November's newsletter for Pre-school/Isleworth 2016

Harvard Park Pre-School Isleworth: November Newsletter 2016 News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Natalie – Welcome to November! Our Book people will be bring some special gifts over the next few months, please make sure you are paying for this before the delivery date, thank you.

AN IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL PARENTS AND CARERS: DO NOT park in the school car park! We know it is tempting to do so when the gates are open but please don’t.

Please remember that E-cigarettes are not allowed on the premises, if you need to use these, please go outside of the school gates. Thank you.

If you are late when picking up your child please be aware that you will be charged for the amount of time you are late. Please also try to arrive on time when dropping off your children too.

We know this is a little bit early but we want everyone to be clear as to what will be happening in December- it’s going to be a very busy month! The table below shows all the important dates you will need to put down on your calendars or in your diaries: Monday 28th November

Christmas Post box will be open

Please do not feel you have to write Christmas cards, the option is there. We do encourage your children also having a go at writing some too!

Monday 28th November

Christmas Bazar at Day Nursery, Feltham.

Nicki’s friend is holding a craft sales evening, unfortunately children are not allowed. Feel free to join us from 6:00pm onwards, invites will be emailed out to you shortly.

Wednesday 14th December

Christmas post box will close

This will be the last day to post Christmas cards. After this date, we will not be able to accept them.

Thursday 15th December

Our Christmas party 10:00am- 2:00pm

Dress up in your favourite fancy dress outfit! We will be having a fun filled day and a very special visit from Santa! Our hours will change on this day so please be prompt when picking up.

Friday 16th December

Last day of term

We are open as normal and will dress in Christmas jumpers or pyjama’s – your choice!

We are closed from Monday 26th December – Monday 2nd January 2017. We come back to pre-school on Tuesday 3rd January 2017 at 8:00am.

If you have changed your contact details such as mobile numbers or have moved house, please come to the management desk and change the details we have so we can suitably contact you.

As we transition onto our online EY log profiles, we ask you to be as patient as possible. We have set up our profiles, and are beginning to transfer all the data onto them. We will be linking you into your child’s profiles within the next two weeks. You will get an email saying EY log, this will ask you to set up a password of your choice and will then take you onto the profile pages. If you have more than one child with us in the setting, it is only one password and both profiles will be visible to you. You can also download the app which is for Apple and Android. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask us and we will try and help you as much as we can.

News from Natalie, Dee, Eva, Jeanna, Mandy, Lacey, and Amy: Thank you to those who have been bringing in fruit each week. Please ensure that it is sealed in its original packaging and it can as exotic as you like, but please avoid strawberries and pineapple as we do have some allergies to them. For the month of November we will be investigating the topic of ‘Keeping Safe’. We chose to do this topic at this time of year for several reasons. Firstly, Bonfire night is approaching and we look at staying safe around fire and sparklers; Secondly, it gets dark very early so we look at staying safe around roads and stranger danger; and thirdly we look at people who help us such as the fire and police services and how they can keep us safe. We also talk about how to stay safe at home, for example, not touching irons or straighteners if you see them out or on the floor.

DO NOT let your children bring in sweets or chewing gum into the setting. We like to promote healthy eating and chewing gum is a choking hazard.

Due to a change in weather please remember to dress your child appropriately for the weather as well as bringing in a thick winter coat, hat, gloves and scarf. These need to be labelled with your child’s name so they do not go missing or get mixed up with our spares. We do go outside in all weather and we occasionally go for a trip, therefore your child needs to feel as warm as possible.

If you have any old magazines, phone books or multi-cultural food packing, before you throw it out could we have it for our home corner? We are developing that area to represent our homes a little bit more. Any form of contribution would be great.

Mission of the month: - Head to your local park or around you area and help your child to identify hazards or dangers. For younger children, focus on how to stay safe nears roads and cars. Encourage them to draw pictures of what they find!

Just a few notes to start off the month of November: 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.  Remember to use the signing out board to sing your children in and out of the building, thank you.

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 Daniel, Lubainah and Malika. We hope you have a lovely day! If we have missed out anyone who has just started with us we are sorry and hope you have a lovely day too.

This is a message from Smallberry Green School: DO NOT Park in front of or outside the school gates. You will get in trouble if they see you on their CCTV. Do not park inside the car park either; Harvard Park will get in trouble for this too. If the 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.

gate is open, the CCTV is still in operation and they will register your number plate, approaching you if you park in the car park.

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.