Welcome to Dosbarth Pinc

Staff

Your teacher is Mrs Gannon, every other Thursday you will have Mrs Macdonald for PPA cover

Your teaching assistants are Mrs Oaten and Mrs Lewis.

There will also be lots of other staff members who help us. Including Mrs Mountstephens, Mrs Williams and Miss Osbourne on the door and Mrs Hyde our ALNCo.

Snack is £1.50 for the week.   We are a Healthy eating school and snack is a variety of healthy choices such as a range of fruit and vegetables. If children wish to bring their own snack they are very welcome to bring their own choice of fruit or cut vegetables. (If providing grapes can you please make sure that they are cut in half lengthways).

The children need to bring a refillable water bottle, they will also be offered daily milk.

The doors to our Nursery Morning session open at 8.45 and the session ends at 11.15.

January 2026- Our topic is Winter.

New starters will be settling into Nursery and getting used to our routines. 

Although Winter is our topic we will also be following your children's interests making sure that Nursery activities are as fun and engaging as possible. 

Some things to work on at home:

Putting your coat on by yourself- we have been practising the coat flip at Nursery

Going to the toilet by yourself and washing your hands

Counting to 10

Counting 10 things e.g 1 car, 2 cars, 3 cars

Practice writing your name

Practice putting things back where they belong

Monster Phonics

Here at Glan Yr Afon we are using Monster Phonics to develop our skills for both reading and writing. We will meet all of the new monster characters and they will help us with their special sounds.

The Monster characters have a special song that will help us to recognise them. It's really fun. We have included some links so that they can explain who they are and how they work.

https://monsterphonics.com/free-resources/free-videos/the-monster-song/

https://monsterphonics.com/phonics-support-for-parents/