What's Happening at Pre-School - w/c 1st November 2021

We start this term with our Halloween spooky week! A reminder that there is a small charge of 50p per session (half day) that your child attends; this helps us provide some extra activities along with some treats for snack time - thank you for your support.

Our topic will be all things Autumn as we talk about the seasons and the changes that we see and feel around us.

Focus Activity

We will be getting all techy this week as we try out different tasks and games on our tablets as well as controlling our 'Bee-Bots'.

Physical Play

This week will be all about holding fixed positions; controlling our balance!

Phonics

For our older children we will be starting to learn all about phonics; this is the sound that individual letters make which in turn will help children with early reading when they start Reception year. This week we will be learning A & B.

We hope this information is of use but please get in touch if you have any questions.

What's Happening at Pre-School - w/c 18th October 2021

Focus Activity

This week we will be looking at the effect of light and shadows and will try to make our own shadow pictures.

Physical Play

This week we will be exercising in our 'baby gym' sessions!!

Baking Activity

This week we shall be making our own bread cobs.

We are also looking forward to seeing Jon from Asda, Long Eaton this week who will be bringing along lots of different foods for us to taste; trying different foods and hopefully some distinctive flavours!

We hope this information is of use but please get in touch if you have any questions (please use Tapestry).

Newsletter - 14th October 2021

Hello!

We have lots of information in this newsletter so get your diaries out!

Important Dates

Friday 22nd October - End of Term

Monday 1st November - Start of Term

w/c 1st November - Halloween Fun Week - see separate email

Wednesday 15th December - Christmas Concert @ 3.30pm approx. more details to follow

Tuesday 21st December - Christmas Party - 3.15pm - 4.30pm - invite to follow in November

Tuesday 21st December - Last Day of Term

Thursday 6th January - Start of Term

Important Change of Term Dates

Please note that we have changed the dates for the end of the Autumn term and the start of the Spring term. This will bring us into line with the schools that are local to us. 

Tuesday 21st December - End of Autumn Term

Thursday 6th January - Start of Spring Term

No Dogs Please

Can we please remind parents/carers that we do not allow dogs within the pre-school grounds. All dogs should be kept on a lead and beyond the gate. Many thanks for your understanding and co-operation.

Just Giving

Did you know we have a 'Just Giving' page? This was set-up a few months ago to help us raise much needed funds. The last eighteen months or so have had a massive impact on our ability to fundraise as we have not able to host our usual Summer and Christmas Fairs. We would all be extremely grateful for any donations and please feel free to share this link with family and friends.

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/springfield

Christmas Festivities

We are busy planning for all things Christmas! So be sure to make note of the dates for our Christmas Concert - Wednesday 15th December and our Christmas Party on Tuesday 21st December. Both events will be held at the end of the pre-school day but we will send more details after the half term break.

We will also be holding a Christmas Raffle 'virtually' as this worked really well last year and more details about how to buy tickets will be sent home after the half term break. We already have some fantastic prizes lined up but if you, or anyone you know, would like to donate something then please get in touch.

Parents to Pre-School Day 

It was so nice to see so many of our parents at our Open Days back in July and we now have a plan to enable parents to visit pre-school on select days throughout the school year. We currently have the following dates in the diary;

Wednesday 10th November

Thursday 27th January

Friday 25th March

Monday 16th May

Tuesday 28th June

Each day parents will be able to visit between 10am and 11am and 1pm and 2pm and get chance to see what your child gets up to at pre-school as well as chat with your child's key-person. This will be limited to the parents of children who attend pre-school on the specific day and prior to the event parents will receive an invitation by email. So please keep an eye out for your invitation.

Many thanks for reading 🙂

'The Ladies'

What’s Happening at Pre-School - w/c 11th October 2021

Focus Activity

This week we will continue to work on our maths development focusing on our shapes and measuring.

Physical Play

Every day we always try to get in a little exercise class with the children and this week we will be getting the children to move in different ways by asking them to 'move like....'!!

Creative

To support our maths focus we will be creating pictures using shapes as well as using rollers and other medium to create our own patterns.

Baking Activity

This week we shall be making some vegetable muffins.

And don't forget Wednesday is an INSET DAY and pre-school will be CLOSED!

We hope this information is of use but please get in touch if you have any questions

What's Happening at Pre-School - w/c 4th October 2021

Focus Activity

This week we will continue to work on our maths development but with a focus on shapes and measuring.

We are also looking at children's speech and understanding as this is such a vital part of the curriculum and we want to ensure that all children are exposed to a rich and varied vocabulary.

Physical Play

This week we will be making our own tunnels to crawl through and investigate! We will also be doing lots of action songs like 'Okey Cokey', 'Ring O Roses' and 'Mulberry Bush'.

Creative

To support our maths focus we will be creating pictures using shapes; like houses and rockets.

Baking Activity

This week we shall be making some vegetable muffins.

And don't forget Wednesday is school photographer day!

We hope this information is of use but please get in touch if you have any questions