Settling In

Starting Pre-School is a big step in a child's life, one that can be quite daunting faced with new adults and children. You are welcome to stay with your child for as long as necessary until you both feel happy about the separation.

There are named coat pegs available at Pre-School and boxes to keep shoes/Wellingtons in. Activities at Pre-School can be messy; we provide aprons but accidents do happen so it is advisable not to send your child in their best clothes.  Please provide your child with named Wellingtons.  We like to go outside all year round, weather permitting and the grass can be muddy.  Soft shoes or slippers are recommended for use indoors.  Please provide a bag with a change of clothes for your child.  These can be left at Pre-School.

We provide a healthy snack for the children, e.g. fruit, raisins, cracker, biscuit and a glass of milk. Water is available as an alternative to milk.  If your child has any special dietary needs please let the Play Leader know.

Each term we have a theme e.g. the colour red. The theme will tie in with other activities, rhymes and stories and be used as the basis of the session plans.  There will be displays on the Interest table and posters and work displayed around the room.  We will discuss objects and pictures, asking questions, building vocabulary and developing confidence in speaking and listening skills.

When it is your child's birthday to help us celebrate you can bring in a treat for the children; e.g. fun size treats or cakes. If you have any celebrations you would like us to talk about in Pre-School please let the Play Leader know.

We have toilet facilities and child sized hand-washing facilities in the portacabin.

We are sited in the school grounds and have full use of all the school's outside facilities, paved playground area, school field and adventure play apparatus. Gradually this enables the children to become familiar with the school premises, so that at school age it is no longer an unknown.  We also meet occasionally with the reception class for stories, games and activities.