News and Events
What have the West End Wellies Gang been up to lately?
14th April 2026
Our Cubs and badgers have had a very busy Term 3 with lots of fun activities. These have included their Valentines Stay and Play, our Charity Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald, Gym Bunnies, Moo Music, Chef Lisa and Kids Rock. We also started our first Rugby Tots block in April with Kevin, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the children. April also saw us visiting the Mannofield Church to hear the Easter Story. We also had an amazing Easter Bonnet competition. I’m sure you can agree the winning bonnets were ‘Egg’ellent!
Outdoor Education:
14th April 2026
Our Outdoor Committee will be working hard with David and AJ to improve our outdoor education areas. This is an ongoing project. We have lots of exciting ideas for our outdoor areas so will be working hard to ensure that they are keeping busy with lots of Literacy, Numeracy and Health activities. Please give us your feedback on how we can continue to improve these very important areas. If any parents, grandparents or friends would like to support us with our Spring / Summer planting projects, please let us know. At QueensWellies we have also been awarded the Peoples Postcode Lottery Funded Local School Nature Grant from Learning Through Landscapes. We intend to purchase lots of new outdoor equipment which will help expand the children’s outdoor knowledge and learning. This grant also includes Loose Part Play and Den Building Training for staff. We are very excited to put the staff’s new skills to work with our children! Please ensure your child comes to nursery each day with waterproof suit/jacket, wellies, hat, scarf and gloves labelled with their name. As the weather is starting to improve, please ensure your child has suncream and a sunhat to keep at nursery. We ask that the sun cream is unopened when handed in so we can record the expiry date. Please also label everything.
Extra-Curricular Activities:
14th April 2026
Here at QueensWellies we have a range of different extracurricular activities that we offer on a weekly basis. Please see our classes below, for your information. - French Tues AM - Kids Rock Tues PM - Rugby Tots Wed PM - Chef Lisa Wed AM - Moo Music Thurs AM - Gym Bunnies Fri AM French, Kids Rock, Moo Music, Gym Bunnies and Chef Lisa are all provided by us as part of your fees at QueensWellies. The other classes are provided at an additional cost. In order to make these work, we do require enough children to sign up to them. Please contact WEW Admin for additional information and also to express your interest. We could offer additional classes in Yoga and Flashdance but we need enough people to sign up to each.
Fundraising:
14th April 2026
We are very proud of all of our families at QueensWellies Nursery, who helped to make our fundraiser a huge success!!! We raised an amazing total of £1649 for Downs Syndrome Scotland. Children and Staff had a great time baking dancing, singing and signing in Makaton. We completed 21 activities in 21 days!! Well done team QueensWellies!!!
Spring time celebrations:
14th April 2026
All the Bumbles and Bees have been busy celebrating and are “Eggsited” for Easter. We have been busy making and decorating boiled eggs to roll down the hill, Egg Hunts, Arts and Crafts, Reading the Easter Story and visits to Hazlehead Pets Corner. We also have lots of things planned for Spring - Looking at Spring flowers, lifecycles of butterflies, frogs and chicks. We are going to have our very own Caterpillars to look after, and watch them turn into beautiful Butterflies!! We will also be partying with our “Friday Friends” from “Create” too. We have already held our annual Easter Bonnet Competition. Well done to all that participated. We were blown away with your amazing homemade Bonnets. HUGE congratulations to our two winners!
What have QueensWellies been up to?
14th April 2026
We began the term with our Valentines themed Stay and Plays with our families, these coincided with Pancake Day, so we all enjoyed yummy homemade pancakes too!! We celebrated Chinese New Year with our very own Bees Wok Away (take away) which our Busy Bees helped prepare delicious Chinese food, and serve to everyone. We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up in our favourite character costumes and brought in a variety of our favourite stories which we enjoyed reading with all of our friends. To celebrate world book day, we also had the amazing “Wonder Wings Book Fair” in our outdoor classroom. We loved browsing all the books. We had great fun taking part in our Fundraiser - dancing, baking, singing and Makaton signing, - raising money for Downs Syndrome Scotland. Well done to all who helped raise an incredible amount for this charity, it supports families across Scotland including some of our families in the nursery. We also had our friend Megan, join us for our last day of fundraising, and to help us celebrate Downs Syndrome Day. We loved seeing all of your odd socks! Thank you for joining us Megan!
P1 Transition
14th April 2026
P1 Transition We have around 34 children who will be leaving us in July/August to go to P1. These children will come from Wellie Beans and Wellie Jellies. We have lots planned to make this transition process as easy for them (and parents) as possible. This is a very exciting time for them and we ask all parents to be positive and enthusiastic. Activities include: • Visits by their new teachers to Wellies Nurseries • Visits to Kingswells School and Playground • Practicing how to line up, get our own coats on and zip them up, change our shoes, pack our bags and eat our play piece independently • Can we write our own names? Can we recognise our names? Can we hold a pencil? • Developing our independence and resilience • Can we use the toilet independently and wash and dry our hands by ourselves? • Working with our extra-curricular teachers to develop lots of new skills • Completing our Wellies Life Skills Awards • Bus journeys and lots of community visits • Road safety and stranger danger talks • Focus on Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing • School Uniforms and changing independently for PE • Rules, Routines, Boundaries and Friendships • Looking at our school websites with our friends • Wellie Beans, Wellie Jellies, Wellie Bees and Wellie Cubs spending lots of time together to discuss P1 and preparation for school • Individual Learning Journeys sent to each school before the end of term • Lots of “School” stories and “School” topic activities • Key Workers to contact each school to pass on all relevant individual information for each child
Wellies Nurseries Class of 2026
14th April 2026
Here are some suggestions to help prepare your child for starting school in August 2026: - Do they recognise their own name? If not, make a sign together for their room and where they hang their jacket at home, so that they are used to seeing it. - If you are going to teach them to write their name, please only teach the first letter as a capital. If they learn their whole name in capitals, it then takes time for them to unlearn it. The capital / upper case letter is the “name” and the lower-case letter is the “sound”. - They will not have the same child: staff ratios as in nursery. One teacher could have up to 30 / 33 children. Encourage them to be as independent and resilient as possible, from now on. - Remember school is different from when you went, they will be unlikely to have their own desk but they will be very used to the set-up as it’s similar to Nursery. - Label everything! - Encourage them to open their own snacks so that they are able to do it at playtime and lunchtime. - Velcro shoes are best! - Don’t share your concerns with them and don’t talk about how they are your baby and they aren’t ready! They are taking their lead from you! - Can they put on their own jacket and zip it up? If not, start encouraging them now! - Can they use the toilet independently and wash and dry their hands independently? Now is the time to work on this. - When you find out their gym days, it’s best not to put them in shirt and tie on these days. - In Scotland all P1-P5 gets a free lunch. When you get a menu, pop it somewhere in the house and let them know what the choices are each day, and decide what they will have together. - P1 teachers are angels in disguise, we promise you can trust them with your child!
Book Fairs
14th April 2026
A huge thank you to everyone who purchased from us. KingsWellies raised £199.66 of profit, in our Scholastic Book Fair! Big thank you to everyone who bought books. We will be using the funds raised to purchase books to extend our educational library. We have bought books focusing on Starting School, Healthy Eating, Caring for our Environment, Children’s Mental Health, Emotions and Feelings and Personal Hygiene.
Health Month June 2026
14th April 2026
During our upcoming Health Month, KingsWellies will we be busy learning all about road safety, kitchen safety, bus safety, stranger danger, how to brush our teeth properly, good hand hygiene, healthy food choices, what to do in a Fire Drill, how to phone 999 in an emergency, all about our families and friendships, respecting rules and routines, being good bucket fillers, talking about our emotions and keeping ourselves safe. We will also be taking part in our Grow Well Choices project where we will be learning all about making healthy life choices. If anyone would like to come in to support us with some learning and teaching activities during health month, please contact our admin teams. We would love to add you to our timetables. Many thanks to those of you who have already been in touch!