Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: SeptemberNewsletter 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 say Goodbye to those of you who are leaving us this month. We feel very privileged that you chose us to give your child their first steps into education. We wish you all the best for the future and keep in touch! We would also like to welcome Sukrage into Small Steps. She will introduce herself during the course of this month. A very serious reminder: Please DO NOT bring in sweets, cereal bars or anything that contains nuts or sesame seeds into our setting. We have a child who has a very sever allergy as well as a member of staff and a parent who all need emergency medication administered if they have a reaction. We are very serious about this so please do not bring them in. 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. By now you should have all received your new invoices, any questions or queries please see us in the office. This is a message to all rooms: Please sign your child in and out of the building when you arrive and leave. This document is in aid of child-protection and health and safety. If in a fire evacuation, we use this to register the children to see who are present. We also use it to regularly head count during the day. DO not use your phones whilst in the room. Our practitioners have the right to ask you to move to the lobby if they see you on your mobile. It is a safeguarding and child-protection issue. As you know we have had some room changes which will also mean some key-worker changes. We would like to remind you that while your child is at Harvard Park, everyone looks after your child. Their keyworker is there to track and monitor their development and construct their learning journals. We try to stick with full time practitioners having full time key children so it is easier for everyone to gather what is required for their learning and development. Morning attenders will have a morning practitioner and afternoon attenders will have an afternoon practitioner. On occasion, a full child who does full days may have a morning or afternoon practitioner. This is fine because all the practitioners will be able to feedback at the end of the day as well as add things to their learning journals. We, as managers, think long and hard about which child will fit in with which practitioner. Below is a table of the practitioners in your child’s room: Baby Studio Small Steps Freedom Zone
Simran Marisa
Mary Esra
Holly Sukrage
Sam Gurpreet
Viviana Chelsea Qani Salina Sonia Nabila A Sherry Nabila K Vaida Our Other staff members who do regular cover for us are: Nehar, Katie and Charlotte. They will be present in all rooms. If you have any kitchen or loo rolls heading out for the recycling or any rolls of wallpaper going spare, we would be really grateful for them as they come in handy for activities and mark marking sessions. We would also like to wish Katie and Sam happy birthday’s for this month. We hope you have lovely days.
News from Baby Studio –Simran, Mary, Marisa, Esra, and Sherry : Hello, we would like to welcome Isla and Reyansh who will be joining us soon. We would also like to say goodbye to Maksim, Rohan and Zia who will be moving up to Small steps during the month. We would also like to say goodbye to Anya who will be leaving the setting during this month. For this month, our topic will be ‘Getting to know you and sensory investigation’. This topic will include lots of messy play such as spaghetti play and gloop play. This will give all our children the chance to explore new textures with 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. .
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 also be providing children with lots of different and new activities to find out what you child likes and dislikes are and if they have changed. If they have just started, we will focus on creating new and strong bonds with your child so they get to feel safe, comfortable and happy with us. This is a request from management; if you child drinks formula milk, could you please bring the powder in its original packaging. We do and can provide some free tubs of milk powder, so please ask a member of Baby Studio staff for more information. Thank you. Please remember to sign you child in and out of our room. These documents are very important during an evacuation, so please do so before leaving the room. Your mission this month is to: - Encourage 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: - We would like to say happy 1st birthday to Sienna on the 9th of this month.
News from Bunnies –Holly, Sam, Sukrage and Gurpreet: Firstly we would like to say a warm hello to all of our new staff, parents and children into our room and say a sad goodbye to all of our children who have already or are moving up into Freedom Zone over the upcoming weeks. This month’s topic will be focusing on ‘all about me’. To highlight this amazing topic, the children will be participating in lots of different fun activities such as mirror drawing, family puppet books and creating some self-portraits. These activities will help to develop the children’s understanding of themselves, their families and their friends. If you have any food boxes or packaging (no carrier bags, tins or glass) which we can add to our home corner, we would love them to develop our imaginary play. 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. - Potty Trainers: Please supply us with plenty of clothes to change your child when they have accidents. This includes sock and underwear! - Sun creams: Please provide the nursery with a small bottle of sun cream labelled with your child’s name. We can keep it here for garden play and trips. Please remember to sign you child in and out of our room. These documents are very important during an evacuation, so please do so before leaving the room.
Your mission this month is to: -Talk to your child about their body parts using labelling and single words such as ears, nose, mouth, eyes etc. This will support and develop their language as well as understading.
Dates and notes:We would like to say happybirthday to Sam on the 13th of this month.
News from –Viviana, Chelsea,Sonia, Salina,Vaida,Qani. Nabila K and Nabila A: We would like to say a sad goodbye to all of those who are leaving us this month. We have loved looking after you and will miss you very much. Don’t forget to come and see us in your new uniform and don’t forget to take your learning journals too!We would like to welcome all our new parents, children and staff in our room! Please can you provide a small bottle of sun cream clearly labelled with your child’s name? We do spend a lot of time outside and when the sun is out we do teach them about sun protection. Please also bring in a hat with their name in as we only have a few spares currently in the setting.
Harvard Park Day Nursery Feltham: SeptemberNewsletter 2016.
This month’s topic will be sensory investigation and getting to know you. This topic is important for the staff and child to form bonds with their key workers as well as adapting to their new routine. We will be providing children with lots of chances to explore new textures with materials and their hands or feet. We will also be spending lots of time in keyworker groups to get to know what their likes and dislikes are and if they have changed. Please remember to sign you child in and out of our room. These documents are very important during an evacuation, so please do so before leaving the room.It is also part of child protection. Also DO NOT forget to take their water bottles home at the end of every. They are not our responsibility to keep clean. We do provide cups and water on a daily basis throughout the day, so please do not feel you have to bring a bottle in. We cannot stop cross infection if they are caught sharing bottles. Breakfast adjustments:Breakfast will now run from 8:00am to 9:00am. There will be no breakfast served after this hour. Please make sure your child eats before they attend if you are going to drop them after 9:00am. Tea time adjustments: The younger children will now have tea at 3:30pm and the older children in freedom zone will have tea at 4:15pm. Please try not to turn up during tea as we will ask you to wait, you can always ring to tell us you are collecting early and we will not sit them down ready to eat. 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. Please make sure they are bringing in a bag with spare clothes in. Even when your child is fully potty trained, they may have a little accident every now and again. If your child is still in nappies/pull ups please make sure we have some or there are spares in their bags. If you have any old or used yoghurt pots, plastic or cardboard materials such as boxes or bottles could we please have them for our activities, 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 3rd birthday to Darcie-Joyce for the 5th and David
for the 28th of this month. We would like to wish Koshika a happy 4th birthday for the 28th of this month too. We hope you have lovely days.
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. .