We are having a lovely week back at preschool following the half term break. 

This week we have been making firework picture using paint splatters an glitter and we have been on a leaf hunt and made a group collage. 

Soon we will start practising for our Christmas production, performance date TBC. 

Our Annual AGM will take place at 7.30pm on Wednesday 24th October 2018 at preschool. 

All parents are welcome. 

If you would like to volunteer to be on the committee next year please contact a member of staff or a member of the current committee to express an interest. 

​Thank you for your continued support

It's been lovely to welcome our new starters and to welcome back old faces from last year, who are now the "big ones". 

So far this half term we have been: 

• experimenting with cogs and wheels and rolling cars through paint to make track marks
• story telling around our storylogs in the woods
  
• making apple crumble with apples from Julie's garden 
  
• having lots of run with conkers; looking at them, feeling them, rolling down slopes, rolling them in paint, counting and sorting! 
  
• constructing a recycling van and some bins to sort rubbish for recycling 
  
• making shakers using yoghurt pots and conkers
  
• making robots out of recycled rubbish 
  
• baking bread 
  
• counting bricks and building towers with them
• learning about harvest and how our food grows including a visit from Jo from All Hallows Church

We can confirm that our former treasurer has appeared in court with charges relating to theft from the preschool We would like to assure parents that this did not involve any of our preschool staff and has never been a safeguarding issue for the children. 

Since identifying historical issues relating to preschool finances, we have been assisting the police and have taken immediate action to protect the future of preschool. While future fundraising efforts will now be vital to help regain our financial security, we would like to again assure parents that preschool will continue to operate as normal. 

If any parents past or present have questions please speak to a member of staff who will direct you to a member of the committe. 

Thank you for your support.

Join us on Sunday 25th March 2018 2pm - 4pm for some Easter fun!

Activities will include:

East Egg Hunt
Bake Sale
Easter Crafts
Chocolate Tombola
Balance Bike Course

We hope to see you there!! Younger and older siblings are very welcome!

We are delighted to welcome our new starters who are all settling in nicely!

During January we have been making some transport collages and circular biscuits representing wheels.

We have also learnt about the planets and the Solar System. We made "moon rocks" to take home and eat with our families (we hope the children let you try just a little bit!) and painted some planets for our display.

We welcomed Pete and Frankie from Mambo Jambo who came in for an afternoon of singing and dancing. The children made shakers from yoghurt pots filled with lentils, rice or pasta.

Thank you once again to all of the parents and carers who supported our Christmas Show. The raffle raised £131, thank you for your support!

We've been making our own shortbread version of gingerbread houses and some chains of snowmen - Just a couple of the many activities we've done this week alongside lots of acting and singing and dancing practice for our Christmas Show. 
We mixed glitter with our play dough and the following day one of the children decided they weren't so keen on the glitter so could I "brush it off please" 😕 They can be hard task masters!

Walkington Charity Pre-school won an award for £2,000 in our Bags of Help customer vote for July/August.
School Manager Anne Marris said: ‘‘We are really grateful to those customers who voted for us and for the opportunity to receive funding from 'Bags of Help'.  The funding has enabled us to access the 'Balanceability' programme - an initiative specially designed to teach children the importance of keeping active and healthy from a young age. The activities in the programme encourage children to keep moving, build confidence, spatial awareness, balance and control.’’

Thank you to everyone who came and supported our little super stars on the morning of our Christmas show. We hope you all enjoyed it and we are so proud of the children. It's been a fun packed last week of term and we just want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

Most of the children loved the fireworks so we recreated them with splatter paint and glitter...decorated the walls a little too but not intentionally.

We learnt about why people are buying and wearing poppies at the moment.  We had a sunny walk to All Hallow's Church to look at the Cenotaph in remembrance.  We used potato stampers and fingers in paint to represent the poppy fields.

Lots of the children have been interested in clocks and watches recently so we have been making our own clocks with moving hands and made a 'Hickory Dickory Dock' clock with a mouse on a pulley.