LARBERT VILLAGE NURSERY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
March 2017
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Date
Details
Community Story Sessions – every
Tuesday 25th April
Tuesday term time, 9.15-9.45 am
Friday 28th April
Community Coffee morning
st
Monday 1 May
May holiday
Thursday 4th May
Staff Development day
th
Monday 8 May
World Work Week
th
Saturday 20 May
Summer Fayre
Saturday 27th May
PTA Parent Hollywood Film Disco
Tuesday 30th May
Monday 5th June
Thursday 8th June
Friday 9th June
Nursery Sports Day
P1 Induction 1.15-3.00pm
Staff Development day
Bring your Hero to nursery day
P1 Lunch Experience Dining Hall
11am
Friday 16th June
Wednesday 21st
June
Friday 23rd June
Tuesday 27th June
Friday 30th June
Classes Involved
Community
Community
Whole School and Nursery
Whole School and Nursery closed
Whole School and Nursery
11.30am-1pm All welcome
All parents- contact PTA for
tickets.
Nursery children
Pre-school children
Whole School and Nursery closed
Nursery
Pre-school children
P1 Buddy Tour 1.30-2.30pm
Afternoon Pre-school children
P1 Buddy Tour 9.30-10.30am
P7’s Leavers Event 10am
Graduation Fun Day @ Carronvale
House. More info to follow.
Morning Pre-school children
Larbert High School
Nursery
Nursery Timetable
Day
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Morning
Gym Hall 9-9.45am
Music 9.00-9.45am
Woodland walks
Afternoon
Woodland walks
Music 12.20-1.00pm
ICT 12.45-2pm
Gym Hall 12.20-1.00pm
Enjoy-a-ball 1.00-2.00pm
ICT 10.45-11.30am
Enjoy-a-ball 9.3010.30am
Woodland walks
Woodland walks be starting back up the week beginning 24th April. We will take it week
about with the groups walking up to the woods from nursery. We will inform you of what
group is going each week. Any parents/carers who would like to help on our walks to the
woods, please let Mrs Gray know. The woodland walks will take place on a Monday
afternoon and then on a Tuesday morning. If your child is not in nursery on the day of the walks and would be
able to meet us in the woods, this is not a problem, please let Mrs Gray know.
Donations
A huge thank you to you all for the amazing donations we have had into the nursery, from wooden blocks, to
guttering, to toy cars, to the Smartie tubes, and loads more! All your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Nursery pick up times.
Please let a member of
staff know if you plan on
collecting you child before the end of the nursery session. Morning session doors are open at 8.40am until 9am,
and then reopen at 11.30-11.50am. Staff have lunch 11.50-12.20. Afternoon session doors are open 12.20-
12.30pm and will reopen at 3.00-3.30pm. If possible, please try to stick to these times as lots of early pickups
can cause disruption to the nursery session.
Bring your HERO to nursery
On Friday 9th June is when you can bring your special HERO to nursery! Your special HERO could
be your dad, uncle, grandpa or another family relative. Just one adult per child please on the
day. We will have lots of fun activities and things to do. On the communication wall, above the
book swap in the reception area, we will put up the allocated times for this special day and you
can add your child’s name to the time slot.
Graduation/Fun Day/Sports Day
The nursery Graduation Day is going to be the morning of Friday 30 th June and take place at
Carronvale house for both the morning and afternoon children. We are going to
make it a big fun day and sports day with Enjoy-a-ball coming along too. More information will
follow for this fantastic day.
Stenhousemuir Football
A huge thank you to Stenhousemuir Football club for coming and giving us such brilliantly fun sessions over the
last 8 weeks. The children very much enjoyed this, they all showed great listening skills, they followed
instructions, worked together and independently and also had such good balance and control with the football.
Enjoy-a-Ball
I am pleased to let you know we are going to be having a block of sessions with Enjoy-a-ball this term. Enjoy-aball is a multi-sports program, that will teach up to 10 different ball sports to give your child a broad range of
skills and sporting experiences, and of course social skills too.
Children’s interests/floor book
The children are very interested in building at the moment. The children are using their imagination by
experimenting with different loose materials to build a range of different things. Please have a look at our
floor book where you will see all the evidence of the children’s learning and progress. The floor book will usually
be situated on the table in front of the TV in the cloakroom, however, the floor
book is a working document so it may be out on the floor too but please ask a
staff member if you wish to see it.
We also have the communication book which is on the table in front of the TV.
This will have photographs and children’s comments from other experiences that
the children have had out with the planning/interest. For example, going to the
gym hall, going to the woods, Spanish with Primary 6. Please look at this and add
any comments.
Parent/carer Noticeboard
Please look at our noticeboard, which is on the side of the MUGA. Here you will find details of the nursery week
and additional information/news will displayed here.
Nursery Gate
Please can we remind everyone to close and lock the nursery gate, when entering or leaving the nursery. On a
few occasions the gate has been left open, this is very important for health and safety reasons.
Signing your child out at the end of the session
Please can we remind parents/carers that we encourage the children to stay in their group area until their
parent/carer has come over to their group area and signed them out. This is for health and safety and to
ensure that the key worker knows who has been collected.
Shoe bags- please put your child’s indoor shoes back into your child’s draw string bag. The drawers are for the
children’s outdoor shoes. We are having a lot of indoor shoes going missing. So please make sure your child’s
name is on everything!
Photography and Filming in the Nursery
This year we have a number of parents who have requested that their children are not photographed or filmed.
Therefore, we would politely ask that you do not take photographs or film in the nursery or during any other
activities such open day events or shows. In accordance to these wishes, could parents/carers please ensure
they are not on their phones when they enter the nursery.
Please Remember!
The nursery staff, myself, Mrs Gillespie and Mrs Macartney are always happy to speak to you or meet if you
have any questions or concerns. If you need to contact us please pop in, write, telephone or use the school email address. If you need to communicate with us urgently, it is usually best to telephone rather than e-mail as
there may be a delay.
Thank you.
Mrs L Gray
P.S - Newsletter Paper Copies
As an Eco School we continue to encourage as many parents as possible to receive our monthly
newsletters by electronic means. We would ask that if you have not already do so, could you please
access our school website on www.larbertvillage.falkirk.sch.uk and click on the subscribe envelope.
You are required to register with a valid e-mail address to ensure you receive notification of posts from our
website. If you wish a paper copy please inform Mrs Gray. This is the main form of communication for
nursery information.
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