News and Events
Best of luck to our boys and girls who are going to P1 and school nurseries
11th August 2025
We will miss you ALL very, very much but know that you are all ready for P1 and that each and every one of you will go far! Remember to send us photos of you in your school uniforms!! We have been very busy speaking to your new P1 teachers and also to your parents. Good luck everyone!
Children’s Attendance and Registers
11th August 2025
Please 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. Please also let us know if you have any holidays booked and your child will be absent. This saves us from bothering you when sunbathing by the pool! Many thanks.
Staffing Update
11th August 2025
As always, we have some summer staff who have been helping us out this year. Our staff also really enjoy helping out across all sites. This is great for sharing good practice and developing professional dialogue. Please see our regular staffing updates on our Facebook pages. We also have staff photo boards outside each room and in each reception. Children are also becoming more involved in the recruitment process as we ask candidates to read them a story or complete an activity with them. We then ask our children and candidates for their feedback. This is working well. Recently we have welcomed lovely new staff to join our growing KingsWellies team! We have welcomed Paige D and Paige R into our Wellie Jellies room and they have settled in really well! In our Toddler room, Amy C has joined the team. Amy has gotten stuck right in and all the children love their daily cuddles. Ruth is enjoying getting to know all of the babies in our WellieBabies room, and loves leading group time and coming up with new songs to sing! Welcome to the team girls. In our kitchen, we have welcomed our new Chef Sandra! Sandra is settling into her new role well and loves home baking with children in the kitchen. In the next few weeks, we will also welcome Eilidh, Matthew, Lily and Chloe! We will keep you up to date with our staff changes. Cari has decided to take a career break and spend more time with her daughter Millie. We wish Cari all the very best in the future. Sadie has also left us to move to a nursery closer to home. All of the children and staff will miss her lots. In the next few weeks, we will sadly say goodbye to our supervisor Amy in the baby room. Amy is moving on to work in an ASN setting. We have no doubts you will do amazing Amy! At WestEnd our staff team just keeps on growing. We would like to give a warm welcome to Emma Forsyth who has settled really well into the Wellie Cubs room. All the children are loving spending time with her. Lucy Cumming will also be starting within the Wellie Cubs room soon. She will be getting to know the routines and the children. Welcome to the team Ladies! Chloe Fraser has recently moved upstairs to join the Wellie Badger room. We are delighted to have her. We would also like to wish Megan from the Wellie Badgers room all the very best on her new adventure. She is starting University to become a Primary Teacher but will continue to work with us on a part-time basis. You will make an amazing teacher Megan! At Queenswellies we have recently welcomed Samantha and Erin to our Wellie Bumbles room. Samantha is our new room supervisor. Both Samantha and Erin have settled in really well to the Wellie Bumbles room and have loved getting to know the other staff and children! Welcome to the team Ladies! We will sadly be saying goodbye to our deputy manager Steph as she will be going on maternity leave soon. Good luck, we can’t wait to meet the new baby! Simone will be stepping up to cover Steph’s maternity leave and Hannah will be stepping up as supervisor alongside Simone in our Wellie Bees room. Well done Ladies!
Wellies Nurseries – Health Month
11th August 2025
Throughout the months of June and July, all nurseries spent time focusing on Health Month. This involved planning lots of activities around the following topics: Keeping Fit, Healthy Eating, Mental Health and Keeping Safe. The children LOVED experiencing a range of different activities to progress their skills. Some of their favourites were; making smoothies, healthy recipes, road safety, football, sports days, self-portraits, developing their friendships, visits from police, fire, dentist, Childsmile, surgeons, radiographers and vet, Gym bunnies, baking with Chef Lisa, talking about emotions, having spa days and much more. At KingsWellies, Health Month is our favourite time of the year! We absolutely LOVE taking part in all of our different weeks and had so much fun with lots of activities going on. The children at KingsWellies had a visit from the police to talk about how we keep safe and what they do day to day. We also enjoyed our visit from Ann, from child smile, who came along to show us how to brush our teeth and why it is important to keep them clean. Each room had loads of different and exciting activities going on including learning about healthy and unhealthy foods, lots of arts and crafts, how we keep safe when crossing the road, water safety and much more. We enjoyed Gym Bunnies with Lisa and also how to make healthy treats with Chef Lisa. This included yummy flapjacks! During this month-long topic, we developed our different skills including hand eye coordination, gross & fine motor skills, following instructions and balancing skills. At West End, the month of June is our favourite time of the year due to us focusing on Health Month. This consists of participating in fun-filled activities throughout the month that correspond with Healthy Eating, Keeping Fit, Keeping Safe and Mental Health. We would like to say a massive thank you to the Police, Fire Brigade, Ambulance Service and SAS Swimming who all came to visit us. Another special thank you goes to Aberdeen Sports Village who helped us learn all about how we can keep fit. We also loved being shown around the Sports Village too. At QueensWellies we also recently celebrated Health Month. This Is one of our favourite topics as the children gain so much from all of the visitors, trips and activities that take place within the month. Throughout the month we had visits from the ambulance service, a vet, firefighters, childsmile, a radiologist and a special visit from a service dog. We also enjoyed various educational trips to the sports village, the park and our local care home. Each room participated in lots of health inspired educational experiences which also included baking with Chef Lisa and Gym Bunnies. It was great to see the children having fun and learning lots of new skills.
Stay and Play Days
11th August 2025
Grandparents stay and Play! National Grandparents Day is 6th of October. We would love to invite all grandparents / friends to come along to see their grandchildren in nursery, play along with them and see what they get up to! We kindly ask that there is a minimum of 2 grandparents / friends per child. If grandparents are unavailable, please feel free to extend the invitation to another family member. This will be held between 3pm – 4:30pm. Please see below dates for each Nursery setting: KINGSWELLIES : WellieBabies – Wednesday 8th October WellieTots – Tuesday 7th October WellieBeans – Thursday 9th October WellieJellies – Monday 6th October QUEENSWELLIES: Wellie Bumbles – Wednesday 8th October Wellie Bee’s – Tuesday 7th October WEST END WELLIES: Wellie Cubs – Tuesday 7th October Wellie Badgers – Thursday 9th October
KingsWellies, QueensWellies and West End Wellies
11th August 2025
On 28th August we will be celebrating Makaton day. We have challenged the boys and girls to learning the song “True colours” in Makaton and invited Simone’s sister Megan in to enjoy a performance and judge our Makaton skills. We have also LOVED working with all of our extra-curricular teachers; French, Moo Music, Chef Lisa, Kids Rock, Flashdance, Yoga Totts, Rugby Totts, Gym Bunnies. We are developing a HUGE number of inter-disciplinary skills every day. We are also hoping to introduce Cricket Totts and Soccer Wellies soon too! Watch this space! Please contact us if you would like to know more about booking a space with us at one of our Wellies Nurseries. Please also contact us if you would like to book into one of our extra-curricular groups. Our teachers are extremely experienced and the children love having the chance to learn lots of new skills and hobbies.
QueensWellies
11th August 2025
The last few months at Queenswellies have been extremely busy, from graduation, to trips out and about, as well as lots of fun-filled educational activities. In June we hosted our first Graduation. The boys and girls had a great time celebrating with their friends. They enjoyed dancing, party games and even their own ice cream parlour. This was a special request from our graduates. We invited the parents in too. They really enjoyed seeing their graduate receive their certificate and enjoyed a slideshow of their time at Queenswellies Nursery. We wish our little graduates the very best of luck in Primary 1. We have enjoyed lots of trips out and about to Hazelhead park, the Maritime Museum, Tesco and our local community. We even paid a visit to WEW to enjoy a lunch together, followed by some yummy ice cream from their ice cream parlour. The children loved meeting the boys and girls at WEW and can’t wait to arrange more playdates with them and KW in the future. Queenswellies also recently enjoyed using the brand-new pizza oven. Making their very own pizzas from scratch, they rolled out the dough and chose their favourite toppings to go on each pizza. All the children in the nursery sat outside together to enjoy their yummy pizzas allowing the older children to help serve up some snack to the babies. In August Queenswellies, will also be hosting their very first festival – Bee In The Park – the children have been working together with their teachers to plan a fun-filled, festival-inspired afternoon to end the Summer before starting a new term. On Friday 26th September Queenswellies will be hosting their annual MacMillian coffee morning. This will be held in our outdoor classroom where parents can enjoy a hot refreshment and some lovely home bakes made by the children and staff. Rugby Totts is also starting up at QW on 20th August. Please email admin to sign up for this exciting class.
West End Wellies
11th August 2025
Over the past few months, the children at West End Wellies have been participating in a wide range of activities such as hosting our own Ice cream parlour for our Queenswellies friends. We showed them around our playrooms and garden and then enjoyed a yummy Ice cream. We have also dined out in our very own Pizza Parlour which we absolutely LOVED.The children made homemade pizza dough and then with a little help from our janitors, we used our brand-new Pizza Oven to stone bake our pizzas. These were delicious! We are absolutely delighted to announce that West End Wellies has received their very first Green Eco Schools Award flag. The children have all worked extremely hard to achieve this and we couldn’t be prouder. We have also had a recent visit from Ann from Childsmile. Ann comes to ensure that we are following the correct policies and procedures for brushing our children’s teeth. We are happy to announce that we have received a certificate for all of the children who continue to be Star Brushers! Very well done to all! On Friday 26th September, we will be holding our annual MacMillian Coffee morning. Both our rooms will be home baking some yummy treats for you all to enjoy. This will take place in our Den which is located in the room on the right as you enter the reception area. We cannot wait to welcome our parents and friends to this very worthwhile charity event.
KingsWellies Nursery LOVED our Graduation Celebrations
11th August 2025
This year we enjoyed having Leanne from Kidz Rock to host our party before enjoying some tasty party food. After all this, we then invited the parents to come in to see all of our little graduates receive their certificates and walk the red carpet! We have also really enjoyed taking part in our summer topics! This has included learning how to keep safe in the sun with activities such as how to apply your suncream and what to wear when outside. We have loved making our own yummy ice lollies, ice cream tuff trays and homemade smoothies! All rooms have enjoyed going to Kingswells Park, exploring Prime Four and playing lots of games at the forecourt. Please remember to put in suncream and a sunhat so we can continue to enjoy the sunny weather outdoors! At KingsWellies on Friday 26th September, we are holding our annual MacMillian coffee morning! All of our rooms will be baking some yummy homemade treats for you all to enjoy. This will take place in our reception area with the children helping to serve you their wonderful bakes. All monies raised will go to this amazing charity.
What have the KingsWellies, West End Wellies and QueensWellies Gang been up to lately?
11th August 2025
We have been very busy with Graduation planning and partying, visiting Hazelhead Park and lots of local parks, Health Month, bucket fillers, stay and play days, friendships and teamwork, daily mile, visits around the community, Happy Body Healthy Me Campaign, sun safety, Eco Schools and sustainability, Forest Schools, Rights Respecting Schools Awards, planting and improving our gardens and playgrounds, sports days, picnics, pizzas, BBQs, getting ready to go to school, learning Makaton, learning all about minibeasts, farm animals, animals under the sea, our communities, learning about Space, people who help us, lots of outdoor play, road safety, reading our book bug bags and LOTS more……