News and Events
La Jolie Ronde French Lessons
10th April 2019
We have been learning our numbers, our colours, the parts of our bodies, our names, how to greet our friends, animals, food items and all about Easter in FRENCH! We will also hold an egg hunt to celebrate our French Easter. Linda has got lots more planned for us in term 4 and we are growing in confidence every week. Linda also has a series of excellent books and CDs for sale. Please let us know if you would like to purchase any. This will help to reinforce our vocabulary at home too.
Comic Relief
10th April 2019
We raised £40.06 for this very worthwhile cause. Many thanks to all who contributed and wore either their PJ’s or something red!
Mac’s Results
10th April 2019
Eilidh MacInnes who is the director of Mac’s Results will now be with us every Tuesday and Thursday to deliver innovative and fun PE sessions with our children. She will be making very good use of our outdoor environment within prime four and will be focusing on the Health and Wellbeing Experiences and Outcomes from the Curriculum for Excellence. Eilidh is a qualified personal trainer who can also provide one to one sessions (adults and children), group classes and lots of different PE sessions. The children LOVED their taster sessions this week when ALL of our toddlers and pre-schoolers were able to participate. Eilidh will also provide additional ad hoc sessions for us so that everyone has a chance to enjoy this vigorous and exciting class. To sign your child up to Macs Results please contact Eilidh at macsresults@gmail.com. We already have 39 VERY keen boys and girls signed up to get going. For more information please email Eilidh.
Drive Carefully
01st February 2019
Please always drive carefully and reverse park when in our car park. The speed limit is 5 miles per hour at all times. Many thanks.
Parent Progress Meetings
01st February 2019
This term, we will be providing parents with the opportunity to meet with Supervisors and Key Workers on a one-to-one basis to discuss your child’s individual progress. These meetings will focus on discussions around your child’s Care Plan, ILD, Learning Journey and Next Steps in Development. These will happen in March/April 2019. Dates will be sent home in due course.
Staff Training Update
01st February 2019
Individual staff will continue to attend a variety of very valuable training courses including mark making outdoors, starcatchers, where’s the maths in that, developing outdoor play zones, Makaton, outdoor numbers, safeguarding and protecting children, outdoor book bags, puppetry, intelligent materials, working with loose parts, encouraging creativity and much more. 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. The vast majority of staff have achieved and / or working towards accredited SVQ qualifications also. Kerry has also been successful in being accepted to sit on the Children’s Panel Scotland. She is currently participating in lots of (very intense) training and is able to bring back lots of additional knowledge to the nursery. We will be focusing on outdoor education this term. This is one of the main priorities within our Improvement Plan. We will keep you informed of our progress.
5K Pretty Muddy Run
01st February 2019
Some of the KingsWellies Gang are signing up to take part in the Hazlehead 5k sponsored run in June 2019. All fundraising efforts for this event will go towards Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Charities
01st February 2019
We raised £324.36 for Children In Need. We also raised £182.11 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Many thanks to all for your donations. This year we have decided to focus on Marie Curie Cancer Care as our main charity. We will be doing lots of fundraising events throughout the year to benefit them. We will also be fully involving our Pre-School Charities Committee to help us to plan our campaigns. Sadly one of our staff lost her mum to cancer at the end of last year and we would very much like to thank the Marie Curie nurses for the outstanding support that they provided during this devastating time
The Scottish Daily Mile
01st February 2019
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!
Care Inspectorate Inspection and Report – January 2019
01st February 2019
As you are aware we were inspected during a two week period in November 2018 by the Care Inspectorate. We are absolutely delighted to share our most recent Report with you. As you will see from the Report, we were awarded Grade 5 (Very Good) in ALL categories. We also have no requirements, no recommendations, and no action plan to complete. To conclude, Care Inspectorate are very pleased with our ongoing progress and are very satisfied that we have everything in place to provide you and your child with the highest quality of child care. Please however, be rest assured that we will not become complacent. I can genuinely promise all of our stakeholders that we will continue to improve and to provide you with the very best service possible. We will continue to progress as a “Sector Leading Childcare Provider” and will strive to achieve excellence throughout. Many thanks to all of our staff for their hard work and commitment to the KingsWellies Gang! Our parents, children, partners and friends are all also so very supportive! We couldn’t do it without you! Please go onto the Care Inspectorate website (http://www.careinspectorate.com) and search for 'KingsWellies' in the keyword search box, and our latest report will appear. You should've all been sent the report through your emails, but we also have hard copies in reception for you to read too! Please give us your feedback on our report. Thank you.