News and Events
Parent Council
10th April 2023
Laura will be in touch to arrange a date for a meeting this term. Please get in touch if you have any items for our agenda. Many thanks.
Parent Engagement Events
10th April 2023
We would like to invite our parents to join us for a variety of parent engagement events this term. More information to follow. Please put the following date in your diaries: 13/4/23 – Parent’s Evening for ALL children – 6-8pm. Ten minute slots are available. Please pick your slot from the available times (on the playroom doors) 22/07/2023 – Class of 2023 Graduation Stay and play - Dates to follow
Wellies Nurseries – Updated Website
10th April 2023
Please see our updated website on www.kingswelliesnursery.com You will find lots of details about our new QueensWellies Nursery, as well as videos of our new Wellie Jellies room and our pride and joy, KingsWellies Nursery. Please provide us feedback on our website. This helps us to continue to improve.
QueensWellies Nursery
10th April 2023
As you are aware, we have recently purchased a new nursery building in Queens Road, Aberdeen. Work has commenced on our new building and we are hoping to fully open around August 2023. We are very excited for this new opportunity. Please contact us if you would like to know more about booking a space within QueensWellies. We will keep you updated with all progress. We have a large floorbook in reception showing “before” photos, plans and ideas for improvement to QueensWellies. Please give us your ideas, we want to be as creative as possible. We currently have spaces available for 2.5 year to 5 year olds in KingsWellies Nursery. Please contact the office for additional information on 01224 741175. We also have spaces from 0-5 years at QueensWellies.
Children as Active Learners: Books for bereavement, loss, grief, stress, worry and separation
10th April 2023
We have lots of different books available in nursery. Please just see a member of staff if you would like to borrow any of them. We also have child lending libraries, parent lending libraries, kindness bags, bucket filler bags, literacy bags, numeracy bags, health and wellbeing bags, Pudding the Guide Dog bags and Ziggy and Patsy bags which can all be borrowed and used at home to further develop your child’s learning and engagement. Please just ask a member of staff who will be happy to help.
Staffing Update
10th April 2023
Welcome to a number of new staff who have all recently joined us as practitioners within our rooms. Staff photos can be seen up in our reception area. We are delighted to welcome such experienced practitioners to our team. Please also see our Facebook posts where we keep you abreast of staffing changes and all that is happening on a day-to-day basis. Welcome back also to Marcia and Steph who will be returning from maternity leave soon. Marcia will be returning as Senior Depute Manager at our new QueensWellies Nursery. Steph will be returning as Supervisor within the Beans Room and will step up as Depute Manager when required. We realise that there have been lots of staff changes recently. We have had to move some staff to new rooms in order to ensure that we have a good balance of old and new staff in each room. We have considered all room moves very carefully. However our aim is to ensure consistency as much as possible for our children, in their everyday lives. Although some children may experience changes in their Key Workers, we will ensure that this is done very sensitively and over time. Staff will keep you abreast of all changes. We are also continuing to recruit for or new QueensWellies Nursery so you will see lots of new faces over the next few months as we train all staff ready for opening.
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!