Tuesday, September 13, 2011

News Sep - Oct 2011


Hi everyone!
We are delighted to extend a warm welcome to little Naqeeb and Prajjan who joined the playway in September. Hope the two will find the playway interesting and stimulating.
The children at the playway, have been exploring every nook and corner of the Letterland for the whole of last month. They have been very keen in finding out more and more about the characters of the Letterland. Therefore, we have decided to remain in Letterland for another month. Thus the Topic of Inquiry for month of September too is “Landing on Letterland”.



The children meet a new Letterland character very often at the playway and are inspired by their characteristics. Due to the great interest the children have in these friendly & stimulating characters, we decided to have the children dressed up as their favourite Letterland character on the Children’s and Elders’ day in  2011 ( tentative Friday, September 30)
Flash back
August 04
Play began: the playwayers were welcomed by the Letterland characters
August 09
Show & Tell at the playway: children brought in their own Letterland recourses to show and tell their peers. That was an amazing collection. Thank you parents for being interested in your child’s interests.
Everyone was so… enthusiastic about the prospects of landing on Letterland.
August 17,
Cookery at the playway: the playwayers were very busy frying “o” as in Omelets and making “o” as in Orange juice. The teachers got a lot of help from the children throughout the cookery lesson.
“The Omelets and the Orange juice were Hot Hits”.
September 02,
the playwayers had a great Ramadhan festival with sweets sent by Ishaq’s parents. Thank you for the sweets Mr and Mrs Jaleel!

Aunty Amaal read them a story about the festival and gave them a chance to taste fresh dates delivered from the UAE. Thank you…

September, 09
Donations were handed over to Ms Jithangi Ranasinghe, Drama Instructress at the Russian Centre who is a voluntary officer at the Cancer Hospital Children’s Unit and who is our link to the Cancer hospital children’s ward.
The Organizing Committee ( Light a Life Programme) invites everyone who donated materials to join the children at the exhibition (at the Children’s Cancer Ward) on the Children’s Day 2011. A letter regarding this will be sent in due course.

Happy Happy Birthday:

Many, many Happy Returns to
Little Aniq who is celebrating his 3rd Birthday on September 12
Akaash who is celebrating his 5th birthday on September 26      
Baby Hannah who is celebrating her 2nd birthday on October 05                             
Little Sarah who is celebrating her 3rd birthday on October 07
And Limath who is celebrating his 4th birthday on October 18

We wish you all Super Fantastic Birthdays

Special Announcement:
Please be informed that the parents are requested to pick their children on time. It is vital that the teachers get required time to get ready for the next day with materials and schedules. The team works till late to put things together to give your child a first class experience at the playway. We sincerely hope you will understand the situation.
Your cooperation in this regard is greatly appreciated.

Shown below is the Time Schedule to help you pick your child:

Children who are 1 1/2- 2
At 11.00 a.m.
Children who are 2-3
At 11.30 a.m.
Children who are 3+
At 12.00 noon

Welcome: We are delighted to welcome Ms Nipuni Yogananda who has a   Diploma in Early Childhood Education from Shalford Teacher Training Institute, Colpetty. She is a product of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo, Ms Eranthi Welikala who has a Diploma in AMI Montessori Method of Education from the Good Shepherd (St Bridget’s Convent Colombo). She is a product of Ladies’ College Colombo, Ms Sajitha Amaranayake who has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Colombo, who is a product of Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo and Ms Deharshani Perera who has a Diploma in AMI Montessori Method of Education from the Good Shepherd (St Bridget’s Convent Colombo) and who is a product of St Bridget’s Convent Colombo. They join the playway this term to strengthen the team with quality, creativity and colour.
On Leave: Ms. Farina Suleiman takes five week overseas leave to drop her daughter, Sabhaa at King’s College, London for her higher studies. Farina will be back with us in mid October. We wish her and her daughter safe flights and a great time together.
 The photographs taken by the official photographer, Mr. Nishendra, at the Summer Dance on Planet Earth (in July 2011) can be purchased individually from him on request. He will be visiting the Russian Centre with the photographs and the photographs will be displayed on a bulletin board at the entrance.


Thank you so… much
Thank you so much for the contributions you made for the children affected with cancer in Sri Lanka. We hope that the materials you donated will keep the children busy, making them forget their illness and severe pain.

Cordial Invitation…
You are invited to visit the art & craft exhibition at the Cancer Hospital Children’s ward on Saturday 01 October. A letter regarding this will reach you in due course.





Feed Back: We are honestly proud as a team to get positive feedback from the parents throughout the year. The parent conferences in June2011  was a time we actually got time to sit and talk with each and every one of you for longer period of time on various matters that matter with your child’s progress  through the year. We thank the parents who promptly sent us the completed feedback forms with a high degree of positive remarks. However; some of them have not come back to us. Please fill and send them back as fast as you can as your comments are very important for us to grow as a team. Please take a few minutes of your schedule for this purpose and treat that as one of the priorities as a parent. We are waiting…

Dates for your diary…
Friday, September 16


Plant a Tree Day: please send a margarine tub to plant a seed to take home
Wednesday, September 21

Cookery Day: Meal for Munching Mike
Friday, September 30


Children’s & Elders’ Day Celebrations at the playway
Invitations will be sent in due course for Grands. Till then please keep the date free.

Please note that the dates for your diary for month of October will be issued in October!


Have Sensational September & an Awesome October

Neelika Edirisinghe,
Director the playway