Welcome to this months newsletter, lets see what we have got up to at Keynsham throughout the month of April.

Baby Cottage

This month the Baby Cottage have enjoyed engaging in lots of messy activities and incorporating cooking, baking and exploring food skills each week too! We have made bread rolls, fruit skewers, practised chopping and tasting different fruits too; it went down a treat!

Baby Loft

Babies in The Baby Loft have loved getting messy! We celebrated world Vaisakhi by creating our own splatter paint rainbow; penguin day with a sensory tuff tray; and exploring colours with shaving foam! We’ve also loved baking bread and exploring our new environments!

Toddlers

Toddlers have recently moved to another floor meaning they have been exploring all the new toys and new friends! A few children also visited the care home to see the chicks that had hatched over at Meryton Place.

Preschool

Preschool have had a busy month, which has involved lots of time outside, they have been using their balancing skills to create ball runs inside and outside, they also created obstacle courses with the loose parts to see how well they could balance on the logs. They practised mixing colours as they created bubble pictures with straws.

They have also loved caring for the babies and showing eachother what each baby needs.

Sign of the month for May

News and Reminders

Swap sessions - With the volumes of children receiving funding increasing significantly as the funding expansion is rolled out to eligible families, we need to ensure that any swaps, which have always been at nursery discretion, are as manageable as possible. Please therefore note that all sessions for funded children (regardless of where the funding is allocated in the week) can only be swapped within the same week. This is to ensure that a child doesn't receive too much funding in any given week and ultimately being overfunded for the term. I hope you can appreciate that with funding soon being an option for some children from 9 months upwards it would be completely unmanageable for us to ensure that swaps are being allocated correctly on our system and that funding is still applied correctly to ensure the correct hours of funding are applied each week. 

 I appreciate that this will be disappointing, but to ensure that we can offer the funding to as many families as possible, we believe this to be the best approach to ensure that funding allocation remains correct and as manageable as we can. 

Can we also please remind parents that any change in booking patterns or end of contracts must be in writing and we require at least 4 weeks notice.

Concept Photography - Please can we remind all parents to return proof sheets before Friday 24th May, please can the proofs be returned even if you are not looking to purchase.

Suncream – With the weather now being alot warmer can we please can we remind all parents to be bringing in a labelled suncream if they haven’t already that we can keep at nursery and use throughout the summer.

Vaisakhi

This month we celebrated Vaisakhi, the sikh festival marking the founding of the Khalsa community and the spring harvest season.

The children helped to making handmade kites and streamers to dance to music in the sunshine. The youngest of our children helped to make lion manes (Sikh name Singh means lion.)