December Newsletter 2024
What have Babies been up to?
Babies have been role playing baking this month, and explored a tuff spot tray of lots of different tasty foods. From this, the babies made some real delicious banana oat biscuits to have for snack with some warm milk, they were delicious.
What have Toddlers been up to?
Toddlers have been busy practicing their cutting skills this month. We got the practice scissors out and some paper to make some snips using our fine motor skills. We also created some beautiful pictures using lots of different colours of paint and resources to mark make. The toddlers also loved the forest garden this month, we have been using the watering can to make mud pies and water the leaves. We also enjoyed playing a game of hide and seek in the garden too!
What have Pre-school been up to?
Pre-school school leavers have been busy this month practicing and perfoming their nativity. The pre-school children have done a wonderful job singing all the lovely songs from ‘Ralph the Reindeer’. In pre-school this month, we have also been enjoying the snow in the garden- we made patterns with our footprints, and threw some snowballs at the adults! We made our own snow from this in the messy room, which was super fun! We have also been using our fine motor skills to draw lovely pictures, as well as letters from our names.
Snappies Nominations…
If you think that any of our staff deserve an extra special well done or thank you, please nominate them as a Snappies Superstar using the below link so that we can give them a little treat. This is available all year round, you can make as many nominations as you wish and do this as frequently as you’d like. We love to hear how wonderful our staff are so please get nominating!
Parent Reminders:
Please can we ask that you do not park opposite the front door in the passing bay- please use the car park where possible. Please also park in a bay when using the car park. It makes pulling in and out of the car park difficult for parents. Please ensure you do not block cars in when using the car park.
If you are not going to be in nursery, please do let us know at the office so we can book your child off accordingly. We may be able to offer extra sessions to other children if we have space. You are able to let us know at the desk, or please pop us an e-mail.
If you have more than one child with us in different age groups, please can we ask that you factor this in when collecting your child with regards to a handover and leave yourself enough time to be able to talk
to your child’s keyperson.When picking up your child, please leave yourself enough time for a handover. We get busy between 5pm and 6pm, so you may have to wait a few minutes for a handover. During the busier times, we may have to limit the handover to a few minutes. We have found lots of our parents are wanting to stay and talk and as much as we do like that, we do have to ensure ratios are maintained and everyone gets a fair handover.
When getting a handover, please ensure you are watching your child- we have had children come close to the front door, and our main concern, is your child’s safety.
Illnesses
We have seen a rise in illness recently, and parents have recently been sent an e-mail from the Head Office team regarding RSV. We have linked our Medication Policy and Health, Hygiene and Illness Policy for your records.
Dates for December…
Christmas Jumpers- Please feel free to wear Christmas jumpers all month and bring the festive cheer!
Christmas Dinner Day- Wednesday 11th December 2024
Our wonderful Chef and Kitchen assistant will be cooking up a delicious Christmas dinner for the children to enjoy, we will also be creating Christmas hats for the children to wear.
Christmas Party- Friday 20th December 2024
Our Snapdragons Grotto will be open from 4:30pm-5:45pm for parents to take their child/children to see Father Christmas. We will have a Christmas gift for children who are currently attending Snapdragons.
We are anticipating this will be busy, so we will have a festive treat, soft drinks, music and Christmas activities in your child’s room to enjoy.
If you cannot make it, please don’t worry- Father Christmas will be walking around the nursery from 3:30pm to spread some Christmas cheer to all of the children.
Christmas Closure-
We close the nursery at 6pm on Tuesday 24th December 2024, we will reopen the nursery on Thursday 2nd January 2025.
If you have a Term Time Only booking pattern, the children will return on Monday 6th January 2025.
We hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year, and we look forward to seeing you when we return.