Stay and play dates

Spring Term Stay and Play Dates:- 

Our stay and play morning start from 8.30 till 9.00am and we welcome all our families. Younger and older siblings are very welcomed too. 

Friday 5th January
Wednesday 10th January
Thursday 18th January 
Friday 26th January
Wednesday 31st January
Thursday 8th February

HALF TERM

Friday 23rd February
Wednesday 28th February
Thursday 8th March
Friday 16th March
Wednesday 21st March
Thursday 29th March


SATURDAY STAY AND PLAY SESSIONS

Our Saturday stay and play morning starts from 10.00-11.30am. We welcome all our families and all siblings are welcome too. 

Saturday 20th January
Saturday 10th March

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a fantastic time visiting the garden centre to look at the Christmas lights and decorations. We went to the garden centre in the taxi and the children really enjoyed this. On the way the children were pointing out where they live and where friends live. When we got to the garden centre we talked about what we could se. The children were fantastic with their colours and also shapes. We talked about the nativity story using the props. The children were talking about 2d shapes and 3d shapes. We then went to the cafe and had a drink and biscuit. The children were amazing and we were all proud of them for being so polite and well mannered. Please take a look at the pictures on display and the children recall from the trip to the garden centre. Well done pre-school.

We have continued our story advent this week and have really enjoyed the different Christmas stories. We have been very busy making lots of lovely things to bring home for Christmas. 

On Wednesday we went to the roundhouse with Reception in the afternoon and sang Christmas songs and had hot chocolate and mince pies. We all really enjoyed this. 

On Friday we helped prepare for the Christmas Fair by taking over all the donations and cakes to school using the trolley. 

The children have really enjoyed playing in Santa grotto this week. They have been role playing their ideas of Christmas with friends e.g. wrapping presents, filling stockings etc.

This week we will be continuing to make our Christmas makes to bring home at the end of the week. We have also got a nativity role play area this week for the children to act out the story of Nativity. We will be continuing  our advent story each day. One afternoon this week we will be joining year 4 for a surprise. On Monday morning we are going to watch the dress rehearsal of Key Stage 1 Christmas play. On Wednesday it is Christmas lunch day. On Friday Morning we are having our Christmas party, we will be playing lots of fun games and having party food. On Friday afternoon we will be going to school to join in with the Christmas carols. 

Letters and sounds:-  We are going to start our rhyming door this week  as we ran out of time last week and continue with body sounds games.

Home learning:- It would be lovely to hear all about what you have been doing during the Christmas Holidays, so please do share with us what you have been doing.  We would like to make a display to help the children recall what they have done over Christmas. Also you may have a WOW from the Christmas holidays you would like to share. 

Notices-

Our family Christmas breakfast is on Monday at 8.30 till 9.15am in the school hall. Look forward to seeing lots of our families there.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday  14th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Thank you to everyone who supported the school fair on Friday. It was fantastic to see so many of our families there and the donation of cakes for refreshment. I will update you soon with how much was raised. 

On Friday 15th December it is our Christmas class party. If your child doesn't usually attend please return slips so we can organise staffing. Food sign up sheet is in the cloakroom. 

We return to pre-school on Tuesday 2nd January 2018. 

Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information.  https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November. 

Finally we would like to wish you all a very happy and fun Christmas. We look forward to hearing all about it when we start back in January.

Julia and Pre-school team

Christmas

Hello everyone,

Last week we made our decorations for the St Georges Christmas tree Festival. We learnt the song 5 little snowmen on a sledge. The children decided which decorations they wanted to make based on the song. They came up with Snowmen, Santa, snow and sleighs. The tree's stay up till after Christmas so you can go and have a look. It looked beautiful. Well done pre-school.

We have been learning to sing Jingle bells with the bells this wee in preparation to record it for the school Christmas play. We sang rudolph the red nose reindeer and have been busy making reindeer food for the school fair. The children were really get at storing the mixture and spooning it into bags with fantastic control. 

We started our advent stories whereby each day we have a Christmas story wrapped up and one child unwraps the story and we share the Christmas story which is inside. Year 4 children came to read to us on Monday and Wednesday afternoon and the children really enjoy this so much so they ask if they are coming. 

This week we are off on our adventures on the bus to the garden centre to see the Christmas lights and decorations. We will talking about shapes, colour and textures whilst we are there. The children always love going on the bus. 

We will be starting to make our Christmas decorations to bring home. One afternoon we are joining reception to have a Christmas song afternoon at the roundhouse with hot chocolate and mince pies. We will be continuing our Christmas advent stories. There is a surprise for the children in the role play area....the elves have been very busy!!

Home learning: What reminds you of Christmas? It might be a picture, an object or something you have made. Please bring them in. 

Letters and Sounds- We are going to start our rhyming door this week and continue with body sounds games.

Notices

 It was so lovely to see so many of you come to the stay and play session on Saturday 2.12.17. We were so pleased that we are hoping to make this a regular event during the term. More details to follow soon. It was great for me to get to talk to you all and meet the other siblings in your families.

Our family Christmas Breakfast is on next Monday 11th December from 8.30-9.15am. Please return slips if you would like to join us so we know numbers. Hope to see lots of you there.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday  6th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

The Christmas fair is on Friday 8th December from 3.30pm in the main school. There will be a special visit from Father Christmas. More information to follow. If you are able to help at the Christmas fair, please let Julia know. Please bring in cakes Thursday or Friday for the preschool refreshment stall. 

On Friday 15th December it is our Christmas class party. If your child doesn't usually attend please return slips so we can organise staffing. Food sign up sheet is in the cloakroom. 

Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information.  https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November. 

Thank you for your continued support.

Julia and Pre-school Team

Christmas is coming....

Hello everyone,

Thank you to all the parents who attended the Communication & Language, Literacy and Maths information morning. If you were unable to make it please do come and see me and we can arranged a time to talk about it. I hope you found it useful.

Last week we enjoyed finding out all about hedgehog. On Wednesday and Thursday morning Helen bought in her hedgehog. In a small group Helen showed us her hedgehog and we fed it dried worms. We found out about what they eat, hibernation and lot's more. If we wanted to we could stroke it remembering to wash our hands afterwards. All of us show how to care and look after the hedgehog. 
We listened to the story of The helpful hedgehog and The prickly hedgehog. We learnt a new song called 

A hedgehog is very prickly
A hedgehog is very prickly
A hedgehog is very prickly
It couldn't be anything else

We played a number hedgehog game. We had to fill our hedgehogs with spikes. This involved counting out up to 6 wooden sticks from a larger group, recognising numerals 1-6.

We made our own hedgehog pictures using paints and forks, pasta and crayons. 

This week we are going to be starting to talk about Christmas and begin to make some decorations. 

We are taking part in the Christmas tree festival at St George's Church. The children will be making decorations to hang on our Christmas tree for the festival. Over the weekend the church will be open for visitors. I will put times in the notices below. We are making decorations for the song of 5 snowman on a sledge. 

We will be walking to the post box this week to post a surprise to our families. We will be talking about the role of the postman/lady and how the post is delivered. We will be writing the addresses on our envelopes and talking about where we live. On our way to the the post box we will be looking at the numbers and shapes we can spot in our environment. 

On Thursday we are having a joint Christmas activities morning with Reception. We will be spending the morning with the Reception children taking part in lots of Christmas activities inside and out. 

It's going to be a very exciting week.

Home learning: What reminds you of Christmas? It might be a picture, an object or something you have made. Please bring them in. 

Letters and Sounds:Animal sounds

Provide a variety of animal puppets or toys and a range of instruments. Encourage the children to play with the instruments and the animals. Discuss matching sounds to the animals. Give a choice of two instruments to represent a child’s chosen animal and ask the children to choose which sound is the better t: Which one sounds most like the mouse? What do you think, David? 

Notices

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 1st December 2017 from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday 2nd December from 10.00-11.00 we are having a stay and play session with a christmas craft activity. It would be lovely to see you there. 

We are visiting Poundbury garden centre on 4,5,6th December in small groups to look at the christmas decorations and lights. Letters and permission slips have gone home for this trip. Please return permission slips. If you have question please do come and ask. 

The Christmas fair is on Friday 8th December from 3.30pm in the main school. There will be a special visit from Father Christmas. More information to follow. If you are able to help with the fair please come and see Julia.

Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information.  https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November. 

Have a fabulous week.

Julia and Preschool Team

Wanted....

Evening Everyone,

The Pre-school staff have been very busy this weekend sorting and tidying the outdoor sheds. From sorting out our resources we have made a list of resources we would like. If you have any of the following you would like to donate this would be amazing.

Tinsel and Baubles to decorate our outside nature area for Christmas.
Toy cars
Dolls prams
Newborn baby clothes for our dollies
Old mobile phones, cameras, binoculars, maps.
Picnic basket
Children's plastic tools
Children's plastic food
Kitchen utensils for our mud kitchen

Thank you for your continued support.

Julia

Funding Forms

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick reminder from Caroline, please can all funding forms be returned to Pre-school to enable Caroline to submit our funding claim estimate.

Thank you

Julia and Pre-school Team

Hedgehogs

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a great week making our rocket names which are on display in the classroom. we looked for our name card and then had to stick the letters in our name in the correct order. We talked about the sounds and names of each letter.  We then used chalk to draw fire.
On the Chromebook's we used purple mash to make our firework pictures. These are up on display in Room2 above the computers. We really enjoyed talking about our firework experiences.
We took Zoe our new Deputy on a tour around the school to see all the magical places we can use to support and development our learning. We played hide and seek in groups outside. We counted to 20 and found some great places to hide. This was so much fun.
On Friday we supported Children in Need in wearing spots and stripes. Thank you to everyone who supported this. We have raised £441.00 so far. On Friday we coloured our own Pudsey in and made moving Pudsey bears. Our scissors skills are fantastic.

This week we be looking and learning about Hedgehogs. We will be sharing lots of stories and songs about hedgehogs. Helen will be bringing in her hedgehogs which she has rescued.  Can you think about a question you might like to ask Helen about hedgehogs?
We will be playing a number hedgehog game, making hedgehog house for our nature area, making hedgehogs with play dough, paint, leaves and lots more.

Jennie Jigsaw:-

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

Letters and Sounds- 

Matching sound makers
Show pairs of sound makers (e.g. maracas, triangles) to a small group of children. Place one set of the sound makers in a feely bag.
The children take turns to select a sound maker from the feely bag. Once all the children have selected a sound maker, remind them to listen carefully. Play a matching sound maker. The child with that sound maker stands up and plays it. 

This activity can be adapted by playing the sound maker behind a screen so that the children have to identify it by the sound alone.

Notices 

On Monday 20th we are having a coffee and information morning. We will be sharing ideas and information about Communication and Language, Literacy and Mathematics to support your child's learning. It will be great to see you there. If you are unable to attend and would like more information please do come and see me. 

On Tuesday 21st November there is the POWSA Christmas fair planning meeting. Please come along to help with the planning of the Christmas Fair and other fundraising events planned. Please come to the school staff room for 7.30pm. If you are unable to make it and would like more details please do come and see Julia. 

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 23rd November from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday 2nd December from 10.00-11.00 we are having a stay and play session with a christmas craft activity. It would be lovely to see you there. 

We are visiting Poundbury garden centre on 4,5,6th December in small groups to look at the christmas decorations and lights. Letters and permission slips have gone home for this trip. Please return permission slips. If you have question please do come and ask. 

The Christmas fair is on Friday 8th December from 3.30pm in the main school. There will be a special visit from Father Christmas. More information to follow. 

Don't forget if you are doing your christmas online shopping, it would be great to go through the Easy fund-raising page as this raises money for the pre-school. Here is a link for more information.  https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk

Friday 24th November 2017 - 

- Christmas Lights Switch On -

- Buttermarket, Poundbury - 

ALL POW CHILDREN (AND THEIR PARENTS) WELCOME TO JOIN OUR 'COMMUNITY CHOIR' - SONG DETAILS TO FOLLOW.

Arrival at the Buttermarket from 5.30pm
BBQ and marshmallows from 6.00pm (FREE Hot Chocolate)
Singing from around 6.15pm
Countdown to lights switch on by special guest from 7.15pm

BOO's toyshop at Poundbury and Brewery Square are giving back to the pre-school 10% on purchases when you mention Prince Of Wales School throughout November. 

Have a fabulous week.

Julia and Preschool Team

Fireworks and Children in Need

Hello Everyone,

Last week on Monday we had a pretend bonfire snack. A group of tree made a pretend bonfire at the Round House camp fire area. We all went to the camp fire area and sat on logs around our pretend campfire. We had hotdogs, oranges, peppers and a drink. We talked about the colours and noises of fireworks during group time. We have made our own firework pictures using forks, cardboard tubes and paintbrushes with some lovely glitter and paint. These are on the wall for display. The children have also used chalk and black paper to make a firework picture. We have made chocolate breadstick sparklers. We learnt about how and why chocolates melts. We predicted what would happen to the chocolate and then made them into breadstick sparklers with hundreds and thousands. 
On Thursday afternoon we went to school and used all the different musical instruments to create different firework sounds. We explored all the instruments and the sounds they made. We decided which one was our favourite and which firework sounds we could make.  In group time we played the games of guess the instrument. The children really enjoyed using their ears to listen and guess the instruments. Also we sang some firework poems and songs and made up our actions for them. On Friday afternoon the children made some cakes for the bingo and decorated them with cake decorations. The children were fantastic at this and the cakes looked amazing. They were gone very quickly at Bingo. 

This week we will be making our own name rockets which will involve us recognising our name and putting our name into the correct order and how many letters are in our names. We will also be using purple mash to make our own firework pictures and recalling our own firework events at home. On Friday we will be raising money for Children in Need and all children can come dressed in spots and stripes. A donation towards this fantastic charity would be greatly received in return for your child dressing up. We will be doing lots of Pudsey, spots and stripes activities. 

Home learning

This week we will be doing some activities involving recognising our name. Over the week it would be fantastic if your child could find advertising logos they recognise in their environment. For example the Lidi sign or the McDonald sign. You may like to take a photo of it, drew it or cut out a picture.

Jennie Jigsaw:-

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

Letters and Sounds- 

Matching sound makers
Show pairs of sound makers (e.g. maracas, triangles) to a small group of children. Place one set of the sound makers in a feely bag.
The children take turns to select a sound maker from the feely bag. Once all the children have selected a sound maker, remind them to listen carefully. Play a matching sound maker. The child with that sound maker stands up and plays it.

This activity can be adapted by playing the sound maker behind a screen so that the children have to identify it by the sound alone.

Notices:-

On Monday we have our new Deputy beginning her new adventure with us at Prince of Wales Preschool.  Her name is Zoe Stockley. She previously worked at a local nursery for the last 12 years and has lots of experience and knowledge to bring with her. She will be working mainly in the year 1 preschool class. 

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 15th November from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Tuesday 7th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school was the POWSA AGM.  Due to the Chair and Sectary roles becoming vacant, there is another POWSA Meeting this Tuesday 14/11/17 to try and fill these roles. These roles need to be filled to enable POWSA to run. If you think you would like to help, please come along to the meeting or come and have a word with Julia. 

On Friday 10th November it was our Family Bingo evening. It was lovely to see some of our families there. 

Don't forget Christmas card orders need to be handed in or order online by the 14th November. I hope you were all able to see the previews online. If you are unsure how to do this or have no access to the internet please do come and see me. 

On Saturday 18th November there is a community make over day on the school grounds from 2-4pm. It would be great to see you there. Please see poster for more details. 

 

Any question please do come and see me.

Thanks

Julia and Pre-school team