Feltham / Day nursery's Newsletter for October 2019

Harvard Park Day Nursery LTD.

Notes from the management team: Welcome to all of our new families who have joined Harvard Park! You should have received your activation link for our new ParentMail service. DO NOT ignore this, you will need to sign yourselves up so reap the benefits from this new service. While you are downloading the ParentMail app, be sure to download the EyLog app! We would like to wish every a Happy Diwali for the end of this month too!

MONDAY 21ST OCTOBER 2019: INSET DAY FOR TEAM TRAINING - WE ARE CLOSED

The front door: Please remember the front door is a fire door and if little fingers get caught, they will be hurt! Please be aware of where you child’s hands are when leaving!

We will be closed on the 21st October of this year. This will be our inset day where we will conduct essential staff training. We are giving you plenty of notice to find alternative care for this day. This is necessary for us to be able to continue to provide outstanding care and keep up to date with the necessary changes in Early Years Education.

Photo Day reminder: Our photographer will be in to take photo’s which make perfect memories or Christmas gifts.

Baby Studio and Small Steps - Wednesday 16th Freedom Zone - Thursday 17th If not your day, please see the management team to book a time to come in!

Please bring in a light jacket or coat for your child- Health and safety As Autumn may be on its way and the weather is getting a bit colder, please make sure you are providing your children with a light jacket or coat. Our garden is in the shade until around 3 o’clock and it can be rather cold out there.

Welcome’s and Goodbye's We would like to welcome Zion, Sapphire, Navyaan, Tejal, Shayah, Adam, Geetham and Nivin to our Harvard Park family.

We would like to mention that Charlotte M will be moving back over to pre-school at some point in October so Small Steps would like to say a massive thank you for her support with the new settlers and for her hard work in their room.

Dates for you diary and reminders: • • •

Monday 21st October—Closed for Inset day for staff training.

Photo Days: Photographer is in on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th

Thursday 31st October - Halloween Party: Today we will be having our annual Halloween Party. Please encourage your child to dress up in their favourite of spookiest Halloween Outfit and join us for some ghoulish fun! We will be having a party tea party, lots of spooky games and Halloween Fun!

Access to EyLog for new children:

Birthdays for the month of September:

Just a small note for all new parents and settling children. You will receive your EyLog activation email 6 weeks after you child starts with us. We give children time to settle in with us before activating their online learning journals.

Small Steps: Happy 2nd birthday to Aliya, Shruthi and Adwita!

Freedom Zone: Happy 3rd Birthday to Eden and Happy 4th Birthday to Myra, Oliver T and Erick

Harvard Park Day Nursery LTD.

Notes from Baby Studio: Ducklings

Notes from Small Steps: Bunnies

Focus: Personal, Social and Emotional development

Topic: Let’s Pretend!

We will be giving the babies many opportunities to develop personally, socially and emotionally through activities and free play.

We will be going out on trips with Small Steps to allow the babies to meet new children, explore new areas and to build on their social skills. This will also help with transitioning as they will get to know the Small Steps practitioners too!

Mission: Explore different outside environments where they can meet new people and gain new experiences.

This topic is one of our favourite s as we get to do lots of dressing up! Let’s Pretend encourages our children to develop their imagination. We will be doing lots of dressing up which helps develop their self-help skills and encourages them to dress themselves too.

We will also be doing a few Halloween based activities too so check you cubby holes for some spooky treats! We will also be creating some Diwali gifts too at the end of the month.

Mission: Bring in 1 soft toy to place on our all about me table for show and tell!

Notes from Freedom Zone: Cool Cats Topic: Music from around the world and from different cultures.

We will be doing lots of fun activities such as music and movement with instruments and colourful material, exploring different genres of music such as jazz and classical, experimenting with the way we can move to these genres, making our own instruments and of course continuing with gym sessions and forest school will be making a return at the end of the month too!

If you have any multi-cultural CD’S or instruments you can come and share with us, we would love you to! Please speak to Viviana to find out a good time for you to come and share this with us.

Reminders: Children who are potty training: Please bring in spare clothes for your children. 3 to 4 pairs of trousers, pants/knickers / socks and a pair of shoes will be enough. IF you have our spares, please bring them back as we are running very low on everything!

Are you going away? Please don’t forget to share your pictures with us through your EyLog. All about us box: Please provide one item from home to put in our all about us box. This could be anything from a cuddly toy to an action figure. We will be labelling them so we can identify whose is who and using them as talking tools during group times.

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Please send in your pictures for our family albums and boards if you haven't done so already!

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If you know anyone who hold a qualification in childcare and would be will to do some cover work, please get them to send a cv into : info@harvardparkdaynursery.co.uk.

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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.