News and Events
Wellies Nurseries Class of 2026
14th April 2026
Here are some suggestions to help prepare your child for starting school in August 2026: - Do they recognise their own name? If not, make a sign together for their room and where they hang their jacket at home, so that they are used to seeing it. - If you are going to teach them to write their name, please only teach the first letter as a capital. If they learn their whole name in capitals, it then takes time for them to unlearn it. The capital / upper case letter is the “name” and the lower-case letter is the “sound”. - They will not have the same child: staff ratios as in nursery. One teacher could have up to 30 / 33 children. Encourage them to be as independent and resilient as possible, from now on. - Remember school is different from when you went, they will be unlikely to have their own desk but they will be very used to the set-up as it’s similar to Nursery. - Label everything! - Encourage them to open their own snacks so that they are able to do it at playtime and lunchtime. - Velcro shoes are best! - Don’t share your concerns with them and don’t talk about how they are your baby and they aren’t ready! They are taking their lead from you! - Can they put on their own jacket and zip it up? If not, start encouraging them now! - Can they use the toilet independently and wash and dry their hands independently? Now is the time to work on this. - When you find out their gym days, it’s best not to put them in shirt and tie on these days. - In Scotland all P1-P5 gets a free lunch. When you get a menu, pop it somewhere in the house and let them know what the choices are each day, and decide what they will have together. - P1 teachers are angels in disguise, we promise you can trust them with your child!
Book Fairs
14th April 2026
A huge thank you to everyone who purchased from us. KingsWellies raised £199.66 of profit, in our Scholastic Book Fair! Big thank you to everyone who bought books. We will be using the funds raised to purchase books to extend our educational library. We have bought books focusing on Starting School, Healthy Eating, Caring for our Environment, Children’s Mental Health, Emotions and Feelings and Personal Hygiene.
Health Month June 2026
14th April 2026
During our upcoming Health Month, KingsWellies will we be busy learning all about road safety, kitchen safety, bus safety, stranger danger, how to brush our teeth properly, good hand hygiene, healthy food choices, what to do in a Fire Drill, how to phone 999 in an emergency, all about our families and friendships, respecting rules and routines, being good bucket fillers, talking about our emotions and keeping ourselves safe. We will also be taking part in our Grow Well Choices project where we will be learning all about making healthy life choices. If anyone would like to come in to support us with some learning and teaching activities during health month, please contact our admin teams. We would love to add you to our timetables. Many thanks to those of you who have already been in touch!
Parent Engagement Events
14th April 2026
We would like to invite our parents to join us for a variety of parent engagement events this term. Please also be reminded that all parents can request a meeting with your child’s Key Worker / Supervisor at any time. Please just contact our Admin team who will arrange this for you as a matter of priority. We have also asked all of our P1 parents whether they would like to book in a meeting prior to their child leaving to attend school. Please let us know asap so that we can get these in to the diaries for you. 27/6/26 – Class of 2025 Graduation Party 11am-1:30pm Stay and Play dates for KingsWellies: Monday 15th June – Tots 3pm-4:30pm Tuesday 16th June – Babies 3pm-4:30pm Wednesday 17th June – Beans 3pm-4:30pm Thursday 18th June – Jellies 3pm-4:30pm
Kilt Walk
14th April 2026
Staff will be participating in this years Kilt Walk on June the 7th. All monies raised will be donated to Cash For Kids in the North East. All donations are very much appreciated! Wish us luck!
Snack Shoppers
14th April 2026
We would like our Wellies children to develop a good understanding of money. The best way to do this is through using REAL money. If you would like to be one of our “Snack Shoppers” over the weekend, please email our Admin team. They will then give you our snack “Shopping List” and a £10 budget. It would be a huge help to us if you and your child could buy some of the items for our snack over the weekend. This will also be a hugely beneficial experience for your child. Why not make this their weekend responsibility? This will provide a vast range of learning opportunities right across the curriculum.
What have the KingsWellies Gang been up to lately?
14th April 2026
We started the term with a great Valentines Disco! We have also visited the local Library to collect free seeds to plant in our allotments. We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day where we had an author called Gillian Snedden come in to read her story to us, along with our Parents/Grandparent’s also attending to read to us. We also enjoyed visiting the local library and attending Book Bug sessions. We had great fun welcoming our family members to the setting during stay and play week and showing them all the fun we get up to during a day at nursery! We have had lots of bus trips to the local park and the Pet’s Corner at Hazlehead Park. We enjoyed flipping our pancakes and choosing lots of yummy toppings. We planned and made our very own Chinese Take Away – Wellies Wok Away, for Luna New Year. We had lots of fun serving our friends and teachers our favourite Chinese foods, as well as all receiving our very own fortune cookie! We have also been busy participating in lots of fun with Kids Rock, Yoga, Flash Dance, French, Gym Bunnies, Chef Lisa, Moo Music and Rugby Tots!
Messy Children are Happy Children
11th August 2025
As always, we have been playing outside as much as possible. Water walls, water slides, mud kitchens, shaving foam, playdough, construction, messy play, painting, planting and allotments, loose play, minibeast hunts, hedgehog preservation, picnics, forest schools, eco schools, park visits and so much more! We are having so much fun but sorry if we come home a bit messy!
Aberdeen City Council Pre-School Funding – Session 2025/26 – 1140 hours
11th August 2025
As per Kerryn’s previous emails, Wellies Nurseries will continue to provide the 1140 FREE hours from August 2025. This equates to 30 hours per week over 38 weeks of the year. Please ensure that you read ALL of the 1140-hour funding information that we send you. We are constantly inundated with queries around this. We provide you with this so that you can adequately plan your finances. There should therefore be no surprises. Regardless whether we work a 38-week model (which we do), a 46-week model or 50-week model, you ALL receive exactly the SAME amount of free hours and funding across the year. It is up to you to choose the nursery and pattern that suits you best. All parents are expected to pay their own invoices out with the free funded period. We also only accept children who are with us for 52 weeks of the year. We do not accept term-time children only. There is no exception to this. Many thanks.
Nappies and Toilet Training
11th August 2025
We are making a plea to ALL parents to please support us in ensuring that your children are fully toilet trained by the time that they move into the pre-school rooms (aged three years). Whilst we fully appreciate that all children are individuals, the toddler stage is the most appropriate age for this training milestone to happen. Once in the older rooms, children become much more aware of themselves and wearing nappies can lead to embarrassment. We also really want to focus on lots of high-quality learning and teaching with our older children. Nappy changing takes staff away from this very important part of their job. Our staff are ALL here to help you with this very important milestone. Nappies are also only supplied by us until children reach 3 years old. Parents must then supply their own. Please don’t hesitate to discuss with us and we will provide our full support.