April 2025

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Dear Parents,
Firstly, a very big, warm welcome to all of our new families at Paws, we hope everyone had a lovely Easter break. We are all excited to get stuck back into nursery life and enjoy the new garden glow up!! We have a busy couple of months ahead of us which we are excited to tell you about.
Across this term, here at Paws, we have the excitement of watching our Caterpillars turning into Butterflies, which we will take the opportunity to learn all about different life cycles and enjoy planting lots of butterfly friendly plants in our garden. We will also be covering farm animals in the run up to our very popular farm family day!! More information will be sent out in regards to the Farm day. We will also be taking part in ‘Walk to school’ week to see how many steps we can get in and how we all travel to Nursery.
This term sees the fathers coming into Nursery in ‘Fathers week’ (See Important dates list), and sports day will hopefully be a sunny affair for us in June.

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 morning, separately labelled to lunches, which
gets transferred into their trays in the morning, along with a labelled drinks bottle. As we are, fingers crossed, coming into some warmer weather please make sure your child has a named sun hat in their bag and they arrive at Nursery with suncream applied, footwear in the hotter months need to be secure for them to climb and jump so please no flip flops.

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.

 

We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce our newest staff member, Michaela Coppard. She joins us from a nursery in Wokingham after having moved to the Warfield area. We know that our families will welcome her warmly and help her settle in to nursery life.

 

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 Hayley Green, to help us keep our neighbours happy, please could we ask parents to park
down Hayley Green lane next to the field, as opposed to outside the houses.
 

COLLECTION AND PICK UP
Morning 9am drop off is from the side gate.
Afternoon 12pm and 12.30pm collection or drop off are from/at the front door.
Afternoon collection is either 3pm OR 3.30pm. (please be aware any times out of these
will need to be arranged as we are busy with the children and can’t always get to the door)