1st December 2009

Christmas Celebration at Kate Greenaway

We are planning a special Christmas celebration with the children on Friday 11th December, running from 3.30-5.30pm. We will be sharing food and having activities and stalls for children. If you’ve got ideas for stalls or want to help out in any way, then please let Julian or Michele know. The children will be cooking during the day to make food to share. We hope that if your child usually goes home at 3.30pm (or 11.45am) you will come and enjoy the celebration. If your child has an extended day place, then we hope you might be able to leave work early and come and join in with your child.

All children on roll are welcome, whatever day they normally come in.

Job vacancies at Kate Greenaway

We have two vacancies at the moment.

We need a part time Early Years teacher to work with us next term, 3 days a week. This post will help Michele to cover Jan’s secondment to Golden Lane, which continues for another term.
We also need a temporary cook for the Community Kitchen to cover Yogi’s maternity leave next year.

If you know anyone who would be interested – please let them know.

Job details are on our website.


Filming at Kate Greenaway

Please see an important message, below:

To all parents at Kate Greenaway Nursery

Would you be willing to help with an important new project that Kate Greenaway nursery is involved in?


I’m Julie, from a young people’s charity called Young People in Focus. We are helping young mums and dads who are in prison to learn how to play with their children. The project is funded by the Big Lottery.

Many young people in prison come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and may not have had very good experiences of playing when they were younger.

So now that they are parents, many are unsure about how to play with their child. This DVD will help support them, showing children of different ages (from babies to pre-school children) playing with toys, books, and games, and making things. The DVD will then be shown in prisons as part of a parenting course for young people.

Kate Greenaway Children’s Centre and Islington Council has agreed to help us with this important project. The filming will take place on one day at Kate Greenaway nursery. The children will be filmed playing in all the usual ways that they do at nursery. The Kate Greenaway nursery won’t be named on the DVD.

On the day of the filming, you will be asked to fill in a consent form if you are willing for your child to take part in the filming. If you don’t want your child to be filmed on that day, that’s absolutely fine too. It’s your choice. However, we do hope you will be willing to help us with this important work.

If you have any questions, please speak to Julian Grenier (headteacher).

Thank you!

Julie Shepherd

I am running the project at Young People in Focus so if you want to find out more you can call me (Julie Shepherd) on 01273 647324 (direct line with voicemail) You can also look at our website to find out more about us www.youngpeopleinfocus.org.uk