News

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday (Tuesday) we said goodbye to Jenna , who has been leading the PyjamaDrama sessions for the past few months...but dont despair, the sessions will be continuing , though moving to a new timeslot . From next week , Dini will be visiting us on Thursday mornings . PyjamaDrama lead sessions with all the children- babies , buttercups and sunflowers all have  their drama fun !

We are almost finished work on our new website - this now just needs some editing and updated pictures- we hope  this will be live very soon - watch this space! Once again , many thanks to Susan Yule who has given us her very valuable time and expertise on this project.....even though her children have moved on to school!

All the children have been out and about looking for signs of spring(between the snow showers) there have been walks around the village , the library and post office , as well as playing and exploring in the garden .
The sunflowers and buttercups really enjoyed a visit for the Zoolab Springtime show . We had all kinds of creatures for the children to learn about , look at and handle - we saw : an African  giant snail, a tarantula , giant millipede , hissing cockroaches , snakes  and  a frog and more. There were lots of questions too and they found out about hibernation , environment,climate and lots more .

The sunflowers CfE focus this term will be science SCN 0-20a "I can talk about science stories to develop my understanding of science and the world around me" All pre-school staff have recently attended training on implementing the CfE outdoors - this has covered literacy , numeracy , nature and language development as well as science and maths concepts - all we need now is some better weather so we can spend more time outdoors!  For further information on CfE as well as the experiences and outcomes , please visit http://bexcellent.org.uk/

And finally a few reminders:
If you're leaving a baby buggy with us, please make sure you fold it - lots of buggies in the entrance area make it difficult for anyone to enter or exit .
Please ensure that you close and chain all gates in the garden every time .
Please drive very , very slowly in the carpark and ensure that your children are supervised in the outdoor area.
Please do not use mobile phones in the nursery buildings or the garden, and remember that the entire area including the car park is non smoking.
Don't forget to name/initial all clothing left at nursery - the sunflowers have a large amount of winter gear on the entrance table with no names - please have  a look and see if it belongs to your child . All unclaimed items will be donated to charity  .

The nursery will be closed on the following dates this year :
Monday 6th May
Monday 8th July
Monday 23rd September
We shall close at 6pm Monday 23rd December and re-open Monday 6th January 2014