Mother Hubbards Childcare September/October 2014 Newsletter
Welcome to our September/October Newsletter. We would
like to give a big welcome to all the new children who have started with us in
Toddlers, Pre-Montessori, Montessori and After school since the start of
September. We hope you have lots of fun in Mother Hubbards!
Staff News:
Unfortunately our Baby Room Teacher Denise Brennan
will be leaving us on the 8th October. We wish her all the best in
her new position. Denise has been with us since March 2012 where she has worked
most of her time in the Baby Room with many babies who are now some of our big
Montessori Children!! I know Denise will be missed by all the children and
parents. We want to say a big ‘Thank you’ to Denise for all her hard work for
the past two years and we will miss her very much.
Caroline Stewart will replace Denise on a temporary
basis in the Baby Room from Thursday 9th October until mid-November.
Caroline is fully qualified in Childcare and has seven years’ experience
working within the Childcare sector.
Marie-Louise has moved from Pre-Montessori to the Montessori
Room to work with Emer and Diana is now working alongside Anita in the
Pre-Montessori Room.
Parent’s reminder; Can
all parents please put their child’s names on spare clothes and coats as your
child’s belongings are easily misplaced.
Also with the weather getting cold and wet, we ask all
parents if possible to bring in wellies and raincoats to keep in the centre for
when the children go outside!
Please ensure to close the garden gate behind you if
you are coming to collect your child from the crèche.
Mid-Term Break:
Our ECCE class will have their mid-term break from
Monday 27th to Friday 31st October.
News from Our Classrooms:
Babies:
The
babies have been busy getting their hands and feet painted. They are also
spending lots of time climbing and tumbling over the new climbing blocks in the
baby room. The babies had a great time taking part in water play too..
Toddlers:
We
are learning all about autumn, we painted lovely little ducklings, and made
hand print leaves for the autumn tree. In circle time the Toddlers have learned
twinkle twinkle, Row Row Row your boat, Old Mc Donald and the ABC song.
Pre- Montessori:
This
month the theme in Pre-Montessori is autumn. We have been teaching the children
about hibernating animals. We have made some caves for our sleepy brown bears.
We also made our autumn tree which we decorated with some leaves, apples and
hedgehogs. We also learned a poem about autumn leaves, and we read lots of
stories showing pictures of animals hibernating.
We
also went on walks to the big green not far from the crèche which the children
loved they had loads of fun running on the grass and hiding behind trees.
Some
of the children from our class moved into Montessori this month, Lily, Ella
Rose, Cillian, Louis G, Roise and Louis Mc. We wish them the best of luck in
their new class. We also got some new friends from the Toddler room, Seamus
Billane, Cillian Canavan, Niall White and Alexander Curran. We have had a busy
month getting used to our new room.
Montessori:
We
want to welcome all the new children to our Montessori Class. We have had loads
of fun making new friends and playing with the new toys in Montessori. We are
also settling into our new routine. This month we also have been learning about
hibernation and autumn. We have pictures up in our room of some animals
hibernating.
Speech
and Drama has also started back, we are already looking forward to the
performances yet to come.
ECCE/Sessional:
The
ECCE class are now into their second month, and after a few tears we can
reassure parents that your little ones have settled in great and our new class
is so happy. So far we have covered the days of the week, the month and season.
We too are covering hibernation. For October we will be getting excited for
Halloween, we will be learning the ‘pumpkin man song’!!! Hopefully all the
children will dress up and maybe the staff too……
Afterschool:
It’s
been a busy month in the afterschool room. We have been exploring different
styles of art such as water colours, printing, cutting, pasting and
blow-painting. We have been doing loads of baking such as cookies and chocolate
ladybirds and we also made our own dinner last week of chips and burgers… We
are really looking forward to Halloween and decorating our room.
Information update:
We
are currently updating our children’s files, if anyone has changed address or
contact details recently please inform us here at the centre so we can make the
appropriate changes to your child’s file. Also if anyone was given a
vaccination form to update please can they be returned as soon as possible so
they can be filed accordingly.
Thank you!!
On
behalf of the Management and Staff of Mother Hubbards I would like to extend
our sincere gratitude to all parents, grandparents and friends who supported us
during the refurbishment of the children’s centre. It was a very big project
that could only have been accomplished with the patience and understanding of
everyone involved. We love our new children’s centre and we hope that you love
it too. Again thanks very much to everyone who supported us; it really means so
much that we are able to add to your children’s childcare experience in a
positive way.
Thanks
Again,
Mother
Hubbards Staff.