May Newsletter 2025


Our teaching toolkit theme of the month is:
Communicate with confidence- To be talkative and love language.
Explore and Investigate with curiosity- To be curious, fascinated and deeply involved.


We have had some very exciting visits this month….

This month, we had a visit from the local community support officer and local police officer. They arrived at the nursery in their Police van and had a discussion with our pre-school children about their job roles, how they can keep themselves safe, who they need to call if they were ever in trouble. The children all shouted 9-9-9 very confidently. The babies, toddlers and pre-school all got to go outside and see the police van, have a sit in it, and listen to the sirens (it was very loud!). It was really great that they came in to do this with the children. We are hoping to have more visits from professionals to support children to undestand how they help us, and who knows, it might even spark a few career ideas for the children.


The pre-school children have also taken a trip to Penhill Care Home this month. We are hoping to make this a monthly trip with all age groups at some point. It was so lovely to participate in activities with the elderly, and have some nice conversations with them. The pre-school children even drew them some great pictures for them to display in their commual living room.


Staffing update



Molly has had a promotion!

We are really excited to share with you all that Molly has had a promotion and is now Head of Babies. We are really looking forward to working with Molly in her new role and seeing all the exciting things that are to come for the baby room.

Well done Molly, Congratulations!



Goodbye Tayla!

Unfortunately, with the good news of Molly, comes some sad news.
Tayla has decided that her time at Snapdragons Shirehampton has come to an end, and she has decided to join the Snapdragons Cribbs Causeway team as an Advanced Practitioner in their baby room. Her last day will be Friday 7th June. Eleanor will be joining the toddler team as her replacement.
Tayla has been with us since June 2017 starting as a Level 3 practitioner, before quickly becoming the Head of Babies. Tayla has seen lots of different cohorts of children come and leave to go to school, and has been lucky to have siblings from previous families come back to us! We wish her all the best with her new role at Cribbs Causeway and will be very sad to see her go!

Good Luck Tayla and thank-you for all of your hard work at Shirehampton!


Events:

Pre-school Leavers Information Evening-
We will also be holding an evening for school leavers parents to discuss school readiness and what we will be doing to support your child over the summer term ready for their adventure to school. This will be on Tuesday 3rd June 2025 at 6:15pm until 7:15pm. An email has been sent to all parents for the pre-school leavers children, so please do let us know if you can attend.


Pre-school Leavers Trip-
We are holding our annual pre-school leavers trip to Cattle Country Adventure park. An email and permission letter has gone out to parents regarding this. If you have not already sent in your permission slip, please can you do this as soon as possible so we can plan staffing, coaches and let our Head Office team know for entry to the park. This will be on Friday 20th June.


Father’s Day Event-
We will be holding a Father’s day event in our car park garden (weather permitted) on Monday 16th June 2025, this will be from 4:30pm-5:45pm. We will have a few activities set up as well as a treat for the Dad’s. Please do let us know if you can attend, so we have an idea of how many people we need to provide for.


Graduation Reminder-
Pre-school Leavers- Graduation is on Saturday 19th July from 1pm-3:30pm.
A separate e-mail will be sent out regarding this, however this is a reminder.


Reminders:

-Can we remind all parents that you need to bring in a labelled sun cream, sun hat and water bottle. As we are approaching the summer months, it is getting warm and if you do not provide this, it does limit the provision the children can access due to the high UV, and ensuring we keep the children safe. If you have not done so already, please ensure this is done as a matter of urgency.

-Can we remind all parents that the session times end at 1pm, 3pm and 6pm. Please can we ask that you arrive at least 5 minutes prior to this if you would like a handover. We are finding that lots of parents are arriving at bang on these times, and wanting an indepth handover which our staff love to give, but we do have staff that finish their shift at 3pm and 6pm and therefore would like to get home to their own families. We ask that you are considerate with your handover length to ensure all parents can have a chance to discuss their child’s day.

-Extra sessions are being asked for a lot recently, and as much as we would love to be able to say yes in the moment, we do have to wait closer to the time to see if a space is avaliable. We are becoming very busy in the nursery, and quite often we are staffed for the children that we have booked in for their sessions, so therefore extra’s are not always possible. You are welcome to check on the week, or ring on the day as if any children are not in due to holiday or sickness, we may be able to offer these out. Can we also remind parents to let us know when their children are not in nursery, so we can mark them off accordingly. Thank-you for your help with this.


We have had a really enjoyable and busy month, and we look forward to seeing what next month brings for the nursery.

Love, The Shirehampton Team x

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