Winter & Christmas Theme

This month we have been looking at Christmas. The children have enjoyed decorating the Christmas tree and making decorations. They have made a lovely Christmas tree out of their hand prints and made snowmen out of card and playdough. They have also been learning and singing Christmas songs and this week, we all made some jam tarts!

January Theme

Throughout January, our topic will be ‘All About Us’. We have 6 new children joining starting Pre-School and we will be doing activities to help them settle in, plus activities for all our children around learning names, making friends, saying Please and Thank You and learning about their families and all their favourite things.

Colours Theme

This month we are looking at ‘Colours’. The children are enjoying a variety of activities such as sorting, mixing colours, treasure hunts, twister and tasting different coloured food. We have learnt about Elmer and the children have helped to create a lovely display. Some children have also enjoyed wearing clothes to match our ‘Colour of the Week’.

December Theme

Throughout December, we will be learning about ‘Winter and Christmas’. Activities will include learning to keep warm and dress ourselves, making Christmas decorations, singing songs, making jam tarts and of course, learning about the Nativity story and practising our Christmas play, ‘Our First Nativity’. To help support your child’s learning at home, you could encourage them to put on their own shoes and coats, talk about what Christmas is and help them to learn their Nativity songs. I will put a song sheet in all their drawers.

Hot Dinners

I am sad to inform you that from January 2013, we will no longer be able to offer hot school meals provided by the school. The school are currently looking for a new supplier and I will let you know as soon as this service is available again. In the meantime, please provide your child with a packed lunch. Please speak with Kelly or the team if you wish to see our policy on healthy school lunches.

Nativity Play

Our Nativity play entitled ‘Our First Nativity’ will take place on Friday 14th December in the main school hall. Tickets will cost £1.50 and initially, 2 tickets will be available per child. Any extra tickets required may be allocated nearer the time. Please speak to a member of staff for more information.

Christmas Party

We will be holding a party for all children who attend Pre-School on Friday 21st December from 10.30am until 12pm. They are also welcome to join us in church from 9.30am if accompanied by a parent/carer. If your child usually attends on a Friday, please drop them off at the normal time of 9am but you are welcome to join us at church. There will be no lunch club this day but the children will all be fed before 12!

Autumn Theme

Thank you to everyone who bought items for the Harvest Festival and to those who helped us on the day. The children were very well behaved in the church and on the walk and seemed to have a good time! We have been busy learning about hibernation, leaves and vegetables this month and are looking forward to our Halloween week this week. We hope everyone enjoyed eating their tasty, health vegetable soup.

Open Evening

Thank you to everyone who attended our Open Evening on Tuesday 16th October. We hope you found it interesting and informative. If you were unable to attend but would like to find out more, please let me know. We will be holding one-to-one parent’s meetings at the end of November.

November Theme

The children have all settled well this half term and we are looking forward to November where we will be looking at ‘Colours’. Although our activities will look at all colours, we are going have a ‘colour of the week’ and would like to invite the children to bring something in of that colour for our display table. Perhaps they could also wear something that colour?

5th-9th November RED
12th-16th November BLUE
19th-23rd November YELLOW
26th-30th November GREEN

School Photos

We will be taking individual school photos on Tuesday 6th November. If your child will not normally be at Pre-School on a Tuesday but you would like their photos taken, or you would like to bring siblings, please let me know and I will give you more information.

AGM

Wingrave Pre-School’s AGM will take place at 8pm on Tuesday 23rd October. Please come along if you would like to find out more about the running of the Pre-School or may be interested in joining our committee.

Welcome back!

After saying goodbye to our ’big’ children back in July, we are please to welcome 9 new faces this half term – Annabelle, Oliver, Yasmin, Samuel, Dylan, Daniel, Logan, Harrison and Gracie. We look for to having lots of fun and helping you learn and develop over the next few terms.
Our topic for September is ‘All About Us’. We will be talking to the children about their likes and dislikes, families and friends, pets and houses. Please bring in some photos to help the children communicate with us (they can be returned in their original state or used creatively!).
From October we will be looking at ‘Autumn’. This will include activities with leaves, decay, hibernation, Harvest festival, spider-webs, Halloween and vegetables! We will be taking the children that attend on a Monday to church on Monday 8th October to the School’s Harvest Festival. Please let me know if you would like to join us.

This Month’s Theme

This month we will be looking at ‘Spring’. We will be sequencing and sorting, making hedgehogs and lambs, planting and talking about New Life. We will also talk to the  children about Mothering Sunday and have a visit from Revd Derek Witchell to talk about Easter.

February Fun

Welcome Back!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year. This month we will be looking at ‘Our Community’ including activities such as role play Post Office/Shop and Police Station, Road Maps and Safety and our families and customs.

All the children received presents from Father Christmas!

Starting ‘Big’ School

All children who turn 4 between 01/09/11 and 31/08/12 will be starting Primary School in September 2012. The deadline for registration has now passed so if you have not already done so, please contact the school of your choice as soon as possible. Contact details for school and Bucks CC can be passed on to you by Kelly if you have any difficulties.

Turning 3 between 01/01/12 and 30/03/12?

All children who turn 3 before 1st April 2012 will become eligible for funding. This can be used for up to 15 hours of sessions (in 3 hour blocks). You will receive all the necessary paperwork from Kelly, in your child’s tray nearer the time, but if you are wishing to increase your child’s hours, please speak to her as soon as possible. Presently, the additional sessions available are Monday and Friday mornings and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

Teatowels

We still have a few teatowels left so please let us know if you would like one. They cost £3.

Book Bags and Uniforms

We are now pleased to offer Wingrave Pre-School book bags for the children. They cost £3.50 and can be bought on site. We have also received a new stock of uniforms so please let us know if you require anything. Polo shirts are £6.50, Sweatshirts £7.50 and baseball caps £5. They come in sizes 1-2, 3-4 and 5-6. Hats are one size.

ZooLab

Looking at a tarantula!Stroking a rat!

We were very pleased to announce a visit from Zoolab UK, who came in to talk to the children about Nocturnal animals. The children enjoyed seeing and learning about tree frogs and tarantulas (which stayed in their box) and a giant snail,  cockroach (and her baby), corn snake and rat which they were able to touch!

Please Remember

Please remember to sign your child in and out of Pre-School and to indicate if they are having a packed lunch or hot dinner. Thank you.