Newsletter February 2016 Dates for your diary Chinese New Year: Monday 8th February Valentines Day: Sunday 14th February Shrove Tuesday: Tuesday 9th February
General information This month, all rooms will be celebrating Chinese New Year, Pancake Day and Valentines Day. More details about this can be found on all the individual room pages. We are collecting Sainsbury's active kids vouchers. The collection box for these is in the main nursery entrance. In previous years we have been able to get some lovely outdoor equipment, so the more vouchers we can get, the better! We are adding a suggestion/comments box in our entrance area. This is so that parents can feedback thoughts and ideas to us for the nursery. Slips will be provided next to the box for parents to fill out. Training Well done to Denise who has now completed her level 3 in food hygiene. This level is not mandatory for nursery cooks but Denise wanted to have the higher level. Sarah, Donna, Ann and Chelsea have all completed their paediatric first aid this month. All our staff within the nursery team are trained in paediatric first aid and our forest school leaders are also trained in outdoor first aid. Rea, Kirsty and Eloise all attended lock down training for the college as well as prevent training for warning signs of child exploitation. The full nursery team attended a training event in January. The training covered handling accidents and sustained shared thinking with the children. Monthly website focus As a new feature of our newsletter we will add a link to a different website of interest each month. These websites will cover a range of topics such as children’s learning and development, nutrition, family support and creativity. This month’s website is ‘what to expect, when?’ This is guidance for children’s learning and development in the early year’s foundation stage. We also have a hard copy of this in the entrance area.
Early Year’s foundation stage
Tel: 01903 275750 Email: nursery@worthing.ac.uk Sanditon Way, Worthing, West Sussex, BN14 9FD www.worthing.ac.uk