Isleworth's newsletter for May '15

Harvard Park Pre School Isleworth: May Newsletter 2015 News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Natalie – We would like to start by officially welcoming Sian, Lacey, Amy and Dee to our Harvard Park team!

And please remember Monday 4th May is a bank holiday so we will be closed. We would like to say a massive thank you to Romeo and his family for taking on Turbo and giving him a loving home  We would also like to say a sad goodbye to Diluni who will be leaving us during this month.

We need to address a health and safety issue regarding footwear. Please DO NOT send you child in open toed sandals. We know the weather is changing and getting nicer but jelly shoes or crocs are a much better and safer option. Over the last couple of weeks we have had a few accidents which involved open toed sandals and it is one that can be prevented.

At some point this month, your key worker will be giving reports to you on your child’s development here at the pre-school. When you have read and signed them, please return them as soon as possible so we can photocopy them and give them back to you. If you do have any concerns or want to know more about the reports, please make an appointment with your keyworker so that it does not disrupt the rest of the session by taking a member of staff out of our ratios. A reminder for Monday 1st June: we will be closed for parent consultation meetings so if you want to book appointments please do so.

Breakfast time will now be finishing at 8:30am on the dot as we are now going into group times after to extend their learning further. We will also be starting our focus groups and key working groups at this time. If this will cause a problem please approach Natalie to discuss it with her.

Please let us know ASAP if you have found out where your child will be going in September, if your child is going to be staying with us for another year please let us know too.

News from Natalie, Danielle, Dee, Seema, Diluni, Rosa, Jeanna, Marilyn, Sian, Lacey, Amy and Anusha: Our theme for this will be continuing with all about me and what I can do. Some of our children are getting a little bit upset at the fact they do not have all about me boxes. Most of our children have one and we use them on a daily basis to talk about our favourite things or our families which may be present through items or photographs in the box. Please ask you key worker if you are unsure of what needs to go in them but we would really like every child to have one so they do not feel left out.

Thank You  We will be looking at ourselves and our abilities as well as our progress since we have been at preschool. We will be looking at our learning journals and seeing what we can do and discovering all the things which distinguish us from others such as our cultural backgrounds and our favourite things to do. We would like it if parents also got involved by telling your child’s keyworker things they can do at home such as walking up and down the stairs or how many lengths they can swim in the pool. Your keyworker will provide you with white sticky labels for you to jot down a few things your have been up to at the weekend, during the week or even in the evenings. This can be as simple as any new words your child presents to you or something that they have never done before. Similarly if it is easier, you can send them via email which will be passed onto their key workers for their folders 

You may have been informed that your child is entitled to a free Bookstart treasure bag.

Please bring in you red book so that we can sign it off and give you one of these extra special bags!

Rashid, Josephine, Antonia, James, Oliver, Jayden, Dian, Austin, Jaden, Samira, Summer, Inaya, Jojo Janaye and Javon; you are all entitled to one so please bring in those red books!

We have planned to do a sports week during the month of May but due to the British weather, we will have to let you know the week before it will happen. Please read the message board outside so that you are aware of when this will take place.

On our warm and sunny days please apply sun cream before your child comes to the setting and also send in your child with a sun hat clearly labelled with their name.

Mission of the month: - Try to be as active as you can such as going to the park or even walking to nursery! Ditch those buggies and let’s get our legs working.

Just a few notes to start off the month of February:• 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.

Big well done to all your parents who have been encouraging either walking or riding to preschool! Fewer buggies are better for us as we have lack of storage as you can see.

To avoid upset or confusion everything should be clearly labelled with your child’s name. Also 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 Tracey, Amy, Frankie our caretaker, Finley-Jack, Romeo and Ines for this month. We hope you have a lovely day!

Please could parents/carers bring in 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!

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 ANYTIME EVEN IF THE BARRIER IS 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.