News and Events
Parent Engagement Events
14th April 2026
We would like to invite our parents to join us for a variety of parent engagement events this term. Please also be reminded that all parents can request a meeting with your child’s Key Worker / Supervisor at any time. Please just contact our Admin team who will arrange this for you as a matter of priority. We have also asked all of our P1 parents whether they would like to book in a meeting prior to their child leaving to attend school. Please let us know asap so that we can get these in to the diaries for you. 27/6/26 – Class of 2025 Graduation Party 11am-1:30pm Stay and Play dates for KingsWellies: Monday 15th June – Tots 3pm-4:30pm Tuesday 16th June – Babies 3pm-4:30pm Wednesday 17th June – Beans 3pm-4:30pm Thursday 18th June – Jellies 3pm-4:30pm
Kilt Walk
14th April 2026
Staff will be participating in this years Kilt Walk on June the 7th. All monies raised will be donated to Cash For Kids in the North East. All donations are very much appreciated! Wish us luck!
Snack Shoppers
14th April 2026
We would like our Wellies children to develop a good understanding of money. The best way to do this is through using REAL money. If you would like to be one of our “Snack Shoppers” over the weekend, please email our Admin team. They will then give you our snack “Shopping List” and a £10 budget. It would be a huge help to us if you and your child could buy some of the items for our snack over the weekend. This will also be a hugely beneficial experience for your child. Why not make this their weekend responsibility? This will provide a vast range of learning opportunities right across the curriculum.
What have the KingsWellies Gang been up to lately?
14th April 2026
We started the term with a great Valentines Disco! We have also visited the local Library to collect free seeds to plant in our allotments. We enjoyed celebrating World Book Day where we had an author called Gillian Snedden come in to read her story to us, along with our Parents/Grandparent’s also attending to read to us. We also enjoyed visiting the local library and attending Book Bug sessions. We had great fun welcoming our family members to the setting during stay and play week and showing them all the fun we get up to during a day at nursery! We have had lots of bus trips to the local park and the Pet’s Corner at Hazlehead Park. We enjoyed flipping our pancakes and choosing lots of yummy toppings. We planned and made our very own Chinese Take Away – Wellies Wok Away, for Luna New Year. We had lots of fun serving our friends and teachers our favourite Chinese foods, as well as all receiving our very own fortune cookie! We have also been busy participating in lots of fun with Kids Rock, Yoga, Flash Dance, French, Gym Bunnies, Chef Lisa, Moo Music and Rugby Tots!
Messy Children are Happy Children
11th August 2025
As always, we have been playing outside as much as possible. Water walls, water slides, mud kitchens, shaving foam, playdough, construction, messy play, painting, planting and allotments, loose play, minibeast hunts, hedgehog preservation, picnics, forest schools, eco schools, park visits and so much more! We are having so much fun but sorry if we come home a bit messy!
Aberdeen City Council Pre-School Funding – Session 2025/26 – 1140 hours
11th August 2025
As per Kerryn’s previous emails, Wellies Nurseries will continue to provide the 1140 FREE hours from August 2025. This equates to 30 hours per week over 38 weeks of the year. Please ensure that you read ALL of the 1140-hour funding information that we send you. We are constantly inundated with queries around this. We provide you with this so that you can adequately plan your finances. There should therefore be no surprises. Regardless whether we work a 38-week model (which we do), a 46-week model or 50-week model, you ALL receive exactly the SAME amount of free hours and funding across the year. It is up to you to choose the nursery and pattern that suits you best. All parents are expected to pay their own invoices out with the free funded period. We also only accept children who are with us for 52 weeks of the year. We do not accept term-time children only. There is no exception to this. Many thanks.
Nappies and Toilet Training
11th August 2025
We are making a plea to ALL parents to please support us in ensuring that your children are fully toilet trained by the time that they move into the pre-school rooms (aged three years). Whilst we fully appreciate that all children are individuals, the toddler stage is the most appropriate age for this training milestone to happen. Once in the older rooms, children become much more aware of themselves and wearing nappies can lead to embarrassment. We also really want to focus on lots of high-quality learning and teaching with our older children. Nappy changing takes staff away from this very important part of their job. Our staff are ALL here to help you with this very important milestone. Nappies are also only supplied by us until children reach 3 years old. Parents must then supply their own. Please don’t hesitate to discuss with us and we will provide our full support.
Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on a variety of topics in our playrooms. These will inc
11th August 2025
• Happy Healthy Me • Cultures of the world – PLEASE talk to us about your childhood memories, your culture, your traditions, your beliefs and your celebrations. We really want to learn more about cultures around the world. • Rules and Routines • KINDNESS – Are you a bucket filler or a bucket dipper? • Child-led improvement groups – Our Eco Group, Kindness Group, Forest Schools Group, Toothbrushing Group, Rights Respecting Group, Charities Group and Playground Improvement Groups will keep working hard to improve our nursery. • Holidays and Landmarks • Seasons and sun safety– Summer • Gardening, making dens and improving our playgrounds • Our environment and local communities • Our families and friends • Autumn • Walks out and about around our community and lots of outdoor play • Daily mile – scavenger hunts, environmental print, shape, numeracy, literacy and pattern walks • Writing our names and learning lots of rhyming words • Getting ready for school and our new school nurseries • 1st August – UK play day • 2nd August – National day for play • 3rd August – Watermelon Day • 5th August – National sisters’ day • 6th August – Fresh breath / toothbrushing day • 8th August – International cat day • 9th August – International planting and allotments week • 9th August – National book lovers day • 10th August – World lion day • 11th August – Son and daughter day • 12th August – Elephant appreciation day • 19th August – World photo day • 22nd August – World plant milk day • 26th August – International dog day • 30th August – National beach day • 31st August – Eat outside day • 1st September – World letter writing day • 5th September – International Charities Day • 6th September – Read a book day • 6th September – Zero waste day • 8th September – International literacy day • 9th September – Emergency Services day • 9th September – Teddy bear day • 13th September – Roald Dahl Day • 13th September – Positive thinking day • 16th September – World clean-up day • 17th September – International country music day • 18th September – Jewish new year • 18th September – Eat an apple day • 19th September – Pirate Day • 20th September – Recycle week • 22nd September – World rhino day • 25th September – World dream day • 28th September – Good neighbour day • 29th September – International end food waste day • 1st October – International day of older persons • 1st October - World vegetarian day • 2nd October – Grandparents Day • 5th October – World teachers’ day • 6th October – National poetry day • 7th October – National smile day • 9th October – World post day • 16th October – World food day • 25th October – Diwali • 25th October – World pasta day • 27th October – Tell a story day • 31st October – Halloween • 31st October – World cities day • Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing are the responsibility of ALL nursery and school practitioners. We have LOTS of exciting learning opportunities planned for our Wellies Gang!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts
11th August 2025
Lots of our children have already started to leave us and I have to say that all of the emails, messages and cards have really brought a tear to my eye. The very kind words mean such a huge amount as it proves that we have achieved what we set out to do. We genuinely only want the very best for all of our children and families.
Wellies Nurseries Class of 2025
11th August 2025
Here are some suggestions to help prepare your child for starting school in August 2025: 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 called the “name” and the lower case letter is called the “sound”. They will not have the same child : staff ratios as in nursery. One teacher with up to 30 / 33 children. Encourage them to be as independent and resilient as possible, from now. 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 P1s-P3’s get 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 children!