News and Events
Staffing Update
04th July 2023
As always, we have some Summer staff who will be helping us out this year. Sisters Eve Cummings and Nadia Cummings have returned to us for a fourth year. We are delighted to see them back. We also have some other new staff. Please welcome them to the Wellies family. We are continuing to recruit staff for our QueensWellies Nursery. Children are involved in the recruitment process as we ask candidates to read them a story / complete an activity with them. We then ask our children for their feedback, this is working very well. Staff photos are up in reception so that you can put names to faces. HUGE congratulations go to Samantha Fryers who has just given birth to baby Caleb Alexander Grogan. Well done Samantha. We are very proud of you. We cannot wait to meet Caleb. Best wishes to you and Steven and your new arrival. Very cute!
QueensWellies Nursery
04th July 2023
We are delighted to let you know that we have been making great progress in totally refurbishing our new nursery on Queens Road. We have the Care Inspectorate coming to visit it on 18/7/23 and aim to have completed all construction by 31/7/23. We therefore hope to open around mid-August 2023. We will be holding a variety of open days and would like to invite all of our Wellies parents to come along for a nosey at our new setting. We also cannot wait to share our BEFORE and AFTER videos with you. It is SOOOOOO exciting! We will keep you posted with all progress over the Summer and into the new session. We still have spaces at QueensWellies although these are filling up fast. We also have limited spaces for 2.5 – 5 years old at KingsWellies. Please contact us if you would like to know more about booking a space with us.
What have the Wellies Gang been up to so far this term?
04th July 2023
We have been very busy with stay and play days, Easter celebrations, Health Month, bucket fillers, daily mile, visits around the community, Child Safety Week, supporting the RSPB, Happy Body Healthy Me Campaign, sun safety, visits from our P1 teachers, Eco Schools and sustainability, planting and planning our garden, planning our graduation party, improving our playground, picnics at “the hills”, pizzas at the park, getting ready to go to school, learning Makaton, learning all about minibeasts, farm animals, safari animals, caring for our caterpillars as they go through their life cycle into beautiful butterflies, lots of outdoor play, road safety, reading our book bug bags and LOTS more…… We have also LOVED working with all of our extra-curricular teachers; French, Moo Music, Chef Lisa, Kids Rock, Flashdance, Yoga Totts, Rugby Totts. We are developing a HUGE number of inter-disciplinary skills every day.
Parent Council
03rd July 2023
Laura will be in touch to arrange a date for a meeting this term. Please get in touch if you have any items for our agenda. Many thanks.
Parent Engagement Events
03rd July 2023
We would like to invite our parents to join us for a variety of parent engagement events this term. More information to follow. Please put the following date in your diaries: 13/4/23 – Parent’s Evening for ALL children – 6-8pm. Ten minute slots are available. Please pick your slot from the available times (on the playroom doors) 22/07/2023 – Class of 2023 Graduation Stay and play - Dates to follow
Children as Active Learners: Books for bereavement, loss, grief, stress, worry and separation
03rd July 2023
We have lots of different books available in nursery. Please just see a member of staff if you would like to borrow any of them. We also have child lending libraries, parent lending libraries, kindness bags, bucket filler bags, literacy bags, numeracy bags, health and wellbeing bags, Pudding the Guide Dog bags and Ziggy and Patsy bags which can all be borrowed and used at home to further develop your child’s learning and engagement. Please just ask a member of staff who will be happy to help.
Staffing Update
03rd July 2023
Welcome to a number of new staff who have all recently joined us as practitioners within our rooms. Staff photos can be seen up in our reception area. We are delighted to welcome such experienced practitioners to our team. Please also see our Facebook posts where we keep you abreast of staffing changes and all that is happening on a day-to-day basis. Welcome back also to Marcia and Steph who will be returning from maternity leave soon. Marcia will be returning as Senior Depute Manager at our new QueensWellies Nursery. Steph will be returning as Supervisor within the Beans Room and will step up as Depute Manager when required.
KingsWellies 8th Birthday
03rd July 2023
We are so proud to say that KingsWellies will be 8 years old on the 15th April 2023. We can hardly believe it! A huge thank you to All of our amazing staff. We really cannot underestimate how hard they all work to ensure that children are safe, happy, nurtured and are learning. A very Special thanks also goes to Laura, Marcia and Emma who have all been with us from day one when we opened on 15th April 2015. That level of commitment and Loyalty is almost unheard of. Huge thanks to the very special ladies. Look out for our birthday celebrations on Facebook.
Scholastic Book Fair
03rd July 2023
We raised a Whooping £267.67 towards new books for the nursery. Huge thank you to everyone who purchased a book from us. The children are all busy choosing and ordering their new books, as we speak.
Outdoor Education
03rd July 2023
Our Outdoor Committee will be working hard with Scott and AJ to improve our outdoor education area. Laura and Caroline also have lots of exciting ideas for our outdoor area so will be working hard to ensure that it is awash with lots of literacy and numeracy activities. We are also planning a new outdoor classroom – watch this space! Please give us your feedback on how we can continue to improve this very important area.