Day Nursery's October Newsletter - Feltham Branch

Harvard Park Day Nursery LTD.

Notes from the management team: Nicki, Tracey and our deputy manager Carol We would like to welcome all of our new children into our Harvard Park Family! We are excited to support you in your first steps with education and feel extremely proud you have chosen us. Our newsletter will be sent out monthly and highlights point we feel you need to know from what is happening in your child’s room to any health and safety issues we have identified. You can find this in your personal inbox, via the EyLog and ParentMail as well as on our Facebook Page. We will also be attaching a policy every month for you to read through at your own leisure.

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Simran from the Baby Studio has now left Harvard Park to start her new career and we wish her all the best. We would like to welcome back Gemma and Jai officially to the team. We have had a few changes among staff in the room. Please see the bottom of the page.

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For those of you who have been misinformed about the toy library in Hounslow - this is currently not open due to lack of staff. We would like to signpost you to the Family Directory Services Page : https://fsd.hounslow.gov.uk/SynergyWeb/ Here you can find timetables for local classes, activities and ideas for you to do as a family as well as any support with other agencies you may need.

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Reception applications are now open and must be completed online: https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/ info/20028/primary_admissions/1906/primary_school_admissions - for children who were born between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018. If you need support or guidance, please let us know and we will try to help the best we can.

A note about the EyLog and the changes: Thank you to those parents who are regularly supporting their child’s development by sending photo’s and video’s through the EyLog - keep up the great work.

For those of you who have not sent anything through or may need some help - ask for us at the door and we will be happy to spare 5 minutes to show you how to access the app! Over the next few weeks all of our staff will be setting tasks and homework for you to be working on at home over the weekends.

We are looking for staff members to join our team: Do you know anyone who holds a Level 3 qualification in childcare and is looking for a job?

Do you know anyone who is looking for some flexible working hours to help us out with covering different shifts?

Do you know anyone who maybe wanting to start an apprenticeship in childcare care?

If you do get them to send us an email: info@harvardparkdaynursery.com or call us on 0208 890 3175

Covid Updates and Dates for you diary: • Photographer dates: Baby Studio and Small Steps is on Wednesday 27th October and Freedom Zone is on Thursday 28th October - if you do not attend on these days but want to be involved, speak to your room leaders or send us an email!

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Friday 29th October - Harvard’s Halloween Party for all rooms! Dress up and join in with some spooky activities and Halloween fun!

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Any child prescribed anti-biotics needs to be on them for 48 hrs before they return to nursery. We will turn you away if they have only just received this - it is in our policy which we have attached.

Room Changes:

Birthdays for the month of October:

As Simran has left Baby Studio, Amanda will take on the Room Leader role and Afsha will move into this room from Small Steps.

Baby Studio: Happy 1st birthday to Shivin!

Harriet will now be in Small steps supporting them.

Small Steps: Happy 2nd birthday to Kaiyan and Isaiah!

Freedom Zone: Happy 3rd birthday to Arjun!

Happy 4th birthday to Hana, Aliya and Shruthi!

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Notes from Baby Studio: Ducklings - Amanda, Mary, Afsha and Martina: Focus: Physical, Social and Emotional Development - PSED Firstly, we would like to welcome Afsha from Small Steps, Dylan, Jordan and Arnav to our room and say goodbye to Rishaan and his family who will be leaving us soon as they are moving! We also would like to say goobye to Aayra, Aryan and Albie who are all moving up to Small Steps! We will be using this time to focus on our personal social and emotional development through lot’s of one to one and small group activities to help settle in the new children and form friendships and bonds. To help support us with this learning at home, make sure you are getting out and about daily on walks, meet up with friends or family and allow your baby to explore the outside world.

Reminders: 

Please fold down your buggies when dropping off at the front door - if you are working from home or live locally, please take your pushchair away with you.

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Please ensure you are thoroughly washing all of your bottles when you get home, we only rinse them.

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The weather is changing - please make sure you are bringing in a coat/thick jacket and shoes so we can continue to go out on regular walks and get our daily dose of fresh air.

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For health and safety reasons, please keep your babies nails short. If you are struggling to cut them, try while they are asleep - it is to protect your baby and others.

Target @ home : Send pictures of all the fun things you get up to at home - thank you to those parent who are doing this regularly!

Notes from Small Steps: Bunnies - Qani, Paulina, Gurpreet, Harriet and Sonia Focus: All about me to support Personal Social and Emotional Development (PSED) Firstly we would like to welcome Albie, Aayra and Aryan to our room along with Harriet from Freedom Zone! We would like to say a number of goodbye's - to Asfha who will now be in the Baby Studio, to Freja, Oliver, Zara and Alice who are moving up into Freedom Zone and to Kaiyan and Keith who will be leaving us this month!

Our topic is to help those who are still settling into our room as well as to support the children with their developing sense of self. To support this we will use our family albums to encourage the children to use their labelling language as well as plan individually for each child and their interests. Our 6 weeks settling period is coming to an end so we will begin to set homework for you to do at home to support your child’s learning at the nursery. We will use this month to focus on their personal, social and emotional development alongside Halloween activities towards the end of the month.

Reminders: Please be patient at the gate: We know you are eager to get home and start your home time routine however we do have feedback to give, children to get ready and look after children who are still in our care. Please be patient with us.

Buggies: We are no longer accepting any buggies - please take them home with you after drop off. The buggy spaces in the lobby are reserved for the Baby Studio.

The weather is changing - please make sure you are bringing in a coat/thick jacket and shoes so we can continue to go out on regular walks and get our daily dose of fresh air. Please also make sure that their outfits are also reflective of the weather - no thin summer dresses or shorts.

Dates for you diary and reminders: •

If your child has had their 2 year old check via phone or a video call, please let us know and share your paperwork with us! If you have an appointment booked please also let us know.

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Any child prescribed anti-biotics needs to be on them for 48 hrs before they return to nursery. We will turn you away if they have only just received this - it is in our policy which we have attached.

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Photographer dates: Baby Studio and Small Steps is on Wednesday 27th October - if you do not attend on this day but want to be involved, speak to your room leaders or send us an email! Friday 29th October - Harvard’s Halloween Party for all rooms!

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Notes from Freedom Zone: Cool Cats - Viviana, Charlotte, Sam, Sherry, Ellie, Nabila, Saptati and Danielle Focus: Autumn and expanding our speech and language!

Firstly we would like to welcome all our new children from Small Steps and those who are new to the setting into our room - we so excited for you to share your education journey with us! Can we please ask that all coats, hats, scarves and gloves are labelled clearly with your child’s initials - we have children who are bringing in the same coats in the same sizes and to avoid disappointment or taking the wrong one home, please put your child’s initials in the labels. We would also like to say a sad goodbye to Asim who will be leaving us at the end of the month - we wish him and his family the best of luck with the future!

We will be using the topic of Autumn to explore the changes we will experience when moving from summer into Autumn. We will introduce children to the changes in colours, environments, temperatures and weather as well as the changes in the daylight. With this we will incorporate our celebrations such as Halloween into this topic and conduct a multitude of activities surround these topics. IF you do not want your child taking part in Halloween activities, please let your key-worker know and we will adapt activities to suit this request.

This month we will also be focusing on expanding our speech and language. We will provide enriching activities such as role play, talking and chatter times as well as specifically basing and modelling our language around the children’s current interests. Amy will also be working on bringing Forest School back and we are working on fitting regular gym visits around our routines - What a busy October we will have!

Reminders: 

Push chairs and buggies: This is just a reminder to say that we will not be accepting pushchairs or buggies into the lobby for children in this room. The spaces are reserved for the baby studio and we will ask you to take the buggy or pushchair away with you.

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The weather is changing - please make sure you are bringing in a coat/thick jacket and shoes so we can continue to go out on regular walks and get our daily dose of fresh air. Please also make sure that their outfits are also reflective of the weather - no thin summer dresses or shorts. Appropriate shoes such as velcro are great shoes to help children with their independence.

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Toilet Training: If your child is toilet training or not long toilet trained, please make sure you are packing LOTS of spare clothes. Children will have accidents and we need to make sure we have enough clothes to change them into.

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For children who attend the morning sessions - if you would like feedback, please be here by 12:50pm.

The practitioner's need to continue looking after the children who are here all day and who are coming in for their afternoon session. If you arrive later than 12:50pm please do not expect a detailed feedback.

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Please send up to date family photo’s or if you are new family photo’s to help support your child while they are at the setting. Our children love to look at and share their family albums with each other and some children are missing out.

If you are having a day off from nursery, are booking a holiday or will not be in for any other reason— please let us know. It is important for our daily numbers to know who will be attending and who will not be.

Covid Updates and Dates for you diary: •

Photographer dates: Thursday 28th October - if you do not attend on these days but want to be involved, speak to your room leaders or send us an email!

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Friday 29th October - Harvard’s Halloween Party for all rooms! Dress up and join in with some spooky activities and Halloween fun!

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Any child prescribed anti-biotics needs to be on them for 48 hrs before they return to nursery. We will turn you away if they have only just received this - it is in our policy which we have attached.

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If your child has had their 2 year old check via phone or a video call, please let us know.

We will send out reminders about the photographer and party dates, please make a note of them where you can.