Wellbeing Wednesday, Rest and Relaxation

Wellbeing Wednesday, Rest and Relaxation

We have had a chilled out morning, talking about the importance of having rest to re energise our bodies. The children have had warm toast and hot chocolate for snack and we have read lots of lovely bed time stories. We hope that the information we sent home will help ensure that all our children have a good bedtime routine and plenty of sleep so they are ready for learning and exploring at nursery.

Goodbye, we will miss you all

Mrs Bee and Mrs Ladybird would like to say a special goodbye to all our little bugs off to school this year. We have had so much fun exploring different topics with you and supporting you throughout your pre-school year. Good luck and best wishes to each and every one of you and we hope you enjoy your time at school. Please come and visit us in your uniforms x

PRESENTATION DAY, CLASS OF 2015

Ugly Bug Ball PM

Ugly Bug Ball AM

A morning of fun at the Ugly Bug Ball. The children made their own sandwiches and we went of for a walk around the park looking at all the changes the summer has brought. We tackled physical challenges and had our picnic in the park before returning to nursery for our leavers presentation.

Pjyama Day

Tomorrow is our last Well Being Wednesday of the academic year. We will be exploring the importance of rest with the children. Please dress your child in their pyjamas and children can bring in their favourite bedtime story book. We will be sending home some information for parents about bedtime routines and the importance of sleep.

Race For Life, Pretty Muddy

I have now collected and counted all my sponsor money and have raised £275.00 for Cancer Research, thank you to everyone for your support.

Pre-school Leavers Party

We will be having our Ugly Bug Ball party on Tuesday 21st July for all the children leaving us to go to school in September. The children are invited to dress as different bugs and we will be going for an Ugly Bug Picnic in the park, taking part in mini beast themed games and will be presenting the children with their leavers certificates.

Eid Mubarak

Happy Eid to all our families celebrating Eid over the weekend, we hope you enjoy your special day with your friends and family. If you have any photos you would like to send in then please email them to a.halstead@stmarysblackburn.ac.uk.
We will be having our Eid party at nursery on Monday so please wear you party clothes and bring in some traditional Asian foods for the children to share. We will have some dancing and the children will have the opportunity to create their own Eid pictures to bring home.

Partnership with Parents Questionnaire Feedback

Partnership with Parents

Feedback

Thank you for your feedback responses from our parents questionnaires, here are some of the lovely comments you made………………

 

“Helpful teachers lots of fun”

“staff very good”

“friendly staff”

“likes the way staff play with children”

“the nursery is colourful and there are lots of different things to play with”

“friendly teachers and key workers”

“encouragement to learn”

“very nice staff for parents and children”

“nursery offers a wide variety of activities”

“it has a calm, happy and friendly atmosphere”

“children can pick and choose which areas they want to play in”

Suggestions/Improvements

“overall we are satisfied with St Marys Nursery security but I would like to suggest about taking more and extra care of the children when they play outside in playing areas”

“keep eye on all children at all times. Avoid incident or accident happening inside or outside play area”

We understand that it is difficult for parents to see that their child has had an accident. At St Mary’s nurseries staff are rigorous at recording all ‘accidents’, many accidents are things that at home parents would just dust their children off and carry on, but in a setting it is good practise to record them to make parents aware of what has happened. We have strict ratios at nursery and these are always maintained. I can ensure you your children are very much cared for and watched at all times. Sometimes children fall right in front of us. We cannot prevent all accidents from happening. The nursery environment is a lot different than the home environment, it is a lot busier and children have access to a lot more resources and equipment. Risk assessments have been carried out on all areas of the nursery and are updated regularly. Nursery provides an environment where children are encouraged to take risks and develop confidence in the environment to learn how to stay safe themselves. The majority of accidents are minor bumps and scrapes. These are logged at nursery and reported weekly to our Estates Manager at St Marys College who is the Health and Safety representative. If any serious incident occurs these are always reported in full to Ofsted. All of our children in our care are loved and cared for by all our practitioners.

 

Pretty Muddy, Race for Life

Thank you to everyone who sponsored me for my Pretty Muddy, Race for Life for Cancer Research. The race was a huge success. I ran alongside some other members of the St Marys family from our sister site nursery at Wensley Fold. We arrived for our pre race warm up before completing a 5K run involving several muddy obstacles along the way, it was a fun and worthwhile way of raising money for such a great cause. Riley was there to greet his mummy at the finish line with a beautiful Cancer Research pink Gerbera but would not give his mummy a big cuddle!! I am now collecting all my sponsor money in and will let you know the final total raised. If you would like to sponsor me you have up to Wednesday to do so. Thank you all for your support x Amanda