News and Events
Chinese New Year
23rd January 2025
We have been extremely busy planning our celebrations for The Year of The Snake. This year Chinese New Year lands on 29/1/25. Over the last two years, we even opened our very own Chinese take aways – KINGS-WOK-AWAY. It was a great success. Our chefs cooked up a storm and fed the entire nursery. Look out for lots of exciting activities for this year’s celebrations. If you would like to come in to speak to us about how you celebrate different family or cultural traditions, please let us know. We would LOVE to invite you in. Chef Lisa will be cooking with all children, at all settings.
Scholastic Book Fair
23rd January 2025
The scholastic book fair will be visiting KingsWellies Nursery again this year on the 11/03/25 until the 18/03/25. Our friends from QueensWellies and WestEnd Wellies will be catching the bus to come visit us and will be able to choose a book to buy.
Stay + Play
23rd January 2025
Love is in the air with WEW Badgers who are inviting 2 of their family members to come along for a stay and play on Valentines Day (14/2). Our Badgers will help to serve some yummy snack to show their appreciation for the ones they love.
Extra-Curricular Activities
23rd January 2025
Please see our classes below, for your information. We are very pleased to welcome back our specialists for 2025. We are also hoping to add Football lessons (weekends with Stuart from Beans) and Cricket Totts to our regular timetables. - Yoga - French - Flashdance - Kids Rock - Rugby Totts - Chef Lisa - Gym Bunnies - Moo Music French, Kids Rock, Moo Music and Chef Lisa are all provided by us as part of your fees at KingsWellies. Chef Lisa, Gym Bunnies, Moo Music and Kids Rock are all provided by us as part of your fees at both QueensWellies and West End Wellies. The other classes are provided at an additional cost. In order to make these work, we do require enough children to sign up to them. Please contact our admin teams for additional information and also to express your interest. Would you like to see anything else added to our timetable? Please let us know.
MORE - Happy New Year and a HUGE thank you!
23rd January 2025
We would also like to say a massive thank you to all of our parents, children and families for your generosity over Xmas. We received lots of lovely presents which were shared with all staff. Everyone went home with presents to enjoy. KingsWellies staff also received a lovely gift from a number of parents who all chipped together. The staff have decided that they will use this very generous gift to have a lovely lunchtime treat. This was extremely generous of you and MUCH appreciated! Many thanks also for your kind donations towards Mission Christmas. We managed to fill numerous boxes to donate.
Happy New Year and a HUGE thank you!
23rd January 2025
Happy new year to all of our children, parents, friends and staff! We really hope that you enjoyed a lovely festive period! We are all really glad to be back at nursery and are looking forward to a jam-packed third term!
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