Dear Parent
I have been the nursery teacher at Dunn Street Primary School since 1997, which is an unbelievably long time I know, but am now hanging up my teachers hat and retiring to make way for a new nursery team. It has been a joy and privilege to teach your children throughout my years at the school and so rewarding to watch them blossom and grow in confidence when beginning their journey in school life – I am proud to have been part of that. Many sisters and brothers have passed through the nursery and it has been a pleasure to build relationships with both them and you their parents and carers. I have so many happy memories of your children from my time at the school and I shall treasure them always.
This is not how I had expected to end my career and saying goodbye to you, my colleagues and most importantly the children in the nursery, but the dreadful Covid epidemic in the last few months has prevented us all from carrying out plans and focus simply on keeping our families safe. I will miss the hustle and bustle of nursery and although sad to be retiring, I am also very excited to be starting a new chapter in my life with my family and friends. Thankyou for your friendship and kindness during my years of teaching in the nursery and I wish you and your children good health and happiness always.
Best Wishes
Miss V R Young
Well this is it, the final week of Reception and Nursery. I hope you are all well and looking forward to the summer break. Thank you for all of your hard work during these past few months, for keeping in touch with us and for all of the home learning you have been doing. Although we were not together that long, it has been a pleasure being your Reception teacher for the time we had and I look forward to seeing you all when you move into Year 1 in September.
Our final week in Reception is concluding with the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We are going to be having lots of fun this week as it’s our last week in our bubble and I hope all of you have lots of fun with your families too.
Can I take this opportunity to say a final thank you and to wish you all a very happy and healthy summer holidays.
Keep safe and have lots of fun.
From Mrs Trotter and the EY Team
Well Reception, we have nearly reached the end of term. This week’s story is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. I’ve uploaded a list of suggested activities linked to the story and of course our weekly story time.
Have a great week and keep smiling,
Mrs Trotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5rxfLRgXRE
Hello Nursery and Reception,
This week we are continuing on our traditional tale journey. We have been having so much fun retelling the tales.
The Three Billy Goats Gruff is this week’s story.
Mrs Clough is continuing to answer any home learning questions.
Have a great week,
Mrs Trotter
Hello Reception,
This week we our continuing on our traditional tale journey and we are going to be reading the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I hope you enjoy the story as much as I do and that you have a lot of fun changing your voice to act as the different characters.
Mrs Clough will be in touch again with you all and your packs will be ready to collect from Monday.
Keep smiling,
Mrs Trotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWujGPb6mgo
Hello Nursery and Reception,
This week we are going to be reading and retelling the very popular traditional tale ‘The Three Little Pigs’. There are lots of activities linked to this story for you to try below. I know Nursery had lots of fun retelling traditional tales with Mrs Young so I hope you enjoy retelling the story.
Mrs Clough is continuing to meet with some of you via ‘google classroom’ and will be in touch with you via email.
Have a great week!
Mrs Trotter
Hello Nursery and Reception,
This week some of you might be returning to school and some of you may be continuing with your home learning. Mrs Clough is meeting with some of you during the week and will be keeping in contact with you while I work in school.
This week in school we will be reading the adventures of ‘Supertato’ and our activities will be based on these wonderful stories. The activities are listed below as well as some story time sessions for you all.
Keep safe and keep smiling,
Mrs Trotter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaRgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQRYfaFlY8A
And just like that it is June! I’m not sure where the time has gone? We are all continuing to miss you and wish we were all back together. This week marks the first week of your final term in Nursery/Reception. How did that happen? What a memorable year it is has been for everyone. This week I’ve planned a series of activities around the books ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson. I’ve chosen these stories as they are about friendship and looking for ways to help one another, something that we all need right now.
Stay safe and keep smiling,
Mrs Trotter
mtrotter@dunnstreet.s-tyneside.sch.uk
Like many of us, you may have been enjoying Rob Biddulph’s brilliant Draw with Rob draw along videos, which have amassed a huge online following and now been watched over 2 million times on YouTube).
On May 21st, Rob is going to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Biggest Art Lesson.
Rob will be live on YouTube at 4.00pm (BST) but in order for the attempt to meet Guinness World Records’ criteria we need participants – young and old – to register for the free lesson at www.artworldrecords.com and be there for the whole 30 minutes.
The attempt will also help to raise money for those most impacted by COVID-19. Participants can donate what they can and companies have also begun to pledge financial support. These donations will go towards high impact charities to counter the impact of COVID-19, including stopping the disease’s spread, providing immediate relief to those most impacted and preventing future pandemics.
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