March 2016 Pre-school / Isleworth newsletter

Harvard Park Pre School Isleworth: March Newsletter 2016 News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Natalie:To all of our new parents, welcome to our Harvard Park family! This is our monthly newsletter which you can read 3 ways. We will have a few paper copies available in the setting or by request, they will be on our Facebook page and we will also email them to you. The newsletter does contain important information so please read them as often as you can. We would also like to welcome Mandy to our team as she as now joined us.

As you may have notice, Sian has been absent for a while. Due to unforeseen circumstances she has had to leave Harvard Park rather suddenly. Danielle will be returning to us in April from her maternity leave. We would also like to apologise if you were uniformed about dressing up for World Book Day, please regularly check your emails and Facebook for regular updates.

Our book bags are still for sale and after the success of World Book Day it is clear that our children love stories. The book bags are brilliant for choosing different books from our library, reading them at home and giving you child the opportunity for early reading skills. They are priced at £5 and are yours to keep. They also come in handy for transporting artwork, spellings and letter that we might send out.

Please be aware that we will be closed on Good Friday – Friday 25 th March and will remain closed between Monday 28th March – Friday 8th April for the Easter half term. We will re-open normal hours on Monday 11th April.

Our timings for open and closing times are as follows AM session PM session 8:00am – 11:45am 12:30 pm – 4:15pm The door will open at 11:40am The door will open at 4:10pm If you are late before the session and have not If you are late before the session and have not rung we will have to turn you away. If you are late rung we will have to turn you away. If you are late after the session, you will be charged. Please after the session, you will be charged. Please refrain from arriving too early. It is too cold for refrain from arriving too early. It is too cold for the children to be outside for that length of the children to be outside for that length of time. 15 minutes early is plenty. time. 15 minutes early is plenty.

We have found a very handy document which is easy for you to access via this link: http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/2015/03/4Children_ParentsGuide_2015_WEB.pdf . It is a guide to child’s development and the stages they should reach at which age. We track their development using an EYFS accompanied by a tracker. This is a guide for you to help you gain a better understanding of our tracking system and helpful tips of how you can help at home!

News from Natalie, Danielle, Dee, Eva, Parul, Jeanna, Marilyn, Lacey, Amy, Anusha and Mandy: We would like to say a big thank you to all of those who have sent in their family photos, the children have loved looking at others families as well as their own. If you haven’t done so, please send yours in.

We also have another request. If you have any small plastic plant pots or old yoghurt pots, please bring them in. We are looking at doing some planting and growing this month and we need pots!

Any size or shape will do, we would be very grateful.

Our theme for this month will be all Transport and Road safety. We will be looking at the zebra crossing in the car park and using this to teach our children about how to be safe near roads.

For those older children, we will be taking trips up to Tesco and using that Zebra crossing to teach them further. Please encourage your children to use the car park Zebra crossing when entering and leaving pre-school. With regards to transport, we will be looking at all different modes of transports and where we use them. We will be creating our own from junk modelling, using role play with our small world cars and using bikes and scooters in the garden to learn about traffic lights.

During our sessions, we have lots of focus groups going on; all of which the children are involved in. These focus groups will also be looking at being safe near roads and transport to support their learning and development further. Please ask your key worker for some wow stickers so you can document their learning at home!

OUR EASTER COMPETITION: We would like you and your child to create anything for our Easter completion. It could be an Easter bonnet, an Easter scene or simply drawing their own Easter eggs. Please submit your entries between Monday 7th March and Friday 18th March. They will be displayed for a little while so they can act as a talking point for our children.

We also have Book bags which are still available to purchase. These are at a price of £5 and are yours to keep forever. Children are able to choose books from our library and take them home to read with you or other family. They have proven to be very effective in all aspects of learning, so we encourage you to purchase one if you haven’t yet.

Please could parents/carers bring in sealed fruit so we can share it during our snack time? You are doing great so keep it up!  Please avoid kiwis as we have a child who has an allergy, thank you!

Mission of the month: - Label all of your child’s belongings. Children often have the same clothes which are the same size, same with bags and coats. Please label them clearly to avoid any confusion or upset.

Just a few notes to start off the month of January:• Please it is very important that your child does not bring anything containing NUTS into the pre-school setting as we do have children and staff who have a NUT ALLERGY!!!  • Please start labelling your child’s clothing especially hats, coats and gloves as we are having trouble with some children wearing the same colour and the same type of coats.

If you would like us to do so, simply say.

• If you have borrowed clothes from the pre-school please could you return them? We are running very low on girls trousers and if we have nothing to change your child into, we will have to ring you to come and pick them up from the setting. Same with wellington boots, if you have borrowed them please return them ASAP, thank you. Please make sure you have as sufficient amount of clothes so that we are able to change your child especially if they are potty training.

Please remember once you collect your child from their groups, they are your responsibility so DO NOT let them push the door handle to let themselves out. ADULTS ONLY!!!!!!

We would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Natalie R, Natalie M, Parul, Eliyaz, Gurwin, Jamie, Karanvir, Zaheer, Naomi and Zuzanna! We hope you all have a lovely day  We have noticed that some parents are still parking next to parked cars outside the school gates please do not do this! please refrain from using the staff car park at any time even if the barrier is Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our newsletters on our new site to save our trees! Just type in Harvard Park Pre-school and Day Nursery into your search engine (i.e. Google) and we should pop up! We regularly update this page with pictures, messages and notices. We will of course print off a few copies for those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our Parents Table.

up as they do have cameras and Harvard park do get into trouble if our parents are seen driving in.

Thank you.

Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our newsletters on our new site to save our trees! Just type in Harvard Park Pre-school and Day Nursery into your search engine (i.e. Google) and we should pop up! We regularly update this page with pictures, messages and notices. We will of course print off a few copies for those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our Parents Table.