September 2025 Newsletter
Dear Parents/Carers,
Welcome back, we hope you all had a lovely summer. We would like to welcome back all the children and parents returning to playgroup and welcome all the new children and parents joining playgroup. Unusually this year we are starting off with a very busy September in that most of this academic year’s children either returned after the summer holidays or are joining us in the first couple of weeks of this term.
This year we have no new staff joining us, but we do have a couple of changes in roles & days worked. Emma is now working 5/4 days a week, leading the 2’s room. Ros, Michelle & Claire are all working 5 days a week in the 3 & 4’s room. Siobhan has taken on the role of SENCo during Cat’s maternity leave & is still working in the 2’s room with Emma.
This term our topic is “All about Me”. We shall be learning all about ourselves, how tall are we? What size are our hands & feet? What makes us different? We will also be looking at our families. Who's in our family? Are they younger/older? We would like the children to bring in photos of themselves as babies & their families including pets, grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins etc. We shall be learning all about our environment & how it changes with the new season. Along with lots of craft activities.
We will be using the front & back gardens for digging, planting, hunting mini beasts & playing with the sand & water, so please send your child to Playgroup in clothes that you don't mind getting dirty & also footwear/coats that are water proof.
Julie would also like to remind everybody, and let the new parents know, that we do like to work with parents and appreciate when parents share exciting things that have happened outside of Playgroup with the key person. If you have any interests or hobbies you would like to share with the children and staff, please feel free to talk to Julie. We still have our sheets for parents and key persons working together for you to stick photos of family pets, trips to zoos and any other exciting happenings that the children or yourselves would like us to know about. We also have our 'WOW' board for all those milestone awards and certificates to be displayed. This board is for you to share any achievements made outside of Playgroup, favourite pets or people, not just of the children, but anyone in the family. If you have a certificate or a picture you would like to share, we would love to put it on display.
If anybody is interested, we are able to order Greendown Playgroup logoed uniform. The items available are T-shirts £7.50, polo shirts £9.00, sweatshirts £12.00 and hoodies £13.00. You do not need to buy these, they are entirely optional. I have a list of size and colour choices available in each style, and we have some examples in setting if you want to look at them before you buy. However, we will need the money when you place the order. Please come and speak to me if you are interested.
Julie and staff
Dates for your diary:
Committee Meeting: TBC
Half Term Playgroup Finishes: Friday 17th October 2025
Playgroup Returns: Monday 3rd November 2025
Song and Colour Schedule
Tuesday 2nd September - Friday 12th September:
Song/Rhyme of the week: Incy Wincy Spider
Colour of the week: Red
Monday 15th September - Friday 19th September:
Song/Rhyme of the week: Humpty Dumpty
Colour of the week: Blue
Monday 22nd September - Friday 26th September:
Song/Rhyme of the week: One. Two, Three, Four, Five
Colour of the week: Yellow
Monday 29th September - Friday 3rd October:
Song/Rhyme of the week: 3 Blind Mice
Colour of the week: Green
Monday 6th October - Friday 10th October:
Song/Rhyme of the week: The Wheels On The Bus
Colour of the week: Purple
Monday 13th October - Friday 17th October:
Song/Rhyme of the week: Jack & Jill
Colour of the week: Pink