News and Events
Room Transitions
23rd January 2025
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.
Staff Training Update
23rd January 2025
Individual staff will continue to attend a variety of very valuable training courses. A large number of staff will also be completing / revising their Paediatric First Aid Training. 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. 80% of our staff have achieved / or are working towards accredited SVQ qualifications also. We will also be focusing on Planning for Learning formats, Space to Grow and Thrive, SIMOA, Realising the Ambition, one-to-one child observations, Eco Schools Scotland, Rights Respecting Schools, Forest Schools and Curriculum for Excellence this term. We will have a particular focus on Literacy, Health and Wellbeing and Numeracy. These are some of the main priorities within our Improvement Plan. We will keep you informed of our progress.
Charities
23rd January 2025
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
23rd January 2025
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
23rd January 2025
We have been extremely busy planning our celebrations for The Year of The Snake. This year Chinese New Year lands on 29/1/25. Over the last two years, we even opened our very own Chinese take aways – 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. Chef Lisa will be cooking with all children, at all settings.
Scholastic Book Fair
23rd January 2025
The scholastic book fair will be visiting KingsWellies Nursery again this year on the 11/03/25 until the 18/03/25. Our friends from QueensWellies and WestEnd Wellies will be catching the bus to come visit us and will be able to choose a book to buy.
Stay + Play
23rd January 2025
Love is in the air with WEW Badgers who are inviting 2 of their family members to come along for a stay and play on Valentines Day (14/2). Our Badgers will help to serve some yummy snack to show their appreciation for the ones they love.
Extra-Curricular Activities
23rd January 2025
Please see our classes below, for your information. We are very pleased to welcome back our specialists for 2025. We are also hoping to add Football lessons (weekends with Stuart from Beans) and Cricket Totts to our regular timetables. - Yoga - French - Flashdance - Kids Rock - Rugby Totts - Chef Lisa - Gym Bunnies - Moo Music French, Kids Rock, Moo Music and Chef Lisa are all provided by us as part of your fees at KingsWellies. Chef Lisa, Gym Bunnies, Moo Music and Kids Rock are all provided by us as part of your fees at both QueensWellies and West End Wellies. 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 our admin teams for additional information and also to express your interest. Would you like to see anything else added to our timetable? Please let us know.
MORE - Happy New Year and a HUGE thank you!
23rd January 2025
We would also like to say a massive thank you to all of our parents, children and families for your generosity over Xmas. We received lots of lovely presents which were shared with all staff. Everyone went home with presents to enjoy. KingsWellies staff also received a lovely gift from a number of parents who all chipped together. The staff have decided that they will use this very generous gift to have a lovely lunchtime treat. This was extremely generous of you and MUCH appreciated! Many thanks also for your kind donations towards Mission Christmas. We managed to fill numerous boxes to donate.
Happy New Year and a HUGE thank you!
23rd January 2025
Happy new year to all of our children, parents, friends and staff! We really hope that you enjoyed a lovely festive period! We are all really glad to be back at nursery and are looking forward to a jam-packed third term!