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This week and next week at Hazeldene…

We have had an exciting week at Hazeldene taking part in lots of activities around our “Jolly Postman” book study. Some children even took part in a very special Japanese tea ceremony with Ethan’s mummy today, as the Jolly Postman loves to have a cup of tea!

Next week, due to popular demand, we will begin reading the Jolly Christmas Postman…

Children have started to learn the songs for our Christmas concerts, please help your child to practice at home with their song sheet. Each child may invite two guests to attend the concert and don’t forget to save your pennies for the Christmas market stalls! The dates of the concerts and Christmas parties are as follows:


Date What’s on AM What’s on PM
Tue 10th December Blue Groups
Blue Room 9.30-10.15
Green Room 10.45-11.30		 Blue Groups
Blue Room 1.00-1.45
Green Room 2.00-2.45
Wed 11th December Green Group
Blue Room 9.30-10.15
Green Room 10.45-11.30		 Green Group
Blue Room 1.00-1.45
Green Room 2.00-2.45
Thu 12th December Red Group
Blue Room 9.30-10.15
Green Room 10.45-11.30		 Red Group
Blue Room 1.00-1.45
Green Room 2.00-2.45
Fri 13th December Yellow Group
Blue Room 9.30-10.15
Green Room 10.45-11.30		 Yellow Group
Blue Room 1.00-1.45
Green Room 2.00-2.45
Wed 18th December Blue Room Party Blue Room Party
Thu 19th December Green Room Party Green Room Party
Friday 20th December School Closes 2.30

Don’t forget children may wear a touch of tartan tomorrow for our St. Andrew’s Day celebrations! Children will be ceilidh dancing and enjoying oatcakes and cheese for snack.

This Week’s News

  • Tomorrow we say ‘goodbye’ to Mrs. Gladstone who has decided to resign and spend a bit more time enjoying life ….. holidaying with her husband…. and spending  more time with family and friends! Elspeth has been a very loyal member of staff and a very active member of the Parent/Staff Committee. She has been at Hazeldene for over  11 years, initially as a Pupil Support Assistant, but changing roles  in August 2005. We thank her for the wonderful support she has given the school, and especially over the last 8 years as Clerical Assistant.

  • Thank you to Mrs Stewart and Mrs Hemphill for leading us to achieve Bronze Family Friendly Accreditation. (We are the first nursery in East Renfrewshire to gain this).

  • Wow!! Our Pudsey Pyjama Party raised £414 for Children in Need, thank you to all. Mrs Moore met Pudsey and told him our good news.

Marie Curie Mini Pots of Care

The nursery has involved the children in supporting the work of Marie Curie Cancer Care. We have recently taken a delivery of daffodil bulbs and pots. The children will each plant a bulb in a pot and will take them home to care for them until they flower in spring time. They will then be asked to bring them in and talk about how they have cared for them and show how they have grown and hopefully flowered! This project is linked to our development of citizenship skills and an awareness of caring for others.

The nursery school will provide a donation of £100 to Marie Curie Cancer Care. We will also send home a donation leaflet with each child’s mini pot if anyone feels they wish to add a further donation. So good luck, and we will look forward to seeing the fruits of your child’s hard work and caring in the spring.

We are all great fundraisers at Hazeldene Nursery. Make sure you haven’t missed the previous blog post about our Pudsey Pyjama Party for Children in Need this Friday.

Next week at nursery

Our Pre-School parent information meetings will be taking place. Please ensure you have made an appointment on the sheet in the corridor to discuss your child’s progress. Our ante-pre school meetings are due to take place on the week beginning the 18th of November.

Our Hallowe’en celebrations will take place on Thursday 31st October. We will be dooking for apples, singing Hallowe’en songs and hearing Hallowe’en stories. Each child can have a small hand painting done (if you do not wish this, let staff know) Please remember we do not dress up in fancy dress or wear masks. Instead children and staff are invited to wear something black or orange (e.g. t-shirt, trousers, tights, or hairband), thank you.

It’s been a busy week!

Welcome back to nursery, we hope you all had a wonderful October break. There has been lots going on at Hazeldene this week…

  • The Pre-Schoolers have all had their vision screening checks.

  • The children have been voting for names beginning with “B” for the twin bears who will be coming home with a different pre-school child each day. Watch this space to find out their names!

  • Today our Tea, Talk and Topic / Coffee and Chat sessions will be taking place at 10.45am and 2.30pm. Topics for discussion will include, going forward for our Family Friendly Award, Parents’ Commitee, recruiting Santa’s Helpers and in the afternoon the Nursery Psychologist will share information on children’s behaviour. We hope you will join us to meet other parents, share suggestions and ideas and have any questions answered.

Parent/Staff Committee

Our Parent/Staff committee have decided to amalgamate with the parent and carer Tea, Talk and Topic sessions, rather than hold evening meetings, as feedback showed that people were finding these difficult to attend.

The committee’s plans include inviting parents to volunteer as helpers to support events and fundraising. In October – December we will be looking for “Christmas Elf Helpers”, in January – March we will be looking for helpers for social events and in March – June we will be asking for “Celebration Friends”

More infomation to follow….