Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham February Newsletter 2014. News from the Managers Nicki and Tracey – This month we would like to
remind parents who have 4 year olds to make sure you have applied for Reception Class in your local schools.........please do so as soon as possible if you haven’t already done. Children who will be going to Nursery and not staying with us for a further year you also need to start applying for Nursery Schools of your choice, the cut off date is May 2 nd but don’t leave it until the last minute as you may not get your choice of school. ALSO we are quite happy to keep your children until they are ready for Reception class if you would like. Let us know as soon as possible. News from Deputy Carol- Most of you should have received your child’s previous learning journals to keep at home, hope you enjoy them and share them with your families. If you have any questions about them please don’t be afraid to ask your keyworker or room leaders. You should also have started to receive your child’s reports; you can keep this copy but please be aware you will need to sign the keyworker copy for their new learning journals. At some point, your key worker may ask you to book an appointment to discuss your child’s progress, please approach your child’s keyworker to do so.
News from Baby Studio –Sana, Mary, Gurpreet, Sneha, Diluni, Nabila and Megan (who will also be covering in other rooms):
This month we will be discovering, engaging in and exploring ‘Sensory play’. Babies learn so much through sensory play which links to their development in all areas. We will be using food with different textures, messy play with paint, beans and spaghetti using both our hands and feet as well puff pastry play which we will be making with the children. These activities will enhance your child’s physical skills both fine and gross motor as well as give them to explore different textures using their whole bodies. Please can we remind all parents to sign their child in and out every day. This is very important if there is a fire as we head count against the register. Also please label all your child’s belongs such as bottles and clothes. This will prevent things being misplaced!
Your mission this month is to:-Your child’s keyworker may ask you to help them and your child to learn some words at home as the keyworker will be doing this in the setting. Please carry this on at home to get the full potential from our teamwork.
Dates and notes: - We would like to wish a happy 1st birthday to Jeramiah on the 2nd and Lily on the 11th.
News from Bunnies –Gemma, Chelsea (who is covering Gulcan’s maternity leave), Hannah, Alia and Ambreen: We would like to welcome new parents and children into our room and start off by saying that our topic this month is ‘Emergency Services’. We will be exploring and discovering all the different emergency services that we have and how they help us. Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! 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. .
We will be exploring this topic by doing many things such as making vehicles out of junk modelling to engage your child’s creative side and later hanging them in and around the room to help their self confidence. Small steps will also be engaging in role play and dressing up by looking at the different uniforms our emergency services wear. This will help your children to recognise who is here to help us safely when out and about. These are just a select few of the activities we have chosen to share with you, but all of our activities are there to develop communication skills between peers and adults as well as helping to develop the knowledge of the outside world. Please can we remind all parents to sign their child in and out every day. This is very important if there is a fire as we head count against the register. Also please remember to bring a water cup for your child. We would like to welcome Casey and Aaliyah into our room.
Your mission this month is to: - To talk to your child about different people who help us and look out for different types of emergency vehicles when walking to and from nursery as well as out and about.
Dates and notes: We would like to wish Happy 2nd Birthday to Tyler for the 3rd
February, Ranveer on the 20th and Ronav on the 12 th.
News from –Amy and Holly, Viviana, Pauline and Danielle, Kulwinder, Sonia and Sam: This month is ‘Emergency Services’. To learn about this, the children will be discovering the importance of these services and how each one can be used to help us, for example; helicopters, tow trucks lifeguards and the army. We will also be discussing the importance of 999 calls and when we must use them. Various activities will be provided to help the children fully experience this topic such as; junk modelling, creative bottle service people, a vehicle hunt around the local area, car track painting and looking at different books to find out more information. If you have any good ideas or know of any people who work with an emergency service, then please let us know! We are going to be using role play with emergency scenarios so it would be lovely if someone could visit us.
Your mission this month is to: - Talk to your child about emergency services to
reinforce their learning here. If you also have a family member who works within an emergency service let your child bring in a picture and they can discuss with their peers.
Dates and notes:-.
We would like to wish a happy 3rd birthday to Frankie on the 2nd and Klara on the 25th. We would also like to wish a Happy 4th Birthday to Adrita on the 7th and Holly on the 1st.
Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! 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. .