News Letter 13th Oct 2010

It’s Autumn!
The children in the nursery and stay and play sessions have started to notice the change in the season. Please do bring in any interesting leaves, pine cones, seeds or nuts and berries for the children to explore.

Developmental Movement Play
We now have four practitioners who have been fully trained in ‘developmental movement play’ an approach to physical and emotional development for young children. The ‘DMP’ approach influences practice across the centre, including allowing children to move freely indoors and out (with safety considerations) and to have bare feet whenever that’s possible. If you’d like to know more about DMP please do talk to Jacki in nursery or look out for our DMP notice board and leaflets, coming soon!

Celebrate Black History Month
We’re now nearly half way through October but there’s still time to get involved in the celebration of Black History Month in Islington. At Kate Greenaway we’ve been to two performances of the ‘Handa’s Surprise’ story and in nursery the children have been re telling the story and enjoying African music.
There are still some events for families including an African Caribbean children’s book extravaganza on Saturday the 23rd and an evening of celebrations at the Town hall on Friday the 29th with food, music and poetry. Have a look at Islington Council’s website or call 0207 832 5818 for information or to book.