Happy New Year to everyone! We hope you've had a happy and healthy Christmas and that 2019 will be a good one for you all. 

It will be good to see the children back with their friends and we look forward to welcoming a few new starters for lots of fun this term. 

The children enjoyed the lead up to Christmas with lots of craft activities, music and signing. They practiced nursery rhymes and Christmas songs on the stage along with acting out the Nativity in preparation for our Christmas Show. A few were a but overwhelmed and reluctant on the day and we had a poorly donkey but they all did us proud and it was great for them all to come together on the day. 

We drew our Christmas raffle and the winners have all been contacted to receive their prizes. Congratulations to Richard Halford who won the 43 inch LED TV which was generously donated by The Swift Group. 

We are delighted to confirm that our coffee morning on 17th November 2018 raised a whopping £1722.02, of which £370 was Christmas raffle ticket sales (to be drawn on 20th December). 

Thank you to everyone who donated, attended and gave so generously. We are overwhelmed by the level of support and it was heart warming to see our village community come together to make it such a lovely and well supported event. Now more than ever our fundraising efforts are vital to the future of Preschool and we cannot thank you enough for your support. 

​Watch this space for future events! 

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!