News and Events
Life Skills Awards – July and August 2020
24th July 2020
During July and August we will be reinforcing ALL of our Life Skills Awards before we move on to our next colour in September. Please reinforce these very important skills at home too. What do you see as important Life Skills for your children? Please let us know.
Children’s Attendance and Registers
24th July 2020
It is very important that ALL parents remember to sign their children IN and OUT of nursery on a daily basis. Please also let us know by 10am if your child will not be attending nursery on that day. Staff will contact parents after 10am to ascertain the whereabouts of your child. This is in line with our Child Protection and Health and Safety Policies. Thank you.
New Wellie Dog
24th July 2020
Welcome also to Patsy Cline who joined us just before lockdown. Patsy loves attention and LOVES seeing all of the boys and girls at nursery. She will be training as a Therapet soon to support Ziggy in this very important role.
Staffing Update
24th July 2020
Huge congratulations go to Eibhlish, Natalie, Emma and Hannah who are all pregnant. We are totally delighted for you ladies and can’t wait to welcome some new Wellie babies. Remember stay fit, safe and healthy. Huge congratulations also goes to Ailsa and Kirsty who have both completed their SVQ in Social Services (Children and Young People) recently. Both are now fully qualified practitioners and a real asset to our team. This is a huge achievement and took many hours of work outwith nursery to complete. Congratulations girls. We are incredibly proud of you. Unfortunately Taylor, Daniela and Amy McTurk have left us over the past few months. Daniella will be starting a new university course soon. Taylor has been working on the frontline in an old folks home and Amy has started work as a nanny. Leanne has also left her substantive post with us but will still be with us for Kids Rock on a weekly basis. Leanne has chosen to focus on expanding her Kids Rock empire and we wish her huge success. So…….. if anyone is looking to book a party with a difference, Kids Rock is definitely the way to go! Good luck Leanne. Thank you all for all of your very hard work and loyalty to KingsWellies. We will miss you. As always, we have some Summer staff who will be helping us out once we get back up and running as normal. Eve, Zora, Eilidh, Nadia, Sarah and Lily will all be re-joining our gang for another Summer with us. We are also delighted to welcome Lucy McQueen, Natasha Ewen, Molly McIntosh and Campbell Oag to the team. Campbell will be joining us until October when he will be going off to study medicine at Oxford. He will be working with the children on the development of a variety of skills including piano, singing, French, keeping fit, drama, musical theatre, keeping safe and first aid. Campbell is a real all-rounder with experience as a Taekwondo instructor and Scouts young leader. We can’t wait to welcome both Campbell and Molly in the near future. Lucy and Natasha joined us before lockdown so many of you will have already met them.
Charities
17th January 2020
We raised £197.21 for Children In Need. We also raised £265.97 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Many thanks to all for your donations. We will be fully involving our Pre-School Charities Committee to help us to plan our campaigns for the coming year. If you would like to nominate a particular charity for us to focus on, please let us know
The Scottish Daily Mile
17th January 2020
We will continue to aim for all of our children to walk, jog or run for at least 15 minutes each day. Most children can average around a mile in that time! Keep going gang!
Extra-Curricular Activities
17th January 2020
Please see our timetable attached for your information. We would particularly like to welcome Flashdance and Abricabeats who will be working with us this term. Would you like to see anything else added to our timetable? Please let us know.
KingsWellies Parent Council Family Fun Day
17th January 2020
A great day was had by all. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated. We raised a whopping total of £2,247.54. Half of which went to Cash for Kids. The other half will be spent on outdoor play equipment. Any ideas what we should buy? Many thanks also to all those who have provided us with feedback on our family fun day consultation. We will use this to help us to continue to improve. Our Parent Council will also continue to meet once per quarter. PLEASE bring to our attention any issues that you would like us to include on the agenda for this term’s meeting. Many thanks.
December Highlights
17th January 2020
We did not stop in December. We had sooo much on! We thoroughly enjoyed our sing songs with our parents and families. We hope that you enjoyed them too. We also LOVED our parties and our surprise visit from Santa. We made lots of visits around the local community and loved meeting new people.
Aberdeen City Council Pre-School Funding
01st November 2019
For all those of you who have children who are approaching aged three or are already three years old, you will be entitled to apply for pre-school funding from Aberdeen City Council. Please see Kerryn or Scott in order to complete the appropriate forms.