Team Park

Team Park overcoming great heights and jumping from the tree tops to provide the best quality care and education for the children at The Park.

Eid-al-Adha

We will be celebrating Eid next Wednesday 23^rd September in nursery. Can all children please wear traditional Asian dress. We will be enhancing the nursery areas with lots of different activities to celebrate Eid.
Children will be using paints to create their own mehndi patterns, exploring painting on paper on a larger scale.
We will be creating mosques, using creative resources, building with boxes and materials, promoting children's creative and critical thinking. 
We will also be building Mosques with wooden blocks, encouraging children to build and balance, sharing resources and working together.
Children will be enjoying tastes of Asia with our tasting table, sampling lots of lovely, fresh tasty, savoury treats that our parents bring in from home.  
Don’t forget to bring in your photos of your families to display on our family wall. Photos will be returned later in the term.

                                                                                                                                                

Early Years Professionals in the kitchen

As part of our All About Me topic we are exploring the kitchens of the staff. Our roleplay kitchen will be enhanced weekly to reflect the types of things the staff would be cooking at home. We are starting this with ‘Roxy’s Kitchen’. To start our Eid celebrations Roxy will be exploring making chapattis with the children and discovering lots of different spices. The children will use real chapattis and flour in the role play to copy what they have observed Roxy doing and try it for themselves. If you have any spare Asian cookware that you no longer use we would love to use it to develop our kitchen area.

School Admittance 2016

If your child was born between September 1st 2011 and August 31st 2012 then you need to be looking at school applications. From September 7th 2015 you can go online at www.blackburn.gov.uk to see information about the Primary schools in Blackburn with Darwen. There will also be details about how to apply online for a school place.
You can apply using the application form online or the paper form which will be available from schools or from 10 Duke Street, Blackburn, BB2 1DH.
The closing date for applications is January 15th 2016. YOU MUST APPLY FOR A PLACE EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY REGISTERED YOUR CHILD WITH A SCHOOL.
You will receive a written offer of a place on April 16th 2016.

CONGRATULATIONS

Team Park would like to say a huge congratulations to our sister site St Marys at St Marys College who were inspected by Ofsted on the 7th August 2015 and were graded OUTSTANDING again. To read their report then please follow the link

http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/CARE/EY262363

Goodbye, we will miss you x

We have had to say a sad Goodbye to our Sarah. She has joined our St Marys Family at our College site nursery and will be missed very much by Team Park. We have recruited Alex to join our team and you will have already seen her face in nursery. For more information about Team Park, please read your newsletter.

Welcome Back

Thank you very much to all our lovely parents and children who brought us gifts in at the end of the summer term. We had a lot of tasty treats to take home and enjoy along with some unusual and unique gifts and we were very grateful for the kind thoughts. We hope you all had a lovely summer break and we welcome everyone back. We would also say a big hello to all our new parents and children who are settling in with us at the moment and we hope you all enjoy your time at St Marys @ The Park.