Dear Parents,

We hope that your child has enjoyed the first few days of term and we would like to give you a few details regarding our school. This newsletter is an important means of communication with you, please read it carefully and keep it for references as we have some dates and duties for you to note.

CLASS and INDIVIDUAL PHOTOGRAPHS MONDAY 23rd JANUARY

NO LESSONS MONDAY 30th JANUARY

HALF TERM FRIDAY 17th FEBRUARY –
MONDAY 20th FEBRUARY incl.

SPORTS DAY (Details to follow) THURSDAY 1st MARCH @ 9:00 am

END OF TERM THURSDAY 5th APRIL

CAKE ROSTER : This is now up on the notice board in the driveway. Parents please make a note of the Friday date when you are requested to supply a cake. Please try not to forget as the children really enjoy and look forward to “cake day”.

BIRTHDAYS : We celebrate this with a special Birthday Ring. Please notify your class teacher when you would like to supply a cake for the class to share on your child’s birthday, however, please refrain from doing this on a Friday as Fridays are our “cake days”.

LIBRARY : This only applies to RED GROUP and is held on Fridays. We find this very successful and it encourages the children to enjoy books AND to learn to take care of them. PLEASE PROVIDE A CLOTH BAG, of any size, for the book your child takes out. Please ensure that the book is removed from your child’s suitcase AT HOME, read through and put in the child’s suitcase ready to be returned for MONDAY. Please return the library book on time, thank you. If you misplace or damage the library book, then you will need to replace it.

SCHOOL TIMES : PLEASE DO NOT DROP CHILDREN AT THE NURSERY SCHOOL BEFORE 7:30 a.m. as there is no supervision before this time and the school cannot accept responsibility for a child left unsupervised. Please make sure that your child is at Nursery School by 8:00 a.m., this gives your child time to settle and socialise with their peers before formal lessons begin. You may however, drop your child at the main school before 7:30 a.m. where our helper, Charity, will walk them to the Nursery School. ALL CHILDREN ARE TO BE COLLECTED FROM THE NURSERY SCHOOL BY 12:30 p.m. LATEST. Please be on time when collecting your child as children get very upset watching their new friends going home whilst they are waiting for you to come. Please notify your teacher, preferably by writing, if your child is to be collected by someone other than yourself. We would ask that you DO NOT leave your car unattended in the driveway and that you adhere to the times in order to reduce a build-up in the car-park, thank you. Our contact number at the Nursery School is 745211 ext. 25.
DROP OFF TIME : 7:30 a.m.
HOME TIMES : BLUE GROUP: 11:45 a.m.
RED GROUP : 12: 00 noon

If you would like to take your child out during the school term, for whatever reason, a letter to the Headmistress and to your class teacher is required, stipulating the dates the child will be absent from school.

We would like to encourage Parents to come in to their child’s classroom and see all their artwork which is often displayed. This makes your child feel important and proud of their work.
Please could each child bring in a recent FUN photo of themselves as soon as possible, thank you.

Please inform the Main Office if you should require other siblings to be booked into the Nursery School as each child is required to have their own application form. Any changes of details i.e. address, telephone number etc., please notify your class teacher and the Main Office so that our files can be altered accordingly.

We would like to take this opportunity to request that if Parents are making arrangements between themselves, that they do so WITHOUT involving the staff at school. The teachers are kept very busy during the morning and it is difficult for them to act as messengers. If, however, your child is going home with someone else, please notify your class teacher as to who they are going home with. If for some reason parents are delayed collecting their child, i.e. petrol queue, bank queue etc. and have made other arrangements, please phone your class teacher and notify her. If a person unknown to us comes to collect your child, we will ask for their I.D. number and we will phone you to confirm.

VERY IMPORTANT : Please can you ensure that your child is FULLY TOILET TRAINED before they start Nursery School as you can appreciate, it is very difficult for the staff to cope with it.

Ensure that your child brings a raincoat each day during the rainy season and a set of clean clothes, clearly marked, as accidents do happen. They also require a sunhat, apron, facecloth, with a tag at the end so it may get hung on their hooks, all clearly marked, which will stay at school. Each child is required to bring a drink, we would prefer water instead of juice, and a lunchbox to school every day and these too must be clearly marked. Please pack a healthy break for your child, i.e. a sandwich cut in 4, apples or oranges cut in 4 or any other fruit, yoghurt, carrot sticks, raw beans, cucumber etc. are good for your child. Please refrain from packing sweets, crisps and nuts.

GYM for both groups is on Friday mornings. Try and remember to send your child to school with EASY shoes – ones they can do themselves, and no socks, as this is done barefoot, and girls to wear trousers or shorts and long hair is to be tied up.

Please DO NOT send your child to school if they are feeling unwell. The children actually learn nothing and miserable children affect all the other children in the class as well as their teacher. This is requested in the interests of ALL children at the school

RED GROUP PARENTS : Extra swimming lessons are offered to Red Group children on a Tuesday at 12:15 p.m. The lessons are taught by Bronwyn Johns and Sandy Grant. If you would like your child to do extra lessons, please let me know. First lesson will be on Tuesday 17th January.

Kidzcan Zimbabwe are fund raising on the 15th February, please send your child with some money for this worthy cause. Kidzcan is an organisation that supports and helps children with cancer, so please give generously. At our concert in November 2011, we raised US$ 1478 and R 207 for them, thank you to all Parents who gave so generously.

We would like to remind Parents of the condition of enrolment which requires a full term’s notice if you wish to remove your child during a booked year.

Feel free to contact your class teacher or the Headmistress, Mrs. Middleton, if you wish to discuss any matters that concern you relating to your child at school.

We wish you and your child a very happy term.

HENRIETTE  IOANNIDES (HOD)
NIA  VERGHIS