Cara Playroom Parent Consultation Meeting Appointment Planners are available at the registers for each coloured group. If you have not yet chosen an appointment time – please speak to your child’s keyworker asap.
Dates are as follows:
Red Group – Thursday 7th May
Blue Group – Friday 8th May
Yellow Group – Tuesday 12th May
If your date doesn’t suit – we have added another date on Thursday 14th May.
Please ensure you organise a date for consultation.
Brian and Morag McCormick from Photo Magic will be visiting Isobel Mair Family Centre on Wednesday 6th May to take photographs of your child(ren).
Photo Magic is a fun, family friendly mobile photographic studio specialising in children’s and families’ portraits. Photo Magic have put together a special package for IMFC which includes a variety of photos at a cost of £27.00. A contribution is also made to the Family Centre Toy Fund.
Parents are under no obligation to purchase the portraits. If you do not wish to make a purchase – just let Donna know.
We ask parents not to remove the photos from the Family Centre until payment has been made.
Please note: it is preferable if the children did not wear white or very pale colours. Stronger colours produce much more vibrant results against the white background used.
Miss Dewhurst and Miss McNeill have supported the children’s interest in this area and helped learning to develop in response to children’s ideas.
The children have planned some great ideas and all sorts of fun learning experiences are taking place within the centre.
The children have made a large ‘healthy smile’ from recycled materials and modroc. The children are using the SMART board to learn about dental decay and have been using laminated teeth with dirty spots to extend this further!
Miss Dewhurst contacted our Childsmile oral health promoter, Debbie Wilson to arrange for the children to have use of some dental role play resources.
Have a look and let us know your thoughts about the learning taking place…..
Some parents will remember our Lending Library last year. This ran really well for a month or so – then had to come to an end as books and library bags were not being returned to the FC. At the time, we only had approximately 25 bags to go around all children over morning and afternoon session.
Parents commented very favourably on the lending library and a lot were sad to see it come to an end. We have listened to your views and invested some Toy Fund money into the purchase of 100 library bags. We can now provide every child in the FC with their own individual bag.
The library bag will belong to your child until the end of term.
Children will be encouraged to choose their 1st library book from the lending library on Tuesday 3rd February. We ask that you ensure the book is taken good care of and does not come back to the FC torn or drawn on.
When the book is returned (every Tuesday) your child will be able to choose another book. If you forget to return the book on a Tuesday – your child will have to wait until the following Tuesday to pick a new book.
Miss McNeill is leading the Lending Library so if in doubt, just give Zoe a shout!
Today we wore our Christmas themed jumpers to help raise awareness and help to transform lives around the world – from children caught up in conflict in countries like Syria, to families living in the shadow of the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
We have collected just over £100.00 for the charity and we will let you know the grand total as soon as all donations are collected.
All returning children are now back with us and are settling back in to the nursery routine.
Our new children, for the most part joined us last week and they are being supported by staff on a daily basis as required to ensure quick and secure settling.
More new children are due to start over the coming weeks.
For all parents and carers – we ask that if you have any queries, comments or concerns about settling your child in to the Family Centre (or any other general queries) please come and ask.
Although you will quickly come to see the nursery is a very busy place we ALWAYS have time to speak to you.
