News and Events
French Lessons
26th February 2018
Bonjour! We have loved having our weekly French lessons with Linda from La Jolie Ronde! Each week we have been learning French through fun songs, puppets, finger rhymes and games. We have also been imitating and repeating lots of oral activities with Linda. Have you heard us talking French yet?
We have had a very busy start to 2018
26th February 2018
We have had a very busy start to 2018. Many thanks to Lucas’s mummy for coming in to tell us all about Chinese New Year and how she celebrates it. We loved hearing all about her family traditions. Also to Pyjama Drama for coming in to do some very special sessions with us all about the Year of the Dog! We also loved listening to Scottish poems, dancing to Scottish pipe music, tasting haggis, neeps and tatties and designing our own tartans and coats of arms to celebrate Robbie Burns Day. We made THOUSANDS of pancakes and chose our own favourite toppings. We have also decided to make our own Talking and Thinking and Learning Trees – look out for these outside our rooms and in reception.
Drive Carefully
11th January 2018
Please always drive carefully and reverse park when in our car park. The speed limit is 5 miles per hour at all times. Many thanks.
Parent Progress Meetings
11th January 2018
This term, we will be providing parents with the opportunity to meet with Supervisors and Key Workers on a one-to-one basis to discuss your child’s individual progress. These meetings will focus on discussions around your child’s Care Plan, ILD, Learning Journey and Next Steps in Development. These will happen in March 2018. Dates will be sent home in due course.
Aberdeen City Council Pre-School Funding
11th January 2018
For all those of you who have children aged three or children who are approaching aged three, you will be entitled to apply for pre-school funding from the City Council. Please see Aimee or Kerry ASAP in order to complete the appropriate forms. For those of you who have already completed ACC funding application forms, the funding for Term 3 (January, February, March 2018) has not yet arrived in our bank. As soon as we receive it, we will backdate your funding for January. You will see this coming off of your next invoice. We ask in the meantime that all invoices are paid in full please.
Therapets
11th January 2018
Our KingsWellie’s Therapets loved attending one of the Cornhill Hospital Christmas parties as special guests of honour! They put lots of smiles on faces in their festive outfits. Well done boys!
Random Acts of Kindness Day – 17th February
11th January 2018
We would really like to carry out some kind and thoughtful acts this week. Please give us your ideas. We have a consultation in reception.
Vision, Values and Aims
11th January 2018
We recently emailed you out a copy of our Vision, Values and Aims as we are in the process of reviewing these. We will share our revised Vision, Values, Aims and Aspirations with you in due course. Many thanks to all those who participated in this important consultation.
Parental Consultation – Question of the month - January 2018
11th January 2018
Each month we strive to self-evaluate our practice because we want to be a better nursery. We also need our parents to give us feedback. Our January 2018 question of the month comes from How Good Is Our Early Learning and Childcare and focuses on Quality Indicator 1.4: Leadership of Managers and Practitioners. We very much value your feedback.
Staff Training Update
11th January 2018
This term all staff will participate in training around the New Health and Social Care Standards (Scottish Government 2017). We will have a particular focus on looking at good practice examples from Our Creative Journey (Care Inspectorate 2017) and My World Outdoors (Care Inspectorate 2017). If you would like to access these very important documents, please use the links below. Individual staff will continue to attend a variety of very valuable training courses including children’s rights, chronologies, GIRFEC, children as active learners, wee green spaces, staff appraisal and supervision skills, child development, Curriculum for Excellence, Pre-Birth to Three Curriculum, parachute play, play games-think fit, quality interactions, observation and assessment skills, story telling and role play, safeguarding children, treasure baskets and heuristic play, recycled arts and crafts, leadership at all levels, navigating the guidance documents. 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. The vast majority of staff have achieved and / or working towards accredited SVQ qualifications also.