Parents Page

Dates for diaries 2025

Dates for parents diaries are now uploaded please click on the tab above to view


Parents meetings will be taking place between the 



 6th - 10th February 2023


Please email the nursery if you have not been offered an appointment

Dates for diaries

2023

Please use above button to access

January &  February  Newsletter now viewable

Dates for Diaries is currently being finalised and will be available within the coming week


Letter from Parents from Director of Public health Croydon 9th December 2021

Please find below a letter from Director of Public health England with new local measures, as Covid numbers increase in the area. Please ensure you read our Covid outbreak management plan above, this works alongside this to ensure we are all working together to protect ourselves and allow the setting to stay open and operate a service to you.

October 2021 / Updated Covid-19 Management Outbreak Plan

We have just updated our Covid-19 Management outbreak plan, if you would like to view it in more detail it has been added to the tab above for your reading.


Changes to EYFS from September 2021

The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is being reformed and there is a new EYFS framework that all schools and settings will have to follow from September 2021.

 These national changes have been made to better support all young children’s learning and development. It is also the aim that the new framework will better prepare children for the transition into key stage 1.

Parents & Carers information on changes

Healthy Teeth

The importance of Oral hygiene in Early years...

Tooth decay is the most common reason for hospital admission for children aged 6-10 years-old. Whilst it is largely preventable it still remains a serious public health problem. PHE data shows that in 2017, almost a quarter of 5-year-olds started school with tooth decay. Whilst oral health has improved in this age group significant inequalities persist with almost half (47%) of 5 year olds in Rochdale having tooth decay in comparison with 13% in Cambridgeshire. In the most deprived decile in England, over a third of children have dental decay (36.3%), compared to just 12.5% in the least deprived decile. Tooth decay impacts on children and families, children who have toothache or who need treatment may have; pain, infections and difficulties with eating, sleeping, speaking and socialising. They may have to be absent from school and parents may also have to take time off work to take their children to a dentist or to hospital. Children’s poor oral health links to other key policy areas such as getting the best start in life, inequalities, child obesity, school readiness and development of speech and language.

Home learning
 for Bumblebees room 12th January 2021

The children in Bumblebees room would have been learning about 'Humpty Dumpty' this week. 
Discussing body parts that humpty dumpty could have hurt when he fell of the wall. 
Maybe at home you could try and make your own humpty dumpty with your children. You could use things from around your home, cereal boxes, toilet roll tubes, empty containers as junk modelling tools, to create a Humpty dumpy. Use your creations and test to see if they fall of a wall. 
Mark making using blocks, boxes or sponges to paint bricks and create a wall effect. Also using crayons and paper to rub against a wall to look at the different patterns. 
Please click the links below to access some colouring pages along with some pencil control activities of lines and circles. This is an area we are currently focussing on in Bumblebees room.
  There is also a printable Humpty Dumpty that parents can cut out themselves into 4/6/8 pieces and the children can put them back together to help their puzzle skills. 

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Humpty Dumpty colouring pages Humpty Dumpty pencil control activity Humpty Dumpty Puzzle

Autumn activity for the children 
Woodland Wildlife Spotter

A lovely way to spend some time outdoors with your child. Please click the link to print off this fantastic Woodland wildlife spotter. You can explore and talk to your child about the changes that happen in Autumn. look out for the things on the spotter list and let your child mark off what they have seen.
Download the checklist

Parents Questionnaires September 2020

Dear Parents/Carers

We are always looking to enhance the quality of care that we provide for you and your child at our nursery. 
To evaluate current standards and to plan for the future, we would be very grateful if you could complete the questionnaire on Babydays by the 31st September.

I will be evaluating the results from this questionnaire and will
inform you of the results in due course.

Thank you in advance for completing this questionnaire as we all really appreciate your very valued feedback.

Kind regards
Mandy Giannandrea

Managing Director


Graduation 2020

In prepartion for our much smaller graduation ceremonies this year. The children will be singing a couple of songs, Someones in the kitchen with Dinah and Cauliflowers fluffy & cabbages green, please find below the lyrics to enable us all to sing along.

Cauliflowers Fluffy and cabbages green
Cauliflowers Fluffy and cabbages green
Strawberries are sweeter than any I've seen
Beetroots purple and onions white
All grow steadily day and night
The apples are ripe and the plums are red
The broadbeans are sleeping in their blankety bed
Blackberries juicy and rhubards sour
Marrows fattening hour by hour
Gooseberries hairy and lettuces fat
Radishes round and runner beans flat
The apples are ripe and the plums are red
The broadbeans are sleeping in their blankety bed
Orangey carrots and turnips cream
Reddening tomatoes that used to be green
Brown potatoes in little heaps
Down in the darkness where the celery sleeps
The apples are ripe and the plums are red
The broadbeans are sleeping in their blankety bed

Someones in the kitchen with Dinah
Someones in the kitchen with Dinah
Someones in the kitchen, I know, I know
Someones in the kitchen with Dinah
Strumming on the old banjo

Fe, FI, Fiddly I O
Fe, Fi, Fiddly I O
Fe, Fi, Fiddly I O
Strumming on the old banjo

and repeat 3 times with appropriate actions 






Please click to link to listen and watch the songs

Health Declaration form

This form needs to be downloaded, completed and returned via email to  the nursery. This needs to be completed at the beginning of each week.

A message to all our Children & Parents

We hope to see you all very soon, but in the meantime we have recorded a little message for you......

Coronavirus / Potential Nursery re-opening

 At this current time we do not have all information set out, as to exactly when and how we hope to reopen. We have put together  Covid 19 - Site operational procedures,  this shows what measures we plan to implement at the setting to ensure everyone's safety.
Sanderstead Park Nursery / Covid 19 Site operational procedures

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 May 2020 Planning 

Caterpillars Planning ideas

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 May 2020 planning

Bumblebees planning ideas

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May 2020 planning

Butterflies May planning ideas

The Hungry Caterpillar story stones activity

Click the Caterpillar to read the story
Pictures 1 Pictures 2 Pictures 3 Pictures 4 Pictures 5
Here is a little activity for the children, this will link into our current theme of Minibeasts. If you don't have the Hungry Caterpillar book at home, don't worry you can watch the story on YouTube. 
The picture stones can be used not just to tell the story, but also for hiding in your house or garden. Paint with varnish to make them last a     little longer. 

April 2020 / Butterflies & Sunflowers Home planning ideas

April 2020 / Bumblebees Home Planning ideas

April 2020 / Caterpillars Home Planning ideas

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Lavender Playdough 

2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup salt
2 tbsp cream of tartar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
5 drops lavender essential oil or amount desired
blue gel food coloring, amount to desired saturation
red get food colouring, amount to desired saturation

Instructions
In a large, heat safe mixing bowl, mix dry ingredients (flour, salt and cream of tartar) together. 
Bring 1½ cups water to a boil, add desired amount of blue and red food coloring (more food coloring can be kneaded into the dough later as well). Add in lavender essential oil.
Gradually add the hot water to the flour mixture, stirring with a baking spatula between additions. When it comes together, turn out onto a floured surface and knead until the playdough is even in texture and not sticky anymore. As it cools, it will get less sticky. You can add more flour to the mixture as you are kneading to make it more dry and less sticky.
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