Spring Newsletter 2020
The Jays Day Care Nursery • May 11, 2020
Dear Parents/Carers
Welcome back to a new term at The Jays. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we wish you all a happy and prosperous new year.
Welcome
We would like to welcome Laila, Penny and Reuben. We hope they are settling in well and enjoying nursery life. We have also welcomed back Jo who has taken on a role working with the children – a bit different to her office life!
Questionnaire
We have sent out questionnaire’s as your opinion and input is important to us. If you haven’t already completed your questionnaire, please could you let us have them back by 14.2.20. You can find more copies in the lobby area.
Many Thanks.
Photographs
Please note, if your child is not
in any photo’s on Facebook it is
purely as we do our best not to
show faces and sometimes your
child may be in one that we
cannot publish.
Forest School
Forest School is going very well and the children are enjoying building dens, toasting food on the campfire, using tools, exploring the forest and being very creative.
Don’t forget you can find us on Facebook under The Jays Day Care Nursery, Pre-school and Forest School. We try to update it regularly with news of what your children have been doing at Nursery. It is also a great way of receiving important information i.e. should nursery need to open late or close due to bad weather.
If you are happy with your childcare, please do recommend us on Facebook or Google. If not, please do come and talk to us and we can try to put it right.
Beach School
Beach School is also very popular and the children are
having fun rock pooling, building structures, cooking as
well as learning about the environment, climate change
and safety on the beach. Do look at Facebook and your Tapestry accounts for more detail and some lovely photographs and see what they have been getting up to. Lots of fun!
Forest School and Beach School are open to children in the Pre-School Room. Sessions are fully booked at the moment but if you are interested in your child taking part, please do let us know and we will add them to the waiting list.
Illness/Sickness
If your child is ill please do not bring them in. If they are
suffering from sickness or diarrhoea our policy is that
they are not to return until 48 hours after their last bout.
Many thanks for your cooperation in this matter.
Help Paying For Childcare
To find out if you can get help with your childcare costs
please visit the childcare choices website https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ You may be eligible for Tax Free Childcare, 2 year old funding, 3 and 4 year old funding, help through Tax Credits/Universal Credit or Childcare support whilst you study. Do take a look now.
Fundraising - Outdoor Learning Space
Many thanks to all of you who have helped raise money for our outdoor learning space. We have raised £287 so far! If you are not already signed up to help, please do take a look – through easyfundraising you can help us raise funds simply by doing your everyday online shopping with over 3,300 big name retailers like Amazon, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com, eBay, Boden, and M&S.
Every time you shop, we receive a small donation to say ‘thank you’ and it’s completely free too! We want to raise as much as possible so please sign up and help us at https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/jaysdaycare/ We would also like to thank the parents who have given private donations. We have put this towards buying some outdoor learning resources such as bikes, steppingstones, mud kitchen resources etc. that all the children will benefit from. Work is on-going in the front garden. Apologies for the inconvenience. Can’t wait for it all to be finished.
Creative Workshop
Hazel is busy developing the children’s Music, Dance and
Drama skills. You will get to see them in action on 26th
March performing from the book ‘Be Brave Little Penguin’ – further information to follow. Do take a look at Tapestry and Facebook for pictures and information and also see the wonderful display Hazel creates each week with your children’s work, that can be seen in our lobby.
Sports Relief
Send you children along in their sporty clothes ready to join in with our sporty theme this week. We will be doing lots of physical activities in support of sport relief. A donation pot will be in the reception area outside the office.
Children In Need
What a great time we had when Pudsey came to visit. Everyone loved him and were very sad when he had to go home. A big thank you to his organisers for letting him visit. Hopefully we will see him again next year. We managed to raise £85 Many thanks to everyone for supporting this event.
In The Moment Planning
The nursery is in full swing with ‘In the moment’. Each child will be a focus child for a week each half term. You, as parents, will be part of this type of planning. By supplying us with your child’s interests at home and things they may have seen or been involved in i.e. weddings, holidays, visits from family, photo’s etc. it will help us prepare the different rooms to meet the needs and interests of your child. Should you wish to know more about this way of planning, please ask your child’s keyworker or other member of staff.
Dates For Your Diary
Monday 17th – Friday 21st February
Half term for Term Time only children
Monday 4th – Friday 6th March
World Book Week Dressing up
Monday 9th – Friday 13th March
Sport Relief Week
Thursday 26th March
Be Brave Little Penguin
Friday 27th March 2020
End of Term for Term Time only children
Friday 10th April 2020
Good Friday - CLOSED
Monday 13th April 2020
Easter Monday - CLOSED
Tuesday 14th April 2020
First day of Summer Term for Term Time only children
Friday 8th May 2020
Closed - Bank Holiday
Monday 25th – Friday 29th May 2020
Half Term for Term Time only children
Monday 25th May 2020
Closed - Bank Holiday
Friday 10th July 2020
Tea Party
Monday 20th July 2020
Last Day of Term for Term Time only children
IN THE MOMENT PLANNING AND MESSY PLAY
Welcome to the Spring and Summer Newsletter. As we head into the Summer Term it was clear time had run out for our Spring Newsletter so we have amalgamated the two together.
We hope you have all had a lovely summer and made the most of the sunshine although it was a little while ago now.
Welcome to the Summer Term and let us hope for some lovely weather over the coming months! Apologies for the absence of our Spring Newsletter but it has been a very busy time here at the Nursery.
We hope you have all had a lovely summer and made the most of the sunshine although it was a little while ago now.
Welcome to the Summer Term and let us hope for some lovely weather over the coming months!
Welcome back to a new term at The Jays. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and we hope the year ahead brings some sort of normality. We have had some lovely new children and their families join us. We would like to welcome Jemima, Matthew, Poppy, Austin, James P, Hanna, Arthur, Tommy, Charles, Benjamin and Toby. We hope everyone has settled/settles well and enjoys nursery life. We would also like to welcome some new staff. Danéll has been with us a few weeks and you may already have met her. The children love her already. We would also like to introduce Jack and Heather who you will meet over the coming weeks. We have realised that with the new regime regarding pick-up and drop off it is not quite so easy to introduce new staff. Apologies for this, we will endeavour to introduce them to you at the door once they have settled in. We feel sure they will fit in well with our lovely team of staff. Lydia and Clare are settling into their new role of Deputy to Jacqui and Gill is happily plodding on in her role in the office.
We hope you have all had a lovely summer and made the most of the sunshine. Welcome back to our term time children and those who haven’t attended for a while. For some of you it has been an extended break! We hope you are all well rested and ready to face a new term and the new ‘normal’ here at The Jays.
Welcome to the Summer Newsletter. First and foremost, we would like to say a very big THANK YOU to all our parents for being so understanding and supportive through this extremely difficult time. We would also like to give a big THANK YOU to all our staff too. To those coming into work and carrying on and going above and beyond and to those who are unable to come into work but are keeping in touch with parents and with the team here. Both situations bring their own challenges. We are missing seeing everyone and can’t wait to see our little ones and staff team back here and get back to being our Jays family
We put together this video clip for all our children who couldn't come to Nursery/Pre-School during the corona virus pandemic. We hope you like it