22 Street Lane Nursery - April 2018 Newsletter

April Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to our April Newsletter and as always we would like to give a very warm welcome to all children, parents and new families who joined 22 Street Lane Nursery last month. Spring has sprung here at 22 with the children celebrating and exploring many different things. With dressing up as our favourite book character to celebrating World book day, creating memorable gifts for our loved ones for Mothers day and exploring Easter. The children are sure to be having a fantastic start to Spring.

April Newsletter

Country of the Month; Netherlands

This month we are celebrating the country ‘Netherlands’, week commencing the 23rd April. As always, if you have any resources that would support this topic we would be grateful. We are looking for items such as the Holland Flag, Clogs and Windmills or anything that you feel will help us celebrate the country itself. We will be tasting some traditional Danish foods such as Dutch Pancakes and waffles, yummy!. As always we welcome any resources such as photographs, clothing and traditional items and appreciate your continued support

Thank you to those who took the time to vote for February’s ‘’Employee of the Month’’, we had lots of support and want to thank the winners for their continued hard work and continued professionalism, we thank you for your vote; please do keep helping us vote . Staff News; March’s Employee of the Month goes to…

Congratulations to this month’s winners;

Lucy Cahart

Jade Camp

Holly Craven

We really do value your opinion and need your continued help to recognise the amazing work that our staff undertake each day. If you would like to nominate a member of staff for Employee of the Month.

please click on the link below and help cast next month’s winner; www.22streetlanenursery.co.uk/employee-of-the-month-vote/

April Newsletter STAFF NEWS;

Welcome Amy Whiting – Our New Deputy Manager; 22 Street Lane Nursery would like to introduce our new Deputy Manager, Amy Whiting who will be taking over as Deputy Manager of the setting on Wednesday 2nd May. Some of you may have already seen Amy around the setting as she has already spent some time with us. We would like to give Amy a warm welcome to the 22 Street Lane team.

“I have been lucky to spend a number of years abroad. I spent 10 years working within childcare clubs mostly in Greece and France. Since returning to the UK in 2013 I have been working in a private day nursery and have been the manager since January 2015. I am very proud to say the nursery was graded Outstanding by Ofsted in 2017.“ “I have recently completed my BA Honours in Early Childhood Education and my Early Years Teacher Status. I am now studying a Masters Degree in Early Childhood through the University of Sheffield. I have a true passion for working within the Early Years and love to see young children learn and develop. I believe play is a really important part of young children’s development and that we should follow children’s interests to support their learning. I am really looking forward to becoming part of the team and a part of something special at 22 Street Lane.”

Welcoming Amy Millar, Deputy Room Leader of Ducklings;

A big warm welcome to Amy Millar who has joined our Ducklings Team as Deputy Room Leader. Amy has worked in a variety of childcare settings and has recently been touring on the Disney dream liner. “I have always had an interest in working with children and throughout school always chose subjects to point me in that direction, ending with a BA(Hons) Childhood Studies degree from the University of Leeds. I have gained a lot from my previous experience and I look forward to bringing it to 22SLN and to further my knowledge and learning in this environment. I look forward to working with the younger children and getting to know them and their parents/carers.”

Joanna Shwe; We would like to inform you that sadly, Jo will be moving on to pastures new and leaving 22 Street Lane Nursery on Wednesday 4th April. We wish Joanna all the best of luck in whatever she decides to do next, we thank like to thank Jo for her dedication and commitment over the past 2 years.

St Patrick’s Day; The children had a lovely time celebrating St Patrick’s Day and all things Green. The children explored the Irish flag through coloured rice, shaving foam and water and made some Shamrocks using different materials...

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Staff News;

Congratulations Bec!

Such exciting news, the 1 st Street Labe Baby, we are delighted to tell you that Bec Boxall gave birth to a beautiful baby girl Ruby Joy Boxall on Tuesday 6th March, weighing 6lb 5oz. Both Bec and Ruby are doing well, Bec will be returning to work late November, working 3 days a week and Ruby will be joining our Chicklets.

5 Star Food Hygiene Rating: 22 Street Lane Nursery retains its 5 star rating for food and hygiene. We had a surprise visit from the Food and Hygiene officer on Friday 16th March, we were inspected by the local authority Food Standards Agency to ensure that our Kitchen meets the legal requirements, the inspector reviewed the following: • The premises and how we work • The kinds of food we make and prepare • Our food safety management system We are pleased to say that we were awarded the highest rating of 5 Stars! Congratulations to our chef David Salter who led the inspection.

22 Street Lane Nursery is Going Green!

See More: www.22streetlanenursery.co.uk/going-green

22 Street Lane takes great pride in separating the waste within the Nursery, food recycling bins have been introduced to divert food waste to anaerobic digestion facilities. In addition to this we have created composting facilities within the nurseries’ gardens and introduced a new recycling lessons within the classrooms to ensure we become green and recycling the right materials. We are working hard on our journey to try and achieve zero landfill waste and pass on the right messages to our children, our Senior Management team, practitioners and kitchen team emphasise the importance of being environmentally savvy and respecting our planet. Visit our new webpage to learn more;

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News;

Easter Egg Appeal; Thank you for your generous donations of Easter eggs and the support for the Clarendon Wing at Leeds General infirmary. We are delighted to say that we raised a total of 80 Easter eggs so far which the children were very excited to receive. Once again, we would like to thank you for your support.

Easter Bonnet Competition;

Well done to all the children who took part in our Easter Bonnet competition, there were some fabulous creations and the children had lots of fun celebrating them. The Easter Bunny judged the competition and the winners were: Chicklets: Oliver Hill Ducklings: Vinnie Jagger-Wood

Goslings: Leo McGrath Cygnets: Oliver Ripley Swans: Louis Pinnock-Pinches

Summer Menu Research; With the warmer months ahead, we will be introducing our spring/summer menu. As always, we would appreciate any feedback from our winter menu and anything in particular that you would like to see on our summer menu. If you have any feedback, please contact Alex by emailing: alexandra@22streetlanenursery.co.uk . Alternatively we will send out a Tapestry note where you post. Thank you

GDPR and changes to your email preferences; You may have heard of a new data protection directive called GDPR, this stands for General Data Protection Regulation and aims to improve data protection and privacy for EU residents. This approved by the EU Parliament in 2016 and comes into effect on 25th May 2018. We love emailing our parents and careers, sharing all the amazing things your child(ren) achieves whilst in our care; we have found our newsletters have been an invaluable way of conveying useful and interesting information and we hope you will want to continue to receive our communications. So please take a few minutes to complete our short 'Communication & Photography Preferences Form' if you haven't already; so we can continue to communicate important messages and send our Monthly Newsletter to you - https://mailchi.mp/f9e33ec7fd91/update-your-email-preferences

April Newsletter

Mother’s Day Elevenses; We had a fabulous day here at 22 Street Lane Nursery, celebrating Mother’s Day! Mothers and Children were invited to share this special day at the nursery. The children got involved with the activities such as flower arranging, card making and play dough. The children used what they had made in the activities and were able to spoil their Mums with cards and beautiful flowers. The mums and children showed their cheesy grins in the Mother’s Day photo booth and we have some lovely photos! We decided to enjoy some sunshine in the 22 Street Lane garden. The children enjoyed running around and showed their Mums their favourite garden toys. We then headed back inside for the best treat of all – cake! After we had finished eating, we quietened down for story time. We all had an amazing day and the children were delighted that they were able to show their Mum’s how much they love them by sharing the day together!

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Millie’s Mark AWARD; 22 Street Lane Nursery is absolutely delighted to achieve Millie’s Mark accreditation. It is a well-deserved recognition as it clearly demonstrates that we are truly dedicated at keeping our children safe and well cared for. Being apart from your child can be nerve racking for parents so it is essential to feel at ease knowing your child is in good hands. We reassure parents by providing world class first aid training for the staff. We went above and beyond the requirements with all our team holding 2 days first aid training as oppose to 1 day. The Millie’s Mark award can only be achieved if 100% of staff are trained in paediatric first aid and staff can demonstrate that the training will not be forgotten. Whilst we now have the recognition fromMillie’s Mark, our tireless efforts of building a safe environment will not stop. We will continue to excel in all areas of care for the children and we will be more than prepared for our next assessment in three years. A huge thanks to all those who have supported us to achieve this award and well done to all the staff for keeping 22 Street Lane Nursery a safe environment.

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Chicklets;

This month has been a very messy month in the chicklet room! We have enjoyed exploring all things green for St Patrick’s day including green shaving foam, green paint and orange green and white rice. As well as this, we enjoyed some lovely Mother’s Day celebrations as our mummies joined us for a sing a long and some cake! The chicklets have been enjoying the new cosy corner as we have lots of new books to read. The children particularly like the music and sensory books as these are a fun way to introduce early literacy. As the weather is getting slightly better, the chicklets have also enjoyed exploring the garden area and will be accessing this increasingly more as the weather becomes warmer.

CHICKLETS

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The Ducklings have enjoyed going on a Bear Hunt!;

As some of the children have been enjoying the story at home, we thought it would be a good idea to extend this interest into the nursery. We began by simply reading the book to a small group of children. One child was even able to finish one of the sentences in the book by saying "day!", while the others joined in with "uh oh!". Holly then extended the book into the curiosity corner by creating the 'long wavy grass' and a 'big dark forest'. Following this, Paige set up a messy play activity using shredded paper, gloop, shredded wheat with water, green play dough, flour and cardboard to make each of the areas described in the book. While playing with the messy play we experimented with different sounds that are used throughout the book such as "wooo hooo" and "swishy swishy". In addition to "we're going on a bear hunt", the Ducklings have taken part in lots of Easter activities. They did this by painting card shaped like eggs and listening to lots of Easter music such as 'chick chick chicken’.

DUCKLINGS

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Goslings;

In the Goslings this month we have been setting a lot of animals in the provision and it has been a big interest across the curious minds of all of our Goslings. Our Gosling animals have made a Trip to the messy play, cosy area and the balcony. As our love for animals is continuing to grow we are updating our display board to reflect the fun and adventures our animals have been getting up to. We have been making the most of the muddy puddles in the big playground and have had tons of fun challenging our physical skills and abilities. Playing outdoors in our fantastic garden opens up so many windows of learning as our minds tingle with challenging and fun ways of learning. To help develop our cosy area we would love if you could provide us with some family photos to put on our family tree. We would really appreciate it if you could post the photos on Tapestry as our Gosling love looking at the current photos on the tree.

GOSLINGS

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Cygnets;

We have had a very busy month in our Cygnets room! We have been spending lots of time outdoors looking after the allotment area and the chickens, we have been visiting these areas daily there and talking to the children about life cycles of chickens and plants. Most of the children are now using watering cans independently and can recognise daffodils and crocuses. We have also been acting out some of our favourite stories. Our favourite one at the minute is 'The Little Pigs’. As the weather gets warmer, we will be acting some of our favourite stories out and our garden stage and we will be using props to support us. Home Learning - Please ask Ariana to take one of our Home learning story bags so that your child can tell you their favourite story and act this out using props.

CYGNETS

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Swans; Visit to St Andrew’s Church

On Thursday 22nd March, our Swans were invited to a local church ‘St Andrews’ to listen to the ‘Story of Easter’. Reverend Tim told the children the ‘Story of Easter’ using handmade knitted figures. We learned that we have Easter Eggs at Easter as they are symbol of ‘New life’. After the story, we said thank you to Tim and we gave him an Easter Egg, he was really happy and said that Monty Bojangles was his favourite! We then had our snack in the church garden and we looked at all the lovely flowers. We were all so well behaved and very sensible on our trip. We look forward to visiting the church again soon.

Visit to St Andrew’s Church

Recipe of the Month April Newsletter

Mini Turkey Meatballs with Pasta and tomato sauce; For the meatballs: • 250g Lean Minced turkey. • ¼ finely chopped white onion • 2 tbsp. of Tomato puree • Pepper to season For the super hidden vegetable tomato sauce: • ¼ Finely chopped onions • ¼ Clove of garlic • ¼ Finely chopped leek • ¼ finely chopped carrot • 25g Closed cup or chestnut mushrooms • ¼ Courgette • ¼ Medium Aubergine • Tomato puree to taste • Dried Oregano to taste • 200g Tinned chopped tomatoes or pasta

Method; 1. Preheat the oven to 160 C 2. Place all the vegetables, tomato puree, chopped tomatoes and pasta in a pan. 3. Season to taste. 4. Bring to the boil and simmer for 1hr. 5. Mix together the meatball mixture and make into 20 meatballs. 6. Place in the oven for 5-10 minutes 7. Add the meatballs to the sauce and cook for a further 30 minutes.

Enjoy, we hope you like it!

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*ATTENTION* Important Information – Please read

Wipes; Please note that although we provide nappies as part of our offering, wipes are not included in this. It has been noted that lots of children are coming to nursery without nappy wipes. Can we kindly remind parents to ensure that there is always a supply available for your child? Your child’s key person will remind you when they are running low. Moving forwards, we will be charging £15.00 per month to any parents that fails to bring wipes. High Temperatures; Please can we remind parents that children can not attend nursery if they have a high temperature (over 38 degrees). If a child develops a temperature, then the parents will be called to collect the child which is supported by our policies and procedures. We can administer non – prescribed Calpol for a temperature however we must have written permission. Nappy Cream; Please note that all Nappy cream (prescribed or no prescribed must be signed in to your child’s Key Person who will sign this in on a ‘Nappy Cream Administration form’. Practioners will record each time cream is applied and parents must sign at the end of each day.

Car Park; Please can we kindly ask parents to park in the designated in the car park and not in front of the nursery front door.

Thank you.

April Newsletter ~ Housekeeping

Absence; P lease note that we are unable to swap days or offer an alternative day if your child is absent from nursery. We are now extremely busy and it is impossible for us to do this for all children. This is stated in our terms and conditions. Thank you for your cooperation. Parents Suggestions; We continue to welcome all feedback from parents, if you would like to make a suggestion then please post this in our ‘Parents Suggestion Box’ which is based on reception. Alternatively, you can speak to a member of staff. Drop Off and Collection; Can we kindly remind you that we open at 7.30 a.m. and cannot accept children into the nursery before this time. We close at 6.00 p.m. and any parents that pick up after this time will be charged. Thank you for your cooperation. Parking; Please can we politely ask you NOT to park outside the nursery on the double yellow lines or outside the nursery front door . This is to ensure the safety of the children. Glass Door; For safety of the building, please can you ensure that when you are entering and leaving the building that you close the glass door behind you. Thank you. Lost Property; We have lots of items of ‘lost Property’ which will be displaying in our parent’s room over the next couple of weeks. Please can parents take the time to visit the parents room and see if anything belongs to your child. Anything which isn’t collected but Friday 22 nd will be given to charity or used as nursery spare clothing. Labels in Clothing; To avoid items being lost, please can you ensure that your child’s uniform is clearly labelled including their coats, hats, scarves and wellies. If you’re child brings gloves to nursery we strongly advise for these to be attached and threaded through their coat to avoid any gloves going missing .

April Newsletter

Upcoming events; April & May

All April Country of the Month Celebrations, The Netherlands Monday 2 nd April Bank Holiday, Nursery CLOSED Monday 23 rd April St. George’s Day

Friday 27 th April Visakhi Celebrations Monday 7 th May Bank Holiday, Nursery CLOSED Friday 28 th May Bank Holiday, Nursery CLOSED

CONTACT: 03330 43 22 22 info@22streetlanenursery.co.uk 22 Street Lane, Roundhay, Leeds, LS8 2ET

ONLINE: www.22streetlanenursery.co.uk