Our February 2025 newsletter
What a lovely fun-filled Feburary we have had. It has been lovely to see the nights getting a little lighter and the flowers popping up in the gardens. Here is what we have been up to alongside some dates for you all.
Dates for your Diary
Friday 28th March 3:30pm to 4:30pm - Come and join our celebration for Mother's day and dig into an afternoon tea with your little one. There will be activities alongside some yummy homemade scones with cream and jam to enjoy. If you are able to join us please email in so we can prepare and make us aware of any dietary requirements.
Tuesday 15th April - Celebrating Passover. We will be sharing the Jewish festival with the children enjoying foods and talking about what this celebration means to the Jewish community.
Tuesday 22nd April - Earth Day. We would love to see the children arrive to nursery in green and blue to help us celebrate Earth day. During the day we will be looking at how we can support the planet and having a positive impact. What do we already do in our homes and nursery to keep the Earth healthy and what could we change or do differently.
Monday 15th April 3-4pm- We will be hosting an Easter egg hunt and would love to see your little ones in any homemade Easter bonnets! This is open to all the families no matter what day your child attends it would be lovely to see you and any siblings who would like to join the easter egg hunt that will be put on throughout the gardens. Please let us know if you would like to come.
Wassailing!
A great festival to celebrate the apple trees and bring on a great harvest for the next year. We pressed apples and made flat breads on the fire with Natalie, our forest school leader. We then enjoyed these while watching the flames and then went to feed the tree some of the juice and left the bread for the robins who are known as the guardians of the apply trees. Here’s to a summer full of yummy apple for us to enjoy!
It was Mental health and Wellbeing day
Toddlers did a spa day to celebrate children’s wellbeing, we did foot massage and hand massages, and cleaned their feet. babies had a foot spa, they enjoyed splashing the water with their feet to create bubbles.
Babies have enjoyed getting hands on with some large scale painting with the colours for children’s wellbeing week
Our book of the month - Goldilocks and the three bears
The toddlers enjoyed their teddy’s bear picnic and had fun reading Goldilocks and the three bears.
Pre school had porridge for snack with the three bears, good job Goldilocks was no where to be seen!
The babies have been exploring mark making by painting with the primary colours using their hands, feet and paintbrushes. Large scale art is a great way for our babies to develop their gross motor skills and explore mixing colours.
Valentines painting and letter making
Toddler’s have been feeling the love by making their very own love potion, writing letters to the ones they love, painting with love (hugs) ready for the Valentine’s Day
Toddler trip to the park
Toddlers enjoyed some fun at the local park exploring all the great equipment, climbing, swinging and sliding. A trip to the park is also a great way to build up friendships and turn taking too! We are so lucky to have such an awesome park on our doorstep.
Muddy puddles!
Toddlers and Pre school enjoyed a morning of jumping in muddy puddles (just like Peppa) then followed this on by making their own puddles for the farm animals to play in.
Pancake day
How lucky were we to have Nats first day with us fall on Pancake day! The children had so much fun making the banana batter in the rooms before bringing it out for Nat to use on the fire. We were also so lucky with the weather, the children and staff were able to enjoy the pancakes sat in the sunshine by the fire. It was all rather special really and a great way to kick off having Nat the forest school lead with us throughout March.
Do you know a Snappy Super Star?
Is there a member of my team that has stood out to you that you think deserves a special mention? It means the world to the ladies to recieve a nomination so if there is someone who you would like to give a special mention to please follow the link below.
A great big shout out to our wonderful Leona on passing her L2 in childcare and education. Leona started with us as an apprentice and after plenty of hard work we are over the moon to say she has passed and is a qualified member of the team. I know you will join me in congratulating her.
Permissions
As you may now notice we are putting together a monthly newsletter and I just wanted to reach out to check if you would like to change your childs permissions for photos to be included in these. The link is only sent to the parents who attend our nursery and these photos are not then included on social media. If this is something you would like to check or amend please feel free to email on in and we can get this changed for you. If you would also like to change your childs permissions for social media then again feel free to email in, this is a different permission to the one for our newsletter.
Can I kindly remind you of our Mobile phone policy here at the nursery- when dropping off or collecting your child could please leave your phone in your car in a pocket. You must not take any photos inside the nursery as this is against our safeguarding policy. Many thanks in advance for your co-operation with this.
Medication and Illness policies:
If your child has been prescribed medication then they will need to have had been taking it for 24hrs before returning to nursery.
Please do not leave any medication in your child’s bag, it must be handed to the office and a medication authorisation form must be filled out.
When Calpol or any temperature reducing medicine is given to your child prior to nursery, they are not able to attend nursery until they are 4 hours clear of the medication.
A little reminder about some of the more common illnesses and the exclusion periods:
Conjunctivitis - They have to have been treated for 24hours and the child has to be comfortable.
D&V - 48 hours clear of the last incident.
Chicken Pox - Children can’t return to nursery until the spots have all scabbed over and are completely dry.
Hand, Foot and Mouth - Children can return once all symptoms have subsided.
Thank you for your help and understanding. If you have any questions or are unsure of anything, please do get in touch with the office