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We survived the heatwave!
We extend a huge thank you to our CTW teaching team who battled extreme working conditions to provide the care and safety of your children enduring the high temperature w/c 22nd June. We know locally many nurseries and schools chose to close. In conducting our risk assessment, we too considered the need to close; however, we believe strongly that we are here to provide a service within our CTW community and know the detrimental impact to you as working families had we closed. We are always resilient and, instead, put into place measures to ensure everyone remained safe and we remained open for your children. This included daily paddling pool experiences, water ice-pops, more adult focused activities to reduce excess heat created by movement, extra supervision when children were sleeping, opening up nursery extra early in the morning to open windows and switch fans on.
CTW Lido!
Paddling pools to combat the extreme heat
Bathing suits & hooded towels
Discoverers returning from their pool session
Children's learning and development highlights
Trailblazers: independent label writing
Adventurers: mini-beast art display
Adventurers: simulated snail trail exploratory play
Discoverers: The Hungry Caterpillar sensory play
Breakfast at CTW
Please help us to meet the nutritional guidance
Where Early Years providers choose to prepare food as part of their provision, these must be healthy, balanced and nutritious. Under statutory safeguarding and welfare requirements, we are obliged to follow and are inspected against the government's nutritional guidance. The guidance produced is government's action to reduce child obesity and encourage healthy eating. Hounslow, in particular, has one of the highest rates in the country of child obesity and tooth decay.
The guidance tells us that children should learn to eat 3 set meals a day (breakfast, lunch & tea) plus 2 or 3 snacks each day.
If your child has had breakfast at home, please let us know when you arrive at CTW so they don't have a second breakfast.
When we next have our Ofsted inspection, we will be asked the extent to which we work with parents in promoting healthy eating and this will be one piece of evidence we can use.
A reminder that breakfast closes at 8:45am. Children arriving at or after this time must have had breakfast at home.
Curriculum Overview
An overview of the facilitated learning your children will explore at CTW over the next few weeks.
Discoverers:
w/c: 29th June & 6th July - Under the Sea
w/c: 13th & 20th July - Rainbow Fish
Adventurers:
w/c: 29th June - Polly Jean Pyjama Queen - Children will talk about bedtime routines, what their bedroom looks like, and enjoy a pyjama party day.
w/c: 6th July - Pirates - Children will read books about pirates, role play dressing up as pirates, hunt for treasure and counting coins.
w/c: 13th July - Boats - Children will talk about different boat shapes and sizes and what they are used for (ferry, fishing boat etc).
w/c: 20th July - Sea animals: Sharks, Dolphins and Whales - Children will learn about the under the sea environment, look at sharks dolphins and whales and their differences
Trailblazers: leavers & starters
(pre-school classroom)
w/c: 29th June - Children will be preparing for their Graduation Party taking place on 2nd July
w/c: 6th & 13th July - Transition - Children will begin to explore their transition from nursery to school, which will include ways in which we make positive endings, saying goodbye, remember the time we've had and thinking about the new experiences to come.
Children who are starting in our pre-school classroom in September will also join Carol as 'Training Trailblazers' from 6th July. The existing Trailblazers act as 'mentors' to the incoming children, which supports both sets of children through transitions: those moving on to school reception and those moving into the classroom.
Thank you!
The before & after!
Thank you to the parent volunteers who helped to clear and prepare the foundations of our developing conservation area. The pond area has also been dug out. More dates to follow if you would like to be further involved; any help is very much appreciated.
Chick alumni
Where are they now?
Just two months ago we saw the chicks hatch at CTW during our chick project. Umma decided to home some of the chicks and look how much they've grown!
Diary Dates 2026
Friday 28th August: Final day children can attend if they are going to a school based pre-school nursery or school reception
Monday 31st August: CTW is closed for Bank Holiday
Christmas & New Year closure: CTW is closed between Monday 21st December and Friday 1st January 2027
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