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November 2012
Hello, we hope you had a lovely half term and that
the children are enjoying being back.
As most of you know during half term, our lovely
Fundraising Chair and Committee Member Lilli
organised a Halloween Party as a fundraiser. Lilli
and her team of wonderful helpers raised us a
whopping £106 which will be spent or a new story
sack for the Pre-School. Story sacks are a
wonderful resource which are based on a Story but
contains all the props and ideas you can use to
capture and retain children’s attention. We would
like to thanks all those involved in organising the
event and to those who attended, with a special to
Mel, Louise, Amanda, Sarah, Laura, Lindsay,
Amandeep, Michelle and Shelly.
You will probably have seen that posters are up
and around the Pre-School about a Christmas Fair.
We hope that you can all contribute to making the
fair a success. Please speak with Lilli if you would
like more information or if you would like to help.
Parent Questionnaire
The committee and Pre-School staff continuously
strive to improve our standards. Therefore we
have attached a Parent Questionnaire. We would
really appreciate if you could complete this
question and return it to us by the 7th December
2012. We can then collate your feedback and
make sure we are giving the children what they
need and want whilst in the setting.
Photographs
As you all know Terry Bayliss came into Pre-School
to do our annual photo’s. If you would like to
contact Terry regarding your photographs, his
number is 07917 107273
Preschool Fish
The Pre-School have purchased two Fish. The
children have decided to call the fish “Inky” and
“Blob”.
Please remember:
• Uniform must be named.
• Please provide a set of spare clothes for
your child and a named water bottle.
• No parking in the school grounds.
• No smoking in the school grounds.
• If your child has had sickness or an upset
stomach they must be kept away from
school for 48 hours after the last episode.
• If you are sending money, medication or
other important items into the preschool
with your child, please remember to hand
to a member of staff - do not leave in your
child’s bag.
• Please remember that if you have any
concerns we are always available at the
beginning or end of the session or we will
arrange a convenient time for you to speak
to us. However, we do ask that you wait
for all children to be safely collected at the
end of a session before approaching a
member of staff.
Invoices
We have changed the invoicing to 6 weekly. You
will be receiving an up to date invoice or
statement before the end of term to confirm
what your balance is.
Paying your fees by bank transfer
In an attempt to minimise bank charges and
simplify the payment process, we are encouraging
parents to try to pay fees via bank transfer.
Your invoice now includes our bank details if you
wish to pay in this way. Please use your child’s
name as the payment reference so that we are
able to track the payment.
If you have any issues with meeting these
deadlines or for another copy of your invoice
please feel free to speak with Dawn about this.
Alternatively, Cheques can be written to
Addlestone Pre-school and handed into a member
of staff and we also accept Child care vouchers.
Session times:
Morning sessions: 9.00am to 12.15
Afternoon sessions: 12.30 to 3.00
Autumn Term dates:
Monday 10th Sept 2012 – Friday 14th Dec 2012
Half Term
Monday 29th Oct 2012 – Friday 2nd Nov 2012
Our Themes for this half term:
We celebrated Halloween by Pumpkin carving, we
made spider cakes, we made spiders, counted,
receited the number of legs, we made pumkin soup
and we made a pumpkin farm in our role play area.
We did hand and footprint ghosts, we looked at
where fruit grows and we made a scarecrow. We
then celebrated Fireworks by making a Firework
night poster, used the computer the make Fireworks
poster, we explored mixing paint to make Fireworks
pictures, we make some Breadstick Sparklers, we
talked about the noises that Fireworks makes, we
made fireworks junk modelling. We made Poppies
for Remembrance Sunday. We celebrated Diwali by
drawing around hands and then decorating using
diwali patterns, we made diwali sweets and did a
big scale diwali patten outside using Chalk. We
listened and watched to the diwali story on the
computer. We have lots happening for Christmas
and I am sure you will see lots of things coming
home. We are all recognising our pegs, put our
coats on independently and learning lots of new
stuff for Christmas.
Term Dates
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you
that the end of term is 14th December 2012 and we
return to school on 7th January 2013.
Fundraising and committee meetings
All parents are welcome to join the committee and
help with anything from fundraising to
recruitment. If you’d like to learn more about what
we do, please come along to our next committee
meeting dates for 2012/13 are:
Wednesday 16th January 2013
Wednesday 6th March 2013
Wednesday 1st May 2013
Wednesday 12th June 2013
We’ll also be sending out news of planned
fundraising events soon. If you have any great
money-making ideas, please come along to the
committee meeting.
Contact details
Please can you let a member of staff know if any of
your contact details have changed over summer. It
is vital to have the right details for you, for
correspondence and if there is any reason we need
to get hold of you.
If you would like to be added to the Pre-School
electronic mailing list please can you email
[email protected] Dawn will
add you to the mailing list and you will get any
information quicker then waiting for the half term
newsletter.
Wishing a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of our Birthday
Children
November
13th – George (3)
19th – Frazer (3)
22nd – Sophia (4)
23rd – Amar (4)
25th – Rosie (4)
28th – Oliver U (3)
29th – Adam (4)
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December
11th – Oliver B (4)
29th – Liam (3)
30th – Alesha (4)
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