ST.BRIDGET’S PRE-SCHOOL. MANAGERS REPORT September 2024/2025. Charity No. 1035116 Fiona Khedun. Manager.
Trustees Annual Report
Summary of our main achievements this year ...
We welcomed 19 new starters in September 2024.
SETTLING IN AND INITIAL OBSERVATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS.
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Our aim is to ensure that all staff promote a positive settling in process for all children attending.
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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.
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The staff take a group of key children, for all their areas of learning and their pastoral care. We observed, 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.
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Making
Relationships
Self confidence
Managing feelings
& behaviour.
PSE
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MOVING & LISTENING &
HANDLING ATTENTION
Health & self Understanding &
care. speaking.
PHY C&L
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LIT MATH KUW EAD
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EXPLORING &
PEOPLE &
USING MEDIA &
READING AND NUMBERS, SHAPE COMMUNITIES,
MATERIALS,
WRITING. SPACE & MEASURE THE WORLD,
BEING
TECHNOLOGY
IMAGINATIVE.
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EYFS Areas of Learning and Development … PRIME AREAS.
SPECIFIC AREAS.
THEME: Making Friends.
SEPTEMBER 2024.
This year we have fewer children probably due to the aftermath of covid.
Our new staff list now consists of myself manager, Christine Myles, Niki Broadhurst deputy managers, Dianne Foster qualified staff, (Rachel Meziani on maternity leave), Amanda Broughton teaching assistant in reception, Vera Smith lunch coordinator and Jane Bird lunch assistant.
Unfortunately Niki still has long covid but she is still managing to work half days until she feels able to increase.
The children are entering Pre-School unaided now, and are very capable of removing their coats and unpacking their bags, just like their older siblings.
With beautiful weather in September, it has allowed us to spend a lot of time outside to introduce the children to the apparatus in the playground, and on the school field, we have also done a few nature walks around Ashton Park.
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OCTOBER 2024.
We enjoy Daily Phonic Club for 30mins after lunch with Amanda Broughton from reception. 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 will 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 childrens’ understanding. Miss Cotterell is a lot happier with the outcome.
ALL ABOUT ME.
The children drew their families, and who lived in their house, we measured all the children and they told us what coloured eyes they had.
We talked all about our friends, and how good it was to include everyone who wanted to join in when playing.
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.
NOVEMBER
REMEMBRANCE DAY - We made poppies for Morrisons display for Remembrance Sunday. Then ended the half term with firework pictures!
MATHS - We secured the children’ maths knowledge 1-5
NUMBER WEEK We practiced number recognition1-5 and putting them in the correct order and finding the correct amount of objects to match a number.
ROAD SAFETY
Jane did a road safety talk, they learnt how to approach a crossing and how, and why the lollipop is used. The children loved dressing up in her gear, and pretending to stop the traffic.
CHRISTMAS 2024.
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We enjoyed a Christmas party with thanks to one of our parents, who organised a visit from Father Christmas and a book for each child written by a new author which was very exciting. We are arranging a visit from the author, as she would like to know what the children thought of her book.
We finished the term with lots of Christmas arts and crafts which were gratefully received.
JANUARY 2025.
Due to a cold and snowy return to Pre-School, we enjoyed our focus on Arctic Animals. We learnt a penguin song and how to waddle!
We made snow white play dough, cut out shapes and arranged them into groups and counted them.
On a snowy day, we went outside and brought some snow indoors! Very cold but lots of fun. We talked about footprints and tried to recognise which animal they belonged to.
PHONICS
We can now recognise letters .. c m t p s .. and the children are really enjoying their sessions with Amanda. They will soon have their own exercise books and will begin with drawing something beginning with ‘c’.
JANUARY 2025
We asked our parents for any unused toys they might like to donate, rather than them using the charity shops … lots of families came forward and were happy to get rid of some of their unwanted toys, especially since Christmas, this was very generous.
We have had quite a few birthdays recently with the odd disco to celebrate, the birthday hat came into good use!
FEBRUARY 2025
MATHS WEEK - We introduced maths into all activities this week: we designed buildings, matching colours and sizes, and looking at amounts and similarities.
We enjoyed a hairdressing day and counted braids and ponytails, then colour matched all the accessories.
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We did worksheets with a lot of cutting out and matching objects to numbers. The children are very good at cutting now!
We finished the week doing self portraits using a mirror.
MARCH 2025
SIGNS OF SPRING.
We have been looking at the new flowers that are popping up in the church yard, the children can now recognise: daffodils, snowdrops and bluebells. We have also been using our homemade binoculars and looking at the garden birds, we put food out for them right outside our door and watched all the magpies demolish the bird feeder!
MOTHERS DAY
What a busy term we’ve had, with mothers day, birthdays and Easter. We had glorious weather, which made everything so much better!
MAY 2025.
THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE BUTTERFLY.
This term we covered the life cycle of the butterfly and the children had a wonderful time watching every step of the metamorphosis. We covered lots of areas of learning with our activities discussing all the changes from tiny egg to a beautiful Red Admiral butterfly. We actually watched them emerge from the chrysalis, dry their wings and after naming each one, we let them fly away outside the field.
We talked about ‘symmetry’ and painted butterflies then decorated them with jewels.
V.E Day .. and we painted red white and blue bunting and displayed it around the room.
PHONICS .. All the children are really coming on, they are very good at concentrating on their listening and writing skills as they all have their own exercise books which will go home in July.
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Since Easter we have been visiting reception on a weekly basis, we’ve looked round the classrooms, played outside and seen where the toilets are! Now all children are confident and excited when meeting their new teachers.
JUNE 2025.
This terms focus was ‘Going to School’
We talked about the clothes we will wear, and all the new things we will do and learn. All the children promised to come and see us and show off their school uniform, and to say hello to us in the lunch hall!
FUNDRAISER - Mark Baxter our secretary, came in and did a wonderful job with the Pre-School photographs, he took group and individual photos and we sold them to the parents, they were delighted. We made a profit of £350.50.
We covered Fathers day with a very enlightening questionnaire ‘All About My Daddy’
We had our annual Teddy Bears picnic, unfortunately the weather was very unkind so we had to have it indoors, but it didn’t stop the fun!
JULY 2025.
The children were invited to take their parents down to reception while they enjoyed a story. Parents were shown around and could ask any questions they might have.
We had EMOTIONS WEEK when we discussed our feelings and talked about implications of our actions. We had recently bought a series of emotion books which were really helpful during this focus.
On this note .. unfortunately Niki Broadhurst left us after 15 years, to go and work with her father. She has been an amazing deputy, amazing Senco and an amazing friend, we are all going to miss her very much, but she will be shadowing our new Senco for one more year.
NEW STARTERS
We had a coffee afternoon for our new starters, when they could buy uniform while the little ones played with the other children and staff. Parents and carers were able to ask any questions they might have.
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Then finally PARTY DAY! And the sun did shine for once! We had a bouncy castle, tattoos, food and drinks and a session with Full of Beans, who did an activity set on the field, the children loved it.
What a lovely year we had, it was a very sad goodbye to our little gang of 19. Good luck to them all in September.
Fiona Khedun. Manager. July 2025.
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