Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: June Newsletter 2019 News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Carol – We would like to wish Rehma, Paulina and Charlotte S a very happy birthday for this month. We are currently recruiting for a couple of positions, so if you know anyone looking for a job and has a qualification in childcare, pass on our email address and get them to send in their CV’s : info@harvardparkdaynursery.co.uk. Sport’s Week – 10th June and onwards The week of the 10th we will be having a range of activities going on in all rooms to promote healthy eating and postive well-being. The pracitioners will be planning lots of outings to the park and around our local area so please make sure all children have safe closed shoes such as trainers so they can participate. This also includes Baby Studio and Small Steps – please make sure you are providning footwear for them on a daily basis. Photo Payments for Freedom Zone and Small Steps: All payments for the recent photo’s taken by Karen are due in on the 7 th June – this does not include Baby Studio. A late fee will be added if you wish to purchase photos after this date. Health and Safety issue – Summer Clothing As the weather is getting warmer, we have been advised by outside agencies to inform you of our expectations for summer clothing in order to protect your children from sun damage. We will ask you to provide other form of clothing if your child comes in, in any of these and we may even ask you to return home and change. Please make sure you are providing a jumper or cardigan for you children as well as a sun hat and a bottle of sun cream. The shoulders are the most delicate part of the body’s skin on all children and will burn when exposed to the sun for too long. Sun-cream forms a barrier but does not fully protect them from the damage sun can do. Please be aware of our expectations when dressing your children in the mornings. This applies to Baby Studio and Small Steps as well. Requests – No buggies in Freedom Zone We have noticed that quite a few of our 3 year olds have been coming in buggies recently. We are going to be asking you to take these home with you as we cannot house them alongside those for the younger children. It has an impact of your child’s physical development so get them walking or on scooters to get to nursery. Freedom Zone Leavers: Pre-order you DVD and Year book This year we will be selling pre-recordings of your child’s leavers concert for a price of £5 and year books for £2. These will be pre-order only and there will be no spares on the day. Please add your name to the list if you wish to purchase either of these. There is an example copy of our year book by the signing in board.
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: June Newsletter 2019 News from Baby Studio – Simran, Mary, Nabila, Roshelle and Amanda: We would like to say goodbye to Bhavesh and Ira who will be moving up to small steps and we would like to welcome Jose, Matthew and Tam to our room!
Focus: Communication and Language We will be planning activities which will help develop the baby’s communication skills. With the older children we will use small group activities such as sound boxes, knock knock box and animal box to encourage sharing between friends and encourage language development by learning new sounds and words. For our younger children, we will be doing activities such as peek-a- boo, hide and seek using material and mimicking sounds which will all the children to have opportunities to communicate though gesture, facial expressions and imitating new sounds or words.
Home Mission: Get posting on your EyLog profiles! Show us the fun things you get up to with your baby at home. If you are not sure on how to do this please ask. Room Reminders: Please can you provide appropriate shoes for trips to the park. As the weather is becoming warmer and sunnier provide children with a sun hat and sun cream to keep at the nursery. We will be having picture day on the Friday 7th June in the morning from 9am to 11 am.
Birthdays and other notes for Baby Studio: We would like to wish Jose, Matthew and Tam a very happy 1 st birthday for this month. We hope you all have a lovely day! We will be conducting a Father’s Parent in Partnership this month – date TBC.
News from Small Steps – Qani, Amy, Paulina, Sherry and Ellie: Welcome to Bhavesh and Ira D who will start visiting from baby room and goodbye to Thanishka and Amazing who be moving into freedom zone sometime this month! We would also like to say goodbye to Amyra who will be leaving Harvard Park , we wish you and your family the best of luck and we will miss you!
Topic: All about Me Our topic for this month is all about me. We will be looking at differences between us i.e. eye colour and hair colour. We will also be doing a show and tell so please bring in one and only one of your child’s favourite toys. Well done to those who sent in family photo’s – Amy.S has made lovely photo albums and we will be using these during group times – if you haven’t sent any in please do as your children will miss out! Reminder that our Parent consultations will take place during the week of the 10th June – please book your appointment if you haven’t done so already.
Birthdays and other notes: Your Mission: if your child is 2 or turning 2 please make sure you book an appointment for their 2year check once you do so please let us know so we can book one here with you. We would like to wish a happy birthday to Paulina for this month we hope you have a lovely day! Father’s Day football: 14th June @ 5:00pm. This can be for any male role models your child has in their lives such as uncles or brothers if daddy cannot make it!
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Quick reminder: please look at the health and safety section of the manager to see what is appropriate during the warmer weather in terms of clothing. - Shoes: Please ensure your child is wearing the correct sized shoe for their feet, we are having a lot of trips and falls because the children’s shoes are too big. Please make sure they are closed shoes – no flip flops, sandals or crocs! - Please can you make sure you sign your child/s in and out every day and inform us of any holidays, absences and sick days. You can do this via phone call or email. - Please remember to provide a thin raincoat or jacket as we do go out in all weathers and the weather can change during the course of the day!
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: June Newsletter 2019 News from Freedom Zone – Viviana, Sam, Elvia, Nabila A, Kayley, Katie, Rehma, Charlotte S and Rachel: We would like to say welcome to Amazing and Thanishka who will be moving up from Small Steps. We would also like to say a sad goodbye to Aringas who will be leaving us during the month of June.
Topic: We have 2 different ones! This month we will be exploring 2 different topics. For the first few weeks we will be looking at the topic of all about me. The children will share and learn things about each other from family to interests, features and similarities or difference between us. We will then move onto Physical development which will cover both fine and gross motor skills. We will be planning lots of trips to the local park and the gym as well as having Sport week from Monday 10th June onwards. We would like your support in this by encouraging your child to walk or scoot into nursery as well as practising your fine motor skills by drawing, cutting or even threading at home! Our Father’s Day Parents in Partnership will be on Tuesday 11th June @ 5:00pm. Please see Viviana for more details.
Home Mission: Please bring in 1 item from home from our all about us box. We are no longer doing all about me boxes but we are asking parents to share one item with us to keep at nursery for us to show and tell. This could be a toy a picture or something which is special to your child. Birthdays and other notes: We would like to wish a happy 3rd birthday to Sofia for this month. And a happy 4th birthday to Bradley and Rishika. Also Happy birthday to Rehma and Charlotte for this month too! We hope you all have a lovely day! Your Mission: We will also like you to provide your family photo for albums is you haven’t already done so. Quite a few of our children are missing family albums and are beginning to notice that they do not have one.
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Quick reminder: please look at the health and safety section of the manager to see what is appropriate during the warmer weather in terms of clothing. Shoes: Please ensure your child is wearing the correct sized shoe for their feet, we are having a lot of trips and falls because the children’s shoes are too big. Please make sure they are closed shoes – no flip flops, sandals or crocs! -
Please sign your children in and out of the room. Take your water bottles home to wash, these are not our responsibility. This is your choice to bring in a bottle, we provide children with clean cups and drinking water throughout the day. - Please remember to provide a thin raincoat or jacket as we do go out in all weathers and the weather can change during the course of the day! - Our photographer will be back in on the 7th June between 9am and 11 am. If you did not have a graduation picture done, please be here between those times to make sure you have one.
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Monday 10 – Friday 14 June: Sport’s week
Father’s parents in partnership: Small Steps – 14th June @ 5:00pm Freedom Zone – 11th June @ 5:00pm
June Please dress your child in appropriate footwear all week. NO sandals, flip-flops, crocs or open toed shoes. Please also provide sun-cream if your child is doing a full day with us. If your child is part time, please apply sun cream before they come in for their sessions. This includes children in Small Steps too. Baby Studio will be joining in and doing things within their room. Parents will be invited to join 1 of our 2 sessions for Father’s Day. Please confirm your attendance once invitations have been sent out.
Freedom Zone Leaver’s ONLY: If you are interested in purchasing a year book – containing this year’s graduating children – or a DVD of your child’s leaving concert with an added extra to make it personalised to you, please write your name on the list in the room – DVD’s are pre-order only, there will be no copies sold on the day. July Wednesday 24 July: Encourage your child to dress up or come in party dress. End of term Tea Party for children in Baby If today is your child’s concert day – please come into Studio and Freedom Zone – Group 1 ‘s the building at 6:15pm – no earlier. concert day and tea party If you have been asked to provide a costume please bring this in with you at the beginning of this week. Friday 26th July: Encourage your child to dress up or come in party dress. End of term Tea Party for children in Small If today is your child’s concert day – please come into Steps and Freedom Zone – Group 2 ‘s the building at 6:15pm – no earlier. concert day and tea party If you have been asked to provide a costume please bring this in with you at the beginning of this week. August Monday 26th August: CLOSED due to bank holiday Friday 30th August: Last day for funded o If you are receiving government funding and are children who are leaving to go to big moving onto school or nursery school, please be aware school. this will be your last day. Please come and see Nicki or Tracey to make any necessary arrangements. o Please take all of your belongings with you; this includes name cards, art cards, art work bags and coats. Have a look on your child’s EyLog profile and place your orders for your EyLog memories, please speak to Amy or Carol if you need support. th