News and Events
Drive Carefully
23rd January 2025
Please always drive carefully and reverse park when in our car parks. The speed limit is 5 miles per hour at all times. Many thanks.
Enhancing our Environments
23rd January 2025
We are always very busy enhancing our environments. The children have loved designing their new areas too. We are always looking for junk, natural materials, wooden toys and old technologies (cameras, phones, remote controls etc). Please donate if you are looking for a new home for anything that you think would be useful to us.
1140 Hours Funding
23rd January 2025
Kerryn will keep you right in applying for funding if your child has just turned three or will be turning three soon. If you would like to book additional funded sessions, please do so now, whilst we still have spaces available.
Another staff update
23rd January 2025
The Wellies family also welcomed some new additions. Leah our Administrator at Kings Wellies had a baby boy in November, Natalie our West End Wellies Manager, had a baby girl in December and Emma our West End Wellies Manager, also welcomed a baby boy in January.
Staffing Update
23rd January 2025
We have recently welcomed some new staff to all nurseries. They have all settled in very well with the Wellies Gang. Good luck also to those staff that we have sadly said farewell to. Keep a look out on our Facebook Pages for regular staffing updates too. All staff photos are up in our reception areas for your information.
Topics for this term
23rd January 2025
Over the next few weeks, we will be focusing on a variety of topics in our playrooms. These will include: • KINDNESS, relationships and friendships – Are you a bucket filler or a bucket dipper? • Golden Rules • Junk modelling – please give us your junk. We LOVE using it to build and construct • The Scottish Daily Mile - we aim to jog, run or walk for up to 15 minutes every day! • Winter, Frost, The Arctic, Weather – LOTS of Science experiments! • Our Country - Scotland • Celebrations and traditions • Chinese New Year • Child-led improvement groups – Eco Group, Rights Group, Forest Schools Group, Charities Group, Outside Play Group, Kindness Group, Gardening Group and Buddies Group will continue to work hard • New beginnings, Time, Months of the year, Birthdays, Resolutions • Rules, Rights and Responsibilities – Why do we have rules? What can we do better? We will be revising our Nursery Golden Rules in every room, in the playground and across each nursery. • LOTS of Reflection Time; talking about our learning and what we would like to learn with our key workers • Grow well choices – making healthy decisions • Makaton – we are getting good at using this sign language! Simone at QueensWellies is our in-house expert! • 25th January – Burns Day • 29th January – Puzzle Day • 29th January – Chinese New Year starts • 30th January – National Croissant Day • 31st January – Backwards Day • 3rd February – Carrot Cake Day • 5th February – National Weatherperson Day • 7th February – Send a card to a friend day • 9th February – National pizza day • 11th February – Make a Friend Day • 13th February – Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day • 14th February – Valentine’s Day • 14th February – Library Lovers Day • 17th February – Random Acts of Kindness Day. What could we do? • 19th February – International Read to Me Day • 20th February – Love your pet day! Would anyone like to take their pets in to visit? • 20th February – International Day of Happiness • 20th February – French Language Day • 21st February – International Day of Forests • 22nd February – International World Thinking Day • 26th February – Tell a fairy tale day. Bring in your favourite fairy tales! • 28th February – Floral Design Day • 1st March – St David’s Day (Wales) • 1st March – Food waste action week – Our ECO group are going to be busy! • 6th March – Dentist Day • 10th March – Popcorn Day • 17th March – St Patrick’s day (Ireland) • 18th March – Global recycling day • 20th March – world storytelling day • 21st March – World poetry day • 21st March – World down syndrome day • 22nd March – world water day • 23rd March – National puppy day • 25th March – wear a hat day (brain tumour awareness) • 27th March – World Theatre Day • 1st April – April Fool’s Day • Literacy, Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing – LOTS of exciting learning opportunities.
Room Transitions
23rd January 2025
Transitions to the next room will be planned depending on the individual child’s needs. Room staff will discuss all transitions in depth with you in plenty of time.
Staff Training Update
23rd January 2025
Individual staff will continue to attend a variety of very valuable training courses. A large number of staff will also be completing / revising their Paediatric First Aid Training. We work hard to ensure that all staff are confident, competent and knowledgeable and that we keep up to date with all new developments. Staff all meet monthly for a series of collegiate meetings and all staff participate in a very comprehensive continual professional development programme. 80% of our staff have achieved / or are working towards accredited SVQ qualifications also. We will also be focusing on Planning for Learning formats, Space to Grow and Thrive, SIMOA, Realising the Ambition, one-to-one child observations, Eco Schools Scotland, Rights Respecting Schools, Forest Schools and Curriculum for Excellence this term. We will have a particular focus on Literacy, Health and Wellbeing and Numeracy. These are some of the main priorities within our Improvement Plan. We will keep you informed of our progress.
Charities
23rd January 2025
We will be fully involving our Pre-School Charities Committee to help us to plan our campaigns for the coming year. If you would like to nominate a particular charity for us to focus on, please let us know.
The Scottish Daily Mile
23rd January 2025
We will continue to aim for all of our children to walk, jog or run for at least 15 minutes each day. Most children can average around a mile in that time! Keep going gang!