Harvard Park Pre-School Isleworth: December Newsletter 2017 News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Amy Welcome to Winter! Firstly we have a sad goodbye to announce, Sue has had to leave us suddenly and unexpectedly. We would like to thank her for her time with us and we wish her the best of luck for the future. Charlotte will be working with us and taking over Sue’s key-children until Christmas. We have a very important message from Smallberry Green’s head teacher: DO NOT Park in front of or outside the school gates. You will get in trouble if they see you on their CCTV. Do not park inside the car park either. Harvard Park will get in trouble for this too. If the gate is open, the CCTV is still in operation and they will register your number plate. Labelling clothes and belongings: Our coat peg area is very crowded but we have to make use of what space we have. Please stick to your child’s correct peg with their name and picture. Please label their coat, school bag and any belongings they may have in there. We will be collecting a lost property box for anything we find without a name. The weather is changing and the chill is in the air. Please can we ask that you start to provide thick winter coats as well as gloves, hats and scarfs all clearly labelled with your child’s name. Christmas Party! As you may or may not already know our Christmas party will be on Tuesday 12 th December. We kindly ask you for food donations on this day so please write your child’s name next to something you would like to provide on this day. Encourage your child to come in their favourite Christmas outfit/ jumper or dress up as their favourite character! We also have a special request: If you or a family member is available to come and be our Santa on the 12th, please come and speak to Amy. We have two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. If you would like to apply, please see Amy at the desk. Pick ups and Drop offs If you’re a requesting a 3:30pm pick up time, please call in advance if it is not a regular occurrence. For health and safety reasons, we cannot open up the gate before or after this time until 4:10pm. We open our doors from 8:00am and close the door at 8:45am. Please make sure you are arriving to us before 8:45am as your child is missing out on valuable learning time. For our afternoon session, we open the door at 12:30pm. As the weather is becoming colder, we do feel it is unfair to make children wait outside in the cold so please try to get here as close to 12:30pm as possible, not half an hour before. Post Box dates: Our Post box will be open from Friday the 1 st of December and will close on Friday 15th December. After this date we will no longer accept cards. Card lists will be available from Monday 4 th December, if not earlier. Encourage your children to write their own cards. We do not expect you to write cards neither do other parents. It is completely yours and your child’s choice Term Dates: This is very important so please pay attention: We will be closed from Friday 22 nd December toFriday 5th January 2018. We will be open again on Monday 8th January 2018 at the normal time of 8:00am. Our last day of term will be Thursday 21st December. Job advertisements: Do you know someone with a level 3 qualification in childcare? We are currently looking for full time and part time staff at both of our settings (Feltham and Isleworth). If you do, please get them to send their CV’S into info@harvardparkdaynursery.co.uk or info@harvardparkpreschool.co.uk .
If you are on Facebook, we do have a Facebook page which gives you updates, notices and also an insight into both our settings and what special activities we get up to. Simply type in Harvard Park Day nursery and Preschool in the search bar and look for our logo. You can also leave a review here too. Please look out for EY log emails and if you have any questions regarding this, please come and see Amy, Natalie or Amy S.
News from Natalie, Jeanna, Lacey, Eva, Charlotte, Megan, Angela and Hina: Topic: Christmas We have already begun our Christmas activities and will song begin singing our Christmas songs. We will be preparing our children for a visit from Santa on our party day by looking at books, singing a multitude of Christmas songs and dressing up in Santa outfits. We will also be looking why people celebrate Christmas and the story of Christmas including the birth of Jesus. We will explore the idea of gifts and even have our own wrapping station at nursery. If you have any old or scrap wrapping paper you no longer wish to use, please could we have it at preschool, Thank you. If you do not wish your child to take part in our Christmas activities, please inform us as we adapt them for your child.
Home Mission: Try to write a letter to Santa, draw him a picture or record a video message for him. Pop it onto your EyLog so we can look at it at pre-school. Also don’t forget to send us a picture of your Christmas tree too. Birthdays and Important dates: We would like to wish a very happy birthday to our manager Nicki, Hina and Amy S. We would also like to wish a happy 3rd birthday to Aimee, Zurain, Mason and Nicole who will all be celebrating at some point this month. We hope you have lovely days. Tuesday 12th December: Christmas Party day – come in your favourite Christmas outfit or dress up as your favourite character!
Important reminders: - All about me boxes: Keep a box from Christmas and create a box that represent your child and what they like. Bring it into nursery and share it with us. It helps develop relationships, language and self-confidence in all children of all abilities. Please also send a list of what you have put inside. - Developing our Home Corner: Please send in pictures of your children or yourselves brushing their teeth, hair or washing their faces. We would like to help our children recognise and relate to their home lives whilst being at nursery. It helps develop relationships, language and selfconfidence in all children of all abilities too. - Helpful Handouts: If you, family members or friends are ever having a clear out of resources such as newspapers, egg boxes, containers, clothes, material etc. Please consider us before throwing the away. We use lots of second hand things on a daily basis in both of our settings.
Lastly, all of us at Harvard Park would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We will see you all in 2018