Below are dates for consultations with your child’s keyworker. Times will be posted outside the playrooms for you to make an appointment. This will give you the opportunity to discuss your child’s progress at nursery and raise any concerns you have.

For parents of children who will be starting school, this consultation will be to discussion your child’s transition to school, you will also be able to read and discuss their transition record before it is sent to their school.

Baby room: Tuesday 23rd April – Friday 26th April

2-3 room: Monday 29th April – Friday 3rd May

3-5 room: Monday 13th May -Friday 17th

Monday 20th May – Thursday 23rd May

Tuesday 28th May – Friday 31st May

This week in nursery will be a bit quieter than usual with it being the Spring Break, However our staff have continued to plan very exciting experiences including taking advantage of the nicer weather which has appeared and spending time in the garden, in the forest and going for walks around the local area!!!

Thursday: Today we welcome our new member of staff; Sharon Harkin. Sharon joins us from Clyde Valley Kindergarten and will be working as Julie’s job sharer with the Blue Group in the 3-5 room. Welcome to the Ballerup family!!!

Daffodil Tea

To welcome Spring we will be having a daffodil tea on Thursday 18th April; You are invited to join our tea party and listen to your children’s beautiful singing voices performing a selection of Spring and Easter songs and rhymes.

We will have a tea at 10.30am and one at 2pm. Each family is allocated two tickets; please let us know if you will not need all tickets as we will ballot them for people who would like extra. If your child is in all day please let Tammy, Amanda or Kerry know which tea you would like to attend.

In keeping with the theme we would very much appreciate a donation of daffodils from each family on the day for us to give to our friends at Rosaburn Care Home and also to people In the local community.

There will also be raffle tickets on sale for a few special prizes to help raise money for nursery funds.

A wee quiet week…

Monday: 2pm-3pm: ‘Grandbuddies’ continue at Roasburn with Kerry and Nicolle!!!

Wednesday: 11.30am and 2.30pm – Kirsty from Greenhills library will be in to deliver some book bug sessions, all parents/carers are welcome to come and join us!!!

*Also remember the lending library is always available in the main hallway for your child to choose a book to take home and share with you and your family*

Friday: Term Time only children will finish at 2.30pm.

*ALL TERM TIME CHILDREN WILL BE OFF NURSERY FOR TWO WEEKS FROM FRIDAY, THEY WILL RETURN WEEK BEGINNING 15TH APRIL… HAVE A LOVELY SPRING BREAK!!!*

What’s on this week….

Monday: Our new early years worker; Sharon, will be visiting the nursery today before she starts in Ballerup in a few weeks time, everyone is looking forward to meeting her!!!

Tuesday: 9.30am – More muddy fun at ‘Forest Adventures’ with Julie and Jessica!!!

Wednesday:

Our lending library is available for all children, feel free to borrow a book to read with your child at home!!! 

Thursday: 10.30am – Our ‘Grandbuddies’ project continues at Rosaburn. The children have been having a lovely time visiting the resident in the care home and look forward to going every week to see their new ‘buddies’!

*Thank you so much to everyone that handed in yummy home baking last Wednesday and Friday for our bake sale. The children all had great fun wearing red, having their noses painted and of course eating yummy cakes. A special thank you also goes to Amy from the Sunflower room who baked cakes for her mum to sell at work and has given the money to us to add to our grand total, WELL DONE AMY!!!*

OUR GRAND TOTAL RAISED FOR COMIC RELIEF IS… £250!!!!  

Due to this week’s Stormy weather and a weather warning in place for the end of the week, we feel it would be best to reschedule our garden tidy day. Our new date for this is Saturday 11th May… All help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Monday: 2pm-3pm – We continue our ‘Grandbuddies’ project at Rosaburn Care Home.

Tuesday: 9.30am – Muddy fun continues at ‘Forest Adventures’ with Julie.

Wednesday: Our local librarian is coming in today to do some book bug sessions with the children at 11.30am and 2.30pm… All parents/carers are invited along too!!!

Wednesday and Friday:  RED NOSE DAY!!!  

– There will be a bake sale taking place in the main foyer each day to raise money for comic relief… Please come along and buy some yummy cakes!!!

– We are also having a ‘WEAR IT RED DAY’ on both days… children are encouraged to wear something red and make a donation to comic relief!!!

 *Any donations of home baking would be greatly appreciated*  

*Thank you so much to our parents; Donna, Laura and Kirsty  who came in on World Book Day to read stories to our children. Also thank you to everyone for dressing in their pyjamas and bringing their favourite stories to share with us… Everyone had a lovely day*

Saturday 16th: Garden Tidy Day – All children and their families are invited along from 10am-2pm to help us tidy our garden and get it ready for the Spring! There will be some activities available to keep the children interested and busy and we also be having a fun Easter Egg hunt… EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!!

Tuesday: 9.30am – Lots of muddy fun to be had at Forest adventures with Julie and Jessica!!!

Tuesday: 2.30pm – Our  ‘Grandbuddies’ project continues at Rosaburn Care home!!!

Wednesday: 11.15am – 3-5’s book bug session… All parents/carers are welcome to come along and join in.

Wednesday: The lending library will also be available for your child to choose a book to take home and enjoy together!!!

Thursday: WORLD BOOK DAY – To celebrate world book day we are having a ‘Jammy Day’; children can come to nursery wearing their pyjamas and bring their favourite book along to share with their friends.

We would also love volunteers to come along and read some stories to small groups of children… If you would be interested in this please speak to Tammy, Amanda or Kerry.

*Can you please ensure your child has a bag in nursery with spare clothes, we are running low on our spare supply*

HAVE A LOVELY WEEK!!!