Poppies Children's Nursery

Where early learning and development can flourish.

The Pavilion, Memorial Park, North Walsham NR28 9AY
Telephone: 01692 500117

Poppies Newsletter April 2019

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Summer Picnic
We will be holding our annual family picnic on Saturday 6th July from 11.30 – 2. All families are very welcome, bring your picnics and blankets to sit on. We will be having a tombola, cake stall and a few other favourites!! Also, we are having the ‘Living eggs’ chicks to hatch again this year and they should be here that week for everyone to see.

Information
If you have a concern about a child’s welfare and you wish to report it directly there is a new system now called C.A.D.S (Childrens Advice and Duty Service) and the number is: 03448008021

Also we need to inform you, as part of our emergency evacuation plan that if an event occurred at nursery that resulted in us having to evacuate the building and we were unable to return we have an agreement with the High School that we can go there until children have been collected. In such a situation you would all be informed as soon as possible as we would take everyone’s emergency contact details with us. Can we also remind you to please update us if any contact details change. Thank you.

Tax Free Childcare.
Do you pay for childcare – have you signed up for the Government Tax Free childcare ? For every £8 you save in the scheme the government will add £2.Talk to Sue or Debbie or look online for Childcare Choices for further details.

Please can you let us know if you have holidays booked, as we need to let staff know what holidays they can have in the summer. Thanks

Poppies news letter May 2019

Poppies News Letter January 2019

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Happy New Year to you all we hope you all had a lovely fun Christmas time. We would also like to extend a warm welcome to all our new families as well as Abbie and Ellen who have joined our staff team. Abbie holds a Level 3 qualification and Ellen is part way through her apprenticeship. Both our new team members will be based in the Bluebell room with Abbie also supporting the Daisies 2 days a week.

Thank you to everyone who was so very generous giving us gifts and cards, it is lovely to be so appreciated.

Fund raising
Thanks to your support we raised approx £215 with money from the photograph morning, the Christmas cards and the ‘squares’ raffle. We will be purchasing some new rugs for the Daisy room and some new board games for the Bluebells and Sunflowers.

British Nutrition Foundation
We have signed up to take part in the British Nutrition foundation healthy eating week in June – more details as we get them. However, if you look at our menus on face book you will see that ever week is a healthy week at Poppies with fresh vegetables every day and a wide range of different protein sources- of course we do have a few birthdays to celebrate which might not be quite as healthy!!

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Poppies News Letter January 2019

Poppies Newsletter September 2018

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Welcome to all our new Poppies family members and welcome back to all those who have been on holiday.

We need to congratulate Sophie on completing her Level 3 childcare qualification, well done Sophie !
Sophie will be staying with us as a member of staff and will primarily be part of the Sunflower team with Debbie and Tracey.
The Bluebell team will continue to be Sue and Bev and the Daisies team will be Michelle and Ruth.

Ofsted

As you know we had an Ofsted Inspection in July and had a Good rating with to 2 points of
development both of which we feel we have addressed.

Holidays

Please can we ask everyone to complete a holiday form when you have holidays booked or confirm arrangements for half term as soon as possible so we can ensure we have the right staffing in place, thanks.
Also, we will be closing on Friday 21st Dec @ 5.30 for the Christmas holidays and re opening on Wednesday the 2nd of January.
Our Christmas party for all families will be on Saturday the 15th December at St Bennets Hall, more details nearer the time.

Photographer

As some of you know we have a professional photographer booked on a Saturday to take family photos – good Christmas presents !!! This year she will be coming on 13.10.18 and you are welcome to book a slot between 9.30 and 12.30 – all family / friends/ pets welcome!!

Decorating

We have had the Sunflower room and bathroom decorated and were very pleased with the work done, many thanks to Ross from ‘Howe to Paint’.

Wet clothes

Please can everyone put a water proof bag (as well as a change of clothes) in their child’s rucksack for wet clothes. We do have swimming bags for sale at £1.50 if you want to purchase one.

PDF version available here….
Poppies news letter september 2018

Poppies Newsletter February 2018

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Thank you to everyone who offered to help sort out the Sunflower garden after it had been vandalised! We have now repaired the damage but would like to use some of our fund raising money to develop this area further.

We will be holding an Easter raffle to fund raise for this project.

Sport relief

We will be selling ‘squares’ @ £2 each to support this charity week beginning 19th March. We will also be hold a ‘go go disco’ with exercises each day!!

Holidays

Please can everyone who wants to book holidays over Easter complete a holiday slip and return it to us by Fri 2nd of March so we can avoid any confusion, thanks. Those children who never attend in the school holidays will start back week beginning 16th April and do not need to do holiday form.

Wet clothes bags

We are struggling to provide enough plastic bags for wet clothes and it’s not very environmentally friendly! So we have found some waterproof swimming bags for £2and are happy to order them if we have enough interest. Please let us know or provide a bag, thanks.

Michaela

We would like to announce that Cayla is expecting a baby in July – lovely news. congratulations !!
All being well Cayla will stay with us til mid June.

Healthy Eating!

Laura is going to produce a special news letter each term looking at topics linked to healthy eating, including a recipe to try!!

 

PDF version available here….
Poppies news letter Feburary 2018