Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham June Newsletter 2014. News from the Managers Nicki and Tracey –
Important: If you have received your nursery/reception places and have accepted them please let us know of your leaving date as soon as possible please. We are sad to say another goodbye to a member of staff this month, as Alia will be leaving us on the 11th of June. We wish her all the best for the future. Thank you to all parents who have donated items such as clothes and toys to us we are very grateful. Unfortunately we are still in need of socks/pants/knickers, children’s books, newspapers, old magazines and kitchen roll tubes. If you have any of these lying around the house we would be even more grateful to receive them. The children had an emergency fire alarm on Friday 30 th May in the early hours of the morning. The practices have paid off, the children were very well behaved and listened to their teachers well and we would like to say well done to them and our team for being so professional and getting everyone out safely!
News from Deputy Carol- Please let us know about whether your child is staying with us or
moving on. A reminder that the group nursery photo shot will be on Monday 2nd June. A reminder will be on facebook and in the lobby so please be vigilant. For our Freedom Zone leavers, we will be having a concert however it will only be available to view on DVD as it puts too much pressure on the children when parents and carers come to watch it live. From previous experiences, our 2 year olds are unable to maintain attention for a lengthy period of time so they won’t be involved but will have the opportunity to sing with their friends on another day. More details will follow in next month’s newsletter.
News from Baby Studio –Sana, Mary, Gurpreet, Diluni, Nabila and Chelsea (who will also be covering in other rooms):
We would like to start by saying a sad goodbye to Ryan who is moving up to Small Steps; we hope you have lots of fun! We would like to welcome Sahd, Ilyas, Lexi, Aaliyah and Shriya into our room! Please remember Sign your child in and out every day! This is a document we use in an emergency so it is important to sign your child both in and out. Please provide labelled sunhats and sun cream for the hot weather Thank you. Our theme for this month is ‘All about me’ alongside continuing working on physical development. Our physical activities are based around those who are learning to walk or crawl and helping those develop skills such as balancing and running who are able to confidently walk. ‘All about me’ is focusing on us and our families. We will be encouraging our ducklings to engage in activities such as painting their hands and feet to explore their sense, looking in mirrors at our facial expressions and features, and through song, looking at our body parts to develop our expressive skills. Well done to all our parents who have sent in pictures for your child’s family trees. They are available for you to look at if you wish to do so. Where possible, could you send some pictures of child’s relatives too, as we will be looking at them for our all about me theme. Ducklings love to look at pictures and helps develop their language and communication skills.
Your mission this month is to: -
Send in relative pictures and dress your child
appropriately for the weather.
Dates and notes: -
We would like to wish a happy birthday to our staff members Gurpreet on 19 and Sana on 25th. PHOTO DAY: Monday 2nd June – bring your smiles th
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. .
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham June Newsletter 2014. News from Bunnies –Gemma, Chelsea, Hannah, Alia and Ambreen:
We would like to welcome Ryan into our room as he is moving up during the month of May. We would like to wish Jessica the best of luck as she is moving into Freedom Zone this month. We hope you have lots of fun! We would like to say a sad goodbye to Alia who is leaving on the 11 th June. Please remember Sign your child in and out every day! This is a document we use in an emergency so it is important to sign your child both in and out. Please provide labelled sunhats and sun cream for the hot weather Thank you. We have begun to look at mini-beasts as the children have noticed them in the garden and around the environment. So this month we shall continue this interest and the topic shall be ‘mini-beasts’. We have been investigating the different types of mini-beasts they are using books, magnifying glasses and magazines to develop our literary knowledge as well as developing our knowledge and understanding of the world. In the next few weeks we will be developing our creative skills and thinking by making junk model mini-beasts, designing our own mini-beast and painting with them too. Well done to all of our parents who have sent in their all about me boxes and family photos. We would like to request that you create and bring in your all about me boxes if you haven’t already done so. If you are unsure of what these are then just ask your keyworker and they will happily remind you of what they are. Alongside this we would like to ask for some family photos as we have them in the home corner and children are wondering where their family pictures are. We will also use them for our family trees in your child’s learning journals.
Your mission this month is to: -
Look at mini-beasts on your way nursery and in your gardens/parks and send in a picture of your child looking for them!
Dates and notes: We would like to wish a happy 3rd birthday to Jessica for the 6th. Goodbye to Akshaj and Alia who are leaving Harvard Park. PHOTO DAY: Monday 2nd June – bring
your smiles
News from –Amy and Holly, Viviana, Pauline and Danielle, Kulwinder, Sonia and Sam: Hello everyone! We would like to begin by apologising to Amber and wishing her a happy birthday for May as we missed her off the May birthdays in the last newsletter. We hope you had a lovely day. This month our topic will be ‘All about me’. We will be talking about what makes us special, how we differ from others and what we do at home with our families and friends! If your child would like to bring in some photos or a souvenir to share with their friends at group time they can do so. Talk about what makes them special as we will be asking them during group times too. We will also beginning our practices for our 2014 Leavers Concert, which will involve all the children leaving to go to school or nursery. It will include songs, dances and storytelling and will be lots of fun for our children to participate in. Please see messages from Carol for more details. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of those parents who have brought in family pictures for their learning journals, it is very much appreciated as it makes the children’s folders look colourful and personal to them. We would also like to make you aware of a sad event that happened here at nursery … Tumbe (the snail) has gone to snail heaven. We have chosen to tell the children that he has decided to go back to Africa to see his family because he was lonely. We have a mixed range of ages in Freedom Zone and thought this would be the best way to approach the matter. His baby Zazu is still with us though.
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. .
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham June Newsletter 2014. Your mission this month is to: - Dig out some family photos and talk through them discussing
their names and relations. If your child does anything special or different at the weekends, such as a club, family party or dance class; Please bring in a picture or mini explanation of what they do as it is lovely for their folders!
Dates and notes:-We would like to wish a happy 3rd birthday to Avya on 4th and Amelia on 19th.
We would like to wish a happy 4th birthday to Sian and Dillon on 1st, David on 4th, Gabriel on 10th, Isabel on 18th and Micah on 28th. PHOTO DAY: Monday 2nd June – bring your smiles
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. .