Christmas Raffle

Well done to those of you who won some lovely prizes in the raffle. We would like
to say thank you to NBN, a company for whom one of our parents works, for kindly
donating prizes for you all to win, this was very much appreciated. Also a big thank
you to those of you who bought tickets for the raffle and the Pre-School play too.
We raised a lovely amount of money that has helped us re-develop the Pre-School
room book corner with some lovely new furniture.
A huge Thank You.

Reminder

Lots of you now are very good at signing your children in at the start of the
session. Can we just remind you to leave an emergency contact number each day
and stress that it is equally important that you sign your child out when you leave
as these are the records we use in the event of a fire or emergency evacuation.
We are sure you do not want to compromise anybody‛s safety during these times.
Thank you in advance.

Thank You

The team at Bumblebees would like to say a big thank you to all of you who gave
Christmas cards and gifts. The girls all work very hard throughout the whole year
and the kind thoughts were very much appreciated.

School Club

You may already be aware that we have to say goodbye to our school club children
throughout the coming term. Due to a rise in Pre-School numbers we unfortunately have
to stop running our school clubs. We have looked into various ways in which we could
continue this. Finding other premises to rent has been unsuccessful and although we
are pressing ahead with a planning application to extend our current premises, planning
permission is taking much longer than expected. We hope that in the future we will
fi nally have planning permission granted and revisit this again. This has been a very hard decision to make and we will be very sad to see the children go. They have all been a lovely group to look after and we wish them all the very best for the future.

Staff Changes

In preparation for Julia going on maternity leave in Mid February we have recruited
a new member of the team. Abi has now joined the Bees and will take over Julia‛s
key group. Abi has previous nursery experience and we are happy to welcome her to
Bumblebees. Jodie has also moved into the pre-school to help with her NVQ2 training.

Ladybirds & Caterpillars - Jo – Room Leader, Maggie – Deputy
Rosie, Vic, Gillian, Sam G and Cody
Bees- Sam – Room Leader, Carly - Deputy, Fawn, Julia, Luci and Abi
Pre-School – Jo C – Room Leader, Lucy, Karen and Jodie.

First Aid Course

Bumblebees is having an in-house paediatric first aid course on Saturday 9th and 16th January (9am – 4pm) we are welcoming any parent who wish to join us for this course. The cost for this is £45.00 per person. We only have a few spaces left but if this is something that is popular we would look to rearrange more dates. Please can you let Faye or Gemma know asap.

Christmas

Over the next few weeks the children are going to be very busy with all their Christmas preparations. Individual room information will be sent out about the Christmas parties and play.