Dates for your Diary

Good afternoon everyone ,

Don't forget its Parents Evening next Tuesday 29th November 6 to 7:30pm - please come along and see what your children have been doing at nursery , have a glass of wine and the opportunity to talk to staff and meet other parents - we hope you can all make it!

The Sunflowers Christmas Concert will be on Tuesday 20th December at 3pm . All parents, grandparents , aunties and uncles etc are welcome to this star studded event. Sunflowers parents will be given more information about this event nearer the time , but please keep this date free- you really dont want to miss this !

All departments will be having their Christmas party on Thursday 22nd December 2-4pm . All buttercups and sunflowers are invited to come along for all the festive fun and to meet a very special visitor - yes indeed I have had confirmation that Santa will be here to meet all the Craigton children that day ! The snowdrops and bluebells have their  own more restrained celebrations for the children that normally attend, as all that excitement can be rather overwhelming for the little ones ! But I'm sure that Santa will have gifts for all!

Many of you will have already  started your christmas shopping , and some will be taking advantage of online shopping . If so , please note that we are now registered with Easy Fundraising . If you shop online at all , please access through this , and each time you shop , a donation will be made to our Staff Development Fund - its doesn't cost you anything - you just need to register at  http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/craigtonlodgenursery  .......most major retailers can be accessed through this site so please register and each time you buy online here , you'll  help us raise funds - thank you . 

Our web designer , Susan Yule , has been very busy updating our website ,and we hope that our new improved content will be online soon - this will include a gallery of photos taken at the nursery . This area will be password protected and only accessible to parents and staff at the nursery. Susan is a very talented photographer and her pictures of the children are delightful - you'll be able to order prints of these from Susan( and you'll want to !) with a donation from each to the Staff Development Fund . If for any reason you do not wish your child/children's pictures to be posted , please let me know and we'll make sure they don't appear . I like to thank Susan and Barry for their time and effort in creating and maintaining  our website and for their continued support of our fundraising efforts - its very much appreciated guys ! They can also do the same for you , as well as graphic design(and I can highly recommend them!) - you can contact Susan on   susan.yule@cultercreative.co.uk

We shall soon be saying a fond farewell to Pamela(0-2yrs) . She has been with us for 2 1/2 years as a part-time assistant in the schoolhouse . Pamela is also a qualified beauty therapist ,and has started her own mobile business . So although we shall be sorry to see her go , we wish her huge success in her new venture. Her cards and leaflets are available in the nursery so please take one !

If you have anything you'd like to share with the other parents through the blog .... a charity event ,  services you can provide ,  or information you think may be of interest to others , please let me know and Ill post it on here- this is for us all to use :-)

And finally :  The nursery will be closing at 6pm on Friday 23rd December and reopening 8am on Wednesday 4th January 2012