ST.BRIDGET'S PRE-SCHOOL. MANAGERS REPORT September 202312024. Charity No. 1035116 Fiona Khedun. Manager. Trustees Annual Report Summary of our main achievements this year... We welcomed 28 new starters in September this year. SETTLING IN AND INITIAL OBSERVATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS. Our aim is to ensure that all staff promote a positive settling in process for all children attending. We made initial observations and assessments of the children according to certain areas. These observations involved parental input and observing children in each of the EYFS learning areas according to their particular age range. We decided that the staff will take on a group of key children this year, for all their areas of learning and their pastoral care. We obseNed, and made records of the Early Learning Goals that each child is already able to achieve, as an initial baseline assessment. Age group: 30-60Mths. EYFS Areas of Learning and Development ... PRIME AREAS. PSE PHY C&L MOVING & HANDLINC, Health & self care. ATTENTION Understanding & speaking. Manatsjiiu iealinos & beliai'ioui-.
SPECIFIC AREAS. LIT MATHS KUW EAD READING AND WRITING. COMMUNITIES, THEWORL,D, TECHNOLOCJI, ISNING MI.-I)IA & rvlA'I'k.IIIALS, BLING IMA(21NA'I'IVE. SPil' THEME: Getting to know you. SEPTEMBER 2023. This term we are lucky enough to have a solid team after a few changes last year. Chris Myles, Niki Broadhurst, Tess Broughton, Rachel Meziani, Amanda Broughton, Vera Smith and our volunteer Gail Dixon. Unfortunately Niki still has long covid but she is still managing to be in work for half days until she feels able to increase. The children are still entering Pre-school unaided, and are now very capable of removing their coats and unpacking their bags, just like their older siblings. With a beautiful weather in September, it allowed us to spend a lot of time outside to introduce the children to the apparatus in the playground, and on the school field.
OCTOBER 2023. We welcomed our new apprentice Demi Perrigo who is studying for her level 2 in childcare and education. We enjoy phonics for 30mins each day with Amanda Broughton from reption, this helps with the childrens, literacy with sounding letters, learning rhymes and listening to stories, ready for their transition to the next stage. After Christmas we start sounding and recognising letters, this is the beginning of formation and noticing the differences in letters and how they are formed correctly. This approach with not actually forming letters too early, has helped enormously with the children understanding. Miss Cotterell is a lot happier with the outcome. ALL ABOUT ME. The children drew their families, and who lived in their house AUTUMN. We enjoyed 'autumn I spy, outside, and made autumn pictures, we asked the children to look for signs of autumn at home and bring things in for the Autumn Table. OCTOBER HALF TERM The children are spending 'key worker time, doing maths on a 1-1 basis, we are looking, and matching numbers up to 5, learning the concept and value of each number. SPANISH. Jo carver our Spanish teacher has been teaching the children all about fireworks and bonfires, and we made beautiful pictures with heaps of glue and glitter!!
CHRISTMAS TERM 2023 NOVEMBER TOPIC . DIWALI CELEBRATION. EAD, we used our tuff tray and made Rangoli patterns with chalks. The children enjoyed dressing up in saris, and we made kebabs, taste testing different fruits and textures. MATHS, we did a Diwali colour by numbers, this was quite difficult, but the children managed to do their best. PHONICS with Amanda, the children increased their listening skills by sitting very well, and following activities that are set. Outside play using all the apparatus. We also enjoyed water play in the tuff tray with the little kitchen sink. SPANISH - The group is quite large for Jo to control, we are trying to help, but will have a discussion next week about the way forward. We had a Diwali table, with tea lights, pictures of celebrations and fireworks. We had little Diwali stories. We did lots of Traditional Indian dancing with Niki! The children then took it in turns to be the snack helper with Rachel & Tess. TOPIC: HALLOWEEN, BONFIRE NIGHT & FIRE SAFETY. We did pumpkin carvings and talked about the different emotions we could make. We then dried the seeds and put them in the tuff tray to explore. The children enjoyed the Funny Bones song, exploring body movement. We talked about Trick or Treat, and what costumes the children are going to wear. BONFIRE NIGHT- We discussed safety, and talked about our fire drill at Pre- School, and where we would go. We successfully did a fire drill.
Our apprentice Demi-Lee Perrigo left us, she didn't think childcare was for her. ARCTIC ANIMALS - This week we talked about how the animals survive in the cold weather. We did some ice painting which was very cold! We learnt about igloos and inuits We learnt the names of lots of arctic animals. CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS All children enjoyed making their Christmas decorations: Cards Gingerbread Penguins CHRISTMAS PARTY We had a Christmas party, when parents were invited too, we had a sponsored treasure hunt as a fundraiser, this was to raise money for art supplies for the children. We all had a lovely time and raised: £238. Which was brilliant! HAPPY CHRISTMAS. JANUARY 2024. WINTER WALKS IN ASHTON PARK. MATHS WEEK. This was jam packed with activities and group work, we feel that the children learned a lot while having fun. We got the children to understand numbers 1-5, not just the symbol but the amounts and quantities, however most children understood 1-10 and beyond!
Circle time consisted of . Finger counting, collecting amounts, discussing the words tallest & shortest, putting numbers in the correct order, discussing the meaning of zero. We explored volume and capacity with a science themed water play tuff tray in key worker groups so all children had a fair share. We enjoyed a number hunt around the classroom, and the children were proud to tell us which number they had found, some needed more support at identifying certain numbers. MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS. The children were excited to celebrate their wonderful mummies in preparation for Mothering Sunday. We gave them lots of ideas .. tea parties, water play and dough baking. The children also worked very hard to create a special picture. The tuff tray was a hive of activity with planting seeds in coco pop soil, we washed dishes and did mark making in the soapy suds! Good clean fun! ORAL HEALTH WEEK. We discussed oral health and self care, healthy choices and physical development. Each morning we all got stuck into our 2 minute tooth brushing circle time, with Vinny the shark! We enjoyed messy play in the tuff tray, brushing dinosaur teeth. We had a dentist surgery in the role play area, and then dentist Lucy and dental nurse Amy came in for a visit with the children and their parents and shared their knowledge with us. Hopefully the children will keep up the good work, and have a better understanding of the importance of making healthy choices.
HEALTHY CHOICES AND A BALANCED DIET. We made a healthy cafe and fruit & veg shop in the role play area, which was well and truly explored. We also had a little cooking going on as we made a huge fruit salad with the children taking turns to choose, and cut the fruit. They were very careful with the knives and understood how responsible they had to be when cutting! We had an eye spy work sheet, where the children had to categorise the food into the different categories, then we discussed the food they liked and disliked. APRILIMAY 2024 THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. We had a very busy time understanding the life cycle of the butterfly. We bought the butterfly kit, and the children watched the full cycle from tiny caterpillar to beautiful butterfly. We learned new words: Chrysalis, metamorphosis and emerge. The children showed off their cutting skills, and put all the life cycle pictures in the correct order. MATHS We followed repeat patterns, we counted and tried to write numbers with the correct formation. RECEPTION VISITS. The children are loving these visits, they are asking lots of questions and enjoy visiting their new playground. JUNE. BEACH DAY - We asked for parental permission to take the children to Caldy Beach and what excitement!! Unfortunately we only got as far as the first bridge on the Wirral Way and the children were asking if we are nearly there!! The walk that would normally be 15-20mins, turned out to be 40+ mins! So our time on the sand
was rather short lived, we got back just in time for lunch . they did have a lovely time though! RECYCLE WEEK - the children and staff dressed up in Hi Viz and we separated all our 'collected rubbish, and put them in their respective recycle boxes, they actually did really well! PLANET WEEK - We learnt all about the different planets, comparing their sizes. We then went to Ashton Park and did some 'planet spotting, we even found Neptune, which is the furthest away from the sun. BIG SCHOOL VISITS - Next we talked about going to school and what we would wear, what we would eat and what happens on a PE day. The children were very excited but thought they were going the next day! The reception teachers came up to visit us and the children were unusually quiet . until they left! They talked about school all afternoon! PHONICS - The children began writing 3 word sentences, and reading them too! They worked very hard, let's hope this carries on in reception. We ended the year with our summer party on the field, with a bouncy castle, Full of Beans with Danny and tattoos! The children and their parents had a wonderful day, certainly a day to remember! 10
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES St Bridget's Pre School 1035116 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a FOT the perfod from 0110912023 3110812024 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to thè nearest Restricted funds Endowment funds Total funds Last year to the nearest £ to the noar•$t £ to the nearest £ to the nèarest £ A1 Receipts Dewsit and Registration fee Funding Wirral BC Fees Uniform Fundraising photo money Apprenticeship Donabons Other Sub total(Gross income for 924 106,041 46,133 1,036 258 438 924 106.041 46,133 1,036 258 438 1.OOS 98,908 1,212 691 322 AR) 154,833 154P33 148,686 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). Sub total 154,833 154.833 148.686 A3 Payments Wages Activities HMRC Pension Rent Craft Stats'onary toys Ofsted Parties and trips Insurance Petty Cash Unifomis AGM Charges Refijnd offees CRB Checks Website Phone baking Iloat 109,603 5,998 11,349 3.974 18.002 5,372 50 60$ 836 781 554 136 72 832 195 51 180 109.603 5.998 11.349 3.974 18,¢)02 5,372 50 605 836 781 107,979 4,383 11,276 3,349 16,459 5.715 50 627 926 1,011 142 78 136 72 832 195 51 180 40 150 293 180 150 Raffle Tickets Other Sub total 1.133 154.424 160.026 160,026 A4 Asset and investment urchases, {see table) Sub total 160,026 160,026 154.424 Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end 5,193 5,193 5,738 69,871 64,678 69,871 64.678 75.609 69.871 CCXX R1 accounts {SSI 1910512025
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds to nearest £ Restricted funds to nearest £ Categories Endowment funds to e•St £ t)etails 81 Cash funds Bank 64,678 Total cash funds 64.678 (agree basartes wilh retsipts and payffTrts arKotI8)I Unrestrlcted funds to neat £ Restrictsd funds to nearest £ Endowment funds to nearest£ Details Details Fund to which asset belon Cost (optionall Current value tional Details Fund to whi¢h asset belon Current value onal Cost loptionall 84 Assets retsined for the charity's own use Details Fund to which latès Amount dué ional When dug ional B5 Liabilities Signed by one or two trustees on betta of all the trustees Signature Ptint Name Date of roval DAVI65 2f..25 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 1510412025
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