Welcome…

Welcome to our Snapdragons Cribbs Causeway Newsletter! We will be sending a monthly newsletter to all parents letting you know what we have been up to within the nursery and highlighting any important updates!

Young Chefs….

Across the nursery the children have been really busy cooking up a storm with our new Chef Jo!

Pre-School have been making some delicious wrap pizzas, working on their independence using child-safe knives to cut various vegetables and using spoons to spread tomato sauce onto their pizza bases.

Toddlers helped to create their own bread for tea, helping Jo to measure out the ingredients and mix these together, then using their hands to knead the dough before Jo popped the bread into the oven ready for tea time!

Even Babies have got into the cooking spirit and have been role playing with their dollies, cooking in our role play kitchen and feeding the Babies all of the yummy food they have made!

New staff

As our nursery is rapidly growing and expanding we are gaining some great new staff members here at Snapdragons Cribbs Causeway! You may have seen some new faces around. the nursery when dropping off or collecting you child / children.
We are in the process of updating and creating our staff board in the foyer. Hopefully this will help you to put a face to the name when talking about the adults around the nursery!

Drop Off and Collection

As many of you have now experienced, we are allowing parents to collect from the rooms! This has been a bit trial and error over the past week but overall a lovely experience for parents and children! We are still remaining with drop offs in the foyer at this time and upon pick up we will still be continuing to radio through to the rooms for consent before sending any parents down.

Please can we ask that parents continue to wear masks when dropping off and collecting their children and that only one parent collects from the room.

Please can we remind parents / collectors that we do not allow mobile phones in the nursery. Please can mobile phones be kept in the car / turned off in pockets for the duration of the time that anyone is inside the building.

Medication / Illness Policy

Please can we remind all parents that currently our policy still states that children cannot attend nursery if they have been given fever-reducing medication within 4 hours of arriving. This is in line with our Covid-19 Safer Operating Procedures. Please can we also ask that children who have had a temperature do not attend nursery until they have been fever / temperature free for 24 hours.

Dates for the Diary;

Parents Evening; Thursday 14th October

We will be holding a face to face parents evening on Thursday 14th October, we will release sign up sheets soon for parents to reserve a 10 minute slot with your child’s key worker. If you are unable to make this date and would like a parents evening with your child’s key worker, please do let us know and we can arrange a separate date for you to have a telephone call.

Festivals and Events;

We are in the process of updating our festivals and events for the upcoming academic year. If you and your family celebrate any particular festivals we would LOVE to celebrate along with you in nursery, all while teaching our children about different celebrations and cultures. Please come and let us know what festivals and events you celebrate and how we could celebrate these within our nursery!

Oral Hygiene in the Early Years

Did you know that 1 in 4 of all 5 year olds have some form of tooth decay?

Currently within our Statutory Framework there is a huge emphasis on good oral hygiene in the Early Years. We are working on promoting the knowledge of oral hygiene within our settings by talking about healthy eating and why we should care for our bodies and teeth.

We have printed a useful guide around brushing your children’s teeth document outlining the best way to take care of children’s teeth from children ages 0-7+ and popped these at Reception. Please feel free to take one if you would like some new tips and tricks to get your little ones to brush their teeth!

September 2021