Thursday, 13 February 2014

Notes from the editor, A belated Happy New Year to you all and a very huge thank you for all the lovely gifts at Christmas which was very, and much appreciated by all. The New Year always makes me want to plan and I have attached the year’s Diary dates for you to pin to the fridge, put into your phone, on the calendar etc. There will be a round up of the next events in each newsletter to provide more details, any questions don’t hesitate to ask. We have got some great extra events coming up this year including our chatterbox month in March, and hope you can all make our chatterbox challenge open week 24^th-28^th March.

Food news – Did you know that the Government recommends that every child under 5 years of age should be given vitamin supplements that contain vitamin D? For more info on this follow the link www ????? Congratulations to Caroline our nursery chef who had a little baby girl called Poppy just before Christmas, whilst Caroline is on maternity leave we were extremely lucky to tempt Jackie back from her travels. Caroline took over from jackie nearly 2 years ago now. Welcome back Jackie. If you would like to chat with Jackie about allergies etc then please do let us know.

News from the groups -Caterpillars news Dear all, I would like to introduce myself to you all as Kerrie the new room leader for Caterpillars. The girls have been showing me the ropes and I have over 12 years experience from working as a leader at Lodge Farm. I am really looking forward to getting to know you all and meeting you on some of the fun events we have planned. Our learning area has been around transport and animals and we are going to be doing colours next. Music bugs has started again and every 3 weeks all the children get involved and have lots of fun. Also welcome to all of our new families to the group. These past few weeks have been meeting and settling the young babies who have all adapted well to their new environment and key people. Please do not hesitate to ask any member of staff if you have any questions. We would also like to welcome Ella who is newly qualified and recently moved to the Chippenham area and also Shirley who has many years experience. Shirley is going to job share with Shelley once she returns from her maternity leave in March. We had a great leaving do recently to wish Steph and Laura the best of luck in their new jobs.Also thank you to Barbara and Alison who have helped to cover in babies. Kerrie, Hayley, Stephie,Lucy andElla  

Butterfly news – its all change for the butterflies as we say goodbye to Rachel and also Sara at the end of Feb, Sara has worked at NRN for nearly 7 years so we will be sad to see her go but she has promised to keep in touch. Di who has been doing some 121 work at nursery will takeing over some of Rachel’s hours. Barbara will cover Sara’s role until July, when Lucy from Babies will come over. In the meantime have you seen our hot air balloon, which the children have really enjoyed. It was part of our transport theme and developed the children’s imagination and cooperative play (especially as only 2 could fit in at a time!. The toddlers love being outside and we get out as much as we can, rain, shine and mud! There is a bit of a wellington boot competition at the moment as they all want to choose out of the spare box and not wear their own, good sign of independence. Jess will be returning from her maternity leave at the end of April and will job share the role of room leader. Thank you, Lucy and Team.

Ladybird news – The Ladybirds have had a successful start to the year. In early January we introduced a hair dressing salon into our home corner and some Ladybirds visited three of the local hairdressers to look at what happens there. Our thanks go to Eliana’s family who have supplied many of our resources, so that the children could use the real things to support their imaginary play (of course the electric plugs have been cut off!) Thank you once again from all of us, During January and February our activities have been based around ‘Senses’, this has given the opportunity for the children to explore preferences in individual tastes and smells. Surprisingly the children mostly picked savoury tastes to sweet tastes (unlike the staff). During one activity the children made a fruit jelly, all very carefully used knives to chop the fruit before they witnessed the jelly being made, discussing many mathematical terms to describe what was happening. When the children were asked what the word is that describes how the solid jelly disappears into the water, and given the clue of dis…. One child answered “diseased”. After a trip to a local optician the children are now eagerly playing at being opticians in the home corner. Chinese New Year at the end of January gave lots of scope for fun as the children used chopsticks and prepared a Chinese Lion to take to Ivy Lane to take part in their celebrations. A great time was had by all, even though the rain tried to stop the fun!

The next term will see us looking at our favourite stories, so if any parents have a favourite that they would like to share with us, or better still, bring in to read to us your help would be welcomed by all. Yvonne, Jenna, Sarah, Jane and Kerry.  

Ps did you know we have some photos of the recent train and theatre trip to Bath, we all had a great time listening to Stick Man at the egg theatre. The photos are on the middle door in the corridor.

• I have attached a leaflet that gives you 10% discount from a new local partyware company called fabulous partyware. www.fabulouspartyware.com/happy, quote KTA1307, they are based in Melksham.

• “While we try to teach our children all about life. Our children teach us what life is all about”

       I love this quote found via pinterest, (if you haven’t discovered pinterest, Google it, but be warned it s very addictive)

• Last but not least if you would like to receive the newsletter electronically please could you register your e-mail address via our website www.newroadnursery.co.uk, many thanks MARK.

New Road Nursery, Dates for your Diary 2014

Please note we are also closed on all bank holidays throughout the year.