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Regards

Shona

Use of baby walkers and jumping aids

A message to all Nursery parents

The first three years of your child's life are probably the most important in terms of preparation for formal learning and movement. It is important that your child gets plenty of stimulating time on the floor (including time on their back and tummy) and is encouraged to move around freely.

To this end the use of baby walkers, jumping aids and all baby accessories that confine a child's movements are not suitable. Baby walkers, in particular take up precious time that could be spent on the floor, gaining body awareness, control and strength. there are very real dangers associated with baby walkers as they make a young child mobile much earlier than is normal or developmentally necessary. your child now has ready access to stairs, steps, uneven surfaces, stoves, open fires, heaters, tabletops and bench tops. Injuries (mainly to the head) occur as the baby walker tips easily and the child has little control. Apart from tipping easily, baby walkers can be detrimental to the development of your child's muscles. As with the bouncing aid, if the heels are not flat when pushing from the floor surface, this may shorten the Achilles tendon and create a toe walking action when the child is learning to walk without support.

Without a doubt, the safest and most educational place for your young baby to be is on the floor. This is our practice in the Nursery and we encourage you to do the same in the home.

kind regards

Shona

Preschool News

Time is moving so fast. When quite a few older children left for primary school, we started to meet our new preschoolers, all of whom are doing really well. They are learning the routines, customs and making new friends rapidly. In the last week, we had Pyjama Day. All the teachers were so pleased to see our children wear their snuggly, warm pyjamas and showed each other their cuddly toys. Even one of our dads joined in the fun of Pyjama Day. All of us have had a fabulous week with lots of laughter and fun. See attached photos of the two links below.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bayfieldeec/PreschoolPJS?authkey=Gv1sRgCOzd7bDfk-rhowE&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/bayfieldeec/PreschoolPJS2?authkey=Gv1sRgCO6ErsvXxpK5Rg&feat=directlink

News From The Nursery

It has been a busy couple of weeks with children moving from room to room. We farewelled Francesca, Jasper S. and Liam to the Toddler Room, where they will soon be followed by 8 more of their friends who are also turning two. June and July will be busy months for us as we try to transition all of our children over. This process includes lots of visits, increasing in length, until the children are ready to move. If your child is one of those turning two in July pop into the Toddler Room and meet the teachers if you haven't already. Incoming, we have had Axel visiting the Tuatara Room in preparation for his start next week, while in the Pukeko Room, Baby Lennix has been relaxing and getting to know his new friends.
The winter weather has set in so please make sure that your children have enough warm sets of clothes as we are getting rather dirty exploring outside in this weather.
http://picasaweb.google.com/bayfieldeec/NurseryBlog?authkey=Gv1sRgCOualcLWpu75mAE&feat=directlink

Bayfield Reminders

Just a couple of reminders.
On the 22nd June we have James from Avon Studios coming in to the centre to take the class photos.

Entertainment books are now selling well and we only have a few left at reception. These books are $ 65.00, with a portion of these sales going back to the centre. If you would like to buy a book, please see Shona or Mona at reception.

Nursery wait list

We have some spaces available in our Nursery due to parents deferring over the next couple of months. If you have your baby on our wait list or you know someone who is anxious to get a space some time in the near future please come and see Shona. As our wait list is normally a year, this is an unusual occurence and we are not expecting the offer to last long as I am sure we will fill these spaces very soon.

Shona

Staff Changes

We have a couple of changes coming up in our staffing. Jade will be sadly leaving us. She is moving to a centre on the North Shore. Her last day will be Friday, 12th June 2009. Good luck Jade with your new job.
We have a new teacher coming in to Preschool on Monday, 6th July 2009. Her name is laura Evans and she is a newly qualified graduate, who has also done a Degree in Communications. We warmly welcome Laura to Bayfield!
Naturally all of this will cause a change around relieving staff. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask Shona.

New Toddler Teacher

Dear Toddler Parents
We warmly welcome Damayanthi Mullegama to the Toddler team of teachers as a permanent teacher. Damayanthi is studying for her Early Childhood Diploma and hopes to qualify in November this year. She will be working full time in the Toddler Room as from Monday 25th May 2009. Please feel free to introduce yourself to her.

kind regards

Shona Hewitt

Preschool New Friends and Baking News

A warm welcome to our new children; Harry, Keira and Lucia and also our new teacher, Shaina who will be with us for the next six months. This week our baking took a new turn, yeah!! We made yummy chocolate cup cakes. The children enjoyed making their favourite coloured icing and decorating the cup cakes. At the moment our current interests are baking (Yum!), creative play and relationships. Now we have the Virtue Vine, which encourages positive behaviours from the children. For example, if we see the children caring for others or for the environment etc, we reward them with flowers or leaves.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bayfieldeec/PreschoolNews?authkey=Gv1sRgCJ_yj_H7iKH7Lw&feat=directlink

Fun Over The Fence!! (Nursery News)

On Thursday after sleep time, we snuck over the fence to the Toddlers playground to explore their side of town while they were sleeping. We were all so excited to venture out and have a go on all the different things that were set up. Zayvian tried out the new red bikes and zoomed around the footpath, having a great old time, laughing as he enjoyed a wider space to ride around. Alfie, who has headed towards the slide, wasn't fazed by the stairs and tunnel he had to go through to get to it, and had a ball sliding down the great big yellow slide.
Ranen and Poppy peeked through the shapes cut into the tunnel on their way through.
All in all we had a great time exploring the Toddler's playground, but were ready to come back to our side when we heard it was afternoon tea time. It's hard work playing over there, you know!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/bayfieldeec/NurseryNews?authkey=Gv1sRgCKz4su_92O2qrwE&feat=directlink