Month: August 2017

We are hosting three catch up evening meetings for Cornflower parents which include details about the 30 hours.  Ideally if you can drop in on the right evening, that would be helpful but we would rather you try and attend any of the evenings as opposed to not coming along.  Drinks and nibbles will be provided.  Sophie, Afsheen and I look forward to seeing you.

Monday 11th September 6.30 – 7.30 pm for parents of children with dates of birth between 1/9/14 – 31/12/14

Tuesday 12th September 6.30 – 7.30 pm for parents of children with dates of birth between 1/1/15 – 31/3/15

Thursday 14th September 6.30 – 7.30 pm for parents of children with dates of birth between 1/4/15 – 31/8/15

Thanks Ally

We are aware that what looks like an ex-council vehicle has been left tight to the entrance of the nursery entrance sometime before 7.30 am last Friday.  I reported this to Tandridge Council as an abandoned vehicle but due to it being taxed this case has now gone to Surrey Police as an obstruction to nursery users.  We hope that it will be removed soon and will keep on top of the situation.  In the meantime please be extremely careful turning into nursery when coming up the hill and when exiting the nursery and turning down the hill.  We have alerted the police to the danger this is causing due to lack of space for maneuvering.  And the fact that vehicles are carrying very young children and travelling with a serious lack of visibility as a direct result of this dangerous parking.  Thanks

Invoices for September 2017 went onto the app’ on Bank Holiday Monday.  Thank you

All the children will move up a room from next Friday 1 September.  The set up for the year ahead is to have a Room Leader in each room.  This is a newly defined roll, where the member of staff is responsible for the children’s area indoors and out.  The operation and layout of the rooms will be their priority to ensure space is used for the particular group of children and individual children in their care for the year ahead.  These staff are more likely to remain in their room roles as opposed to moving on with the group of children using their areas.  These staff are Charlie for Hazel room (Pre-school), Afsheen for Cornflower, David for Sunflower/Buttercup and Bawani for Primrose room.

The number of staff required for each age group varies from room to room.  Our youngest children will have between one and four members of staff in the Primrose room. Tia will become a key player in the room as she has much experience of the room this year.  Alongside her we have Eloise who is also level three and Leila who is our new deputy manager.

In Sunflower and Buttercup rooms, our front conservatories, the children will have their education managed by Zoe who has spent this year with the children.  Zoe and David will have the support of Runa who you will all know started working at the nursery before me.  They will also have Tia who knows the room, Eloise and Leila.  In addition Robert who joins us as Deputy Supervisor will be there to guide them.  The two rooms may also see Jack and Courteney who will move down from Cornflower as suiting.  Once again these rooms have varied staffing needs from three to six  members each day.

Sophie will continue her journey with the children into the Cornflower room, together with Jack and Juan.  Courteney will support the group.  Sophie will be supported by Robert for the children’s education.

Pre-school children will continue their educational journey with Marie. Afsheen will certainly keep in touch with the children and frequent the room with Juan according to our days.

Abby will continue her employment with us as her services are needed.

Often members of the senior management team will be out of ratio from the children and will work in all areas of the nursery to improve systems and better experiences for children.  We also have Afsheen, Sophie, Charlie, Juan, Leila, Eloise and Robert are all continuing or starting their forest schools training meaning outdoor education will be obvious.  Juan and Charlie are well on the way with their level three’s as Courteney starts hers and Leila has her BA to work towards.  So there is continued learning motivation.

I think this completes my intentions in brief.   And hopefully gives the essence of consistency mixed with strong staff who are able to offer wide experiences for children.

We are excited for the new nursery year ahead.  A key list will be posted on the website soon.  Ally

David has completed Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering

and Safeguarding Children for Early Years Practitioners

Sadly Sam will be leaving us at the end of the month to further her experience at a different nursery as a nursery practitioner.  I have tried to entice Sam to stay with us and know the children and staff will miss her.  Good luck Sam. Thanks Ally

We have found a motor bike key and key ring in our car park.

Also a large black umbrella with a wooden handle was left by the outdoor classroom after sports day.

Do let us know if they might be yours.  Thanks Ally

 

We really enjoyed the afternoon despite a couple of rain showers,  We hope you did too.  As always it only works with parents participating.  It was lovely to see the efforts of parents as the gazebo’s were formed, showing commitment for the afternoon agenda.  New races, a different type of track and new food served.  A few damp clothes and I think only one car stuck in the mud – hooray!

I heard that one gentlemen asked for the name of a lady racing with her child.  He wanted to cheer his child’s team, I thought that was nice.

The aftermath is nearing 75% completion and we are pleased to report the results for any parents who missed the afternoon’s activities.

Yellow 62

Red 74

Green 77

Blue 86

Congratulations blues!

I believe we had just under 80 children in attendance and we had a few mentions for children that did so well with their parent’s support.

In Primrose room we had Reuben, Toby, Georgia and Elosie.

For Sunflower and Buttercup Rooms it was Phoebe, Grayson, Rafferty and Charlotte R.

In Cornflower we highlighted Ethan, Liberty, Sienna M and Chloe R.

And Hazel room were proud of Jack, William, Naia and Henri.

And of course all children who took part and enjoyed the afternoon should be very, very pleased with their endeavours.

Thank you so much for making the event work.

See you on Friday 17th August 2018 at 2 pm for the next one!  ALLY

Thank you for reading our information –  NDN Sports Day 2017 Information

Thanks Ally, look forward to seeing you soon!

If you would like to see the order of the races – Please click – Race Order

Thanks Ally

Sports Day Teams 2017 –  Please click

We are very excited to announce the teams (as I understand attendance at this time)!

There are always last minute changes likely and many apologises if I have neglected to add a child/ren!

Rooms with low team coloured members should be ready to race more. Those teams with ample members in each room should take turns, or double up on races or alert your allocated members of staff to the fact that your child has not participated enough!  Attempts will be made to add in races to enable all children to participate fully.  We may also call upon children in different rooms to participate in races for their team colour.

Staff responsible for ‘starting line’ children are –

Zoe and Tia for Primrose Room – age 1

Sophie and Becky for Sunflower and Buttercup Rooms – age 2

Afsheen and Juan for Cornflower Room – age 3

And Charlie and Sam for Hazel Room (Pre-School) – age 4

Thanks Ally

We are delighted to announce that three new staff will be joining our team at the beginning of September.  Elise at room deputy level, Robert at deputy supervisor level and Leila at acting deputy manager level.  We will of course give you more details of our staff set up for September in due course.

To inform parents about Tara and Lara who are supporting nursery during August especially whilst rain is stopping play and with sports day looming.

Tara and Lara have both just completed Full Paediatric First Aid, Introduction to Safeguarding Children, Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety for Catering, Female Genital Mutilation: Recognising and Preventing FGM V2.1 and the Channel General Awareness Module.

Just so that parents are aware.  Abby is remaining with us until the end of August.

 

Today we enjoyed our Food Hygiene Inspection and can report that we retained our Level 5.  Well done to Tim and Mary for their hard work and continued standards.