Hello e everyone.....

 

Hello Everyone,

The children have had a great week and are very much looking forward to Christmas.  They have loved making their christmas activities and really seem to be enjoying each other's company which is lovely to see.

At group times we have continued talking about Christmas and it is amazing how much the children can remember from last year! 

The children have enjoyed playing in the stable outside and we have also had a sing song out in the garden. 

We will be continuing with our Christmas activities and have many fun things planned for the children. We will continue with the  story focus of  Stickman as this is a lovely story for this time of year. We did not get around to doing much of this during last week. 

Please continue to bring in your lovely Wow’s so we can see what amazing achievements you have had at home.

This week we will continue to send home our play library. If you had one last week please bring it back when you are next in. Please see link for video for information about this. https://www.facebook.com/POWFS/videos/1039096813302955

On Wednesday 15th December is our Christmas Lunch. If your child is staying for lunch and then going home. Please pick up at 1.00pm.

OnThursday 16th December we have got our Christmas party from 9-12.00pm. Children to bring their lunch boxed wrapped as a present.  Children may come in Christmas party wear. See letter for details. 

We break up for the holidays on Friday 17th December and return back to pre-school on Tuesday 4th January. 

We hope you all have a really lovely Christmas and look forward to seeing you all back in January 2022. 

 

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone.....

 

Hello Everyone,

The children had been having a great time at Preschool.  They loved playing in the Christmas sleigh and going shopping and wrapping presents. 

At group times the children loved listening to Christmas stories and asking lots of questions about the coming events over the next couple of weeks. 

The children were great at the pantomime on Thursday morning and they all had a great time with lots of laughing and interaction. 

We will be continuing with our Christmas activities and have many fun things planned for the children.

Notices

On Wednesday we have got our family Christmas breakfast which will be from 8.30-9.15am. This event will be outside so please wrap up warm. We have go Father Christmas coming to join us breakfast. If you have not returned your slip yet for this, please do so by Tuesday. 

Tickets are still available for the Christmas Table Wreath Workshop on Wednesday 8th December 2021.

Tickets are £20 each and includes your completed decoration, a mince and an alcoholic/non alcoholic drink

Please return funding forms to pre-school ASAP. 

On Friday it is stay and play from 8.30am till 9.00am. 

The Local Food Links Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 15th December. If you would like to order, please do so by midnight on Wednesday 8th December (at least 7 days in advance) - https://my.localfoodlinks.org.uk/ . This is the busiest day of our year and we will not be able to make any exceptions for late orders! Please ask Caroline for a unique code if you do not usually have hot dinners.

The POWSA Christmas Fayre will be on Friday 10th December at 3.30pm. There will be lots to do with all of your favourite games and stalls, refreshments, free Christmas crafts and signing under the Christmas tree. Preschool children will be singing jingle bells at 4.00pm around the Christmas tree outside the main entrance at school.

This week we will continue to send home our play library. If you had one last week please bring it back when you are next in. Please see link for video for information about this. https://www.facebook.com/POWFS/videos/1039096813302955

REMINDER Raffle tickets for the Casterbridge Christmas Raffle need to be returned to the school office (along with the money) by Friday 10th December.

Tickets cost £1 each and you could be the lucky winner of one of the cash prizes (£500, £250, £100 and £50).

The raffle will be drawn by the Rotary club on Friday 17th December.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please find information below about a useful advice line for parents and carers of 0-5years.

ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service for parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice via text message from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health. 

Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more.

ParentLine will run 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer.
Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team
ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999.

Please continue to bring in your lovely Wow’s so we can see what amazing achievements you have had at home.

Here’s to another great week of learning together!

 

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone.....

 

Hello Everyone,

The children had a really fun week.  We played lots of counting and did lots of counting in the outside environment. They also played in the role play area where they went shopping and used the purses and some real coins. 

At group times the children loved the ‘instruments’ and we played follow the leader and took it in turns to play a tune for everyone to copy.

Over the weekend the Pre-School has been decorated and we can’t wait to see how the children enjoy all the surprises we have in store. 

We will be starting our Christmas activities and have many fun things planned for the children.

Please continue to bring in your 

lovely Wow’s so we can see what amazing achievements you have had at home.

Home Learning

Can you talk about colours when you are out and about. Playing colour spotting is a great way of seeing how many different colours your child can recognise.

Notices

Please return funding forms to pre-school ASAP. 

On Thursday it is stay and play from 8.30am till 9.00am. 

On Wednesday evening POWSA have their meeting in the school hall at 7.30pm. Everyone is very welcome and it is great opportunity to meet other parents and help fundraise for the pre-school and school. 

On Friday it is Elf dressing up day. Children are all very welcome to come in dressed as an elf for the day. 

The POWSA Christmas Fayre will be on Friday 10th December at 3.30pm. There will be lots to do with all of your favourite games and stalls, refreshments, free Christmas crafts and signing under the Christmas tree.

POWSA are looking for donations of tombola prizes (chocolates, bottled items, teddies) which can be given in on Friday 3rd December.

This week we will continue to send home our play library. If you had one last week please bring it back when you are next in. Please see link for video for information about this. https://www.facebook.com/POWFS/videos/1039096813302955

The Local Food Links Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 15th December. If you would like to order, please do so by midnight on Wednesday 8th December (at least 7 days in advance) - https://my.localfoodlinks.org.uk/ . This is the busiest day of our year and we will not be able to make any exceptions for late orders! Please ask Caroline for a unique code if you do not usually have hot dinners.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please find information below about a useful advice line for parents and carers of 0-5years.

ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service for parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice via text message from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health. 

Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more.

ParentLine will run 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer.
Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team
ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999.

We are looking forward to a great week together. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

 

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone...

 

Hello Everyone,

The children have had a great week. They have been exploring the garden area and trying out many new challenges which is great to see.

We have done some mixing colour activities and made simple predictions about what may happen.

At group times the children have loved the ‘Tappy sticks’ and have followed instructions well such as loud, soft, start and stop. We also had a turn at being the leader with this activity.

This week we will be doing some counting activities and developing these skills further. We have lots of fun things planned and I’m sure the children are going to enjoy it.

Next weekend we will be transforming the Pre-School into Christmas for the children which I’m sure they are going to love!

Please continue to bring in your 

lovely Wow’s so we can see what amazing achievements you have had at home.

Home Learning

When you are out and about this week can your child recognise any numbers in the environment such as: door numbers, numbers on postboxes, car registrations, prices of items in a shop. If you have any cash it's great to show your children and get them interested in counting coins and looking at them. Numbers are all around us and we like to make it as fun as possible!

We are looking forward to a great week together. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Notices 

On Tuesday it is stay and play from 8.30am till 9.00am. 

On Friday it is POWSA Film night. The film being shown is Arthur Christmas. Story from 5.00pm and film starting at 5.30pm. Tickets can be purchased from the main school office. Please see poster for more details. 

This week we will be starting to send home our play library. Please see link for video for information about this. https://www.facebook.com/POWFS/videos/1039096813302955

 
The Local Food Links Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 15th December. If you would like to order, please do so by midnight on Wednesday 8th December (at least 7 days in advance) - https://my.localfoodlinks.org.uk/ . This is the busiest day of our year and we will not be able to make any exceptions for late orders! Please ask Caroline for a unique code if you do not usually have hot dinners.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please find information below about a useful advice line for parents and carers of 0-5years.

ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service for parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice via text message from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health. 

Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more.

ParentLine will run 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer.
Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team
ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999.

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone....

 

Hello Everyone,

The children have ove exploring colour this week and have had lots of ideas of what they would like to do this week!

The children really enjoyed making their remembrance poppies and also made a handprint one for the whole school wreath which was being laid on Sunday.

This week we will continue looking at colours and shapes and doing some simple problem solving. We have lots of fun things planned and I’m sure the children are going to enjoy it.

We are looking forward to a fun week together. If your child has a favorite story and they would like to share it with their friends at group time then please bring it in for us to read.

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Please continue to bring in your 

lovely Wow’s so we can see what amazing achievements you have had at home.

 

Notices 

On Monday it is Odd socks day. Don't forget to wear your odd socks. 

On Friday it is Children in Need day and children are welcome to wear something spotty or sporty. A suggested donation of £1 per a child can be bought in on the day.

If you would like your child to have a Christmas Dinner on Wednesday 15th December and they don't normally have a hot lunch, please email Caroline @ preschool@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk for a code to login to the Local food links page. Please see letter for more details.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please find information below about a useful advice line for parents and carers of 0-5years.

ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service for parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice via text message from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health. 

Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more.

ParentLine will run 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer.
Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team
ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999.

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone....

 

Hello Everyone,

We  hope that you all enjoyed your weekend and enjoyed some fireworks with your family. This week the children enjoyed making Firework pictures, making bonfires in the texture tray. The highlight of the week was the bonfire snack up at the round houses with singing, exploring, eating hotdogs and toasting marshmallows. This was really great to see. 

This week we will be looking at colours and shapes and doing some Maths investigations. We have lots of fun things planned and I’m sure the children are going to enjoy it.

Notices

On Friday it is Children in Need day and children are welcome to wear something spotty or sporty. A suggested donation of £1 per a child can be bought in on the day.

If you would like your child to have a Christmas Dinner on Wednesday 15th December and they don't normally have a hot lunch, please email Caroline @ preschool@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk for a code to login to the Local food links page. Please see letter for more details. You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event.  Please find information below about a useful advice line for parents and carers of 0-5years.

ParentLine is a new confidential text messaging service for parents and carers of 0-5 year olds in Dorset to seek advice via text message from our Health Visiting team about their child’s health.  Parents and carers can seek advice about a range of issues such as breastfeeding, bottle feeding, weaning, sleep, toileting, minor illness, behaviour, parenting and more. ParentLine will run 9am - 5pm, Monday to Friday (excluding weekends and bank holidays) with a ParentLine Practitioner responding to messages within one working day. If a text is sent outside these hours the parent/carer will receive an automated message with advice on where to get help if they require it urgently. This new messaging service is being provided in addition to the current Health Visiting service offer. Text 07312 277162 for confidential advice and support from a member of the Health Visiting team ParentLine is not an emergency service, for urgent medical attention contact your GP, 111 or 999. It was great to catch up with you all at parent’s evening and nice for you to see inside the classrooms again.  We are looking forward to a fun week together. We have some new friends joining us this week. Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow.   Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone

 

Hello Everyone,

We  hope that you have had a lovely half term and made the most of the dry days. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again and welcoming some new friends to the class. The outside space is now finished and we hope the children will enjoy the new surface providing a soft landing!

This week we will be talking about Fireworks and all the colours that we see. We have lots of fun things planned with lots of learning opportunities.  We will be spending most of our time in the year 1 classroom with Zoe and Chloe with lots of fun. 

It is parents evening this week so please do check the list to see what time you booked. If you need to change it then please just let Zoe know.

Zoe plans to talk about how your child has settled into the group and discuss your child’s 2 year 9 Month check that we share with the Health Visitor.

Can’t wait to see you all on Tuesday.

 

Notices 

Please use the normal entrance and exit route from Tuesday as the playground surface is now complete. 

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone.....

 

Hello Everyone,

We  had a great time this week. We have been doing lots of mark making and making our Christmas cards ready to go to the printers.

The children have loved learning how to play the ‘Tappy sticks’ and have really enjoyed doing this at group times. We have also been looking in the sparkly boxes to see what’s inside. The children have loved using the finger puppets to act out our songs. 

This week we will be continuing with Autumn. We hope to go out on a listening sound walk around the school grounds if the weather is nice. 

We have lots of different activities planned. We will continue with our Autumn mark making and paint using pine cones and sticks.

We hope you all have a lovely half term break and it really has been a great first few weeks. We look forward to welcoming you back and meeting all our new friends that will be joining the class.

Looking forward to great fun together.

 

Notices

Please continue to use the exit gate to drop off and pick up as the work on the pre-school playground continues. After half term the normal entrance and exit will return. 

This Friday is Autumn Fest from 5.00pm-7.30pm and tickets can be purchased from the main school office. Hope to see lots of you there.

We break up for half term on Friday 22nd October and return back to pre-school on Tuesday 2nd November.

Zoe and Chloe

 

Hello everyone

 

Hello Everyone,

We  had lots of fun learning this week. We have been talking about 

different colour Tractors we see. We have also been doing some small group counting games. 

 We have joined the year 2 class for a couple of days as some of our friends have been feeling poorly! We are hoping they feel much better and we will see them again this week. 

The Harvest assembly was lovely and the children were not only amazing with their singing they sat really well and were very engaged with what was happening around them.

This week we are learning all about Autumn and will be looking at all the colours this time of the year produces. We have lots of different activities planned. We will also be doing some ring games and dancing to encourage the children to join in together and have great fun.

Looking forward to great fun together.

 

Notices

Please continue to use the exit gate to drop off and pick up as the work on the pre-school playground continues. 

On Saturday at 10.00am- 11.30am we have got stay and play on. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

The Year 1 information session if you were unable to attend and have any questions we can talk about them during parents appointments.

Zoe and Chloe

 

Hello everyone....

 

Hello Everyone,

We  had a great week together and enjoyed playing with our new friends.  We had lots of fun mark making this week. We also did some lovely vegetable printing and Tractor wheel painting, which was lots of fun. 

 We joined the year 2 class for snack time and played together outside. The children have enjoyed singing nursery rhymes and listening to the puppet stories.

The Farm trip was brilliant fun and the children loved looking at all the animals and listening to the different sounds they made. Puddle jumping was the most fun, especially being with all our friends. 

This week we will be continuing with the Farming and Harvest Festival.  We have lots of different activities planned. We continue to get to know all of our new friends and play together. 

Let’s have another great week together.

 

Notices

Please continue to use the exit gate to drop off and pick up as the work on the pre-school playground continues. 

On Monday it is dress like a farmer day. Children welcome to come into pre-school dressed like a farmer.

The Year 1 information session is Monday morning at 9am. Hopefully you will all be able to come along as there is lots of useful information.

On Wednesday evening @ 7.00pm in the school hall is POWSA AGM. Please do come along. If you have questions please do come and ask. 

On Friday at 8.30am- 9.00am we have got stay and play on. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Friday it is POW Harvest, MULTI-FAITH AND NO FAITH HARVEST CELEBRATION EYFS ASSEMBLY is at 11.00-11.45. The children in on Friday will be singing two songs. Children can bring in the below donation during the week. 

Zoe and Chloe

Hello everyone...

Hello Everyone,

We  had a lovely week.  We had lots of fun painting for the display board. We are creating a Brown Bear. The sand tray was explored this week and we did some hunting for objects. 

 We joined the year 2 class for snack time and played together outside. The children have loved the musical instruments and the Tappy sticks.

We also had a go at some mark making with the baby lotion which was lots of fun.

This week we will be doing Farming and Harvest with our trip to the farm on Friday.  We have some more fun things planned. We have some more of the class joining us this week so we look forward to meeting them all.

Please keep the lovely Wow’s coming in. The children love recalling what they had done at group times.

Looking forward to a fun packed learning experience this week. 

 

Notices

It would be great if all pre-school t-shirts and jumpers can be named.

This week it is Bike to school week. Children very welcome to come on their bikes or scooters to school. 

I will be doing an information session about what we do in Year 1 e.g. Keyworkers, Jennie Jigsaw, Sounds and Letters,EYFS etc. This is going to be on Monday 4th October and hope to see lots of you there, as there will be lots of useful information to support your child. 

Zoe and Chloe