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