Hello everyone
Despite the shorter week this week, we have been very busy here at Netherlee Nursery. The children have been enjoying splashing in puddles, developing their mark making skills within role play and have practised their motor skills while climbing, sliding and riding on the bikes and scooters.
Our Stay and Play sessions have been a great success this week! Our children and staff loved welcoming lots of parents and carers to our nursery. Please be reminded that we are offering two extra sessions to those who did not manage to attend on Friday 30th September and Monday 3rd October. Please get in contact should you wish to arrange a suitable date/time.
Forest Adventures
Next week, we will be starting Forest Adventures with our pre-school children. Children and staff from both buildings will explore Linn Park and take part in lots of fun outdoor play experiences. We are incredibly lucky here to have such a wonderful outdoor space on our doorstep! It would be very helpful if wellies can be brought to nursery each day for outdoor play experiences- thank you.
Care Inspectorate: Choking Hazards
Care Inspectorate offer advice to parents on potential choking hazards:
- boiled sweets
- chocolate eggs with small toys inside
- raw carrots
- popcorn
- nuts (whole peanuts should be avoided until the age of 5)
- sweet items such as mini eggs and raw jelly cubes
- If providing grapes or cherry tomatoes, please quarter them.
Recycling Items
As stated in last week’s Friday bundle, the nursery are on the hunt for donations of any pre-loved items that you would otherwise have thrown away. Each week in our Friday bundle email we will highlight any items we are looking for to enhance the children’s play experiences. This week we would gratefully receive:
Role Play Items:
Old catalogues or brochures
Hats
Scarves
Old jewellery
Old phones
Introducing Netherlee’s NEW Chatter Café (Wednesday 5th October 9.15- 10am)
We always strive to have excellent ways for you to get in touch with us and we have therefore introduced termly drop in sessions for any parent from nursery or school who would like to pop in for a coffee and chat with the Leadership Team. Some of our pupils would love to serve you a juice or a coffee/ tea and there may even be some of their delicious baking there too. This is a very informal opportunity to chat to us. You maybe have an idea or a suggestion on any aspect of Netherlee life or you may have concerns or looking for some advice. Our PTA will also be with us so you can find out about the PTA or volunteering in school and nursery too or even if you just fancy a quick coffee and a chat with some other parents! We will also have the recycled uniform rails available to browse as well. We look forward to welcoming anyone who has a spare few minutes on the date and time above.
Gardening and Cooking
Our school gardening and cooking exploits have hit the ground running this term and we are very grateful to a number of businesses for providing us with their invaluable support, providing us with both kind donations and materials. A big thank you must go to Robert Findlay Stone Masons, Greensleeves, Ocean Plastic Pots and Kilduff Farm. We are all very appreciative.
Save A Life Day
Many of you will be aware that we have held very successful and enjoyable Save a Life Scotland events in previous sessions, aimed at equipping our children with basic cardiac resuscitation (CPR) skills. Save a Life Scotland supports the training of people of all ages in “bystander CPR” techniques, which can make a vital difference in emergency situations. We now plan to reintroduce this as an annual event. This year’s Save a Life Scotland Day will take place on Friday 7th October. Once again, it will be led by one of our parents (a consultant in emergency medicine) and a team of fully-trained NHS professionals; we are deeply grateful to them for their dedication and expertise.
We are delighted that our nursery children will also have the opportunity to take part in this event too, led by some of our senior pupils, who will be able to share their learning from their training that day. Nursery children do not need to bring in any soft toy though. You can find more information about Save a Life Scotland on the website. http://www.savealife.scot/
Whilst we feel that these skills are important for our children to experience and develop, we also recognise that some of our children may potentially, for personal reasons, find this activity upsetting. If you therefore wish to discuss this in relation to your own child, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us so that we can help and work this out together.
Yvonne Donaldson (HT) and Jennifer McCann (PT)
Netherlee Primary School & Nursery Class
