Head of school / Day Care Manager 's message

Dear Parents and Carers,

The children have had a very busy half term. They have enjoyed a variety of exciting and engaging activities. We explored baking activities together, developing mixing, measuring, and turn-taking skills while having lots of fun. The banana bread was delicious. Some of the younger children used the bananas to make banana smoothies, practising independence and learning about healthy foods. Outdoors, the children loved water play in the garden, splashing, pouring, and cooling off while enjoying the sunny weather. The children also showed great curiosity while learning about volcanoes, exploring how they erupt and discussing colours, textures, and reactions. We used maps to encourage early geographical awareness and conversations about places and directions.

We are looking forward to welcoming our nursery colleagues and children back from the half term break and hearing what they have been up to while away from Muriel Green.

Wishing you an amazing weekend!

Dates coming up:

Start Term

Monday 1st June

Maths Sessions for Parents in Day care only at 16.30 to 17.30 pm.

Monday 8th June
Thursday 11th June

FUDGE Breakfast (Father, Uncle, Dad, Grandad and everyone else)

Friday 12th June (7.45 to 9.00 am)

Inset day and Occasional Day- Nursery and Day care are closed

Friday 19th June
Monday 22nd June

Nursery School Sport Day

Friday 3rd July (details will follow)

Last of term for Nursery Room (Parent of the leavers will be invite to join us at 13.00pm for a goodbye song)

Thursday 23rd July ( All the children finish at 13.30 NO WRAPCARE ON THIS DAY)

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Additonal session are available in our daycare

We now have day care sessions available each week, offered on the ad-hoc basis with no weekly commitment required. Availability may wary, the table below details next week's available sessions.

To book or enquire, please email admin@murielgreen.herts.sch.uk

Additonal session are available in our daycare

We now have day care sessions available each week, offered on the ad-hoc basis with no weekly commitment required. Availability may wary, the table below details next week's available sessions.

To book or enquire, please email admin@murielgreen.herts.sch.uk

Conker Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Next week we will follow Toby's story of resilience, acceptance and friendship in Listen Up, Pup! By Steve Smallman and Gill McLean. When his people bring a new puppy home, Toby the dog must learn how to share with him and finally finds a new friend to play with. This story will support the children's Personal, Social and Emotional development and their Communication and Language development.

Our Keywords are wait/angry/share

Our Rhyme this week is We are the dinosaurs

Home Learning: Squeeze

Use flannels or sponges in the bath/paddling pool to fill up a container.
Make funny noises with a squeeky toy to turn the page when an adult is reading a book.
Use water spray bottles to wash off shaving foam spread on a wall/balloon/etc.

Acorn Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Next week, our Book of the Week will be Who’s Hiding on the Farm? The children will be immersed in this engaging story through shared reading, discussion and play-based experiences. We will build their language, listening and attention skills, while developing their understanding of farm animals and the world around them.

Our Rhyme of this week: 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive.

Home Learning: Dressing up

Please encourage your child to join in with dressing at home by pulling down their T-shirt, putting their arm into the sleeve, or pushing their leg into their trousers. These small steps help to build independence, confidence and coordination. Praise their efforts and keep it fun.

Willow Room/Nursery school
Book & Rhyme of the week

Next week, our Book of the Week will continue to be The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The children will remain immersed in this familiar story through a range of carefully planned activitie. These experiences will include shared reading, discussion, creative tasks and role play, all designed to support language development, comprehension and a growing enjoyment of books

Our Keywords are Cocoon, Egg, butterfly

Our rhyme of the week is Five little Speckled Frog

Home Learning: Poking

We will practise baking as an exciting activity that you can do at home this week. We will be making Easy Bread Recipe.

The Recipe and instruction will send on a different email.

Nursery Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Next week, our Book of the Week will be We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. The children will engage in the story through a range of planned activities. Through shared reading, discussion and play-based experiences, the children will develop their language, listening and imagination, while exploring the different settings and actions within the story.

Our Keywords are Swishy, Swashy, Splash, Splosh, Tiptoe, Adventure and Cave.

Our rhyme of the week is Pat a Cake

Home Learning: What can you notice in your environment?

On your walk notice all places of interest, shapes in the environment, houses, windows, patterns on the walls, post boxes. What are they close to?

Where are they?

What can you see in your local environment?

Birch Room
Book & Rhyme of the week

Rhyme of the Week:
Pat-a-Cake – Children will enjoy joining in with clapping, rolling and patting actions, using repetition and anticipation during this familiar rhyme.

Focus Skill:
We are focusing on early communication and choice making, developing intentional communication, requesting, anticipation and making choices across familiar routines.

Ideas for Home:
Sing Pat-a-Cake together and pause before favourite actions or words to encourage your child to respond with gestures, sounds, signs or words. Offer simple choices such as “fast or slow?” or “again or finished?” to support communication. Repeating familiar rhymes within daily routines helps children build confidence in expressing their wants and needs.

Success Story of the Week!

In the Acorn room, the children and staff have been enjoying learning some simple British Sign Language (BSL) signs together to support early communication skills. The children have been practising signs for familiar words, feelings, and everyday routines, helping them to express their needs, choices, and emotions with growing confidence. This has also encouraged positive interactions, turn-taking, and listening skills within the room.

This links to the Early Years Foundation Stage outcomes by supporting Communication and Language, particularly listening, attention, understanding, and speaking, as well as Personal, Social and Emotional Development through building confidence, relationships, and self-expression. It has been a lovely week full of exploration, learning, and enjoyment for everyone.

this summer Term 1 music genre is
Country music

signs of the week

All absences must be reported to the school either by leaving an absence message or emailing admin@murielgreen.herts.sch.uk, We politely ask that if you plan to take your child out during school time, you notify the Nursery office. For appointments, we ask where possible that these are not during the school day. If this is not avoidable, please kindly share the relevant information for this appointment in order for us to be able to authorise this. Regular attendance at Nursery is very important, as it helps children build the foundational knowledge and skills they will need as they move through school. Establishing good attendance habits now supports a smoother transition into primary school and helps ensure children develop positive routines that will benefit them throughout their educational journey. Thank you for your continued support in helping your child attend regularly and on time.

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