warm welcome and helping them feel at home.

🎉 Exciting Things Coming This Term!

Alongside our ambitious curriculum, we have lots of fantastic enrichment opportunities planned:

🎭 Debutots Returns!

Laura from Debutots will be visiting again to deliver fun and imaginative storytelling sessions.

🔢 Number Train Visit

We have arranged for Liz from Number Train to visit and show us the exciting mathematical learning opportunities available for our children.

🚌 Story Bus Adventure

We're hoping to welcome a visit from the wonderful Story Bus, bringing books, stories and lots of reading fun!

⭐ Lots to Look Forward To!

We are sure you'll agree that there are plenty of exciting experiences ahead, and we can't wait to share them with you.

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In room 3 as the children get older, we offer the opportunity/challenge for them to mix their own colours with the powder paints.

We talk about what happens when you put 2 colours together to make a new colour.....I found these feathers at Nursery recently and thought it would be a good way to demonstrate mixing colours.

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We have been watering the vegetables over the summer, and here is a small selection of our harvest.......there is still more to ripen.

Also the apples are now on the tree near the mud kitchen, so I'm sure it will apple pies all round in the autumn.

This week, we've had a fantastic time making our own freshly squeezed orange ice lollies to help us cool down in the lovely hot weather.

What better way to quench our thirst than with a delicious ice lolly?

This activity has been wonderful for the children, as it allowed them to enhance their fine motor skills while they squashed and squeezed the oranges to extract as much juice as possible.

The staff also engaged the children in discussing the round shape of the oranges and explored how cutting them in half resulted in two pieces, fostering their mathematical understanding.

Additionally, the children discovered the concept of cause and effect: the juice started as a liquid when placed in the freezer, but transformed into a solid when frozen.

Alongside making the lollies, the children also decorated pots and planted cress seeds, which we hope will grow in the coming week.

Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

Hope everyone is having a lovely summer and you have all been doing lots of lovely things..........................the weather has been............ A M A Z I N G!!!!

Here's a little handy guide for you to be able to post any photos, videos and observations on the FAMLY app.................we look forward to seeing what you have all been up to.

Only 2 more weeks left and we are looking forward to seeing everyone back in Nursery and to welcoming all our new children and families.