## ST.BRIDGET’S PRE-SCHOOL Fiona Khedun. Manager. ## Managers Report SEPTEMBER 2019/JULY 2020. ## Trustees Annual Report. September 2019. ## Summary of our main achievements this year ... ## We welcomed 28 brand new starters in September this year. ## SETTLING IN AND INITIAL OBSERVATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS. - Our aim was to ensure that all staff promote a positive settling in process for all children attending, new starters AND those returning to Pre-School after the summer holidays. - Squirrel key workers made initial observations and assessments of their key children. These observations involved parental input and observing children in each of the EYFS learning areas according to their particular age range. - Owl key workers decided to take on areas of learning instead of individual key children, as this will give us knowledge of ALL children rather than a certain group. We observed, and with the help from parents made records of the Early Learning Goals that each child is already able to achieve, as an initial assessment. - All staff began to develop relationships with their key children. ## Age groups: SQUIRRELS 22-36Mths. OWLS 30-50Mths & 40-60Mths. EYFS Areas of Learning and Development Prime Areas: PSE: Making Relationships, Self-Confidence & awareness, Managing feelings & behaviour PHY: Moving & handling, Health & self-care. C&L: Listening & attention, Understanding & Speaking. Specific Areas: LIT: Reading & writing. MATHS: Numbers, Shape Space & Measure. KUW: People & communities, The World, Technology. EAD: Exploring & Using Media & materials, Being Imaginative. ## SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER Theme: Making Friends. 2019. ## SETTLING IN. Staff did their baseline assessments on all the new children, they recorded observations and began their journey books. The new children settled in very quickly this year, they made friends early on and also play well as a group. They really enjoy role play and like to give each other characters to act out. Our focus this term was Friendships. P.S.E - The children were introduced to other children in small groups, they took photos of each other and we made a friendship board, then stuck the correct names to the photos. The new children began to understand the routines of ‘snack time’ and ‘lunch time’ and how we line up quietly and prepare ourselves for the lunch visit to big school. C&L - Baking with Liz, talking about what we are making and how it might taste! LIT - Self registration on entry and throughout the day. Quiet reading time at the end of the session, asking questions about what they have seen or heard within those stories. BASELINE MATHS - We started with the basics, a number a week just to recap. They have now quickly moved on and recognise that numbers are not just about counting! MATHS - We made play dough following a recipe, measuring and counting. We are beginning to recognise shapes, sorting and counting their sides. U.W - French, we learnt a French counting rhyme and started to learn colours. PHYS DEV - Full of Beans with Ashton and Melody Bear on a Thursday. We also began to learn to use scissors safely. PHONICS - Amanda started our phonic sessions on a Monday and Tuesday afternoons with some very positive results. We started with white boards and markers, then progress to exercise books after Christmas. COHORT TRACKERS - These are progress reports that Niki Broadhurst does on all of the children, this gives us an insight as to how the children are developing in each area. ## NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2019. We celebrated Remembrance Day making poppies, and poppy biscuits. We were asked by Morrisons supermarket to do a poppy display for their West Kirby store. We celebrated bonfire night by making lots of firework displays using different kinds of textures and colours on black card. NOVEMBER A.G.M - This took place in The Wro Loft as usual, with a very good turn out of new parents. We said ‘goodbye’ to our chair Joanne Davies and ‘hello’ to Sam Cowie who has taken on the role. The raffle went well and we managed to raise almost £700. We are looking to use some of the money to renew our play mats, and invest in a computer workstation. CHRISTMAS - We enjoyed lots of dressing up in the week leading up to Christmas. Each child received a little gift from us and took home all their Christmas decorations and a small Christmas cake for someone special. ## HAPPY CHRISTMAS! JANUARY 2020 - The new year started with a new member of staff Beth Schorah. Beth has joined us to cover maternity leave and then hopefully continue if Alyssa comes back in September. This term we loved the topic of ‘SUPER HEROS’, all the children were very excited and enjoyed making our play house into a ‘headquarters’ with all sorts of ‘super hero’ items of interest installed inside! P.S.D. U.W. The children were able to dress up and use a small desk and chairs to write clues and ideas of how they were going to help people who were in danger! PHY.DEV. We made ourselves into our chosen super hero, and chose our special powers. Then we put them on the board and around the room. E.A.D We sorted the superhero into groups of powers, colours & strength counted how many, then how many all together. MATHS. ## FEBRUARY 2020. We read super hero stories, children were asked to bring a story from home for the class to listen to. L.I.T. We made a quite reading area just for super hero books! Here the children talked about the stories, and attempted to read to each other. C&L. MARCH 2020. MOTHERS DAY - We talked about our mummies and answered questions about what mummy likes and dislikes. P.S.E. C&L. MARCH 2020 - Ended very abruptly with the announcement of LOCKDOWN due to Coronavirus-19. We closed our doors on Monday 23rd March 2020. We sent out Easter Packs and made socially distancing home visits to deliver them. We re-opened our doors on June 1st 2020, initially for key worker children, then gradually introduced more children to make 2 bubbles of 12 and 8 children. The others chose not to attend. This special time with these children has been well worth all the late night cleaning and sanitising. We have all had such a good time playing and making new friends, mostly done outside in the sunshine, we learnt how to climb trees, how to play football, tennis and built up our core strength by doing a yoga program each morning. A very special time. ## JULY 2020 We now say goodbye to 30 children, 29 of which are transitioning on to St.Bridget’s C of E Primary. 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