News and Events

KingsWellies 8th Birthday

10th April 2023

We are so proud to say that KingsWellies will be 8 years old on the 15th April 2023. We can hardly believe it! A huge thank you to All of our amazing staff. We really cannot underestimate how hard they all work to ensure that children are safe, happy, nurtured and are learning. A very Special thanks also goes to Laura, Marcia and Emma who have all been with us from day one when we opened on 15th April 2015. That level of commitment and Loyalty is almost unheard of. Huge thanks to the very special ladies. Look out for our birthday celebrations on Facebook.


Scholastic Book Fair

10th April 2023

We raised a Whooping £267.67 towards new books for the nursery. Huge thank you to everyone who purchased a book from us. The children are all busy choosing and ordering their new books, as we speak.


Outdoor Education

10th April 2023

Our Outdoor Committee will be working hard with Scott and AJ to improve our outdoor education area. Laura and Caroline also have lots of exciting ideas for our outdoor area so will be working hard to ensure that it is awash with lots of literacy and numeracy activities. We are also planning a new outdoor classroom – watch this space! Please give us your feedback on how we can continue to improve this very important area.


HEALTH MONTH

10th April 2023

For more ideas on what you can do with your child at home to promote health and happiness, you can download lots of activity guides from www.ndna.org.uk/healthy We had an amazing Health and Wellbeing month whereby we learnt so much about all aspects of the Health and Wellbeing Curriculum. We had visits from Bistro Verde, local dentist, Kids Rock, Yoga, Fire Brigade, Police Scotland, nurses, doctors, Nicola the Radiologist, ChildSmile, Entier chefs and lots more! We also went to visit the old folks at Kings Wells Care Home, local businesses to sell our home bakes and smoothies, enjoyed picnics, visits to the parks and supermarkets, visits to the library and made sure that we were the BEST Bucket Fillers out there!


What else have the Wellies Gang been up to?

10th April 2023

Chinese New Year, Robbie Burns Day, national kindness day, Makaton training, pancake day, Valentine’s Day, random acts of kindness day, national anthem day, minibeast hunts, supporting our Guide Dog puppy called Pudding, collecting tadpoles, World Book Day, Scholastic book fair, Mother’s Day and LOTS more………….


Easter Celebrations

10th April 2023

We have been very busy celebrating all aspects of Easter and have lots more planned. We will be making Easter bonnets, painting daffodils, planting in our allotments, making lots of chocolate treats, finding out about the lifecycle of a chick, researching the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, and bunny rabbits, lots of arts and crafts, baking and making Easter cards. We will also have great fun painting, decorating and rolling our eggs down the Prime Four “Mount Everest” hills beside the nursery. We will also be hearing about the Easter story and will be learning all about this very important celebration


QueensWellies Nursery - Opening Soon!

29th March 2023

We are delighted to announce that we have recently bought a new nursery premises in the West-End of Aberdeen, Queens Road. QueensWellies Nursery will be opening around August 2023. It will be able to accommodate approximately 50 children aged from 0 - 5 years old. QueensWellies will follow the same exacting very high standards as KingsWellies Nursery. We CANNOT wait to open and welcome you to another excellent Wellies Nursery!


Parental Consultation – Question of the month – January 2022

18th January 2023

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 2023 question of the month comes from A Quality Framework for Daycare of Children, childminding and School-aged Children (Care Inspectorate, February 22). We very much value your feedback. Parental Consultations Feedback Please be reassured that all feedback is taken very seriously and is acted upon immediately. Individual parents are always responded to and ideas implemented immediately within the nursery environment. Unfortunately, we don’t receive much feedback, but we will keep trying, as this is extremely valuable to us. Stakeholder Consultation Please see attached our Stakeholder Consultation for your information. Please give us your feedback. We want to make our consultation meaningful for our parents and carers so please let us know what you would like us to ask you.


Enhancing our Environments

18th January 2023

We are always very busy enhancing our environments. The children have loved designing their new areas too. What do you think? We are always looking for junk, natural materials, wooden toys and old technologies (cameras, phones, remote controls etc). Please donate if you are looking for a new home for anything that you think would be useful to us.


1140 Hours Funding

18th January 2023

Application forms for funding in term 3 will be made available to you soon. Scott will keep you right in applying for funding if your child has just turned three or will be turning three soon. If you would like to book additional funded sessions, please do so now, whilst we still have spaces available.