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September 2012
Welcome!
We hope you enjoyed the summer break and are
ready for another fun term at Addlestone Preschool!
An especially warm welcome to all our new starters –
we hope you will enjoy exploring the setting and
making new friends.
Our previous Manager Tessa has decided to move
onto new ventures and we are delighted to announce
that Rachel Flynn has agreed to take on the role as
Addlestone Preschool Manager. Rachel has been
with the preschool since 2008 and has been our
deputy manager for the past two years. She comes
with a wealth of knowledge and experience and has
some fantastic ideas for the year ahead. We are also
pleased to inform you that Rachel will be supported
by her new deputy Lisa Wye. Lisa has been with the
preschool since 2010 and together we know that they
will make a great team.
A warm welcome to Carol & Vicki
We would like to give a warm Addlestone Preschool
Welcome to Vicki and welcome back Carol. Vicki
joins us with over 18 years of Childcare experience
and she is looking forward to working as part of the
team after spending some years Nannying. Carol
comes back to us after 3 years of managing Walton’s
Sure Start Nursery – she has a wealth of knowledge
and experience of the Early Years foundation stage
curriculum and also of Addlestone Preschool.
The New Pre-school Administrator
Dawn Hurst (Vinnie’s Mum) has taken on the role of
Pre-school Administrator. The Pre-School
Administrator phone number is the same
07756256456 and you can still send emails to
[email protected]
The New Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
An email will be sent to you which explains the
changes made and how it will affect your child. If you
have not received this email or would like the
attached documents printed out, please ask a
member of staff who will be able to obtain this for
you.
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.
• 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.
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.
Payments for Autumn Term are due by:
Monday 17th September and Monday 12th
November 2012.
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
Our Themes for this half term
Our theme for this half term is Nursery Rhymes
because of national Book Week and Rhyming
Week. With the children in the Morning session,
we will be making Humpty Dumpty’s, Constructing
Walls, painting bricks, making a “feelings” wall and
using ladders to help Humpty down. The children
have also showed an interest in dinosaurs so we
have been doing some activities around this.
For the afternoon children our focus will be
settling them in, saying goodbye to Mum and Dad
and helping them get used to the Pre-School & of
course their Key worker. A list of photo’s will be
put up in the classroom to clearly identify who will
be your Child’s key worker.
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.
Wishing a Very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of our Birthday
Children
September
2nd – Emily turns 4
5th – Charlie P turns 4
5th – Lenny Dean turns 3
18th – Luke turns 3
19th – Kamran turns 3
October
14th – Megan turns 4
25th – Harry B turns 3
29th – Samual turns 3
Autumn Term dates:
Monday 10th Sept 2012 – Friday 14th Dec 2012
Half Term
Monday 29th Oct 2012 – Friday 2nd Nov 2012
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 3rd October 2012 (8pm)
Wednesday 14th November 2012 (AGM)
Wednesday 16th January 2012
Wednesday 6th March 2012
Wednesday 1st May 2012
Wednesday 12th June 2012
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.
Preschool Bear
The Pre-School have purchased a new called Boo
Boo Bear. Children will have an opportunity to take
turns in taking the bear home with them for a
weekend. Then returning the bear when they are
next in Pre-school. We would like to encourage
parents in involving bear in your activities at home
and helping your child record what Boo Boo has
been up to in Boo Boo’s diary. The children will
then tell their classmates what they have been up
to with bear.
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