Hi Everyone

We’re really looking forward to sending home your child’s Special Book next week. Our Special Books are a really valuable way of sharing your child’s learning story across their time at nursery. We hope you thoroughly enjoy looking at the book together. We ask that you also update your child’s ‘Personal Care Plan’ (in Special Book) where needed, and then return the book to us. For children returning to nursery in August, these books will then continue to be added to by the children themselves and also their keyworker and staff. For children leaving nursery to start P1, Special Books are an important and very useful tool in our “transition to school” processes and these will be shared and discussed with your child’s new P1 teacher. These will then, once again, continue to be added to in P1.

We ask that, when dropping off or collecting your child from the Saplings building, you continue to only use the gate beside the Saplings building please. The gate beside the Acorns building is only for dropping off or collecting from that building. We respectfully ask you to remind any other adults involved in the drop off or collection of your child from nursery of these procedures as they should not be in the school grounds or crossing playgrounds during the nursery or school day. Many thanks for your help, support and understanding with this safety measure.

This week lots of children (and staff!) have had so much fun splashing in puddles or playing with the taps and this resulted in wet feet and therefore us having no spare socks! If you have any spare socks that we could use for changing children we’d really appreciate these. We would also be very grateful if you could please continue to put spare clothing in your child’s bag every day, as we often need to change wet, muddy or painted clothing. Thank you once again for your help with this too.

We hope you have a lovely weekend getting out and about with your family.

Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Angela Kerr (PT)