Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT – News April 2021

“Development can only take place when children are actively involved, when they are occupied with a high, non-stop degree of concentration, when they are interested, when they give themselves completely, when they use all their mental abilities to invent and make new things and when this gives them a high degree of satisfaction and pleasure.” Ferre Laevers

Dear parents,
It gives Learning Ladder nurseries in JLT  immense pleasure to contribute to the April Newsletter. I would like to thank the wonderful team of teachers who took the initiative to celebrate students learning with the parents throughout term two, and I look forward to working with them in term 3.

It has been a privilege to observe your children taking delight and showing curiosity in their world supported by committed staff who place welfare, wellbeing, and learning at the heart of all interactions.

Please look out for Seesaw posts, you make a difference to your children’s developmental progress, if you write a comment. I encourage you to go to comments under your child’s journal section and use “TAG” protocol, our nursery-wide critique process. It is a very quick formative way to say, “Hey, this is what you did great, and here are your next steps”. Following the “TAG” protocol to write your feedback will enable us to improve our teaching and learning process.
T: Tell us something you really liked.
A: Ask us a thoughtful question.
G: Give us a positive suggestion.

Drop off time: this is a kind request to bring your children to the nursery maximum by 8:30 am every day. Having them arriving late is disruptive to the children’s learning time.

Infection control: COVID-19 is still amidst us, we at LLNP are following a strict infection control policy,

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Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT News – March 2021

“A child who has become master of his acts through long and repeated exercises, and who has been encouraged by the pleasant and interesting activities in which he has been engaged, is a child filled with health and joy and remarkable for his calmness and discipline.” – Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child
Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT are at the end of another term already! Looking back and comparing term 1 to term 2, I feel most grateful in seeing the positive transition everyone at Learning Ladder Nursery, children and staff alike, have made. Understandably, unlike children, the staff found it more challenging to comply with the restrictions of the pandemic in term 1. For instance, little sacrifices like the removal of the kettle in the staff pantry – in line with COVID-compliance – at first seemed easily surmountable in comparison to the devastating economic hardships still ongoing around the world. Nonetheless, it deeply affected staff morale in ways that we are still coming to grips with. The slowly acquired awareness of how we were each uniquely affected with the multiple changes we had to accept, helped us re-learn the meaning of the word ‘value’. What we value most is sometimes what we never think of as valuable till we have lost it.

I am sure the disruption (blessing in disguise) offered by the pandemic made many of you arrive at similar interesting observations in your lives over the last year. Just like our children, as in the quote of Maria Montessori, we too needed time and repetition to ‘master our acts’. We are now much better at ‘doing’ the pandemic and I think we see it in a more positive light as well.
Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT hope you enjoyed your mother’s day celebrations with the children via zoom.

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