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We began last term focussing on Classic Fairy Stories, especially The Three Little Pigs; Goldilocks and the Three Bears; and, Jack and the Beanstalk.<\/p>\n
We enjoyed making things for our display and to take home including making 3 different pig houses; a bear to take home; planting runner beans; climbing our huge climbing frame beanstalk; and making a numbered beanstalk for the display.\u00a0 We role played the stories, played games like Pig Goes Pop and What\u2019s the Time Mr Wolf.<\/p>\n
During this period we also celebrated Burns Night, Big Garden Birdwatch, Chinese New Year and Valentine\u2019s Day, including making kilts for our British Values Board, sending home a bird survey, tasting Chinese Food, and making a beautiful Valentines Card.<\/p>\n
During the 2nd<\/sup> half term, we focussed on Staying Healthy and Safe by looking at Healthy Eating, How I Keep Myself Healthy, and People in the Community Who Look After Us.\u00a0 We differentiated between healthy and unhealthy foods, made smoothies, and baked healthy pizzas.\u00a0 We talked about staying healthy, why we need to exercise, enjoyed playing the Crocodile Teeth and Operation games, as well as singing songs and playing Simon Says to identify our body parts. We met PC Matt Hawke who came in to the setting.\u00a0 He talked about being a Police Officer, why their role is important, how they help people and then showed us his car.\u00a0 We also learnt the recovery position, dressed up as Doctors and Nurses in our Preschool Hospital, enjoyed playing with the fire engines and pretended to be a teacher.<\/p>\n It was a busy half term for events including St David\u2019s Day; Shrove Tuesday; World Book Day; British Science Week; St Patrick\u2019s Day; Mother\u2019s Day; and, Easter.\u00a0 On St David\u2019s Day and St Patrick\u2019s Day we made Welsh flag bunting and Irish Shamrocks with Leprechauns to add to our British Values Board and we all danced along to Riverdance.\u00a0 We enjoyed pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, dressed up as our favourite book characters on World Book Day, enjoyed a sink\/float scientific experiment for Science Week, had an Easter Egg hunt and made lots of Mother\u2019s Day and Easter goodies to bring home.<\/p>\n It has been very busy!\u00a0 Not forgetting of course, our core, continuous and enhanced provision covering all areas of the EYFS to provide opportunities and help your children develop and learn through play, with lots of encouragement.\u00a0 We continue to interact with your children, provide activities and specifically selected resources to enable them to reach their full potential in an enabling, happy and safe environment.<\/p>\n If 3 days just isn\u2019t enough for your child, if you have younger siblings or know of anyone who is looking for \u2018stay and play\u2019 toddler sessions, our Parent and Toddler group for 0-4 year olds is proving very popular and is open on Mondays from 9:15 to 11:15.\u00a0 First session is free but please email to book your place. \u00a32.50 and additional siblings are 50p (paid half-termly).\u00a0 Drop in sessions are \u00a33.\u00a0 Email toddlers@highamptonpreschool.co.uk<\/a> for more information and to book your place.<\/p>\n We must say a huge THANK YOU to people from our community who have helped us including Mark Wonnacott (MNW Timber Solutions) for donating some wood and Sam Hellon for using it to fix our mud kitchen and make some beautiful shapes for our garden.\u00a0 PC Hawke for finding time to come and speak to us about the importance of our Police force.\u00a0 Also a big thank you to our amazing bank staff, Davina and Annette for stepping in to help when we had 2 members of staff off with Covid.<\/p>\n The Communication and Development books continue to be updated with your child\u2019s work and are available for you to take home and review with your children whenever you would like them.\u00a0 Please feel free to write in these books and add events that happen at home.\u00a0 You will also see that we complete an end of term summary of their progress and would welcome feedback at the bottom of this form.\u00a0 If you have any queries about your child\u2019s development, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of staff or your child\u2019s key worker.<\/p>\n Please remember that we like to be outside in our garden whenever possible and would appreciate if coats could still be sent in to Preschool daily to enable us to do this in all weathers.\u00a0 If we are lucky enough to be forecast sunny weather, we would appreciate sun cream to be applied before bringing your child to Preschool.\u00a0 We have factor 50 sun protection cream at Preschool that can be reapplied throughout the day and sun hats that the children may use.\u00a0 If you would prefer for your child to use their own cream and sun hat, please ensure that these are labelled, put in their bag and that your child knows they are there.<\/p>\n As always, your Key Worker is available should you need to discuss any particular aspects of your child\u2019s learning and next steps.\u00a0 You can speak to a member of staff at drop off and pick up, call on 07837 357815 or 07801 581054 out of hours or email info@highamptonpreschool.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0 Please check our closed Facebook page for Parents\/Carers for weekly updates, events and news or refer to the Website for setting information and general queries.<\/p>\n If your child is due to start school in September, transition sessions are likely to start this term, probably after the spring bank half term.\u00a0 It is likely that you will be contacted directly regarding these sessions but we are working with the schools and will pass on any information we receive.<\/p>\n Your School Lottery<\/strong> is an exciting weekly lottery that helps raise money for Highampton Area Pre-School. Tickets for the lottery cost\u00a0just \u00a31 per week<\/em>, with a top prize of\u00a0\u00a325,000<\/em>!\u00a0 Each ticket will consist of 6 numbers and each number will be between 0 and 9. There will be a draw every Saturday night when a 6 digit winning combination will be picked. Match all 6 and you win the JACKPOT of\u00a0\u00a325,000!<\/em>\u00a0 There is also a guaranteed winner for Highampton Area Pre-School very Saturday which is drawn on a raffle basis, so there are two chances to win a prize. More tickets sold the more the prize money will be each week.<\/p>\n AmazonSmile<\/strong> is a simple and automatic way for you to support us. Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price of your Amazon shops to your nominated charity at no extra cost to you.\u00a0 Simply log-in to your Amazon account at\u00a0smile.amazon.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0and nominate\u00a0\u201cHighampton Area Pre-School Group\u201d\u00a0as your chosen charity, then every time you shop at Amazon a percentage of the purchase price of your orders will be donated to Highampton Area Pre-School.\u00a0 AmazonSmile is available at\u00a0smile.amazon.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping App for iOS and Android phones.<\/p>\n Please go to our Website to find out more about these fundraising opportunities and to buy tickets.<\/p>\n Please ensure that you phone or text us each day that your child is absent from Preschool, unless you are able to predict a longer period of absence and we are aware of this.\u00a0 07837 357815 or 07801 581054 out of hours<\/p>\n Please ensure that the contact details we have on file are correct and any specific requirements for your child are up to date.<\/p>\n Term \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 26 Apr \u2013 26 May<\/p>\n Half-term\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 31 May \u2013 2 June (inclusive)<\/p>\n Term\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 7 June \u2013 21 July<\/p>\n Sports Day\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 July (date tbc)<\/p>\n End of Term Trip\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 21 July<\/p>\n Summer Break\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 22 July \u2013 7 September<\/p>\n Start of Autumn Term\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 13 September<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are back on Monday 25 April with Toddlers and Tuesday 26 April with Preschool.<\/p>\n Our Preschool theme this half-term is Space and as Trainee Astronauts, we will be learning and exploring rockets and planets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n See you all next week.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer Term Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6261\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highamptonpreschool.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TODDLERS<\/h3>\n
THANK YOU<\/h3>\n
CaD BOOKS<\/h3>\n
DRESSING FOR THE WEATHER<\/h3>\n
COMMUNICATION<\/h3>\n
STARTING RECEPTION IN SEPTEMBER?<\/h3>\n
FUNDRAISING<\/h3>\n
ABSENCES<\/h3>\n
CHANGE OF CONTACT DETAILS<\/h3>\n
PRESCHOOL DATES FOR YOUR DIARY<\/h3>\n