Newsletters
9th September 2019
Welcome back after the holidays. The first week back with the children has gone really well, we have done lots of activities around size. This week we will be reading the story of The Gingerbread man and if you would like him to come for a visit just ask a member of staff. We will continue to focus in the coming weeks on settling the children in and getting to know both them and you, please feel free to ask your child’s keyperson or myself any questions.
Each half term you will receive a newsletter like this either via email or a paper copy as requested. We hope to give you this prior to a new half term starting so you have an idea of dates and what we will be looking at with the children. It will tell you about possible items for show and tell, any special walks, trips over to big school and woodland adventure trips. We will also be telling you about committee events and how you can be involved in your child’s time at Pre-school. So, hold onto it or save it to your computer. If you do lose it we will always have spares at Pre-school just ask a member of staff or you will be able to find it on the Rolleston Pre-school website:
www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk
We also display photos on here of current activities and it will be updated each half term for you to see what we have been doing. Each half term if you are paying fees you will be invoiced the 1st or 2nd week. You can pay cash or make cheque’s payable to Rolleston Pre-school, we accept childcare work vouchers, or you can pay online you just need to speak to Mrs Melia to set this up. If you are using your government grant we just need you to return the form we send out each term signed where highlighted.
These are the INSET DAYS for the academic year:
Friday 20th September
Friday 25th October
Monday 24th February
Friday 5th June
Monday 20th July
We would like to remind all parents that the school carpark is for staff only and not to be used by parents to drop off or collect children. If your child is staying for packed lunch please put an ice pack in their lunch box as we do not have fridge space to store lunch boxes, and please label lunch boxes and bags as we seem to have lots that are the same. It is also a really good idea to label coats and clothes as we always have a lot of lost property each term.
This half term we are looking at “Myself” with the children, we have our kitchen as the home corner as we talk about ourselves and our families. We will be using mirrors to help paint and collage our faces talking about different body parts and learning the signs for these as well. Over the last few years we have used sign language with the children with huge success, they picked up the signs really quickly and it has helped them concentrate at circle times. We make it part of our everyday routine, signing the days of the week, good morning or good afternoon and the weather to begin with each session.
We are launching our ‘all about me’ shoe box project from week 3 (a separate letter will follow about this). We hope to take the children to visit the school hall and dance. Over the last few years we have developed our woodland adventure activities at the Junior site Spinney. Mrs Croxall has now completed her Forest school Leaders training so we hope to do even more sessions in the woods. This half term we will be in the woods for a full week as well whatever the weather, so if you could send your child with wellingtons or sensible shoes and raincoats, old clothes that you don’t mind getting muddy that would be great that week, there will be a separate letter to explain more closer to the time.
We have a nature table inside Pre-school if children would like to bring in items they have collected from their holidays or as autumn develops they can talk about them at show and tell and we can display them for everyone to see. We have found it really helps develop the children’s confidence coming to the front and talking about familiar items from homes.
Week 2 9th - 13th September - Red week
Story of the week - The Gingerbread Man Tuesday - making gingerbread men together
We be looking at our Pre-school Rules - one a day.
Week 3 16th – 20th September – Blue week
We will start showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves We are hoping to make some trips over to school to use the hall.
Friday – INSET DAY PRE-SCHOOL CLOSED
Week 4 23rd – 27th September – Yellow week
We will be showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves. We will be reading “The Smartest Giant in Town” over the week and doing activities related to this.
Tuesday - AM Richard Greenwood photos - all AM children will have their photo taken. (If your child does not attend this session you can still go to Rolleston Club between 10am- 11.30am if you wish to have their photo taken) They are very good quality pictures at reasonable prices, and there is no obligation to buy.
Thursday- Rainbow day, come dressed in your favourite colour and pay a £1 all donations will go towards woodland week next week.
Friday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Week 5 30th - 4th October – Green week
Woodland adventure week - each day we will be going over to the woods on the Junior site to play and explore. (Remember those wellies and raincoats.) A separate letter will follow about this.
Week 6 7th - 11th October – Pink week
We will be showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves We will be using the parachute together to learn songs and ball games outside.
Friday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Saturday 12th of October – FREE parent workshop to support early maths: for parents to come along with their children to have a go at lots of fun maths activities.
We will run a session from 10am-10.45am and a 2nd session 11am- 11.45am depending on how much interest we have for the workshop. There will be a separate letter asking you to sign up.
Week 7 14th – 18th October – Orange week
Monday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
We will bring lots of natural objects to explore for tactile play, to support maths development. We will use tools to carve pumpkins and try some pumpkin soup.
Week 8 21st – 25th October – Purple week
Monday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Friday – INSET DAY NO PRE-SCHOOL SESSIONS
Saturday 26th of October family photo day with Richard Greenwood at Pre-school 9.30am - 12.30 pm 10-minute slots. This is a chance to have group pictures taken, there will be a sign-up sheet at Pre-school, places go fast.
We have given you a few ideas of what we might do over the next few weeks, but we would love your ideas, and the children’s too. So, if you can think of an activity, song, story, anything that might work around our theme of “Myself” please write them down below and hand in to a member of staff and we will hopefully include them in our plans.
Parents ideas:
Children’s Ideas:
To support a variety of tactile and baking activities we are looking for donations of any of the following items:
Dry Pasta
Lentils
Dry Peas
Salt
Buttons
Beads
Corn Flour
Plain Flour
Self-raising flour
Caster Sugar
Raisins
Baking powder
Cake cases
We will be back at Pre-school after the half term on Monday the 4th of November
Thanks for all your support
Lolene Poxon Pre-school Manager
Welcome back after the holidays. The first week back with the children has gone really well, we have done lots of activities around size. This week we will be reading the story of The Gingerbread man and if you would like him to come for a visit just ask a member of staff. We will continue to focus in the coming weeks on settling the children in and getting to know both them and you, please feel free to ask your child’s keyperson or myself any questions.
Each half term you will receive a newsletter like this either via email or a paper copy as requested. We hope to give you this prior to a new half term starting so you have an idea of dates and what we will be looking at with the children. It will tell you about possible items for show and tell, any special walks, trips over to big school and woodland adventure trips. We will also be telling you about committee events and how you can be involved in your child’s time at Pre-school. So, hold onto it or save it to your computer. If you do lose it we will always have spares at Pre-school just ask a member of staff or you will be able to find it on the Rolleston Pre-school website:
www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk
We also display photos on here of current activities and it will be updated each half term for you to see what we have been doing. Each half term if you are paying fees you will be invoiced the 1st or 2nd week. You can pay cash or make cheque’s payable to Rolleston Pre-school, we accept childcare work vouchers, or you can pay online you just need to speak to Mrs Melia to set this up. If you are using your government grant we just need you to return the form we send out each term signed where highlighted.
These are the INSET DAYS for the academic year:
Friday 20th September
Friday 25th October
Monday 24th February
Friday 5th June
Monday 20th July
We would like to remind all parents that the school carpark is for staff only and not to be used by parents to drop off or collect children. If your child is staying for packed lunch please put an ice pack in their lunch box as we do not have fridge space to store lunch boxes, and please label lunch boxes and bags as we seem to have lots that are the same. It is also a really good idea to label coats and clothes as we always have a lot of lost property each term.
This half term we are looking at “Myself” with the children, we have our kitchen as the home corner as we talk about ourselves and our families. We will be using mirrors to help paint and collage our faces talking about different body parts and learning the signs for these as well. Over the last few years we have used sign language with the children with huge success, they picked up the signs really quickly and it has helped them concentrate at circle times. We make it part of our everyday routine, signing the days of the week, good morning or good afternoon and the weather to begin with each session.
We are launching our ‘all about me’ shoe box project from week 3 (a separate letter will follow about this). We hope to take the children to visit the school hall and dance. Over the last few years we have developed our woodland adventure activities at the Junior site Spinney. Mrs Croxall has now completed her Forest school Leaders training so we hope to do even more sessions in the woods. This half term we will be in the woods for a full week as well whatever the weather, so if you could send your child with wellingtons or sensible shoes and raincoats, old clothes that you don’t mind getting muddy that would be great that week, there will be a separate letter to explain more closer to the time.
We have a nature table inside Pre-school if children would like to bring in items they have collected from their holidays or as autumn develops they can talk about them at show and tell and we can display them for everyone to see. We have found it really helps develop the children’s confidence coming to the front and talking about familiar items from homes.
Week 2 9th - 13th September - Red week
Story of the week - The Gingerbread Man Tuesday - making gingerbread men together
We be looking at our Pre-school Rules - one a day.
Week 3 16th – 20th September – Blue week
We will start showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves We are hoping to make some trips over to school to use the hall.
Friday – INSET DAY PRE-SCHOOL CLOSED
Week 4 23rd – 27th September – Yellow week
We will be showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves. We will be reading “The Smartest Giant in Town” over the week and doing activities related to this.
Tuesday - AM Richard Greenwood photos - all AM children will have their photo taken. (If your child does not attend this session you can still go to Rolleston Club between 10am- 11.30am if you wish to have their photo taken) They are very good quality pictures at reasonable prices, and there is no obligation to buy.
Thursday- Rainbow day, come dressed in your favourite colour and pay a £1 all donations will go towards woodland week next week.
Friday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Week 5 30th - 4th October – Green week
Woodland adventure week - each day we will be going over to the woods on the Junior site to play and explore. (Remember those wellies and raincoats.) A separate letter will follow about this.
Week 6 7th - 11th October – Pink week
We will be showing our special shoeboxes all about ourselves We will be using the parachute together to learn songs and ball games outside.
Friday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Saturday 12th of October – FREE parent workshop to support early maths: for parents to come along with their children to have a go at lots of fun maths activities.
We will run a session from 10am-10.45am and a 2nd session 11am- 11.45am depending on how much interest we have for the workshop. There will be a separate letter asking you to sign up.
Week 7 14th – 18th October – Orange week
Monday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
We will bring lots of natural objects to explore for tactile play, to support maths development. We will use tools to carve pumpkins and try some pumpkin soup.
Week 8 21st – 25th October – Purple week
Monday – Forest school’s session AM only – dress appropriately please.
Friday – INSET DAY NO PRE-SCHOOL SESSIONS
Saturday 26th of October family photo day with Richard Greenwood at Pre-school 9.30am - 12.30 pm 10-minute slots. This is a chance to have group pictures taken, there will be a sign-up sheet at Pre-school, places go fast.
We have given you a few ideas of what we might do over the next few weeks, but we would love your ideas, and the children’s too. So, if you can think of an activity, song, story, anything that might work around our theme of “Myself” please write them down below and hand in to a member of staff and we will hopefully include them in our plans.
Parents ideas:
Children’s Ideas:
To support a variety of tactile and baking activities we are looking for donations of any of the following items:
Dry Pasta
Lentils
Dry Peas
Salt
Buttons
Beads
Corn Flour
Plain Flour
Self-raising flour
Caster Sugar
Raisins
Baking powder
Cake cases
We will be back at Pre-school after the half term on Monday the 4th of November
Thanks for all your support
Lolene Poxon Pre-school Manager
