Harvard August
Park Day Nursery Feltham: Newsletter 2015.
News from the Managers Nicki and Tracey –
Firstly, we would like to wish Nabila a very happy birthday for this month. We would like to say a pre-empted congratulation to Gemma on her marriage, which is happening during this month! We all wish you a long and prosperous marriage we have come to a decision about where the staff will be in September: Baby Studio Small Steps Freedom Zone Sana Mary Nabila Holly Sam Sonia Viviana Chelsea Gurpreet Marisa Mandy Gloria Qani Myra Pauline Kulwinder Sherry Simran Vaida Afshan So we would like to welcome Gloria and Afshan to our team, and they will be introducing themselves as and when they start, so please make sure you say hello. Gemma is not leaving us she has moved to mornings only and will be conducting our forest school sessions at both of our settings, as well as helping out in the rooms and ICT. We have a request from the rooms, if you are running late, even if it is just 5 minutes please call. Sometimes it can be a bit distressing for a child if they are the last one left with no explanation. Ideally, you should be here 5:50pm at the latest for sufficient feedback. After this time, it is hard for our staff to finish their checks if they are providing feedback. As from September 2015, we would really appreciate the use of umbrella buggies as we are very limited on space in to store them. If they are not folded or do not fit in our storage containers, then as of September, you will be asked to take them with you. We would like to say that we feel very privileged that you chose us as you child’s first steps towards education and that we will miss each and every one of you terribly. We know that whatever you chose to do in life, it will be fab and we wish you all the best of luck for your futures.
News from Deputy Carol-
From September, Book bags will be available for Freedom Zone to purchase. We will be running a Harvard Park library where children will be able to select their own books. At home, you can read to your child and look at these books, commenting in their reading record which we will provide. For the older children who are excelling at phonics, these can be used to hold their words to transport them to and from nursery. We would like to say thank you to Terence and his Nan for the donations she has recently brought in, Kai and his family for their donation and one of our ex mummy’s for her donation of girls clothes. Also thank you to Reyansh for the donation of his scooter and to Swara and her family for the donation of clothes, all are very useful to us and we really do appreciate them.
News from Baby Studio –Sana, Mary, Gurpreet, Nabila, Marisa and Mandy:
Hello, we would like to start by saying goodbye to David, Ayah, Aurora, Lexi, Jaylen, Kartik, Arnav and Surya who are all making the big leap to Small Steps during this month. We would also like to welcome our new babies Macie, Rohan and Shayan to our room! As a room we will be helping these new children settle, create bonds with their key workers as well as with other practitioners and encourage them to explore their new setting. For the month of August we will be looking at engaging our children in lot of fun and creative activities! These will include messy activities like jelly play and bean play, so please make sure you provide plenty of spare clothes. We will also be doing a range of physical activities which will range from tummy time to experimenting with our movements over at the park. We would like to advise all parents to make sure that their child’s belongings are labelled with their names, as well as dress appropriately according to the weather. We do have regular trips out Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! We will of course print of a few copies to those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our parents table. .
and about, which do involve getting out of the buggies or bus, so please provide a pair of shoes for your child too. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our parents for working together with us as well as supporting us with aspects of their child’s learning such as providing pictures and stickers for their learning journals! Your mission this month is to: - Get messy at home! Messy play is vital for a child’s learning. Encourage them to eat by themselves at meal times or ask us for a puff pastry recipe! Dates and notes: - We would like to wish a happy birthday to Nabila on the 20 th of this month.
News from Bunnies –Holly, Sam, Simran and Sonia: Hello there! Firstly we would like to say goodbye to Anirudh, Swara, Lily, Dorcas, Jeremiah and Rhys who have or will be moving up into Freedom Zone at some point during this month. We would like to welcome Angad, Ayah, Lexi, David, Aurora, Jaylen, Kartik, Arnav and Surya who will be joining us at some point in August! This month’s topic is summer awareness and Summer Holidays! We will be talking and exploring the concept of the importance of sun hats and sun cream when we are out and about in the sun. As well as this, we will be doing many activities which link to our theme such as creating beach scenes using different textures and materials, making sandcastles in our outdoor sandpit, using junk modelling to create our own models of transport to get us on our holidays and also lots of water play to keep us cool on those hot days! As the weather is getting increasingly hotter, please ensure that we have a bottle of your child’s preferred sun cream in our possession for when we go out on trips or in the garden. If you also want to provide light clothing such as vest or shorts, we are more than happy to change your child during the hotter parts of the day. We do have sun hats at nursery, however these are limited. Please bring in a sunhat with your child and we will be happy to label it for you, with your permission.
Your mission this month is to: -Email us a picture of you and your family on holiday so we can
pop it into your learning journals! Also ask a member of staff for some sticky labels so we can add things to your parent’s page!
Dates and notes: We have no dates or birthdays for you, if you’re off on holiday have a lovely time!
News from –Viviana, Amy, Pauline, Kulwinder, Sherry, Gemma, Qani and Chelsea: Hi, firstly we would like to welcome Lily, Swara and Jeremiah who have recently moved up to Freedom Zone. Also a welcome to Dorcas, Anirudh and Rhys who have started their visits and will be joining us on the 10th of this month! We would like to say goodbye to anyone who is leaving us at the end of this month! Goodbye to Terence, Marley, Swayze, Adam, Tyler, Donald, Oscar, Sienna, Victory, Amelia, Aaliyah, Casey and Paris! There are a lot of you and we wish you all the best for the future and hope that you will come back and see us! This month’s topic is all about mathematics and summer holiday. With mathematics, we will be learning how to count by using different objects and toys as well as how to recognise numbers and shapes in our environments. We will be doing lots of activities which focus on aspects of maths such as number printing, shape and number hunts, measuring different materials such as water or ingredients as well as singing counting songs and using positional language. Alongside this we will be looking at summer holidays, including past, present and future. So if you could bring in a photo of you and your family on holiday we can share it and talk about it in our focus groups and group times. We will be also engaging in activities such as sand and mud castle building, role play using small suitcases and passports we will create and building transport with the large wooden blocks outside to take us on an imaginary trip. We will be also talking about the importance of wearing hats and sun cream when we are out in the sun.
Your mission this month is to: - To bring in some pictures of your child on holiday for your child to talk about at group times. Also to please sign your child in and out every day. Thank you
Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! We will of course print of a few copies to those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our parents table. .
Dates and notes: -We would like to say a Happy 3rd birthday to Reyansh on the 4th and Kian on the 27th
of this month. We would also like to say Happy 4th Birthday to Maria on the 5th and Victory on the 24th of this month. We hope you all have lovely days!
Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! We will of course print of a few copies to those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our parents table. .