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Chinses New year celebrations

Thu 15 Feb 2024

The children will celebrate Chinese new year by trying tasty and delicious food, Children over 2 will try their hand at eating with chop sticks and watch short clips on the culture of China. All children will get the opportunity to decorate traditional Chinese lanterns, with support from staff send them way high up in to the sky. If parents/Carers would like to join in on the festivities please come and pick up your children by 4:45 and join us on the green.

Please dress your children in red as this signifies good luck and prosperity in Chinese culture.

Breast Cancer Fundraising!

Thu 16 Nov 2023 Donna

Dear Cherubins Day Nursery

You're an inspiration!

Congratulations on successfully completing your Fundraising and raising an incredible £134.51!  It’s an amazing achievement and every donation that you’ve raised will be put to good use straight away towards preventing breast cancer. Thank You! 

Your wonderful support means we can continue to help people, like Tina, reduce their risk of breast cancer. Tina was just 29 years old when she received her first breast cancer diagnosis, which led to a 10-year journey of self-discovery. This was followed by a second diagnosis in 2017 and despite having made some initial changes to address her work life balance, Tina realised she needed to make some major changes to take control of her lifestyle. She is now very focused on health and nutrition and is passionate about helping others to reduce their risk of breast cancer through healthy lifestyle choices.  

Through your fantastic fundraising, you’re helping more people reduce their risk of ever getting breast cancer, so they don’t have to go through the upheaval of a diagnosis as Tina did. 

We really can't thank you enough!      

Children in need fundraising

Tue 14 Nov 2023

Children in need

Thursday 16th November 2023 the nursery will be working together to raise money for another great causes CHILDREN IN NEED. Please can we ask you to join the nursery staff in dressing to impress in your most snug, flamboyant and colorful pyjamas

We are asking for a donation of £2.00 there will also be a variety of bright and messy activities throughout the day and we will be carrying out a cake sale and be raffling a Pudesy surprise basket tickets will be on sale throughout the day.

I know that we can count on you all to join in on raising money for children in need.

Breast cancer awareness Fundraiser

Thu 19 Oct 2023 Donna

To all our nursery family,

I would like to say a great BIG thank you to all that helped raise money for a great cause. Most of us at some point in or life or our families and friends lives we have been affected by the dreaded C word. We as a setting have supported a number of causes and this being no exception, we raised a grand total of £129.06 thank you to Leah for baking the pretty, yummy cupcakes and Cathy for putting together the wonderful memory bags.

New little fluffy additions to the Cherubins family (Lewisham)

Thu 11 May 2023

"We would like to share some exciting news".

For the last 20 days one of our hens (Ruby who we have had since she was 5 days old) has been sitting on 5 eggs. Some of the pre school children joined me last week to do what is called candling of the eggs which is looking through the egg with a torch in the dark to see if anything is growing inside. We could see that 2 of the eggs had chicks inside which was very exciting for the children and staff. 2 of the other eggs are less developed.

Today we have noticed that one of the eggs has a tiny crack which means hopefully by tomorrow we will have a new baby chick.

This for us shows how happy our pets are in their new housing that they are reproducing in a lovely natural way. Some of the children have been excited about the whole process and it has been lovely to be able to the children this experience as not many children get this sort of experience within their nursery. It's all thanks to our parents who helped and contributed to the fund raising to build a large safe and warm house for our pets.

December 2022 Dates for diary (LEWISHAM)

Mon 28 Nov 2022 Donna

December is upon us and the children will be very busy the wc:5th December 2022 please place the following dates in your diary. We look forward to seeing you all for the festive celebrations.

Monday 5th December-Stargazers and Jasmine festive sing songs @4:30

Tuesday 6th December- Saffron festive songs @4:30 also the children will be tucking in the the delights of Christmas dinner @11:30-1:00 all children are invited if your child does not attend on this day and you would like them to have the Christmas dinner please tell the staff in their room they will be attending.

Wednesday 7th December- Willow and Blossom room (Pre-School) Christmas play, The Polar Express @4:30.

Thursday 8th December-Annual children's Christmas party and Santa visit @3:30

Friday 9th December-Christmas jumper day donate a £1.00 and wear your festive jumpers with pride.

On Friday the 9th December 2022 the Staff will be treated to their Staff Christmas meal for all their continuous hard work and dedication. Please can I ask kindly if Parents as a one off could collected their children not later then 5pm to ensure all staff can get home and make it back on time.

After all the sing song and play parents and children will be treated to a Variety of warm drinks and treats. We look forward to seeing you all present, please remember that space is a little issue so we ask that one to two family members to attend on each performance.

Pet housing fund raising obstacle couse

Tue 27 Sep 2022 Eileen

A huge thank you to all our parents/carers/staff and extended family who have helped us raise £1021.97. We raised much more than expected which means the build can begin straight away. The obstacle course was enjoyed by all the children and the staff.

I would also like to thank Wickes at Blackheath who have given a donation of £102.00 worth of material to help with the build and also gave us 10% off our bill which was £97.00

We are going to start the build this weekend. WHOOP WHOOO

Jeans for Gene's day

Wed 21 Sep 2022 Eileen

We raised £166.53 for Jeans for Gene's day thank you to everyone who helped us raise our largest amount so far for this particular charity.

To raise funds for jeans for Gene's day the children helped to bake cakes in all our rooms and then the staff sold them at the end of the day welcoming donations from our parents. We also did a raffle making up the prizes from donations from our staff.

The children had great fun exploring lots of different blue activities throughout the nursery from blue water play to decorating a pair of jeans with different blue materials.

19th September - National Day of Mourning for our late Queen

Mon 19 Sep 2022

13^th September 2022

To all our Parents/carers

Re: 19^th September - National Day of Mourning for our late Queen

We are deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and extend our deepest sympathies to the Royal family.

The Queen has been a constant thread throughout all of lives and her passing will leave an indelible mark on each of us. Her Majesty has been the most remarkable servant of her nation, demonstrating service, commitment, steadfastness and humility through a life of reign which has seen our lives transformed in so many ways.

We would like to inform you that as Monday 19^th September 2022 has now been identified as a bank holiday for the funeral of the late Queen. The setting will be closed as a mark of a respect to take part in the National Day of Mourning. This will enable staff, children, and families to pay their respects watching the televised events for our late monarch.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Donna Antill

Nursery Manager

Pet fund raising update

Fri 16 Sep 2022 Eileen

Total fund raising to date is £864.00

A huge thank you to everyone who has helped to raise way more than we appealed for. The obstacle course was great fun and all the children really enjoyed it as did the staff. We are now in the process of preparing to order the wood ect for the build and hope to begin building it early October. We are going to leave the fund raising page up for 1 more week for those of you who still want to contribute. Any money left over from the housing build will go towards the cost of fox proofing the pets grazing and outdoor exploring area. As I am sure some of you are aware that whilst having our tea party yesterday we had a visit from a fox who killed a pigeon just outside our pets area. Therefor we are going to try to enclose it all as quickly as possible. Thank you all again Eileen