Healthy Eating Week

As part of our current topic of 'Our Bodies' we will be having a 'healthy eating' week for the week of the 1st February.

We would like to encourage all those children who attend our lunch club sessions to bring in really healthy lunch boxes and we will be awarding prizes for all those who have lots of healthy foods!

We hope our parents will support us with this topic and we can recommend having a look at 'Henry' a website that supports families with healthy eating and exercise for the really young www.henry.org.uk

Newsletter - January 2016

Here is our first newsletter of the new year;

Hello

Welcome back we hope that everyone had a lovely Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

Important Dates for your Diary

w/c 8^th February                 -           Cake Sale Week

Friday 12^th February           -          End of Term

Monday 22^nd February        -           Start of Term

Wednesday 9^th March         -           Inset Day – pre-school will be closed

15^th, 16^th & 17^th March       -           Parent Evenings

Thursday 24^th March          -           End of Term

Monday 11^th April                -           Start of Term

Session Fees

Invoices for session fees, lunch club and snack have been issued; all invoices are issued for the term up to the 12^th February and should be paid by Friday 15^th January 2016.  Late payment of fees will automatically incur a £7.00 penalty fee and continuous failure to pay fees could result in the removal of your child’s place from pre-school.  Please speak to Jayne regarding any payment issues so that this can be avoided – many thanks.

Primary School Applications

If your child was born between 1^st September 2011 and 31^st August 2012 they will be due to start Primary School in the academic year September 2016 – August 2017.  Applications for your child's place at Primary School need to be made through Derbyshire County Council (for those living in Derbyshire) and Nottinghamshire County Council (for those living in Nottinghamshire) by midnight on 15th January 2016.  If anyone has any questions please speak to Jayne.

Term Dates

Please be aware that we follow Derbyshire County Council term dates and as such the dates for our Easter breaks are different to those for Nottinghamshire County Council.

Upcoming Events

Committee Meeting – our next meeting is on Tuesday 12^th January at The Risley Park pub at 7.30pm and we will be discussing future fundraisers. Everyone is welcome J

Cake Sale Week (w/c 8^th February) – we will be having a cake sale all week (or until we run out of cakes!) so please bring in your donations from Monday 8^th February.  Cakes will be on sale at the end of each session – thank you.

Parent Evenings – these will be held in March and more details will be available after half term.

Staff Update

Delia has resigned due to health problems. We would like to thank her for all her hard work and wish her a speedy recovery. We will be having another new face join us in a few weeks as Suzanne Tracey joins as one of our supply cover.

How to Contact Pre-School

Our phone number is 07960 983423 or email us at; springfieldpreschool@hotmail.co.uk and check our website www.springfieldpreschool.co.uk and Facebook page for up-to-date information. 

Christmas Fair Success

Well we had a fantastic day yesterday as we had our annual Christmas Fair at pre-school.

Santa was in his grotto and we had lots of helpers that made the day a great success. A big thank you to one and all who supported this event whether it was helping to organise it, manning a stall, clearing away or most importantly spending your pennies!!

We raised an astounding £1169!!! WOW!!! Our best ever fair! We will now be able to give our home corner the make-over it so very much needs.

Thank you so much, we really do appreciate your generosity and support.

Primary School Applications for September 2016

If your child was born between 1st September 2011 and 31st August 2012 it is now time to start applying for their infant or primary school place as they will be starting their Reception Year in September next year!!

Both Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire County Councils operate an online application process and applications can be made from 2nd November for Nottinghamshire and the 16th November for Derbyshire up until midnight of 15th January 2016 for both counties. You will need to apply to the county council relevant to where you live.

Hopefully these links will help!

If you live in Derbyshire - http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/…/s…/school_places/default.asp…

If you live in Nottinghamshire –http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/educati…/school-admissions

So far so good...

Crikey this school year seems to be flying by so thought it was time for an update here on our website.

Well the first half term was very busy with lots of new starters who have settled in brilliantly. We are now very busy with all sessions bar a couple now full. We had a number of fundraisers which all helped raise just over £200; a big thank you to everyone who supported our cake sale, fashion show evening and the Christmas card project. This money has helped us to buy a new television, DVD, books and pens. We are now looking to raise money to improve our 'home corner' resources which are in desperate need of a 're-vamp'!

We also had our annual school photo morning run by the fantastic Tempest Photography who took some amazing photos; these should be with us shortly and hopefully all your orders will also generate some commission for pre-school too!

We are now into week two of our second half term and boy is this going to be a busy one! We have parent evenings next week (week commencing 16th November), then it'll be our Christmas Fair on Saturday 5th December, we have our Christmas concerts on Monday 14th & Tuesday 15th December as well as having a Christmas Party Week for the last week of term - Phew!

New School Year

Just a reminder that we re-open for the new school year on Monday 7th September 2015. If anyone has any queries about their child's sessions or would like to enquire about places please contact Jayne either via email; springfieldpreschool@hotmail.co.uk or on 07960 983423.

We would like to wish all those children who left us in July all the very best of luck as they start their new schools over the next couple of weeks, we hope you have a great time and know you will all do amazingly!

Summer Fair Success

We had an absolutely beautiful day on Saturday for our Summer Fair (despite the rain the night before!!). The sun came out and so did lots of people to help make it a really fun afternoon.

We would just like to thank everyone involved in making this fair our best ever; those who helped set-up, those that manned stalls, those that helped clear way, those that made donations and most of all those who spent their hard earned pennies.

We raised an amazing £1065!!!!! WOW! What can we say but a BIG, BIG thank you! We really do appreciate everyone's generosity. This money will help pay for all the recent improvements to our outside area, including our amazing pirate ship.

Thank You!