Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: October Newsletter 2016. News from the Managers, Nicki and Tracey and Deputy Manager, Carol:– Firstly, we would like welcome all of our new parents and staff to our Harvard Park family. We would also like to welcome Marilyn into Freedom Zone. She will introduce herself during the course of this month. And we also say goodbye to Esra who left us last week, thank you for all your hard work and co-operation, best of luck for the future. Happy birthday to Holly for the 12 th of this month. We hope you have a lovely day. Our Photographer will be in to take our Christmas photo’s: Baby Studio and Small Steps will be on Wednesday 5th October Freedom Zone will be on Thursday 6th October. They are ideal Christmas gifts or keepsakes. If you wish to have your photo taken but are not in on these days please come and see management to book an appointment. Please feel free to bring in a change of outfit for these pictures but please inform a practitioner in your room of what you require. We think it is great that so many of you are riding scooters of bikes to nursery, however the bikes are a little bit too big for our lobby Where possible could you please ride a scooter instead of a bike to save space in our lobby, thank you. Below is a table of the practitioners in your child’s room: Baby Studio Small Steps Freedom Zone Simran Mary Holly Sam Viviana Chelsea Qani Marisa Nabila K Sukrage Gurpreet Salina Sonia Nabila A Sherry Marilyn Vaida Our Other staff members who do regular cover for us are: Nehar, Katie and Charlotte. They will be present in all rooms. A message about our move to EY log: We are currently in the process of talking with our staff of what our expectations are. From here they will have a week or so to finish off their paper learning journals, which we will have to keep for a little while longer. We will then transfer all the data from their trackers onto their EY profiles, at which point you will be linked into them and should receive an email asking you to set a password. This should hopefully be at the END of October, if not the 2 nd week of November. Please be patient with us while we learn about these profiles ourselves. Unfortunately due to time and the amount of children we have in our setting, its most likely you won’t get daily updates of your child’s day more so 1-2 weekly updates. Daily feedback will be given to you each day by the practitioners in the room. Monday 31st October will be our Halloween and Diwali Party Day. All are welcome to dress up in fun spooky outfits, avoiding masks, or pretty party dresses for Diwali.
News from Baby Studio –Simran, Mary, Marisa, Nabila, and Sherry : Hello, we would like to welcome Anjola and Aishna to our room and a warm welcome back to Nabila. We would also like to say goodbye to Esra who left us at the end of September. For the month of October we will be continuing our topic of ‘Getting to know you and sensory investigation’. We will continue with our daily messy activities giving all our children the chance to explore new textures with their hands, feet and other parts of their bodies. Can we please ask that you provide a few extra pairs of clothing for us to change your child should they get really messy whilst learning? We will be doing lots of tummy time with our non-mobile babies and walking practice with those who are ready and raring to go. A few reminders: - Singing in and out: Your child’s name is now already on the signing in sheet. Please write the time you drop off and pick up as and when you enter or leave the building. It is by the door as you exit and it is a very important document for healthy and safety and child protection, so please sign them in. Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! We will of course print of a few copies to those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our parents table. .
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Weather change: Please supply us with a warm thick coat and, where possible, a pair of closed shoes or warm slippers; to cover their feet when we go out for walks. Your mission this month is to: - Encourage and allow your child to feed themselves at home. We know they will get messy so leave them in a baby grow or in the warmer weather jut their nappy. Wrap the highchair in Clingfilm or put newspaper under their chair to prevent further mess. Give them a spoon and you have a spoon to model the good eating . They will get the hang of it in no time
Dates and notes: - Our photographer is in on Wednesday 5th of October to do photo’s in time for Christmas. If this is not your day please come and see management to book an appointment. Please feel free to bring in a change of outfit for these pictures but please inform a practitioner in your room of what you require. Monday 31st October- dress up for Halloween or Diwali!
News from Bunnies:– Holly, Sam, Sukrage and Gurpreet: Hello, our topic for this month is ‘music from around the world’. To highlight this amazing topic, the children will be experiencing lots of different cultural music, as well as instruments and ways of dancing. Some visitors, as well as staff members, will be preforming some traditional dance sequences; if you know of anyone or even yourselves, who would like to come in and demonstrate or have some cultural/traditional props that we can use look at and experience, then please let us know. A few reminders for this month: - Name cards: Please encourage your child to find their name card when they enter the settings in the morning AND afternoon. If it is not there we are in the process of making it but please encourage them to check for themselves. - Signing in and out: Your child’s name is now already on the signing in sheet. Please write the time you drop off and pick up as and when you enter or leave the building. It is by the door as you exit and it is a very important document for healthy and safety and child protection, so please sign them in. - Change in weather: Please ensure you are dressing appropriately for the outside weather. Please start to bringing warm winter coats and hats/scarves with their names on the labels. We do go out in all weathers and when our garden is shaded it can be quite chilly out there.
Your mission this month is to: -Encourage basic rhytm, clap out some simple sequences and see if your child joins in or even copies, put different types of music on and have a boggie!
Dates and notes: We would like to wish Holly a happy birthday for the 12th of this month. Our
photographer is in on Wednesday 5th of October to do photo’s in time for Christmas. If this is not your day please come and see management to book an appointment. Please feel free to bring in a change of outfit for these pictures but please inform a practitioner in your room of what you require. Monday 31st October- dress up for Halloween or Diwali!
News from –Viviana, Chelsea,Sonia, Salina,Vaida,Qani. Marilyn and Nabila A: We would like to welcome all our new parents, children and staff in our room! This month’s topic will be ‘music from around the world’. We will be doing lots of exploring with multicultural music, ways of dance and instruments. If you have any songs, music or instruments from your culture and would like to share them with us, please do! The children love this topic and get a lot out of it. We will also be making our own instruments, dressing up to dance and learning about ways to move our bodies. We will also be doing some Halloween and Diwali themed activities such as diva making and spider web making, so please ensure you are taking things from your child’s cubby hole. Signing in and out: Please ensure you are signing your child in and out each day. The board is located by the door as you enter and exit. It is an important health and safety document as well as child protection. Change in weather: Please ensure you are dressing appropriately for the outside weather. Please start to bringing warm winter coats and hats/scarves with their names on the labels. We do go out in all weathers
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: October Newsletter 2016. and when our garden is shaded it can be quite chilly out there. If your child does not yet have an all about me box, could you please make one with your child. If you are unsure about what these are please ask a member of Freedom Zone staff. There is also a document attached on Facebook explaining what these are and what we use them for. Please make sure you are sending in your family photos too, some of our children are asking where their’s are! Chelsea has also requested; if you have any old jars you are throwing out please could we have some. I am planning to make snow globes come Christmas time, thank you.
Your mission this month is to: - Create an all about me box if you have not done so. For more information please speak to your keyworker.
Dates and notes: - We would like to wish a happy 4th birthday to Wally on the 16th and Shriya on the
18th of this month. Our photographer is in on Thursday 6th of October to do photo’s in time for Christmas. If this is not your day please come and see management to book an appointment. Please feel free to bring in a change of outfit for these pictures but please inform a practitioner in your room of what you require. Monday 31st October- dress up for Halloween or Diwali!
Can parents please join our Facebook site as we are trialling our news letters on our new site to save our trees! We will of course print of a few copies to those parents who do not have access to a computer. We will also display a copy on our parents table. .