News and Events
Wellie Jellies Extension
18th January 2023
We are delighted to confirm that the Wellie Jellies room is currently being expanded. This expansion is making use of the adjoining space within the Prime Four Management Suite. This will enable us to provide additional high quality accommodation for around another 24 children in our 3-5 age range. It will also allow for more space in the Jellies room, create a nurture space for our children and spread out the play areas. We are hoping to open this new space around Easter 2023. In the meantime, the children have really enjoyed visiting their new larger playroom and will be fully involved in choosing and ordering resources for it and planning how it will be laid out. We will keep you informed of progress and will ensure that all works will be carried out with extreme sensitivity to the health and safety needs of our children. Staffing will be confirmed at a later date although the current Jellies team will remain in place. If you know anyone who will be looking for a space for their child, please let them know that additional spaces will be opening up soon.
Room Transitions
18th January 2023
Transitions to the next room will be planned depending on the individual child’s needs. Room staff will discuss all transitions in depth with you in plenty of time.
Play On Pedals
18th January 2023
Two of our staff (Connor and Jenny) will also be participating in a very exciting new national initiative called Play on Pedals. They will be undergoing training in order to become Play on Pedals Instructors, this term. We have just taken possession of a fleet of brand new balance bikes, helmets and one pedal bike. The bikes have been purchased following a successful grant application to Cycling Scotland by ACC. We will be using these with our children to support and develop their gross motor skills. VERY exciting! More information and lots of photos to follow.
Staff Training Update
18th January 2023
Individual staff will continue to attend a variety of very valuable training courses. We work hard to ensure that all staff are confident, competent and knowledgeable and that we keep up to date with all new developments. Staff all meet monthly for a series of collegiate meetings and all staff participate in a very comprehensive continual professional development programme. 90% of our staff have achieved / or are working towards accredited SVQ qualifications also. ALL Staff will all participating in Thinking and Talking Floorbook Training on 28/1/23. This will inform our future planning of learning and teaching. We are all really excited to get stuck in to this course. Look out for more information and please have a look at our Floorbooks which are hanging up outside our rooms. We will also be focusing on Curriculum for Excellence this term with a particular focus on Literacy, Health and Wellbeing and Numeracy. This is one of the main priorities within our Improvement Plan. We will keep you informed of our progress. Have you got any ideas on how to better improve our learning and teaching? We will be asking our children too.
Charities
18th January 2023
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
18th January 2023
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!
Chinese New Year
18th January 2023
We have been extremely busy planning our celebrations for The Year of The Rabbit. This year Chinese New Year lands on 22/1/23. Last year we even opened our very own Chinese take away – KINGS-WOK-AWAY. It was a great success. Our chefs cooked up a storm and fed the entire nursery. Look out for lots of exciting activities for this year’s celebrations. If you would like to come in to speak to us about how you celebrate different family or cultural traditions, please let us know. We would LOVE to invite you in.
Extra-Curricular Activities
18th January 2023
Please see our timetable below for your information. We are pleased to welcome our specialists for 2023. We are also hoping to add Rugby Totts to our regular timetable. More information to follow. We will also have scholastic book fair at the nursery from 07-03-2023 until the 14th to help us celebrate World Book Day Would you like to see anything else added to our timetable? Please let us know.
KingsWellies Parent Council
18th January 2023
Our Parent Council will continue to meet once per term. PLEASE bring to our attention any issues that you would like us to include on the agenda for this term’s meeting. Many thanks. Laura will be in touch soon.
December Highlights
18th January 2023
We did not stop in December. We had sooo much on! We loved our Xmas parties and visits from Santa. We were also very proud of all of our children who really enjoyed their Christmas sing along’s with their parents. We celebrated St Andrew’s Day and raised lots of money for charity through our bake sales and Christmas jumper weeks. We also LOVED our Christmas lunch. Thank you to Entier for always feeding us so well.