Welcome back and Happy New Year!!
We hope you all had a magical Christmas and wonderful New Year. We are so happy to see all your
smiley happy faces back at school and very happy to see some new smiley faces for this year. There
is lots of learning and fun to be had in 2017 and we here at Folksworth Pre-school can’t wait to get
started and this Newsletter will give you a little insight to some of the things coming up this half
term.
A Big Thank You
We would like to thank everyone who supported us at our Annual Christmas Santa Float Fundraising
event last year. The donations and support we received, whether from your front door or those that
came to the hall to join in the festivities was amazing. This fundraising event raised the preschool a
whopping £1335.40!!! We really couldn’t ask for more supportive parents, families and villagers and
thank you all so much for your donations. We hope you enjoyed the event just as much as we did
and we look forward to seeing you all for more events in the coming year.
Valentines Disco
We are holding a Valentines Disco at Folksworth Village Hall on Tuesday 14th
February 2pm – 4pm. All children are welcome. Please feel free to bring siblings
or family as this is an open event. Drinks and snacks will be available to
purchase for the children to enjoy in-between dances. Tickets are £2 entry with
additional child only £1 and Adults are free. We hope to see lots of you there
ready to dance the afternoon away
Uniform
Don’t forget that we now have our own preschool uniform. Uniform is not mandatory for pupils but
we do hope you will choose to purchase it for your children. Our uniform is
available for ordering through the Tesco’s website and will be delivered to
your door. If you have problems or queries regarding ordering uniform please
do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Pre-School staff who will be
happy to help. To order online visit; http://www.tesco.com/direct/children-suniform/13163.school
Dates for the Diary
9th January – Back to School
13th February – Half Term Starts
14th February – Valentines Disco
Picture of the Month
In this section the staff members choose a picture created by one of the children to be displayed
proudly in our Newsletter. This month’s picture is a snowman created from tissue paper.
“Snowman”
by Luke Aged 3
Winter Weather
As winter seems to finally be with us may we ask you to please remember to provide suitable
clothing for the children as we will always try to get outside if the weather permits us. When
purchasing hats, gloves and boots please look for the easiest ones for your child to put on
independently.
Sharing Board
We have a sharing board at our Preschool for the children to
share pictures. We use this board to help with interaction
and for the children to share their stories with us and the
other children.
At Christmas the children thoroughly enjoyed sharing the
pictures of the fun they had with Edgar the Preschool Elf.
This term we are asking if parents could please bring in
photos of family, pets, holidays or special occasions to go on
our sharing board.
What are We up to?
We have put together this little section so that you can be aware of what the children will be
learning, reading and getting up to at school on the run up to Half Term. We hope by you knowing
this information that it will encourage them to show you at home and help with their learning and
progress in the subjects.
Week Commencing
Activities
09/01/17
Settling back into preschool after the Christmas Holidays
Using speckled frogs on the log to encourage children to count and Sing
Following lines and joining up dots to create letters and shapes.
Hoop game in the afternoons
Sticky Kids
16/01/17
Planting new flowers in the flower beds.
Flower experiments – adding food colouring to the flower’s water in order
to change the colour of the flower.
Sticky Kids
Numeral to quantity maths activity
Memory games, including the shopping game, lunch box game etc.
Continue to play and practice hoop game
23/01/17
Measuring and recording heights on the height chart.
Carry on the theme of measuring by having a shoe shop in the role play
area.
Shapes floor game.
30/01/17
Celebrating the Chinese new year (Saturday 28th – Year of the Rooster).
Reading the story of the animals, making our own Chinese dragons and
learning a dragon dance.
Continuing with the Chinese new year theme with our Chinese restaurant in
the role play area.
06/02/17
Making valentines decorations to decorate the setting.
Shape and number games
Mixing and creating colours.
Topics to be covered this Term – Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day.
Donations
We are currently looking for donations of:
Doll (baby) + clothes, Barbie Clothes
Jigsaws
Hair clips, Bobbles, brushes.
Potato Head
Compost, Seeds and Bulbs for planting
If you can help at all with the above we would be truly grateful
Pre School Information
Please remember that our School is a nut free pre-school. Please make sure
that no nuts or nut based foods are in your child’s lunch boxes or bags.
Please also remember to cut all grapes in half to avoid choking. Thank you for
your help in this and keeping our school safe.
Pre School Facebook
If you have Facebook, have a look at our Facebook page
‘Folksworth Preschool’ we keep this up dated with pictures of
our work and information of what we are doing at preschool.
Absences
Can parent’s please text the preschool mobile or leave a message to report child illness. If
you leave a message for us we will pick it up, we always check messages regularly.
Alternative collection
Please advise us with name of collector if someone different is coming to collect your
child. We will provide a secure password for the collector to use. We will not allow the
child to leave with anyone other than the original collector if not previously specified.
Contact
Please feel free to speak to a member of staff, contact us via telephone or
email [email protected] with any concerns, updates, queries
or questions that you may have. We are always here to help you and your
children through their preschool journey.