News and Events
Extra-Curricular Activities
20th September 2024
We are also really delighted to have all of our visiting teachers back after the Summer. Moo Music, Kids Rock, French, Yoga, Rugby Tots, Chef Lisa, Gym Bunnies and Flash dance have all restarted this term. We have changed the days of most of our classes so that a wider variety of our boys and girls can enjoy these experiences. Please email our admin team on, admin@kingswelliesnursery.com for Kingswellies children and wew@kingswelliesnursery.com for QueensWellies and West End Wellies Children, if you would like any more information regarding these classes.
Extra-Curricular Activities
20th September 2024
Wellies £10 Snack Shopper – Would you like to do our snack shopping for us?
20th September 2024
Number, Money and Measure: “I am developing my awareness of how money is used and can recognise and use a range of coins” MNU 0-079 Our children are learning all of the time. Our main focus for learning is through developing our Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing skills. As part of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, we also develop skills, knowledge and understanding in: 1. Expressive Arts 2. Social Studies 3. Technologies Sciences 4. Religious and Moral Education We would like our Wellies children to develop a good understanding of money. The best way to do this is through using REAL money. If you would like to be one of our “Snack Shoppers” over the weekend, please email our Admin team. They will then give you our snack “Shopping List” and the £5 budget. It would be a huge help to us if you and your child could buy some of the items for our snack over the weekend. This will also be a hugely beneficial experience for your child. Why not make this their weekend responsibility? This will provide a vast range of learning opportunities right across the curriculum. Please just take back the shopping, change and receipt at the beginning of the week. Please also fill out our Snack Shopper Diary so that we can share your shopping experiences with our other children! Feel free to add any photos and also your feedback. Alternatively, do this at home with own children whereby they buy your own household shopping. This is a great (and easy) way to teach them about money and the concept of budgeting.
Learning and Teaching in KingsWellies, QueensWellies and West End Wellies
20th September 2024
Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on a variety of topics in our playrooms. These will include: 1. KINDNESS – Are you a bucket filler or a bucket dipper? 2. The Scottish Daily Mile - we aim to jog, run or walk for up to 15 minutes every day! 3. Macmillan Coffee Mornings- please give us a donation – dates for each setting are posted on Facebook and displayed posters around the settings. 4. Transport – Visits to see various different types of transport! 5. LOTS of Reflection Time in our interest groups; talking about our learning and what we would like to learn with our key workers 6. Child-led improvement groups – Eco group, kindness group, gardening group, playground group, charity group, celebrations group, Xmas group, Makaton champions, Festivals group, enterprise group. We will keep working hard to improve our nursery. 7. Seasons – Autumn and Winter 8. Weather 9. Hibernation – nocturnal, diurnal and crepuscular animals 10. Festivals, traditions and celebrations 11. Grow well choices – making healthy decisions 12. Guy Fawkes – Bonfire night and firework safety 13. 8th September – International literacy day 14. 9th Emergency Services Day (999 Day) 15. 23rd September – International day of sign languages 16. 28th September – National good neighbour day 17. 1st October – World vegetarian day 18. 1st October – International music day 19. 2nd October – International poetry day 20. 4th October – Grandparents day – Look out for our Grandparent and family members Stay and Play dates! 21. 4th October – world smile day 22. 5th October – world teacher day 23. 6th October – world mad hatter day 24. 7th October – world smile day 25. 9th October – fire prevention day 26. 14th October – national dessert day 27. 15th October – global handwashing day 28. 16th October – national dictionary day 29. 16th October – world food day 30. 17th October – national pasta day 31. 20th October – International Chefs day with Chef Lisa 32. 31st October – Halloween. Festival and Celebration news flash to be sent out soon! 33. 31st October – World Cities Day. Learning all about Edinburgh, our capital city and London, the capital city of the UK. 34. 3rd November – Kindness day. LOTS of bucket filling! Have you got any ideas for us? 35. 5th November – Guy Fawkes Day! Marshmallows and songs and sparklers around the fire. 36. 9th November – British pudding day 37. 11th November – Diwali. Festival of lights. 38. 10th November – Remembrance Sunday. Making our own poppies. 39. 13th November – International kindness day 40. 14th November – World Diabetes day 41. 19th November – Road Safety Week – Lots of walks around the local community to practice our road safety! 42. 20th November – Universal children’s day. What are the rights of the child? H 43. 21st November – World hello day. How do we say hello in LOTS of different languages? 44. 28th November – Thanksgiving Day. 45. 30th November – St Andrew’s Day. Celebrating the patron saint of Scotland. Learning about ALL things Scotland and being proud of our Scottish heritage! Remember to wear something Scottish this week. 46. 3rd December – International day of persons with disabilities 47. 4th December – World Conservation day 48. 5th December – World Soil day 49. 9th December – International Xmas Card day 50. 10th December – Human rights day 51. 24th December – Hanukkah begins (Jewish) 52. 25th December – Christmas day 53. 31st December – New Year’s Day
Festivals Traditions, Harvest and all things Autumn
20th September 2024
As part of our Festivals and Traditions topic, we will be celebrating Halloween. We have lots of exciting activities planned. Keep your eyes peeled for our Festivals, Traditions and Autumnal Newsflash. We will also be asking the children what they would like to learn. Throughout this topic we will be learning about: 1. Concepts of light and dark 2. Seasons – Autumn and Winter 3. Colours 4. What is hibernation and which animals hibernate? 5. Harvest thanksgiving 6. Diwali – Festival of Lights 7. Animals – nocturnal, diurnal and crepuscular 8. Pumpkins and tasty treats 9. Halloween 10. Festivals and traditions We will be doing lots of baking and food tasting activities too. We will be dressing up, decorating our pumpkins and partying until we drop! Lots of great fun!
BABY NEWS
20th September 2024
Huge congratulations to Natalie, Emma, Leah and Faith who have all recently announced they are expecting little bundles of joy! We can’t wait to meet all the new Wellies Babies!
Staffing Update
20th September 2024
We always plan to have a number of staff over our ratio every day. This is unlike most other nurseries. This ensures that we can accommodate lots of high quality staff training, holidays and staff absences. Managers and staff will keep you up to date with all of our new staff. You will see our photos up in our receptions and regular updates on Facebook.
Graduation – Class of 2024
20th September 2024
WE really enjoyed our final graduation party. What a ball we had! We asked for a bouncy castle and a Kids Rock party and that is exactly what we got! Parents and staff gave the boys and girls a very well-deserved standing ovation when they left the nursery for the last time. Congratulations everyone!
2024 Graduates
20th September 2024
Best wishes to all of our boys and girls who started school this Summer. We had 50 children leave us to go to school. This was a record! Remember to keep in touch boys and girls and always do your very best in everything that you do!
West End Wellies has opened!
20th September 2024
We absolutely love our new nursery and have had so many lovely well wishes and positive feedback. We hope that you liked our videos and are keeping up to date with our progress on Facebook and our website. Many thanks to the KingsWellies and QueensWellies parents and staff who also visited us on our open days. We loved showing it off to you all.