Spring 2 ~ 2019 Newsletter

Welcome back to the second half of the spring term, we hope you all had an enjoyable break. We have lots of exciting activities planned this term including our ‘Mother’s Day Tea’ and our ‘Easter Egg Hunt’.

It is with great sadness that I inform you that I will be leaving Acacia at the end of this academic year. This has not been a decision I have made lightly but the time has come for me to move on and dedicate more time to my own family. I have been at Acacia for over 6 years and I honestly cannot thank this wonderful pre-school enough for the opportunities and experience that it has given me. It really is a very special place and I wish it all the very best for the future. Rest assured, I will work alongside our committee in the coming months to find Acacia a suitable replacement. It is my aim to find my successor and ideally work alongside them during the summer term to ensure a smooth transition. Acacia is very lucky to have an amazing team who work with your children and who will continue to maintain its high standards of childcare and education.

If you have not already done so, please could you return your child’s learning journey so that staff can continue to add to them. These will be coming home again for you to share with your child over the Easter break.

Thank you for your extremely generous donations to our snack café; they really are very much appreciated. We always welcome donations of breadsticks, crackerbreads, fresh fruit / vegetables & cheese. New this term we will have a basket in the welcome area for you to put your donations. As requested, we will also put a collection pot with the basket for anyone that would prefer to make monetary donation.

Thank you for all the ‘Wow Moments’ that have been added to our tree. Please do keep adding them and your child’s key person will add them to your child’s learning journey. It is great to hear about the great things that they do at home.

If you are planning a holiday during term time can you please let us know. We sometimes have requests from parents for their child to do an extra session, so it is good to know if we will have a space, thank you.

MOTHER’S DAY – On Friday 29th March we would like to invite parents / carers to ‘The Acacia Mother’s Day Tea’! The children will be decorating cakes & biscuits for you to enjoy with them along with a cup of tea or coffee at 11.30am. It will be great to see you there!

On Friday 5th April, our last day of term, we will be having a ‘spots and stripes’ day & we would like to invite the children to come to Acacia dressed in anything spotty or stripy. A voluntary donation is requested on this day as a contribution to our Easter activities. We will also be having our Easter egg hunt on this day during our morning session.

The last day of this term is Friday 5th April & we return for the summer term on Wednesday 24th April!!!