Culter Christmas Lights

Yes indeed its that time of year again!

The Culter  Christmas Lights will be switched on this Saturday 23rd November . Please go along to the village hall 4-6pm and join in the celebrations. There will be carol singing accompanied by the Granite City Brass Band, mulled wine and mince pies , a magic show and I have heard a rumour that there will be an appearance by a very very very special  visitor ! So go along , have some fun , support your local community , and get into the festive spirit :-)
while on matters festive - There are still a few gift tags available for the Giving tree appeal - please do this very soon as the gifts need to be back to us by next Friday 29th November ready for collection by Santa's helpers on Monday 2nd December - thank you .


Some reminders :
Please do not allow your child to arrive eating/drinking or to bring food/drink into nursery . We have several children with severe allergies attending the nursery. We take great care to ensure that these children (and all the others) do not come into contact with anything that may cause them harm, but we cannot do this if food items are brought in . It may only be a biscuit crumb , but this could potentially be life threatening to some children- we'd very much appreciate your co-operation with this .  
Please ensure that you close and chain the garden gates every time you use them . Please consider that it could be your child that runs out into the carpark or the road because the gate was not chained.  It only takes seconds for this to happen and is easily prevented by ensuring the gates are chained .

We saw our first snow of the season this week. The children had great  fun with our sledges , as well as activities with coloured snow , and discussions on how quickly it would melt(and why) when brought indoors. Though it has now gone , I'm sure it wont be the last we see . Please be aware that in bad weather , we may need to close the nursery early  to allow staff to travel home safely or because staff are not able to get here . We may close the carpark if there is a lot of snow or its very icy- make sure you enter very slowly as the chain may be up . Please ensure that you visit the blogspot on those days to check updates - there is a delay in posts being emailed to you , but they appear immediately on the blogspot    http://craigtonlodgenursery.blogspot.co.uk/

And finally some dates for your diary :
The sunflowers Christmas concert : Wednesday 18th December 3pm
Craigton Christmas Party : Thursday 19th December 2-4pm . All sunflowers and buttercups are invited to this - the babies  have their own more restrained celebrations for those children normally attending .
Please note that as this is such a busy time  , we are unable to accommodate extra sessions all that week .
More information about these two very exciting events will be issued nearer the time .

The nursery will close at 6pm on Monday 22nd December and reopen 8am Monday 6th January 2014