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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Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT News February 2021

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known” Oscar Wilde.

February at Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT  was the busiest month so far this year, it went by so fast that we could not send our newsletter on time. What kept the nursery so electrified with activity was not just the busy calendar of events – teddy bear picnic, Chinese new year, hearts day, artists day, sports day practice and half term – but also slightly higher rates of illness amongst children, leaving us little time after illness policy implementation work. We are relieved to mention that in the second week of March, we at Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT were all back on track. Children were all symptom free and attending nursery again. Thank you parents for your cooperation to help us maintain the highest safety for all at the nursery.

Walking around the nursery in JLT, I have noticed wonderful changes in the children who started just a few weeks ago. I see smiling faces walking in, great independent work in the class rooms, much greater self-expression through speech development and art. Children’s art displayed on the walls made me wonder, as always, at children’s lack of approval seeking expression. If there is any art that is for art’s sake, to use the very famous expression, it is children’s art. Children in their freedom and innocence produce the most original art. Their art is a depiction purely of their individual self, uncontaminated as yet by societal norms. I hope you enjoy looking at your child’s art at home as much as I enjoy looking at it in the nursery.

That is all from me. Please find a list of upcoming key events under. We always post the month’s calendar on our notice board outside the main entrance,

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Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT News December 2020

It has made us all at Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT feel very festive hearing children rehearse for the winter concert for the past few weeks. The children and their teachers at Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT have enjoyed singing Christmas carols as well as nursery rhymes and are excited to share their songs with their families via a recording on the last day of the term. Look out for our recorded winter concert which we will post on Seesaw later this month.

As the first term comes to a close, Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT thank all our families for following the new health and safety guidelines, especially at drop off and collection times. You have all been exemplary in maintaining safe procedures to help your children learn the importance of arrival and departure policies.

We are happy that we were able to follow the new rigorous health and safety procedures with the help of all our staff. Our Nurse, Miss Anabeth deserves a special thanks for monitoring children’s body temperatures regularly, removing sick children for early collection and following up with their families before their safe return. Thank you to all the parents who have so wonderfully followed our sick child policy ensuring we have had an incident-free first term. We could not have done this without your support.

Learning Ladder Nurseries JLT hope you have all enjoyed our new online learning tool Seesaw. We have seen tremendous results in terms of children’s engagement and their ability to show what they know in a variety of ways. I encourage all families to please set up separate seesaw family accounts for themselves and let your child use the student access on their own on either an ipad of their own or a shared device at home. You can have multiple family members use the application in different ways without upsetting your child’s journal and assignments.

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