PLAYHOUSE NEWSLETTER

December 2013

Dear Families/Whanau

Christmas time had arrived at Playhouse, bringing with it the usual fun and excitement that this special time of year

brings to all the children (and the staff!!) December is always a busy month here at Playhouse so please make sure

you read this newsletter thoroughly for events, times, holidays etc

BIRTHDAYS

Fynn (11th) and Austin (17th)

Leo (14th)

Zenko (4th), Jimmy N (14th) and Elyssa (31st)

William (4th) and Lincoln (21st)

CENTRE NEWS

We are very happy to announce that Sam has had her baby –

hooray!! Amelia Jayne Brookes arrived at 4.12pm on Thursday 14th

December weighing 6lb 9oz A HUGE congratulations to Sam and

Graham on their beautiful daughter and welcome to the Playhouse

family Amelia!

There was lots of excitement earlier in the month when we had a new wooden Playhouse built in the garden! We’re

loving this new addition to our outdoor play area – thanks Greg

CHRISTMAS PARTY

The centre Christmas party is on Thursday 19th December from 3.00-5.00pm This is always a

fun afternoon at the centre and we would love it if you could all join us to celebrate the end of

another great year at Playhouse! The children love to share this special occasion with someone

close and really notice if no one is there for them so if neither parent is able to attend it would be

wonderful if a grandparent, aunty, uncle or other family friend could be there to share this special

time with them

HOLIDAYS/REDUCED HOURS

A huge thank you to everyone for getting your holiday forms back to us We have now finalised the attendance

during the Christmas/New Year period and have arranged holidays and staffing to fit in with these numbers

**REMINDER: THE CENTRE CLOSES AT 12.00pm ON TUESDAY 24th DECEMBER**

**PLAYHOUSE CHRISTMAS PARTY**

We would love all our families to join us for a fun afternoon

Thursday 19th December

3.00 - 5.00pm

There will be a special Christmas sing-a-long face painting, sausages

sizzling on the BBQ, and of course Santa will be visiting with a gift for

all the Playhouse children

Please bring a plate of finger food to share :)

Christmas/New Years Opening Hours

Tuesday 24th December – CENTRE CLOSES AT 12.00pm Wednesday 25th & Thursday 26th December – CENTRE CLOSED

Wednesday 1st & Thursday 2nd January – CENTRE CLOSED

Centre open on REDUCED HOURS of 8.00am-4.30pm…. Friday 27th, Monday 30th, Tuesday 31st Dec and Friday 3rd Jan

Normal hours resume Monday 6th January

Greetings from the Kiwi Room.

We want to thank relievers Shiree, Mele, Farida and Tamsyn who are working with us to ensure your children are

happy and secure each day. In the New Year, we have invited Ruth Brown to join our team. She has just completed

her Bachelor of Teaching and is passionate about working with the Under 2 age group. You may remember her - when

she completed her 7 week practicum with us earlier this year. We are so glad that she is able to come back to

Playhouse and the children will love to see her again as well.

The Christmas decorations have been located and dusted off and we are starting to decorate the room in

preparation for our end of year festivities. We are going to practice new songs for our concert, make gifts for our

families, try some festive cooking and enjoy the warm summer weather with lots of outdoor play.

The children are all very energetic and adventuresome, and love to spend as much time as they can outdoors as they

explore, climb, get involved in new activities and make new friends.

We want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your support and trust over this past year and want to

reassure you that we are taking extra care to ensure your little ones are safe, secure and happy as we work through

the staff changes. The daily routines and the programme of the Kiwi room have stayed the same for the children

and they have really surprised us with their resilience and acceptance of new staff in the room.

We hope that you may be able to get some time off work to come and join us all at the Centre’s Christmas Party on

Thursday 14 December (3.00 – 5.00pm)

We congratulate Sam and Graham on the birth of Amelia Jayne We look forward to lots of cuddles!

Season’s greetings from Lynnette, Alisi, Shiree, Sam, Mele, Farida and Tamsyn

Tena koe and welcome to news from the Pukeko room

Our highlights of the past month were walking to the park and the arrival of our new play house. We have visited the

park regularly during its transformation and it was a pleasure to see the work almost complete. The children walked

through the beautifully designed track and were invited by Green Bay High School to help create a taniwha and

eggs(sea urchin) of shells, and clay. As a finale we plan to celebrate by having a picnic lunch of fish and chips in the

park.

We would like to say a big thank you to Greg for our exciting new play house. The children have had an absolute blast

playing mums and dads and our older children have taken books inside to do a shared group time!

We have been busy practicing and making props and masks for our Christmas concert and we are looking forward to

our upcoming Christmas party to share our songs and dance moves with you!. As this year comes to a close we would

like to thank our parents and whanau for your cooperation and kind words of encouragement. Merry Christmas and a

Happy New Year to all our families!

Last but not the least we would like to farewell our dear friends Lincoln, Isaac, Madison, Aiden Brophy, Troy, Maia

and William who will be leaving us for school. We will miss you all and wish you Happy School Days and lots of new

friends

Wishing all our families a very merry and magical Christmas!

From all of us at Playhouse

Greg, Lynnette, Tiffany, Sandra, Sam, Nicola, Vanessa, Alisi, Molly, Jade, Tamsyn,

Mele, Rita, Shiree, Farida, Anne, Ruth and Diana