News and Events
Room Ages
05th October 2020
Just a reminder to parents that our rooms are configured in the following ways: • Babies – Birth to 2 years • Toddlers – 18 months to 3 years • Pre-School – 2.5 years to 5 years Some children may move rooms earlier or later. These age ranges are a guide and we base all transitions around the individual needs of the child. Any questions, please see Marcia.
KingsWellies £10 Snack Shopper – Would you like to do our snack shopping for us?
05th October 2020
Number, Money and Measure: “I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins” MNU 0-079 Our children are learning all of the time. Our main focus for learning is through developing our Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing skills. As part of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, we also develop skills, knowledge and understanding in: Expressive Arts Social Studies Technologies Sciences Religious and Moral Education We would like our KingsWellies 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 Kerryn. Kerryn will give you our snack “Shopping List” and Scott will give you the £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. Please just take back the shopping, change and receipt at the beginning of the week. Please also fill out our “Snack Shopper Diary” so that we can share your shopping experiences with our other children! Feel free to add any photos and also your feedback.
MacMillan coffee morning
05th October 2020
We held our annual MacMillan coffee morning on Friday 25th September. The children were very busy baking for it all week. We raised a whopping £359.04 for MacMillan. Thank you so much to everyone who donated!
Fund Raising
05th October 2020
Our graduation photo shoot was also a huge success. Some LOVELY photos! Thank you to those who participated and of course to Kevin Buchan (our photographer) who did such an amazing job.
Staffing Update
05th October 2020
We also wish Emma Campbell all the very best. Emma has just started her maternity leave and her new baby is due in October. HUGE congratulations also go to Kayleigh Gordon who has also just announced her pregnancy. Stay safe and healthy Kayleigh! We are also very proud to say that we are now a certified Real Living Wage employer. Our staff work very hard and it is very important to us that they are celebrated, praised and complimented.
Staffing Update
05th October 2020
We are a number of staff OVER our ratio EVERY day. This is unlike most other nurseries. This ensures that we can easily accommodate lots of high quality staff training, holidays and any staff absences. We are also able to ensure that all of our Covid 19 policies and procedures are stringently followed on a daily basis. We would like to welcome Shannon Robertson, Rachel Wilson, and Lucy McQueen. We are delighted to welcome them all to the Wellies team. Good luck also to Campbell Oag who will be leaving us soon to start studying medicine at Oxford University. Campbell will continue to work with us during his holidays from Uni.
KingsWellies Nursery Uniform
05th October 2020
Please see Kerryn if you would like an order form. Our uniform is very durable and it doesn’t matter so much if it gets a bit messy! We can order any time for you.
Graduation – Class of 2020
05th October 2020
We had a great Saturday afternoon at our graduation party. It was so very lovely to welcome all of the boys and girls back to nursery for one last shin dig. Great fun was had by all. Parents and staff gave the boys and girls a very well-deserved standing ovation when they left the nursery for the last time. It really did bring a tear to our eyes. Congratulations everyone!
Messy Children are Happy Children
24th July 2020
Since returning to nursery, we have been playing outside as much as possible. Water walls, mud kitchen, shaving foam, playdough, construction, loose play, minibeast hunts, hedgehog preservation 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 2020/21 – 1140 hours
24th July 2020
As per my previous emails, KingsWellies Nursery has been accepted as one of the partner providers for Aberdeen City Council who will be providing the increased 1140 FREE hours from September 2020. I will send out more information about what this will look like for us, very soon. We have NOT yet received the funding applications from ACC. As soon as we receive these, we will pass these on to parents to complete and return asap These application will also be able to answer all of your questions. Many thanks for your patience.