Newsletters
6th September 2018
Welcome back after the holidays to our returning families and a big hello to all our new starters. 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 the website 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. All of the information for this will be on the bottom of the invoice. If you are using your government grant we just need you to return the form we send out each term signed where highlighted. 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!
Our INSET DAYS for the year are:
Mon 3rd Sept
Friday 28th Sept – which is different from John of Rolleston
Mon 25th Feb
Mon 3rd June
Mon 22nd July
This half term we are looking at “Colour & Shape” with the children. Each week we will have lots of activities around a colour or a shape. The children can bring in colour items for the designated weeks. During week 2 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. Feel free to ask your child’s key person or myself any questions. We have our kitchen as the home corner and lots of dressing up clothes, and we will be talking about ourselves and our families. We will be using mirrors to help paint and collage our faces talking about different body parts. 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.
We hope to take the children on a colour and nature walk and visit the school hall and dance. Over the last few years we have developed our woodland adventure activities at the Junior site Spinney and last year committee and parents raised funds so that Mrs Croxall can complete her Forest School Leaders training. Mrs Croxall is so passionate about this style of teaching and has put so much time and energy into developing it for us which has impacted so many children, it is wonderful to finally be able to fund some official training for her and be able to call ourselves a Forest Schools setting. She will be starting this training in September. As part of our cooperative working relationship with John of Rolleston Primary school, we are sponsoring Mrs Croxall to work with the school one day a week so that they can develop “Forest schools” in the school curriculum as well which is really exciting. This half term we will be in the woods for a week 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.
Week 1 3rd - 7th September - Colour of the week red
Lots of colour activities and ‘getting to know you’ games as children settle in.
Week 2 10th - 14th September - Colour of the week blue
Story of the week - The Gingerbread Man
Pre-school Rules - one a day
Thursday - making gingerbread together
Week 3 17th – 21st September - Colour of the week yellow
Monday - 17th Committee meeting 8pm at Pre-school everyone welcome.
We are hoping to make some trips over to school to use the hall.
Friday – Pre-school open as normal, we will be going on a colour walk in the morning
Week 4 24th - 27th September - Colour of the week green
We will be starting some woodwork sessions with the children to develop their skills and safety awareness.
Tuesday- AM Richard Greenwood photos - all AM children will be taken toRolleton Club to have their photo taken. (If your child does not attend this session you can still go to 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. This is a great way to raise funds for Pre-School as Richard gives us 20% of the takings!
Wednesday - We will be taking the children on a nature walk around the village send them in wellingtons and raincoats.
Friday 28th September – TRAINING DAY – NO PRE-SCHOOL SESSIONS
Week 5 1st - 5th October – Colour of the week pink
We will be using the parachute together to learn songs and ball games outside.
Monday- Rainbow day, come dressed in your favourite colour and pay £1.All donations will go towards woodland week next week.
Sunday 7th of October - Family Treasure Hunt around the village meet at Pre-school at 11am to collect your clues and have a bacon sandwich to keep you going we are aiming to be finished for 1pm in time for lunch. It should be lots of fun.
Week 6 8th - 12th October
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.) Letter to follow.
Saturday 13th – Parent workshop on Letters and Sounds, what is that you may ask? Letters and Sounds are activities we do daily with the children at Pre-school and it is the foundation to develop listening skills to support learning your phonics in Foundation. We are inviting parents to come along and try some activities with their child and find out how to support their child at home. We will run a session 10am -11am, there will be a sign-up sheet and if there is plenty of interest we will run a second session 11.15 – 12.15pm.
Week 7 15th – 19th October – Colour of the week purple
We will have natural objects to explore for tactile play and will be recalling our adventures in the woods and creating stories.
Saturday 20th 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. These make fantastic Christmas presents!!
Week 8 22nd – 26th October – Colour of the week orange
Wednesday 24th – Pre-school AGM at 7pm at Pre-school everyone is welcome.
Friday - we will be making soup together for snack.
Saturday 27th of October - Halloween Disco for children and families at Rolleston Scout hut from 2pm, this is a really popular event please come along and support us if you can. All proceeds from the event go towards helping run Rolleston Pre-school for your children.
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 “Colour & Shape” 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
Shaving Foam (Not gel)
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 5th November
Thanks for all you support
Lolene Poxon
Pre-school Manager
Welcome back after the holidays to our returning families and a big hello to all our new starters. 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 the website 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. All of the information for this will be on the bottom of the invoice. If you are using your government grant we just need you to return the form we send out each term signed where highlighted. 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!
Our INSET DAYS for the year are:
Mon 3rd Sept
Friday 28th Sept – which is different from John of Rolleston
Mon 25th Feb
Mon 3rd June
Mon 22nd July
This half term we are looking at “Colour & Shape” with the children. Each week we will have lots of activities around a colour or a shape. The children can bring in colour items for the designated weeks. During week 2 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. Feel free to ask your child’s key person or myself any questions. We have our kitchen as the home corner and lots of dressing up clothes, and we will be talking about ourselves and our families. We will be using mirrors to help paint and collage our faces talking about different body parts. 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.
We hope to take the children on a colour and nature walk and visit the school hall and dance. Over the last few years we have developed our woodland adventure activities at the Junior site Spinney and last year committee and parents raised funds so that Mrs Croxall can complete her Forest School Leaders training. Mrs Croxall is so passionate about this style of teaching and has put so much time and energy into developing it for us which has impacted so many children, it is wonderful to finally be able to fund some official training for her and be able to call ourselves a Forest Schools setting. She will be starting this training in September. As part of our cooperative working relationship with John of Rolleston Primary school, we are sponsoring Mrs Croxall to work with the school one day a week so that they can develop “Forest schools” in the school curriculum as well which is really exciting. This half term we will be in the woods for a week 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.
Week 1 3rd - 7th September - Colour of the week red
Lots of colour activities and ‘getting to know you’ games as children settle in.
Week 2 10th - 14th September - Colour of the week blue
Story of the week - The Gingerbread Man
Pre-school Rules - one a day
Thursday - making gingerbread together
Week 3 17th – 21st September - Colour of the week yellow
Monday - 17th Committee meeting 8pm at Pre-school everyone welcome.
We are hoping to make some trips over to school to use the hall.
Friday – Pre-school open as normal, we will be going on a colour walk in the morning
Week 4 24th - 27th September - Colour of the week green
We will be starting some woodwork sessions with the children to develop their skills and safety awareness.
Tuesday- AM Richard Greenwood photos - all AM children will be taken toRolleton Club to have their photo taken. (If your child does not attend this session you can still go to 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. This is a great way to raise funds for Pre-School as Richard gives us 20% of the takings!
Wednesday - We will be taking the children on a nature walk around the village send them in wellingtons and raincoats.
Friday 28th September – TRAINING DAY – NO PRE-SCHOOL SESSIONS
Week 5 1st - 5th October – Colour of the week pink
We will be using the parachute together to learn songs and ball games outside.
Monday- Rainbow day, come dressed in your favourite colour and pay £1.All donations will go towards woodland week next week.
Sunday 7th of October - Family Treasure Hunt around the village meet at Pre-school at 11am to collect your clues and have a bacon sandwich to keep you going we are aiming to be finished for 1pm in time for lunch. It should be lots of fun.
Week 6 8th - 12th October
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.) Letter to follow.
Saturday 13th – Parent workshop on Letters and Sounds, what is that you may ask? Letters and Sounds are activities we do daily with the children at Pre-school and it is the foundation to develop listening skills to support learning your phonics in Foundation. We are inviting parents to come along and try some activities with their child and find out how to support their child at home. We will run a session 10am -11am, there will be a sign-up sheet and if there is plenty of interest we will run a second session 11.15 – 12.15pm.
Week 7 15th – 19th October – Colour of the week purple
We will have natural objects to explore for tactile play and will be recalling our adventures in the woods and creating stories.
Saturday 20th 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. These make fantastic Christmas presents!!
Week 8 22nd – 26th October – Colour of the week orange
Wednesday 24th – Pre-school AGM at 7pm at Pre-school everyone is welcome.
Friday - we will be making soup together for snack.
Saturday 27th of October - Halloween Disco for children and families at Rolleston Scout hut from 2pm, this is a really popular event please come along and support us if you can. All proceeds from the event go towards helping run Rolleston Pre-school for your children.
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 “Colour & Shape” 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
Shaving Foam (Not gel)
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 5th November
Thanks for all you support
Lolene Poxon
Pre-school Manager
