Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.
Notes from the management team: After Boris’ announcements at the end of February, we are well aware that schools will be returning. This may mean that if you have not been attending with us but are wishing to return - YOU MUST contact us before this happens. If your child has been absent for a pro-longed period of time, they made need to be re-introduced to the setting, staff and routine slowly. Please contact us if this applies to you and you are looking to come back during the month of March. As per the guidelines, we will be following the routine we have set in place until we as a nursery feel comfortable enough to change these procedures. To our morning parents, our numbers are beginning to increase and therefore staff cannot go back and forth to the gate. Please arrive before 8:45 am - as after this time you will be marked down as late on our register and you will have to wait until someone is available to let you in. We would like to say a big thank you to all of you for being so co-operative and understanding during this time. We are working in partnership with each other and are doing a great job! If there is anything you want to talk about such as help with a home routine, ideas for your children activity wise or even some advice or support with filling in forms as such, do not hesitate to ask us and we will help and support you the best that we can. Brighter days are coming, lighter evenings are starting to appear, the sun is shining on a weekend and we can see more positivity coming - you are doing a great job, keep it up! Lastly, we would like to say happy mothers day to all of the strong females we have in our lives. Whether you are a mum, sister, auntie, grandmother or best friend, you guys are doing an amazing job and keep it up. Have a lovely relaxing day on the 14th! Term dates and closures: We are closed from Thursday 1st April to Friday 16th April. We are back to preschool on Monday 19th April 2021. Make sure you are posting pictures on the EyLog during the half term. We are keeping a track of who posts and who doesn’t and will be tackling this after half term!
Please beware of bring food from home for packed lunches: We have VERY severe allergies which require life saving medication DO NOT bring in any nut products (including Nutella) into the setting. Nutella contains nuts and therefor should not be packed into lunch boxes. Similarly Pesto also contains nuts, please check ingredients before sending in.
Birthdays for the month of March : Happy 3rd birthday to Hrihan! Happy 4th birthday to Dominic, Ignacy and Jan! Happy birthday to Natalie on the 15th! We hope you all have a lovely day!
Clothing and naming clothes: This is a serious issues and needs to be addressed Please write your child’s name inside their coats. We have 4 of the same yellow coats, 3 of which are the same size! To stop the confusion - please use a pen to write their name or initials on the label. Children MUST be dressed in trousers and jumpers with t-shirts/vests underneath. We are keeping the doors open to keep a constant flow of clean air through the room to reduce the level of germs within the building. This means no summer dresses or skirts with tights! Reminders: Follow the flow and wear your face mask: this is very important for you to be doing especially with the spread of infection! Follow the school flow which is painted on the ground - the school are monitoring this and feeding back to us. Please write children’s names in their clothes to stop them going missing. We are fully aware that children will at some point have the same bag, coat or even gloves as their friend. Writing your child’s name inside, on a label will stop things going missing or going home with the wrong person. Please help us and write their names in the label! Thursday 4th March - World Book Day: Encourage your child
to dress up as their favourite book character, if they do not want to dress up - don’t force them. Sometimes the simplest costume is the most effective, use what you have at home to create something new! A yellow t-shirt and red trousers could represent Winnie the Pooh or a character t-shirt will make a child feel included too.
Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.
Notes from your Pre-School Teachers: Jeanna, Eva, Lucy, Sima, Asha, Ayesha and Roshelle Focus: Traditional Stories Traditional tales are also referred to as fairy stories or fairy tales. Stories such as Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk are all traditional stories. This month we are going to be integrating a lot of different stories over a period of a month to support all area’s of learning. As you see the stories appear through observations on the Eylog re-introduce them to your children at home or use them as their bedtime stories. We will be planning a range of activities throughout the month such as creating our own stories to support mark marking and imagination, mathematical language including size and positional, role play using stories and as always using stories to develop new language and introducing new words. Thursday 4th March - World Book Day: Encourage your child to dress up as their favourite book character, if they do not want to dress up - don’t force them. Sometimes the simplest costume is the most effective, use what you have at home to create something new! A yellow t-shirt and red trousers could represent Winnie the Pooh or a character t-shirt will make a child feel included too.
Targets to work on @ home Encourage your child to drink water at home - we encourage it here but a lot of children will take the other option on offer. Water is important for brain function so please encourage this as we do here. Labeling language - To encourage language development, please make sure you are labelling items. By this we mean not just handing children a t-shirt, for example “now we put on your red t-shirt” or “can you pass me the blue plate?”. This is something we focus on at nursery and would be very helpful for you to do at home too. Although the weather is cold and a bit dull, make sure you as a family are keeping active. Home yoga, meditation and bend and stretch are all great ways of keeping active. There are a few YouTube channels that can help with this - CosmicKids is one of them! To our morning parents, our numbers are beginning to increase and therefore staff cannot go back and forth to the gate. Please arrive before 8:45 am - as after this time you will be marked down as late on our register and you will have to wait until someone is available to let you in. Reminders: No food or toys in backpacks or pre-school bags: Please make sure that you are not bringing food in your child’s school bags without informing a practitioner. We have some severe allergies at the setting and if we find children snacking from their bags, it can cause allergic reactions in other children. Please be mindful about what you have packed or check before you leave the house to make sure there is nothing harmful in their bags (including medication). Please do not also bring toys from home - we are not responsible for these and if they go missing it is not our responsibility.
A message for those who bring a packed lunch for wrap around care: Please make sure you are packing healthy food for your children. Do not bring anything that contains nuts such as Nutella or pesto and please avoid lots of sugary foods. If you are sending in grapes and tomatoes, please cut up the fruit before packing it, thank you. Labelling belongings: Please write your child’s name inside their coats. We have 4 of the same yellow coats 3 or which are the same size! To stop the confusion - please use a marker pen to write their name or initials on the label.
Dates for you diary and reminders: If your child was born between 01/09/17 and 31/08/18 - you can apply for school nursery if you would like to. Applications are now open and must be filled in online - the closing date is 7th May 2021. You are more than welcome to stay with us for another year if school nursery is not right for you. Please follow this link to fill in the application form for school nursery: https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20028/ primary_admissions/74/nursery_admissions •
Thursday 4th March - World Book Day: Encourage your child to dress up as their favourite book character, if they do not want to dress up - don’t force them. Sometimes the simplest costume is the most effective, use what you have at home to create something new! •
Sunday 14th March - Mothers Day - We hope you all have a lovely relaxing day!