Harvard Park Pre School Isleworth December Newsletter 2013. News from the Managers Nicki and Tracey and deputy manager, Natalie – Firstly we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope you have a lovely New Year and see you in 2014! We would also like to welcome Erin to our Harvard Park Team! Please make sure you read all notes about Christmas party, our dress up day and our cake sale. In 2014, we are going to help the environment more by sending this newsletter and other information via email, if you need to give us your email address please hand it to the person behind the desk. As the weather is colder too, we would ask you to start dressing your children appropriately with labelled hat, scarf and gloves! We do go out to play in all weathers so bare this in mind.
Rani, Jeanna, Erin
Sue, Rosa and Laura –
Seema,
Natalie Monica and Marilyn Firstly we like to say welcome to the new parents and children who have started this month. Some important dates/times for the month of December: Wednesday 11th – Friday 13th: We are having a bring and buy cake sale to raise some funds to buy new equipment for the pre-school and your child’s learning. They will be on sale both in the morning after the session and in the afternoon. Friday 20th: We close for the Christmas holidays! It is also our party day, so please dress up in party clothes or a Christmassy outfit. This is a SEPARATE party for morning and afternoon children. A contribution for the party food on this day would be fab. There will be a food list so please put your child’s name next to one or two items that you are bringing ON THE DAY! Please make your child aware that Santa will be paying us a visit too Monday 6th January 2014: Is when we return to Pre-school at the normal time. This month we are focusing on the celebration of ‘Christmas’ as this is our new topic. So far the children have help decorate the nursery with their handmade decorations, which they can take home in the New Year, been talking about the tradition of Christmas and started to look at how we celebrate Christmas around the world, developing our knowledge of the world. We have also created our own Christmas list for Santa to develop our writing and mark making skills. Making our own decorations has helped developed our fine motor
skills and Forest school has helped us with our self-esteem. The last session of forest school will be next week (Thursday 12th) . Our book club is now up and running so thank you to all the parents that have contributed to your child’s learning. Please feel free to ask your keyworker to see their writing skills work books too! We are also making some changes to the way we document your child’s progress. We are changing the Learning journals to something that is a bit more personal, as the time spent with the children is slowly be over-come by the amount of paperwork that is required. We have Christmas card lists available for you just ask your keyworker for one and pop the cards in our post box which we will try and empty on a daily basis. Last term registration cards were not being used as they should have been!!! – Well done to our parents who now use their registration cards the children are benefiting very well from this. All the children’s cards are now in the baskets by the signing in board. Please encourage them to use them as we look at who is here during registration. We also have some new pegs for the children to help you with their belongings. We would now ask you to put their bags underneath their pegs and hang their coats up on the peg with their pictures. The children have taken to this very well! Big well done to all your parents who have been encouraging either walking or riding to pre-school! To avoid upset or confusion everything should be clearly labelled with your child’s name. Also remember once you collect your child from their groups they are your responsibility so DO NOT let them push the door handle to let themselves out. ADULTS ONLY!!!!!!
We would like to wish ‘Happy Birthday’ to Nicki, Amy as well as Aubrey, Wynter-Hollie and Evie! Please could parents/ carers bring in fruit so we can share it during our snack time? You are doing great so keep it up! We have noticed that some parents are still parking next to parked cars outside the school gates please do not do this! PLEASE REFRAIN FROM USING THE STAFF CAR PARK AT ANYTIME EVEN IF THE BARRIER IS UP/THEY DO HAVE CAMERAS AND HARVARD PARK DO GET INTO TROUBLE IF OUR PARENTS ARE SEEN DRIVING IN. THANK YOU Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! Just type in Harvard Park Pre-school and Day Nursery and we should pop up! We regularly update this with pictures, messages and notices. 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.