Dear Parents / carers,
Professional photos
We will be having Concept Photography coming into the nursery on Thursday 21st October between 9am & 1pm. The children that are here that day will all have an opportunity to have a photo taken. If your child is not booked in for that day, please can you contact the office to book an appointment. (At present we will only be able to take individual photos)
Folders & Planning
As the EYFS (the framework we work towards) was updated from 1st September 2021 we will be starting to use new paperwork to be logging and assessing the children’s development. We are hoping for this to start after the October half term (1st November 2021). With this in mind, we can now offer you to take your child’s folder home to have a look through and return it. Obviously there are times that children will do more at home than at nursery so if you can see that there is something that we haven’t yet seen please let us know you can even write it down or email this and we can use it for their folder!
Castle View colouring competition
We will be handing out forms please send them back in by Friday 15thOctober
Outside clothing
Please do not forget to pack outdoor clothing to enable your child to play comfortably outside in all weathers! A warm and / waterproof coat, wellies or outdoor shoes, hat scarf gloves. If its easier for you to leave wellies here we can store them
Labelling items from home
Please make sure that all items have your child’s name or initials on – coats, cups, bags, lunchboxes etc
Menu
We have now started introducing some new items into our menu and we are still trialling the days etc but the guide of our menu can be found in the gatehouse
COVID
We are still keeping our new procedures in place as although things have been lifted we are aware that there are still many cases within the area.
Please make sure that masks ARE worn at the gatehouse. Many thanks for you all being patient with us during the busy periods at the gatehouse, please remember to use the socially distanced lines marked out on the path when waiting to buzz! During the nasty weather I would suggest to wait in your car until a space becomes available. Please respect everyone and wait your turn.
We are still keeping each age group apart but there may be times that this will be managed within one room or the outside area.
Carpark
Please be careful when raining as the ground can get slippery!
Nursery bookings
You MUST contact us to let us know when your child is going to be absent (leave a telephone message or email)
Don’t forget, if of you book in on an ad hoc basis by giving us dates – please make sure that you give us ample notice to enable us to book them in.
As always if there is anything that we can do to help support you all at this time please do not hesitate to ask
Thanks Carolyn