December 2022
I want to start this months newsletter wishing all of our families a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
We will reflect over the past two months as we bring 2022 to an end, making you aware of all the wonderful things we have had happening, from Christmas Parties, Preschool Nativity, Christmas lunch and the rest of the lovely festivities which have been happening daily.
I also just wanted to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for your continued support throughout this year.
Baby Cottage
in the Baby Cottage we have loved getting in the spirit of Christmas, helping to decorate the room, put the tree up, the Christmas party! We enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch and enjoyed creating some Festive pictures for family, along with some decorations and cards too! December has been a festive and fun month!
Baby Barn
The Baby Barn have loved getting ready for Christmas, decorating the room and doing lots of fun activities. They have loved exploring the snow and ice. The babies have taken part in some Christmas sensory trays, making reindeer food and a polar express tuff tray. We have done lots of arts and crafts, including sticking to make a snowman and painting Christmas wreaths.
Toddlers
Toddlers have had a very festive month! We have explored outside in the snow, making sure to be wrapped up warm, taking part in activities during our Christmas party and then finishing with a yummy Christmas lunch!
Rising 3’s
Rising 3’s had lots of fun at our Christmas party and even Santa came and visit us. We’ve all been very interested in play dough this month so we made Father Christmas play dough adding in some googly eyes and cotton wool for beard. We also used our imaginations and turned a really big box into Santa’s sleigh.
Preschool
Pre school have been getting the Christmas spirit doing many crafts this month, we have been creating our own Christmas tree pictures and creating pictures of Santa too and snowmen
We have been playing lots of games together in groups to work on our sharing too, we have loved dominos and the shopping trolly game too.
Of course we enjoyed the snow this month too.
Parent News, Reminders and Events.
Staff Nominations - Is there a staff member that you would like to be acknowledged for all their hard work this year or someone who you would just like to thank? At Snapdragons we run a reward scheme for our employees, nominations from parents mean stars for the staff that can go towards a range of different rewards and prizes which can include sweet treats, hampers, meal vouchers and even a trip to the spa, so if you would like to reward the staff remember to fill in the online form sharing your lovely words.
Snappies Superstar — Snapdragons Nursery
Return to Nursery - Please remember we will close the week between Christmas and New Year - We will reopen on Tuesday 3rd January 2023 to all children.
Labelling Clothes - We are finding we are coming across a range of lost property - Please can we remind parents to label all clothing for children so we can ensure that belongings are returned to the correct owner.
Preschool Parents (School Leavers) - Please remember that submissions for school applications close in January, please ensure you have completed the form through the council website.
Sign of the Month for January
Books of the Month for January
The Tiger That Came To Tea.
Poems for the very young.
Staff News
This month the team have enjoyed the Annual Snapdragons Christmas Party, the team were invited to The Marriot Hotel for dinner and dancing, it was a chance for us to celebrate the year whilst enjoying time together, Keynsham walked away with a range of prizes across the company which included runner up in Childcarer of the Year for Maisie Bailey, Leading the Way for Hannah Saunders and winning The Hagrid Award (For the Kind Hearted Person) for Nick Owen and also taking home the trophy for Preschool Room of the Year! Please find attached some photos of the night.
This month we will be saying a sad goodbye to Jade in our Preschool Room who will be starting a new adventure. I’m sure you will all join me in wishing Jade all the luck in the future. We have loved having Jade as part of our team and she will be missed by us all.
Beth in the Preschool Room left for Maternity Leave in October - She welcomed a beautiful baby boy called Leo on 13th November weighing 7lb 10oz, both Beth and Baby Leo are doing well and adjusting to baby life and loving their newborn baby bubble!
We have also Sophie who has joined our Preschool Room this month, she will be taking part in an apprenticeship with Snapdragons and will be based in our Preschool Room.
In January Roz who has previously been based in the Baby Cottage will be moving to our Preschool Room - Roz is an Early Years Teacher and would like opportunity to be with the older children. She will be greatly missed by all the babies but we can’t wait to see her adventure start in our Preschool Room next month.
We wish you all a lovely Christmas break which is full of love, happiness and memories you can treasure forever!