Art folders:
May we please encourage our parents to check their children's art folders regularly for any art work to be taken home to avoid them building up.
Peg pictures:
Can we remind parents to encourage their children to find their peg pictures when they arrive at Nursery. This not only provides the children with a sense of belonging but also allows the staff to find their bags and coats quickly.
Labelling clothing:
Can we please remind parents to label their children's clothing as our 'lost property' boxes are overflowing and we would like to return the items of clothing to the rightful owners!
Easter half-term schedule for pre-school:
We have put together an Easter half-term schedule for our pre-school children. The first week of which focuses on the season of Spring with activities planned to engage the children in environmental processes such as, life cycles. We plan to take the children out on a nature walk and encourage them to identify with the wild life around us. We also have plans to involve the children in the planting of seeds which we will observe as they change and grow throughout Spring.
The second week focuses on the build up to Easter, including a traditional Easter Bonnet Parade! We'll also be doing some Easter cooking activities, and arts and crafts.
These schedules have been e-mailed out, but we have printed off some paper copies so please ask if you would like one.
If you would like to book your child in for an extra session in order for them to participate with any of the half-term activities, then please speak to Louise or Kelly.
Open Evening:
We have scheduled our next termly Open Evening for Wednesday 30th April. Open Evenings provide a great opportunity for you to catch up with your child's Key Person and share progress of learning and development. Parent Partnership is important to us here at Clover Court, and we very much value your input into the planning of 'next steps' for your child. Shared Input forms will be e-mailed out to all parents, please ensure that these are returned before Open Evening. If you do not receive e-mails from us, then please ask your child's Key Person for a paper copy.
Time slots have been put up in each room (Babies, Nursery and Pre-school). These will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Can we please remind you all that these are 10 minute timeslots, if you feel that this is not a sufficient amount of time, then please speak to your child's Key Person about arranging a separate time.
If your child attends pre-school, we will also be having an Open Evening on Tuesday 29th April to allow for our high volume of Key children. We will put timeslots up for this evening also, so you will have a choice between the two, again first-come, first-served.
Kelly. C (Pre-school Practitioner):
We would like to let you all know that Kelly. C is expecting her first child. She is having a baby boy who is due on the 19th July. She will be going on maternity leave on the 20th June.
Jessica:
We would like to introduce our new member of bank staff to the Clover Court team. Jessica has a Level 2 qualification in child care, and is now working towards her NVQ Level 3. She has lots of experience in working with children aged 0-5 in day care settings, and also has her own little boy.
Food:
We have recently updated our menus for lunch and tea, these are displayed within the nursery, but please ask if you would like a copy to keep at home so as to avoid any clashes in mealtimes.
We now source our meat from the local butchers, and our groceries from Cheesmans who independently source from Covent Garden Market, in order to provide the children with more high quality food.
Tasha:
We are pleased to say that Tasha (pre-school) has been promoted to Supervisor over at Cosmic Club (our after school and holiday club). You will however still see Tasha around in pre-school in the mornings before she goes off on the afternoon school run. Tasha will be keeping her school leavers with regards to being a Key Person, but otherwise, your child's Key Person will now be April who recently joined our Pre-school team (please see previous blog). Tasha will be sending out letters to provide more confirmation on this.
