Pre-School's first newsletter of 2023!

Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.

Notes from the management team - our Directors Nicki and Tracey and our Manager Poonam and Deputy Manager Jeanna: Firstly, happy new year! We hope you had a lovely Christmas break and looking forward to 2023 whatever it may bring us. We would like to say thank to everyone who gave us and our team gifts for Christmas. Our team work extremely hard and we can tell they really appreciated the thought. At the end of 2022, we sadly had to say goodbye to Tavnish, a change in circumstance meant she had to leave us. Lucy will be taking over her key children and will be introducing herself throughout January.

Moving into 2023, we can feel the excitement in the air for lots of new learning, activities and Parent in Partnership sessions - if you have any suggestions of activities or something you may like to come in and do with the children, let us know and we can see if we can make it happen.

A few reminders and notes:  If there is something concerning you or you wish to have a catch up with your child’s keyperson

about their development - please book in an appointment with your room leader and come in for a chat.  If your child is due to go to reception class this year

- You have until the 15th January 2023 to apply for Reception Class 2023: When can my child start school? | Primary School Admissions | London Borough of Hounslow . Any child born between 01/09/2018 - 31/08/2019 - this applies to you!  

If you have changed your home address, email address or primary contact number - please remember to change this with us. It is important to keep you contact details up to date.

If you are going to be absent from pre-school for whatever reason - even if it is one day, please make contact with us via email, text, phone call or registering it on ParentMail. It is important for the setting to know how many children we will be expecting.

Reminders:

Term dates and closures: Please see your copy of the term dates:



Please ensure all coats, hats and gloves have your child’s initials in them so that they are not misplaced or go home in with the wrong person. We cannot take and responsibility for items going missing or going home with the wrong family.



All coats must now be warm and thick to make sure all weathers are covered. Please ensure shoes are comfortable, fit well and are covered in i.e no crocs or sandals.



Please ensure all children’s nails are trimmed - this is to prevent accidents from happening to your child and others.



Please note that all personal holidays must be taken in the school holidays. We will be attaching our attendance policy which outlines how taking holiday during term time can affect your funding.



If you child will not be in for any reason, please make sure you contact us to inform us as to why.

We will be closed on Monday 13th February for 1 week.

We will re-open on Monday 20th February.

Birthday’s for the month of January: Children: Happy birthday 3rd to Amelia M, Julia, Eman, Amelia R and Htet!

Staff: Happy birthday to Roshelle!

We hope everyone has a lovely day!

Harvard Park Pre- School LTD.

Notes from your Pre-School Teachers: Jeanna, Roshelle, Lara, Lucy, Cathy and Rhea: Happy new year, we hope you had a lovely Christmas break and are looking froward to 2023! Our next 6 week learning plan is looking like this: Week 1 (3rd to 6th Jan): Winter - We will be looking at the change of weather and temperature as well as what we should wear and what activities we can do in the winter time. We will also be setting new targets for your child this week - so make sure you have a look for them on the EyLog to support your child’s learning at home.

Week 2 (9th to 15th Jan): Hibernation with our focus story being Owl Babies by Martin Waddell We will be looing at nocturnal animals as well as what hibernation means for our older children. We will be using the story above to help support this learning ang encourage you to read or look at the book outside of nursery.

Week 3 (16th to 20th Jan): Day and Night and Chinese New Year - Year of the Rabbit This week we will be looking at routines and the differences we have when we are at pre-school and at home, for example the difference in activities or bed times. We will also look at the sun and the moon (which will follow nicely into next week). We will also be celebrating Chinese new Year with activities and food tasting!

Week 4 (23rd to 27th Jan) and Week 5 (30th to 3rd Feb): Space - We will be exploring everything to do with space! It is a topic the children gain so much from so we are spreading it across the next 2 weeks. We will have role play by creating our own space station, looking at the planets and learning their names, introducing new vocabulary and of course looking at the possibility of aliens and maybe even creating our own!

We will also be running a space project during these 2 weeks and would like to encourage you to create something space related such as a rocket or your own planet. It can be as simple as a drawing with paper and crayons or paper mâché, you decide! We will send you a reminder and closure date closer to the time.

Week 6 (6th to 10th Feb): Valentines day and Emotions - This week we will be creating our 6 weeks summaries and checking in with your child’s development. We will also be exploring the celebration of Valentines day with a range of creative activities and exploring emotions such as happiness, love and sadness to help children learn how to deal with these as well as identify them.

Please upload pictures to the EyLog - thank you to Bennett, Ava, Tamika and Tawana, Julia and Yusuf’s parents who do this regularly - We would love to see more parents contributing to their child’s learning journals and will be checking in with you to see if you know how to do this.

Reminders: 

Coats, Hats and Gloves: As the weather is forever changing please start to provide warm coats as well as hats and gloves for winter. We do not have spares on site so please provide them and write your child’s name in the label.



Birthdays and celebrations: Can we please remind you that fresh cream cakes are a no no. Simple character cakes, cupcakes or tray bakes from a supermarket are sufficient. There is less waste and children prefer them. Party bags - we would like to discourage you from providing party bags and suggest that fruit snacks or small books as gifts are a much better and healthier choice. There are more benefits in a book or a piece of fruit.



Forest School: Forest school will be rolling out again this year starting this week. All children will have the opportunity to attend so look out for your email!



Parent’s in Partnerships will be making a come back - we will be inviting parents to join us at some stage so please be patient while we figure out our plan of action for the year. Please be assured that everyone will get to have a turn and come in.