At Pepperberry we believe it is vitally important for par-ents/carers and families to be kept informed of devel-opments and activities at nursery. I can’t believe I have already completed a month at Pepperberry and I want to thank all the staff, parents and children for making me feel so wel-come. Following on from our par-

ent focus group In October

thoughts and ideas have

been put into practice.

These included a reminder

for parents of the book and

song of the month, this is

now displayed on each

room’s door so you are able

to discuss this with your

child.

I have appointed Hannah Baxter as our transition co-ordinator, and her role is to liaise with the seniors in

each room when children are ready to move up and ensures the transition is smooth for all. We have transition boxes for parents these are in reception for Babies and Tiny Peppers and outside each room for Sweet, Chilli’s and Grand’s with information on the staff and in-formation you may want to know about the next room

The children have been taking part in a variety of activities in-cluding visits to the cenotaph for Remembrance Day, Diwali and Thanksgiving and we are look-ing forward to a busy month in December getting into the Christmas spirit, and we are already busy practising our Christmas songs.

Finally, thank-you for supporting our spotty day in aid of Children in Need we raised a fantastic £122.82.

Message from the Management Team

Newsletter Date:

December 2015

Pepperberry Newsletter

November 2015

Pepperberry Newsletter November 2015

Inside this issue:

Baby Peppers 2

Tiny Peppers 2

Sweet Peppers 3

Chilli Peppers and

Grand Peppers

3

Policy of the Month 3

Recipe of the Month 4

Photos 4

Special Points of in-

terest this month:

October highlights see

what the children have

been up to this month.

Preschool Uniform —

mandatory

Look at our photos from

August and see if your

child is featured this

month.

Recipe of the Month

Get to know a new mem-

ber of staff.

Learn Enjoy Flourish

Please can all parents ensure that their child is col-

lected at 1pm or 6pm prompt. If children are left

after this time this interferes with ratios and the

setting is not insured outside of our opening times.

Could parents please refrain from bringing hair clips

for the under 2 year olds as this can be a chocking

hazard.

We politely request that parents dropping off or

collecting children at 1pm after the morning session

to consider that there are sleeping children and enter

the unit quietly so that the children sleeping are not

disturbed.

Please could your child refrain from bringing money

or toys with small parts that could come loose into

the nursery as this can be a chocking hazard. Com-

fort toys are accepted.

As you are aware we have numerous children with

dietary requirements please could you ensure that

your child does not take food or drinks into any

rooms

Our local children’s hairdresser Little Big Heads

now come to Pepperberry every 6 weeks so

please keep an eye out for the posters and book

in for the next time they come in. Their next

booked visit is Wednesday 16th December 2015.

If you are on Facebook please ‘like’ Pepperber-

ry’s page. I would like to say a big Thank You to

those parents/carers who have already made a

comment on our facebook page. All comments

are very much appreciated. www.facebook.com/

pepperberrydaynurseries

Important Messages

We have also introduced self-

service breakfast and snack in

Sweet, Chilli and Grand Pep-

pers. This allows the children

to have a choice, and encour-

ages the children to develop

their independence and skills

such as hand-eye co-

ordination.

We have introduced a home

reading scheme in Chilli and

Grand Peppers to enable your

child to take a book home to

read with you. You can pur-

chase a Pepperberry book bag

to take part in this which

matches our preschool

uniform. Please ask the staff

in the room if you would like

your child to take part in this.

Each month in our newsletter we

introduce you to a new member of

our staff team where they tell

you a little more about them-

selves. This is to help you get to

know the staff a little better.

This month we will be introducing

Kealan Storey. Kealan is an early

years assistant in Tiny Peppers.

Kealan is the oldest of three siblings and enjoys looking after them.

Kealan enjoys working with children and in the future would like to work

with children with disabilities . I hop to continue my training and gain

my level 3 in child care.

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What have Tiny Peppers been up to?

Pepperberry Newsletter November 2015

Get to know our staff...

What have Baby Peppers been up to this month?

Kealan Storey

Stevie Clare (Senior); Kimberley Jack,

Monika Kaczorowska; Jeny Zago This month baby peppers have been

very busy doing lots of fun activities

around our topic of light and dark. Baby

peppers have been looking at our book

of the month

about ‘The very

noisy night’, it has

taught the babies

to listen to differ-

ent sounds such

as “woo hoo” “drip

drip” etc books, we explored the objects

that were in the book with object that we

had in the room to learn what they are

called as well as exploring outside to

listen to noises and identify them.

This month the babies have enjoyed go-

ing out on our trip into Wilmslow town

centre to go to the memorial garden we

went with children from other room to

show our respect and to lay down the

poppies we created. The children enjoyed

looking at the names that were on the

cenotaph which the practitioner pointed to

and read out.

The children have also enjoyed exploring

the shaving foam and paints during

messy play as well as different colours

objects. We made marks in the foam with

our fingers and hands some of us tried to

eat the foam! At circle time the children

have also enjoyed singing “Twinkle Twin-

kle little star” to learn about light and dark,

day and night.

We have also had lot of fun playing

outside in nursery wetsuit to keep our-

selves dry when the floor was wet to

develop on our physical skills. The

children enjoyed climbing up and down

on the soft play, the older babies that

can pull themselves into a standing

position have enjoyed learning to take

some steps with the walker or by hold-

ing onto the practitioner hands as well

as cruising alongside the fence.

Our book of the month for December is

“That’s not my reindeer” and our rhyme

of the month is “When Santa got stuck

up the chimney”

Rebecca Daniel (Senior) Hannah Bax-

ter, Hannah Reyner, Debbie Banks,

Marta Skockzek, Emily Birks; Daniella

McGiven; Amelia Culleton

This month Tiny Peppers have been ex-ploring the topic of light and dark. Our book of the month was ‘Owl Babies’. As

practitioners read the book, the children have learnt about the sounds owls make and what happens at night time. Tiny

peppers have been making owls for our display using lots of paint! Our song of the month was ‘twinkle twinkle little star.’ All of the children have enjoyed singing the song and learning all the actions. Tiny Peppers have been making lots of shiny stars of all different sizes, covered in glitter.

On remembrance day we made some Tiny Pepper handprints to create a wreath. We then took the wreath down to the memorial gardens. Tiny peppers learnt about remem-brance day and laid the wreath down with the others. Tiny Peppers celebrated bonfire night this month. We talked about all the colours and noises we see and hear from the firework displays. We made lots of fire work crafts including firework pictures, bonfire painting and edible sparklers. We made our own bonfire using sticks and tissue paper and the created sparklers. Once made we all sat around the pretend bonfire, shaking our sparklers and singing songs. Tiny Peppers have also celebrated Diwali this month. All the children got involved making Diva lamps, mixing and making the clay into different shapes. We have been exploring Rangoli patterns using lots of dif-ferent textures and bright colours to make our very own giant Rangoli pattern.

The children enjoyed sticking on the pieces of paper and getting messy!

Tiny Peppers have enjoyed learning more about different sounds that ob-jects and animals make around the room within circle time. We have also been leaning lots of new Christmas songs with Beryl, ready for Christmas!

Well done to all the Tiny Pepper chil-dren who dressed up in spots for chil-dren in need! We had lots of fun col-ouring in pictures of Pudsey Bear and making our very own Pudsey masks using lots of spots.

Our Book of the month for December is “The Gruffalo’s Child” and our Rhyme of the month is “Jingle Bells”

Anush Yadgari (Senior Practitioner),

Samantha Spence, Hannah Ridgway,

Robyn Mathews

This month in Chilli Peppers we have been focussing on our book of the month and our letter of the month. Our letter of the month is ‘ n’ which links to our book of the month which is ‘Noah's Ark’. We have done many creative activities that link with the book of the month such as making boats out of salt dough, sponge stencil painting of animals. We have

also made our own Noah's ark boat with rainbows which went our Noah’s ark display that the children was in-volved with. We have read our book of the month every morning and the children have enjoyed it. We have used our interactive whiteboard to focus on our letter ‘n’ this has mostly been done by using our jolly phonics software. We do our jolly phonics every morning with in circle time which links in with our writing activi-ties. We have had trips to the park to col-lect Autumn leaves and a walk to memorial gardens to pay our respect and the children enjoyed making their poppies.

In the Chilli pepper room we have also been focusing on our room rules and we have been reinforced these. We have new sensory activities that the children can use independently during free play. This is our painting easel and our sand play which have signs and rules involved and the chil-dren understand the rules and boundaries themselves. This is in-creasing their independence for when they make the next transition. We have slowly started our Christmas activities as we have been learning our new Christmas songs with Beryl. Our letter of the month for December is the letter D, and our book of the month is “I’m the best”

Sweet Peppers

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Ashleigh Haselden, (Senior) , Jennie Hart

During the month of November Grand Pep-

pers have been very excited about our nativity

play. We have been practicing our Christmas

songs every day. The songs we have been

practicing are—”little donkey”, “Down in the

stable”, “The echo song”, Christmas Pudding”,

“Rudolf the red nose reindeer”, “Jingle Bells”,

“Navidad” (Spanish jingle bells), “When Santa

got stuck up a chimney” and “We wish you a

merry Christmas”. WE would appreciate it if

you were able to practice these at home also.

All the Grand Pepper children will be starting

dress rehearsals over the next couple of

weeks, so please bring in your child’s cos-

tumes with their names attached inside if pos-

sible.

As you are aware we have had a change in

the room layout to ensure a stimulating for

your child’s. I would like to thank Harriet ( our

lunch time assistant) for building us an amaz-

ing role play house, which we are creating into

Santa’s workshop in the next week.

Grand Peppers classroom rules are being

reinforced during circle time. A new reward

system is also being put into place to promote

positive behaviour within the room. Under-

neath our white board each child will have an

ice cream cone with their name on, once a

child shows positive behaviour, they will get a

scoop ,of ice cream, there will be different

colours and each one numbered one to five.

Once reaching five scoops they will get a spe-

cial treat from our special box..

Our book of the month for December is the

nativity story.

We would like Jennie Hart into the Grand

Peppers.

Jennie is a

qualified ear-

ly years

teacher, who

brings lots of

new ideas to

share with us

to ensure the

best for our children.

Hawthorn Care Home was very happy to see

such well behaved children, who used their

very best singing voices throughout our

Christmas songs.

Donna Preston (Senior Practitioner), Re-

becca Judge, Armelle Bouetoubassa, So-

phie Delvin, Rachael Turner

This month in Sweet Peppers we have been

focussing on both the book of the month by

creating frogs out of paper plats and dress-

ing up and dressing up as numerous differ-

ent characters from ‘Room on the Broom

book. As well as that we have been making

fitting seasonal activities such as snow-

flakes, polar bears and snow men for our

‘Winter Wonderland’ display, using a range

of different materials as well as gluing, stick-

ing and painting. As well as making things

for our Winter Wonderland we are also mak-

ing a range of different activities for the chil-

dren to take home nearer the Christmas

period, for example using handprints to

make Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

cards and salt dough to make Christmas

pictures using play dough cutters. Also this

month with have began to introduce a lot

more independence to prepare the children

in Sweet Peppers ready for the transition to

Chilli Peppers. This has been done by pro-

moting self service snack within the room

proving children

with the oppor-

tunity to make

decisions for

themselves and

to practise pour-

ing and decision making. Also this month

the children have had a range of new sen-

sory toys to play with during messy play

time, such as, Flour, Sand and shaving

foam using a different range of toys whilst

discussing how the toys work in different

scenarios and sensory equipment.

Next Month the book and rhyme of the

month will be: The Night Before Christmas

and the rhyme is Here are my branches for

you to decorate.

Unfortunately children and adults do pick up

different illnesses from each other. Where

coughs and colds are common place, please do

consider if your child is well enough to attend.

Pepperberry would like to remind you we do

have a strict policy on sickness and diarrhoea.

Please be reminded it is the interest of everyone

for children not to attend nursery for 48 hours

after the last episode of sickness and then only

return to nursery when they have fully recov-

ered. This will also prevent and stop the spread

of illness. Thank you again for your considera-

tion to others.

Chilli Peppers Grand Peppers

Policy of the month:

Phone: 01625 419 509

E-mail: info@pbnurseries.com

October 2015

Learn Enjoy Flourish

Butternut Squash Soup

Ingrediants

1 Butternut Squash chopped & Deseeded

2 tbsp. olive oil

1tbsp Butter

2 Onions (Diced)

2 potatoes—peeled and diced

2 cloves of garlic– chopped

850mls veg stock

4 tbsp. Crème fraiche

Method

Heat oven to 200c/180c/gas 6. Cut and deseed squash and roast in oven with half the oil until golden and soft.

While the squash cooks melt the butter and remaining oil in a large saucepan and cook the onion and garlic until soft.

Add the cooked squash, potatoes and stock. Simmer until the potatoes are soft, then blend and stir in Crème fraiche.

Season and serve, (for adults add some chilli and garlic and enjoy.)

Brought to you by Pepperberry’s Full Time Chef Sam Mitchell

Cygnet Court

Hawthorn Street

Wilmslow

SK9 5EL

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Craft Time!

Spider!!! Practicing my writing!

Lotto

We enjoy stories!

Chicks out to play!

Meeting our chicks Story time outside!

Engrossed in a story! Love Jigsaws! Football Class!

Doing some letters! Fun with friends! Halloween pictures!

Playdough time autumn style!