Day Nursery / Feltham's February edition - Newsletter

Harvard Park Day Nursery LTD.

Notes from the management team: Have you downloaded the ParentMail and EyLog apps? They are both free to download and register with. It is important for your partnership with us to have these downloaded and accessible to receive notifications about your child’s learning as well as important notices such as closure dates and reminders. When you have a spare 5 minutes, please make sure your download them both and register yourselves. We will be chasing you up to make sure you have got both on your phones!

What is the role of a key-worker?

The first role of a key worker is to promote your child’s development. This doesn’t mean your child’s key worker has to spend every second of the day with your child. We have systems in place such as individual planning and the EyLog where your child’s keyworker will work on the areas they have identified.

Your child’s keyworker is not the only adult to be looking after your child whilst they are with us. All the practitioner's in your child’s room will interreact with, care for and look after your child while they are with us. This also means that all the practitioners are aware of what your child has been up to during the day. Where feedback is concerned, please do not wait for your child’s keyworker to be free, it could be the case that your child’s keyworker has been out working on providing the evidence for your child’s learning journal and has missed some of their day. All the practitioners in the room have cared for your child today, you can approach any of them.

Water bottles :

HEALTH AND SAFTEY NOTICE - NO BUGGIES FOR FZ

Please take your water bottles home at the end of your session.

It is not our responsibility to keep them washed and clean.

Please make sure you are washing all the components of the bottle.

Message for children and parents in FREEDOM ZONE: As our younger rooms are becoming more full, the lobby is filling up with buggies. Children in Freedom Zone should be walking or scooting to nursery rather than coming in in the buggy. In January we will be saying no more buggies for Freedom Zone. This gives you plenty of time to give up the buggy!

Please sign your child in AND out of the room - this is a health and safety requirement In the case of an evacuation, this is what we use against our register to make sure everyone is out safely.

Please make sure you are all doing this! We will be reminding and encouraging you .

Welcome’s and Goodbye's We would like to welcome Julia, Mayra, Leo, Kayla, Raphael and Oliver C to Harvard Park! We would also like to say a sad goodbye to Ahyan from Small Steps who is moving over to our pre-school and also to Advika from Freedom Zone who will be leaving us in February.

Dates for you diary and reminders: •

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World Book Day - Thursday 5th March! We will be celebrating world book day by dressing up as our favourite book characters and bringing in our favourite books to share with you all. We would like to encourage you to do the same with your child. Encourage your child to dress up on Thursday 5th March in support of World Book day and bring a book into share too!

Nursery school applications are now open until 1st May 2020. All Hounslow infant and primary schools (except Edison Primary and Nishkam School West London) have nursery classes. You will need to apply directly to the school if you are considering nursery schools- for more information please follow this link : https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/ info/20028/primary_admissions/74/nursery_admissions Any other notes:

Practitioners have supplied most children with an end of year report. If you wish to discuss this further with your keyworker, please make an appointment when it suits the practitioner.

We will not be able to discuss this at pick ups or drop offs. If you child started with us in the month of December, they were not eligible for one this time around.

Birthdays for the month of December: Baby Studio: Happy 1st birthday to Leonidas!

Small Steps: Happy 2nd birthday to Asim and Leonardo!

Freedom Zone: Happy 4th birthday to Ifrah, Shuddhi and Sophie!

Staff: Happy birthday to Sonia!

We hope you all have a lovely birthday celebrating!

Harvard Park Day Nursery LTD.

Notes from Small Steps: Bunnies

Notes from Baby Studio: Ducklings

Topic: Stories and Books, Songs and Rhymes

Focus: Communication and language.

We will be taking children out on walks around the local area to experience new environments and giving them the opportunity to talk about new objects (e.g. car/bus). We have our parents in partnership session - which is now fully booked! This gives you a chance to communicate and bond with your child in their nursery environment. If you miss this one, don’t worry another parents in partnership opportunity will come up next month.

Reminder: Please remember shoes! For older children, we are putting in walking practice outdoors and when in the buggy, the younger children will get cold feet.

Hats and scarves also need to be brought in daily please.

Mission: When you are out with your baby - chat about the environment, you will be surprised at what language your child will pick up!

Welcome to Mayra , Kayla, Leo and Julia to our room. Goodbye to Imma, Sofia and Tejal who have now moved to small Steps.

To support this topic we will be doing lots of small group story times using props and story sacks to support the understating of the story. We will also be visiting the library for Rhyme time, a group time which the library puts on and is free to come along and join in.

We will also be using our knock knock boxes and chatter time to help promote the children’s developing language. If you would like to see what any of these resources are such as our knock knock boxes or story sacks, please do not hesitate to ask one of us.

We will be inviting parents in for a story time so keep your eyes peeled for the invitations. Last reminder, please encourage your child to find their name cards at the front board and bring them into the room with you.

It helps your children to self register!

Mission: Share photo’s on your Eylog of you visiting the local farm or Pet shop - the can be old photos too!

Goodbye to Ahyan who is moving to pre-school. Welcome to Raphael!

Notes from Freedom Zone: Cool Cats Topic: Animals Firstly, a huge thank you to all of those who took part in our space mission homework. The entries were all brilliant and you can see you all worked very hard! Our topic for this month is animals. Each week we will be looking at a different sub topic and habitats. Over the next month we will be looking at farm and pets, zoo’s, ocean’s and prehistoric animals. We will be planning activities which will look at each of these sub topics and will give children opportunities to engage in a range of activities aimed at developing language, looking at textures such as wet and dry, exploring small world and of course, exploring different environments.

Our group times will focus on stories and songs relating to our theme and will change as our sub topic changes, we will also be conducting activities such as animal printing to encourage looking at patterns and to encourage counting; texture play with textures such as mud, hay and water to develop language and introduce new words; and also exploring our outside environments to see what we can find. We will also be making some Valentine’s gifts, so make sure you are checking cubby holes for artwork to go home.

Mission: Email pictures of your pets or days at the zoo, farm or sea life centre to help support our topic. Talk to your children about the animals they may see, what they look like, where they live and what they sound like. All of this helps to support their learning at the setting as well as an opportunity for you child to show you what they already know!

Reminders: Bags under then benches: Please remember to put your child’s bag on the benches below. We are very tight on coat peg space and where children have to share, they can become very bulky. Coats on pegs, bags under benches please.

Uploading to EyLog: As part of our parents in partnership, we are asking that you upload on your child’s EyLog as much as you can. We can then use this evidence in support of their development. Every parent should be doing this and if you are not sure how, please ask us!

To support us with our home area, please email in pictures of your home such as kitchen, child’s bedroom, garden or bathroom. This is to support children’s understanding that we all live in different homes and to identify similarities and differences between them.

Dates for you diary and reminders: • Please take your child’s water bottle home - these are not our responsibility to clean and refill at the end of the day, it is yours. For the older children, please encourage them to find their water bottles at home time.

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Friday 14th February - Happy Valentines day!