Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.
Notes from the management team - our Directors Nicki and Tracey and our Manager Poonam: It’s December and it’s the last newsletter of 2022! Thank you for all of your co-operation and support this year and for those of you who were new to Harvard Park, thank you for choosing us to support your child’s education journey. We are looking forward to another exciting year filled with new opportunities for learning, development and Parent’s in Partnership’s! We have exciting news - Lucy who used to work for Harvard Park is coming back to join the team in December. We are looking forward to catching up and having you back. A few reminders and notes: If there is something concerning you or you wish to have a catch up with your child’s keyperson about their development - please book in an appointment with your room leader and come in for a chat. We have uniform and bookbags for sale - if you are interested in purchasing any uniform or a book bags for your children - please speak to a member of staff and we will see what we have available. Uniform is handy to have as it protects your child’s daily clothes and it is one less thing to think about on your busy mornings or afternoons! If your child is due to go to reception class this year - You have until the 15th January 2023 to apply for Reception Class 2023: When can my child start school? | Primary School Admissions | London Borough of Hounslow . Any child born between 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019 - this applies to you! We are updating our policies and procedures - you will be receiving them once a month still however at some point when they have been finalised you will receive a full copy. They will also be available on our EyLog System and website, but we will inform you of this at the later date.
Reminders:
Term dates and closures: Please see your copy of the term dates:
Our Party day will be on Thursday 15th December both in the morning and afternoon sessions. We will not be putting a food list up for donations this year!
On Friday 16th December we will be closing at 1:30pm as is the school. This means our afternoon session will be closed.
Please ensure all coats, hats and gloves have your child’s initials in them so that they are not misplaced or go home in with the wrong person. We cannot take and responsibility for items going missing or going home with the wrong family.
All coats must now be warm and thick to make sure all weathers are covered. Please ensure shoes are comfortable, fit well and are covered in i.e no crocs or sandals.
Please ensure all children’s nails are trimmed - this is to prevent accidents from happening to your child and others.
We will be closed on Monday 19th December for 2 weeks. We will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2023!
Birthday’s for the month of December: Children: Happy birthday 3rd to Sabrina! Happy 4th birthday to Bennett, A’rrmono and Yuvaan! Staff: Happy birthday to Nicki, Amy, Lucy and Cathy!
We hope everyone has a lovely day!
Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.
Notes from your Pre-School Teachers: Jeanna, Roshelle, Lara, Lucy, Cathy and Rhea: Focus: Winter and Christmas! Christmas is fast approaching and soon we will be breaking up for the Christmas holidays. Our Christmas Post box is open so please feel free to post cards if you wish too making sure you encourage your child to have some input and mark make inside them. Throughout the month of December, we will be planning and carrying out a range of activities such as Christmas Card Making, creating our own salt dough Christmas decorations, decorating gingerbread, ice cream cone Christmas tree’s and having our own wrapping station to help develop fine and gross motor skills! As you can see the children will be very busy so make sure you have spare hands or a carrier bag hand to take all of their creations home. During our small group times we will be introducing the children to the songs and books below: Our December books will be: The Nativity
Stickman by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
That’s not my Snowman by Fiona Watt
The Christmas Bear by Ian Whybrow and Axel Scheffler
Our December songs will be: Jingle Bells
When Santa got stuck up the chimney!
The 12 days of Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
All of these can be found on YouTube if you don’t have a physical copy of the stories, but please try to look at them with your children to help support them with this learning and singing! Please upload pictures to the EyLog - thank you to Amelia R, Alessandro, Julia and Ava’s parents who do this regularly - it helps us to mark of your child’s development! We would love to see your children singing, dancing or talking at home - post those video’s or photo’s so we can link this off on their development trackers! Our Party day will be on Thursday 15th December - if your child does not do this day - please let us know by Friday 9th December so we can re-arrange your session as early as possible. Reminders: −
If you are picking up early for whatever reason, please inform us before hand. We cannot always be on call to open the gate however if you pre-warn us we will have someone readily available.
If you have any old Christmas decorations, old wrapping paper, ribbon, bows etc. We will happily take them off you hands to help support our children with decorating and exploring Christmas in December.
We are hoping our newsletter will have a new look in the new year so keep your eyes peeled.
Dates for you diary and reminders: You can start applying now and have until the 15th January 2023 to apply for Reception Class 2023: When can my child start school? | Primary School Admissions | London Borough of Hounslow - follow the link to find out how and more information. Please see all party dates at the beginning and on the back of this newsletter - December is a very busy time and there are lots of dates you may need to be aware of. Practitioners will try to remind you as often as they can but please also make a note of these for yourselves.
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