Newsletters
8th January 2020
Happy New Year and welcome back for the Spring term! We have 7 new children joining us this week so a big welcome to them and their families. Over the first half term we will be looking at “People who help us” with the children. We will have a hospital role-play inside for the children to play in and support their PSE skills and we will talk about being kind and helpful to each other. Each week we will be looking at different jobs people do in the community to help us all. To really help bring this project to life it would be wonderful for the children to see parents and grandparents talking about their jobs. It would be great if you could come in for 10-15 minutes during a session and share with us. If you are a nurse, police officer, postal worker, doctor, dentist, farmer, or fire fighter and think you would like to do this please speak to a member of staff or email us to organise a time.
We will be looking at some science experiments based around ice and how we can make it and observe changes over time. We will be celebrating Chinese New Year tasting different food, listening to different music, making our own musical instruments, and having some trips to the hall to dance and exercise. Here are a few of the things we will be getting up to:
Week 1 6th - 10th January
This first week back we will be talking about and sharing our Christmas experiences together. We have our hospital role-play and lots of mark making activities.
Week 2 13th - 17th January
We have our hospital role-play and together we are going to explore Ice indoors and outdoors. We will talk about melting and freezing, and use lots of questioning language.
Week 3 20th - 24th January
We will be talking about how we keep our bodies healthy, through snack time and preparing these together. The importance of handwashing as well as keeping our teeth healthy. We will be visiting the hall over at school to dance and move and talk about the effects exercise has on our bodies.
Week 4 27th – 31st January
We will be looking at Chinese New Year Celebrations with the children tasting lots of different food and going over to the hall to dance. The children will be getting involved in lots of craft activities and music making.
Friday 31st January – Charity Quiz Night – organised by the Pre-School Committee.
At Rolleston Cricket Club from 8pm. Teams of 4 £5 per person, tickets include a curry supper.
Please support us if you can. Tickets available on line via our website www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk.
Week 5 3rd – 7th February
We are going to look at the story of “The Gruffalo’s Child” for the week doing lots of craft activities based around this. The children will be looking at police officers and their role in the community. A visit from a police officer would make this week complete.
Week 6 10th - 14th February
All week we will be busy creating a fire engine together out of big boxes. Hopefully we will have a visit from the real fire service as well.
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 “People who help us” 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:
Thank you for all your support with our reverse advent project before Christmas. It helped towards a huge project the Salvation army were doing in Burton over Christmas and they were able to support 100 families with a weeks’ worth of food. I went and saw it being packed it was overwhelming. So, they would like to pass on their appreciation to you all.
You never know we may be due some snow over the coming weeks, if we do have some heavy snow and the primary school John of Rolleston closes, Pre-school will be closed as well. John of Rolleston will advertise this on Radio Derby and their school website, so if there has been reasonable snowfall check these before travelling. We will update our website and Facebook page as well.
Do you have any unwanted / duplicate Christmas gifts? If so, the committee could use them at future events for raffle prizes, so please bring them into Pre-school.
MONDAY 24th FEBRUARY IS AN INSET DAY AND PRE-SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED. We are holding an open morning for prospective families from 10am-12noon on that day. If you have friends or relatives who have younger children who would be interested in attending from September 2020 and beyond please let them know.
WE RE-OPEN ON TUESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY FOR THE NEW HALF-TERM.
Thanks, as always for your support.
Miss Poxon
Pre-School Manager
Happy New Year and welcome back for the Spring term! We have 7 new children joining us this week so a big welcome to them and their families. Over the first half term we will be looking at “People who help us” with the children. We will have a hospital role-play inside for the children to play in and support their PSE skills and we will talk about being kind and helpful to each other. Each week we will be looking at different jobs people do in the community to help us all. To really help bring this project to life it would be wonderful for the children to see parents and grandparents talking about their jobs. It would be great if you could come in for 10-15 minutes during a session and share with us. If you are a nurse, police officer, postal worker, doctor, dentist, farmer, or fire fighter and think you would like to do this please speak to a member of staff or email us to organise a time.
We will be looking at some science experiments based around ice and how we can make it and observe changes over time. We will be celebrating Chinese New Year tasting different food, listening to different music, making our own musical instruments, and having some trips to the hall to dance and exercise. Here are a few of the things we will be getting up to:
Week 1 6th - 10th January
This first week back we will be talking about and sharing our Christmas experiences together. We have our hospital role-play and lots of mark making activities.
Week 2 13th - 17th January
We have our hospital role-play and together we are going to explore Ice indoors and outdoors. We will talk about melting and freezing, and use lots of questioning language.
Week 3 20th - 24th January
We will be talking about how we keep our bodies healthy, through snack time and preparing these together. The importance of handwashing as well as keeping our teeth healthy. We will be visiting the hall over at school to dance and move and talk about the effects exercise has on our bodies.
Week 4 27th – 31st January
We will be looking at Chinese New Year Celebrations with the children tasting lots of different food and going over to the hall to dance. The children will be getting involved in lots of craft activities and music making.
Friday 31st January – Charity Quiz Night – organised by the Pre-School Committee.
At Rolleston Cricket Club from 8pm. Teams of 4 £5 per person, tickets include a curry supper.
Please support us if you can. Tickets available on line via our website www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk.
Week 5 3rd – 7th February
We are going to look at the story of “The Gruffalo’s Child” for the week doing lots of craft activities based around this. The children will be looking at police officers and their role in the community. A visit from a police officer would make this week complete.
Week 6 10th - 14th February
All week we will be busy creating a fire engine together out of big boxes. Hopefully we will have a visit from the real fire service as well.
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 “People who help us” 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:
Thank you for all your support with our reverse advent project before Christmas. It helped towards a huge project the Salvation army were doing in Burton over Christmas and they were able to support 100 families with a weeks’ worth of food. I went and saw it being packed it was overwhelming. So, they would like to pass on their appreciation to you all.
You never know we may be due some snow over the coming weeks, if we do have some heavy snow and the primary school John of Rolleston closes, Pre-school will be closed as well. John of Rolleston will advertise this on Radio Derby and their school website, so if there has been reasonable snowfall check these before travelling. We will update our website and Facebook page as well.
Do you have any unwanted / duplicate Christmas gifts? If so, the committee could use them at future events for raffle prizes, so please bring them into Pre-school.
MONDAY 24th FEBRUARY IS AN INSET DAY AND PRE-SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED. We are holding an open morning for prospective families from 10am-12noon on that day. If you have friends or relatives who have younger children who would be interested in attending from September 2020 and beyond please let them know.
WE RE-OPEN ON TUESDAY 25TH FEBRUARY FOR THE NEW HALF-TERM.
Thanks, as always for your support.
Miss Poxon
Pre-School Manager
