A letter from the fairies of Cults forest

The  nursery children went to visit the forest this week. When they arrived in the forest, they discovered a letter from a fairy called Twinkletoe. She told the children that it had been very windy in the forest and that the fairy houses had been destroyed! She asked the children if they would be able to help to build new homes for the fairies. The children really wanted to help and so they collected lots of sticks, branches, stones, leaves and pieces of moss and they started to build. The children worked in pairs and in small groups to create their own fairy houses. They had some fantastic ideas and the houses looked amazing! The children used their imaginations and problem solving skills to help them to construct the houses. They also demonstrated excellent cooperation skills. They were able to listen to other children’s ideas and worked together as part of a team.

We would like to say a big thank you to all of the parent helpers who were able to join us in the forest this week. The children had a lovely time in the forest (despite the snow) and we look forward to our next forest sessions on the 16th and 17th of March.

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Interactive Learning Diary Support

Mrs Duncan will be available on Thursday 10th March to provide support to parents who are not managing to access the interactive learning diaries.  This will take place at nursery between 8.30 – 9am for the morning session, and 12.25-12.55 for the afternoon session.

Please ensure you have shared your problems logging on with a member of the nursery team before attending.  This will enable Mrs Duncan to have time to investigate.  Letters of registration must be taken to the help session.

Many thanks.

Polite reminder of nursery sickness policy

Please remember that Cults Nursery operates a strict policy for children returning to nursery after episodes of vomiting and diarrhoea.  Children are not able to return to nursery until 48 hours after the last sickness or diarrhoea episode.  For example, if a child was sick at 9am on Monday morning, he or she would not be able to return to nursery until the Wednesday pm session or the Thursday am session at the earliest.

These policies follow the guidance of Aberdeen City Council and are designed to curb the spread of infections.  As you can imagine, germs spread quickly in nursery.  Please help us keep our nursery staff and children healthy by ensuring you follow this policy.

Many thanks for your support.

Policy of the month – online trial

We are going to be trialling using the Blog to share our policies of the month.  This will replace the  paper copies of policies that we have previously used in nursery.  We hope that this will allow all parents more time to read the policy whilst reducing unnecessary paper waste.  We would strongly welcome your thoughts on using the Blog to share the policies – please share your feedback by replying to this comment.