Newsletter Spring Term 2019

Dear Parents and Carers

Happy New Year, I hope you’ve had a wonderful Christmas. Welcome to our new children!

We have been talking about healthy eating at preschool and this week, we explored paint using cucumber, carrots, onion, parsnips and swede! We thought about what a Tortoise would eat and have enjoyed lots of art and craft activities.

Next week we are going to look at the book ‘Handa’s surprise’ and we are planning to try lots of tropical fruit from this story. I would be really grateful for donations of pineapple, passion fruit, guava, banana, orange, tangerines, avocado, mango, kiwi fruit and any other healthy snacks you could donate including breadsticks, vegetables, rice cakes, cheese, dried fruit and spread (flora etc). Thank you so much for the lovely snacks that were brought in this week.

Felix’s family have donated (and built) a wonderful large storage box for our garden, thank you so much! We have had so many offers of help from our parents, thank you everyone.

We are very excited about the new Astro turf and mud kitchen, which the children will be able to enjoy next week. Thank you to Darcy’s family for organising the Christmas market and for everyone that helped, the money raised has been put towards this project.

We now have a big storage box for the children’s lunch boxes outside the front door, don’t forget to collect your child’s lunch box at the end of the day.

Woodland Wednesday has started again, can I please remind parents to send in wellies, suitable clothing (no scarves) and a change of named clothes for all children.

Lots of children have been bringing toys to preschool and its been really hard to keep track of them and it can cause problems when other children want to play with them, if your child needs a comforter or soft toy that’s absolutely fine but could all other toys be left at home. Thank you for your cooperation with this.

We are going on a visit to the foundation class on Thursday 17th January during the afternoon, this will be for the children that attend on that day. Other visits will be arranged over the coming months.

Dates for your diary

Early Phonics/literacy evening at the preschool

28/01/19@7.30

Half term holiday 18/02/19-22/02/19

If you haven’t returned your child’s summary report from last term, please return to your child’s key person ASAP.

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, if you have any concerns please speak to;

Designated lead Cheryl Allen/deputy designated lead Jo Sentinella.

Kind regards and thank you for everything you do to support our amazing preschool.

Cheryl

Woodland Wednesday Hedgehogs!