Newsletters
3rd November 2020
We hope you have all enjoyed the first half term of the year. All of the children have settled in so well and are a really lovely group! We just wanted to let you know some of the things that will be happening this half term. We will be looking at “Celebrations” with the children. We are starting off with a super market for our role-play, looking at Bonfire night and fireworks and celebrating ourselves and what makes us unique. Please load your stories onto the learning journal system about your special shoeboxes so we can share this with the group.
Week 1 2nd – 6th November – Celebrating Ourselves
The first week back we will be looking at different stories about how unique we are and celebrating this by looking at the special shoeboxes you have created online. Bonfire night celebrations, with lots of creative play and yummy snacks.
Week 2 9th - 13th November – Celebrating Others
We will focus on diversity, differences in our families, appearance and beliefs. This will be through storytelling, crafts and small world play.
Friday 13th - Children in Need - come dressed in PJ’s/onesie’s for a £1 donation, all proceeds will go to Children in Need.
Saturday 14th November FAMILY PHOTO SESSION – CANCELLED - we are so sorry and will try and reschedule for the New Year.
Week 3 16th – 20th November- Diwali
Exploring Diwali through stories, cooking art and music. The children will also be creating a banner for the church that will be displayed in the future as we look at the theme “2020, our year”.
Week 4 23rd - 27th November – Celebrating other special occasions
We will be celebrating Buster’s Birthday (Buster is our special Pre-School Bear) with a Birthday party and lots of maths and baking. At the end of the week we will be celebrating Wonder Mouse’s new baby brother, with a baby clinic and finding out about our siblings and mother and baby animals too. We will also be looking at other children from around the world and smaller celebrations.
Week 5 30th – 4th December – Celebrating special times with food
Christmas home corner to play with. Food from various festivals, parties and special times. At the end of the week we will have a party and the children will bake food through the week for this.
Week 6 7th - 11th December
Monday 7th – We are hoping to have our Christmas Party at Pre-school 12-3pm for all
Pre-school children, there will be no normal sessions that day (letter to follow to explain how we will be doing this safely). Through the rest of the week we will be doing lots of Christmas craft and Christmas cooking. The children will be learning about the Christmas story together.
Week 7 14th – 18th December
As many of you are aware, we always hold our annual nativity at St Mary’s church and all the children’s family can come and see them perform at the end of term. As this will not be possible, we will be practicing the story in Pre-School during December, the children will get dressed up and we will film this. We are hoping to make a short film of all their Christmas fun so parents can purchase this for a small fee and watch at home. There will be a letter asking if your child can be included in the filming.
Remember to check out our website to see the newsletter and see how you can support the committee - check out the craft boxes to do at home, instead of our Jingle Mingle event we would normally host.
www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk
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 “Celebrations” or Christmas please email them in and we will hopefully include them in our plans.
Parents ideas:
Children’s Ideas:
Thank you to all the parents who have donated items to support a variety of tactile and messy play last half term. We are looking for items for our Christmas craft:
Clean jam jars with labels removed
Medium and large pine cones.
We will be back at Pre-school on Tuesday 5th January 2021. (Monday 4th Inset Day)
Thanks for all your support!
Lolene Poxon
Pre-school Manager
We hope you have all enjoyed the first half term of the year. All of the children have settled in so well and are a really lovely group! We just wanted to let you know some of the things that will be happening this half term. We will be looking at “Celebrations” with the children. We are starting off with a super market for our role-play, looking at Bonfire night and fireworks and celebrating ourselves and what makes us unique. Please load your stories onto the learning journal system about your special shoeboxes so we can share this with the group.
Week 1 2nd – 6th November – Celebrating Ourselves
The first week back we will be looking at different stories about how unique we are and celebrating this by looking at the special shoeboxes you have created online. Bonfire night celebrations, with lots of creative play and yummy snacks.
Week 2 9th - 13th November – Celebrating Others
We will focus on diversity, differences in our families, appearance and beliefs. This will be through storytelling, crafts and small world play.
Friday 13th - Children in Need - come dressed in PJ’s/onesie’s for a £1 donation, all proceeds will go to Children in Need.
Saturday 14th November FAMILY PHOTO SESSION – CANCELLED - we are so sorry and will try and reschedule for the New Year.
Week 3 16th – 20th November- Diwali
Exploring Diwali through stories, cooking art and music. The children will also be creating a banner for the church that will be displayed in the future as we look at the theme “2020, our year”.
Week 4 23rd - 27th November – Celebrating other special occasions
We will be celebrating Buster’s Birthday (Buster is our special Pre-School Bear) with a Birthday party and lots of maths and baking. At the end of the week we will be celebrating Wonder Mouse’s new baby brother, with a baby clinic and finding out about our siblings and mother and baby animals too. We will also be looking at other children from around the world and smaller celebrations.
Week 5 30th – 4th December – Celebrating special times with food
Christmas home corner to play with. Food from various festivals, parties and special times. At the end of the week we will have a party and the children will bake food through the week for this.
Week 6 7th - 11th December
Monday 7th – We are hoping to have our Christmas Party at Pre-school 12-3pm for all
Pre-school children, there will be no normal sessions that day (letter to follow to explain how we will be doing this safely). Through the rest of the week we will be doing lots of Christmas craft and Christmas cooking. The children will be learning about the Christmas story together.
Week 7 14th – 18th December
As many of you are aware, we always hold our annual nativity at St Mary’s church and all the children’s family can come and see them perform at the end of term. As this will not be possible, we will be practicing the story in Pre-School during December, the children will get dressed up and we will film this. We are hoping to make a short film of all their Christmas fun so parents can purchase this for a small fee and watch at home. There will be a letter asking if your child can be included in the filming.
Remember to check out our website to see the newsletter and see how you can support the committee - check out the craft boxes to do at home, instead of our Jingle Mingle event we would normally host.
www.rollestonpreschool.co.uk
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 “Celebrations” or Christmas please email them in and we will hopefully include them in our plans.
Parents ideas:
Children’s Ideas:
Thank you to all the parents who have donated items to support a variety of tactile and messy play last half term. We are looking for items for our Christmas craft:
Clean jam jars with labels removed
Medium and large pine cones.
We will be back at Pre-school on Tuesday 5th January 2021. (Monday 4th Inset Day)
Thanks for all your support!
Lolene Poxon
Pre-school Manager
