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25th September 2026

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome to Genesis class. 

What a great week we have had. I am pleased to say that the children appear to be settling in and they are starting to adapt to Nursery life. You may find that your child may be reluctant to come into school. This is all part of settling as they realise that they will be coming to school five days a week. In our experience we find that this is short lived and will soon pass.

We have been introducing 'Whole Body Listening' and this will be reinforced throughout the year. We have been learning our Nursery prayers, singing songs and sharing stories. The children have been exploring inside and out and next week we will start to learn some of our Nursery rules. The children are being encouraged to tidy up and this will also be reinforced everyday, throughout the year. Please encourage your child to tidy up after themselves, at home. We have been playing lots of name games and we have been encouraging the following of simple instructions.

Daily, the children are being taught the Prayers that we say, in Genesis class. The children are being taught the 'Sign of the Cross' and we are thinking everyday about God creating us and loving us. Today we thought about how God has created our hands to be kind and we have thought about all of the good things that we can do with them. 

This week we have shared the story 'The Enormous Turnip' and we have used the language big, small and enormous. We have encouraged the children to join in with the story. As part of our learning the children helped to create a Harvest vegetable soup using the ingredients leek, potato, carrot, sweet potato and swede (we couldn't get turnip). The children used knives to cut the vegetables and they did some great slicing. We did talk about where the vegetables came from and that God has created the sun and rain to help the vegetables to grow. We thanked God for the yummy soup. 

Today, Mrs Barber and Miss Dobby have started to take small groups of children into the 'big playground'. We do this as a class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but we are taking out small groups to teach the rules. Next week the children will go out, together.

Please make sure that all of your child's clothing is named and add a keyring to your child's school bag so that they can recognise it.

Have a great weekend

Miss Whittaker