January 2024

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Dear Parents,
Firstly, a very big, warm welcome to all of our new families at Paws, along with a huge welcome BACK to all of our old friendly faces! We have been looking forward to welcoming everyone, fresh and full of energy, to start our exciting Spring Term.
We hope you all had a restful Christmas break and are looking forward to hearing all
about the family fun you have had.
In the forth coming half term, here at Paws, we will be celebrating Chinese New Year, all things ‘Love’ with valentines day and having parent teacher phone calls w/c 22nd January. More info to follow.
The second half of the term we have World book day which we will be concentrating on a selection of traditional tales and some new ones too. Dress up day is the 7th March. We will be hosting a “Mothers” week where you will be able to book a slot to spend a few hours at Nursery with your little one.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind parents that, whilst we do provide aprons for messy play and a spare clothes box, please remember to send your children to nursery in comfortable, appropriate clothes. There are allocated “welly shelves” on the decking if you wish to leave a pair at nursery. Please also pack your child with a healthy snack for both morning and afternoon, separately labelled to lunches, which gets transferred into their trays in the morning, along with a labelled drinks bottle. As we are coming into the coldest months please can I suggest having a labelled hat, scarf and waterproof gloves and lots of spare socks in their bags.
Please can parents make sure their child’s shoes are Velcro, we have had an increase in laces which the children struggle with and as you can imagine takes their independence away. Also please please label them, as we have quite a few of the same shoe at the moment and same sizes.
Please could I advise parents of the yellow ‘keep clear’ zig zags at the front of the nursery. Although there are no actual parking restrictions down the rest of HayleyGreen, to help us keep our neighbours happy, please could we ask parents to parkdown Hayley Green lane next to the field, as opposed to outside the houses.

Key Worker – your child’s key worker will be set up on Tapestry where you will see some information about each key worker. Key workers are responsible for tracking your child’s development throughout their time at Paws, although as we are such a small team, the staff do all work together and use their joint knowledge of the children to help with tracking. Throughout the year your child’s key worker may change if for instance they build a particular bond with one teacher. You will have a chance to chat to your key worker on the teacher parent phones each term.

COLLECTION AND PICK UP
Morning 9am drop off and afternoon collections 3pm or 3.30pm are all from the
playground, please remember to secure the gate after leaving.
Afternoon 12pm and 12.30pm collection or drop off are from/at the front door.