What's on 4 Little Ones Awards

We have been nominated for a 'What's on 4 Little Ones Award' in the 'Most Outstanding Committee Led Pre-School' category.

If you would like to vote for us please follow this link - http://www.whatson4littleones.co.uk/awards-voting-2013.asp

Voting closes at 5pm on Tuesday 28th May.

Thank you!

Smartie Success

Do you remember the Smarties we sent home at Easter?

Well lots of you returned the empty tubes full of loose change and we have finally managed to count it all...we have an amazing £134.46!!!

Wow!  This is an amazing result, thank you to everyone who enjoyed the smarties and returned those tubes full of pennies!!  It really is appreciated and will help us re-stock our craft supplies!

Committee Meeting Minutes

SPRINGFIELD PRE-SCHOOL

COMMITTEE MEETING MONDAY 20TH JULY

PRESENT:  Jayne, Pete & Debbie                                              

Apologies – Phil, Julie

SCHOOL DISCO FUNDRAISER

·         Back 2 School disco has been organised, will also include tuck shop and bar (Jayne sorting out drinks etc.).  Date confirmed as 13^th July  7.30pm at Friesland School Sandiacre.

SUMMER FAYRE - Strawberries & Cream Theme

·         Advert has gone out in the Sandiacre and Stapleford Connections magazine.

·         Raffle tickets to be in drawers by 5^th June (Pete)

·         Entry drink confirmed as Pimms – Jayne to buy the Pimms (or equivalent other brand) plus ingredients to go in it. 

·         Stalls to be:  decorate a biscuit , make a bracelet, tattoos, sweet cup tombola, lucky dip, bottle tombola, pick a pound,  plastic fruit in Strawberry Jelly (preschool to make up the night before),  cakes, strawberries & cream. 

·         Additional stalls for outside companies i.e. Fashion House etc (charge £10 per stall).

·         Also:  BBQ (Pete to organise supplies), guess the weight of the Strawberry & Cream layered cake (Debbie to make and bring on the morning of the fayre), Bouncy Castle (Pete looking into), Pete to speak to Bluebell Dairy re. Ice-cream Van.

·         Jayne to research possible idea of ‘let a balloon go’ (balloon race), balloons to have tags attached (balloons for the race will be bought and let go at the fayre ),  prize to be given for first tag to be returned when found (need a good prize for the winner).  Balloons to be red & white in keeping with the Strawberry & Cream theme.

·         Donkey rides – look into idea of having donkeys at the Fayre provided by Lanes Farm at Risley (Pete to look into and Jayne to look at Pre-Schools insurance).

·         Debbie to see if can get the Strawberries & Cream for free  by speaking to co-op, lidl etc.

·         Pete has organised a letter out to parents asking for help with raffle prizes plus help on the day (manning stalls etc).

NON UNIFORM WEEK

Non uniform week will be the week before the Summer Fayre (bring a bottle for the bottle tombola).

AUTUMN TERM 2013

Plans for Autumn Term:   Children’s Christmas Cards, Photographer.

Christmas Fayre - Date of 30^th November 2-4pm

Letter from the Committee

SPRINGFIELD NEEDS YOU!

Dear Parent or Guardian,

As you will hopefully now be aware, we have set a date for our Summer Fayre (Saturday 22^nd June) but as always, we need your help!  

Could you:

• Assist with the arrangements or help run a stall on the day – A list of stalls will be on the door of Pre-school so please put your name down;
• Provide a raffle prize – If you, a friend or perhaps your employer could donate a prize, please let me know;
• Visit local supermarkets to ask for donations (sweets, bottles, vouchers etc.) – If you are planning to visit any stores, please confirm which ones so we don’t bombard them with requests;
• Put a poster up at a local venue or your place or work to publicise the event;
• Ensure that the sun is shining on the day!

If you feel you can help with any or all of the above OR if you have any ideas or feedback you would like to share, please contact Jayne.

We are hoping to make this the biggest and best Fayre to date and really need to raise funds to maintain the high standards at Springfield so anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated.

I very much look forward to seeing you all at the Summer Fayre and would like to thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Springfield Pre-School Parent Committee

Committee Meeting - Monday 20th May

Please note that our next committee meeting has been changed to Monday 20th May, still at 8pm and still at The Risley Park pub.

The meeting will be primarily to discuss our upcoming fundraising events; the Summer Fair and our 'School's Out' adult disco.  We need plenty of helpers and ideas for both events so if you think you can help out in anyway please pop along to the meeting and join in the fun.

Everyone is welcome, in fact the more the merrier!!

Sports Day - Cancellation

We have, after much thought and consideration, decided to cancel the upcoming Sports Day & Spring Fundraiser.

This decision was not taken lightly, we felt that due to the extremely high numbers of children at pre-school that cancelling the Friday lunch club and afternoon session was simply not feasible nor fair to those affected children.

We will now have a cake sale on Wednesday 1st May, with our next major fundraising event then being the Summer Fair on Saturday 22nd June.

Thank you for your understanding.

New Term

We hope everyone has had a lovely Easter holidays and are now re-charged for the Summer term which starts tomorrow, Monday 15th April.

We are now full on most sessions, and are busy compiling our 'waiting list' for new starters in September - get in early so you don't miss out!

We have a busy term ahead of us;

• Our Rising 5's group starts this week, specifically for those children who will be starting Reception Year in September.  We will be doing lots of fun activities which we hope will give the children lots to think and talk about.
• Friday 26th April is our Sports Day afternoon and Spring fundraiser so plenty of running around followed by a chocolate tombola, raffle, cakes and crafts.
• Kids Klub Video will be visiting on Thursday 16th May, so each child will get to star in the very own video adventure 'Down on the Farm'!  A fun DVD is produced with all sales generating commission for pre-school.
• Zoolab will also be visiting in May, bringing along some creepy crawlies!!
• Monday 13th May we will be having a committee meeting to sort out the planning and preparation for this year's Summer Fair.  The meeting will be at 8.00pm at The Risley Park Pub - everyone is welcome.
• Our Summer Fair will be on Saturday 22nd June so put the date in your diary!
• We are also hoping to hold an adults 'School Disco' - more details will follow very soon once dates and venue have been confirmed!

Wow, think we'll need a holiday after all of that :)