Please see end of year letter for all families
Welcome back to Nursery in September
Those families returning to us or joining us in September will be receiving important information this week as we prepare to welcome you for the next academic year. We appreciate that Covid 19 is creating uncertainty for everyone but we have turned the disruptive effect of this pandemic into an opportunity to create better ways to organise our learning for children. Our commitment is that no matter what the situation in September we will be ready to teach and engage with you as closely as we can through an educational experience that is as safe and protected as possible. In practical terms this means that if your child can’t come to nursery for part of the term due to family self isolation we will use technology to keep you close to us. Parental presence within the nursery is not going to be possible due to social distancing rules so we will be taking measures such as taking email addresses, making and receiving phone calls and finding innovative ways of working together with you. We believe that as a nursery we have a lot experience of using email contact and welcome phone calls from parents. Our leadership team will be available, either in person or remotely, as they have been over the last few months.
Our nursery school has faced many challenges in the last 50 years and with that breadth of experience behind us we feel we can look forward to the future with confidence, stay optimistic and continue to keep kindness to others as one of our core values.
We look forward to seeing you soon.
Last day of term
Our last of day of term is still Friday 17th July. There are no plans for the nursery to be open over the summer holiday period. 
Helping children understand about the virus
The following video explains the virus to children in quite a simple and appealing way, using play mobile characters
Keeping everyone safe in our “new normal”
We have made some changes to the way that nursery runs to keep children, staff and families as safe as possible. Please click on the link below to find out about them.
Learning at Home
Some useful guidance can be find around supporting learning at home through the following link
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-children-aged-2-to-4-to-learn-at-home-during-coronavirus-covid-19
Plans for return
Thank you for your patience and understanding if you have not yet received an email or letter giving a date for the return of your child to nursery. We are doing this cautiously and carefully in order to do all that we can to
protect the health of our children, our staff and the wider community.
Plans for next month
We have contacted or will be contacting families of current nursery children in regard to government plans for the opening of nurseries to more pupils. Unless a place has been allotted at nursery you should continue to keep them at home for now. 
Preparations for possible return of some nursery children
The government has told nurseries to begin to plan for how nursery children may be able to safely return, from June 1st at the earliest. This will only happen, as he states, if 5 conditions are met. We are beginning to plan for N2 children to return first (those children who will start school in September). We are still at the stage of planning how this can be done as safely as possible for children, staff and parents. We will inform N2 parents via email/phone call if and when we can accommodate this. We will respect the wishes of any parent who chooses to keep their child at home.
Ideas for Mathematics and Literacy
Some ideas for helping children who are going to be starting school in September
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