Welcome back to our existing families and hello to all our new children and their families. We hope you all had a good Christmas break.
With the change of seasons can we remind everyone to bring your child to Pre-school with a coat and wellies.  We place boxes in the entrance hall for you to put the wellies in, please look for your child’s keyworker colour box and don’t forget to label your child’s belongings

 Den making fun

You don’t need much more than a table and a sheet to make a great den. But come and join us on Saturday 28th April and we'll provide you with a whole lot more of exciting stuff to build your den with your child/children. 

There will be rope, blankets, clips, pipes, bamboo canes, chairs, benches, barrels, tyres...the list is endless...be sure to get there early!

Once the den is built you can eat a brunch of sausages cooked on the BBQ in the comfort of your den.

 'Best of British'
Disco
8pm-Midnight
26th May
Jubilee Hall
£5 

More details to follow

Pre-school Sweatshirts & Polo shirts

Available to purchase from Pre-school

Age 3/4 and 5/6

Sweatshirts £8.50 Polo shirts £6.50

Summative Assessments

Your Keyworker will be writing a summary of your child's learning and development at the end of Term 4. This will be available to view in your child's learning journey at the beginning of Term 5.

Learning Journeys…

What is a learning journey?

‘The learning journey is a continuous journey through which children build on all the things they have already experienced and come across new and interesting challenges. Every child’s learning journey takes a personal path based on their own individual experiences and the curriculum on offer’

Taken from the principles into practice card 3.2 Enabling Environments, Early Years Foundation Stage.
We record each child’s learning journey in a book, these books are freely available for parents and carers to read and add to. As learning doesn’t just take place at Pre-school we invite you to share any learning that takes place outside of the setting by adding to the books. This can take the form of written notes (Wow moments), photographs or examples of work.
Your input not only helps your child’s keyworker to plan effectively for your child’s next steps it also gives us an idea of what your child is currently interested in so this can be included in the planning process. Children are motivated by play, especially when it meets their current interest. They are more likely to persist when things get difficult and have a real sense of achievement when they succeed if the play is self-initiated.

Christmas Journey DVD

Many thanks to Jim Suter for producing this great record of the day...and in such a professional manner too! All the proceeds from the sales of this DVD go towards the leavers party and gifts. If you haven't got one they are still available to purchase from Mrs Suter @ £4 each.

Easter Egg Hunt 

Saturday

24th March

2pm

More details to follow

Easy Fundraising is an easy way to support us while you shop. The site provides a FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at no extra cost raise funds for the Pre-school.  You still shop directly with each retailer as you would normally, but simply by using the links from our site first, each purchase you make will generate a cashback donation to the

 Pre-school. For example, spend £25 with WH Smith and 3.5% will be donated. You will have raised £0.88, at no extra cost to your purchase.

You can shop with 2000+ Brand Name retailers and to raise funds you just use the links from the easy fundraising site first - it's that simple!

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Dates for your  Diary

10th Feb

Last day of term 4

20th Feb

Term 5 begins

24th March

Easter Egg Hunt

30th March

Last day of term

16th April

Term 6 begins

Sat
28th April
Fun with making dens

Sat
26th May

Disco