Kaleidoscope Pre-school
Hampers Green North Street Petworth West Sussex GU28 9NL 01798 343204
www.kaleidoscopepreschool.org
Registered Charity No; 1044767 Ofsted URN; 113554
Report to the Charity Commission Sept 2020 - August 2021
Kaleidoscope committee set a one year development plan this year with targets that evolved from the previous year’s achievements. Our main focus was to improve our numbers on the register.
We offer morning and afternoon sessions which are available to all children aged from 2-5 years. We continue to offer all week 9am til 3pm sessions so that we can offer ’30 hours’ of care for those families that are eligible for the 30 hour funding.
During this year we have continued to provide care over 10 sessions a week. The year started with 18 and ended with 27 children on the register.
Transition to Primary school was again successful. The reception teacher was able to spend a couple of afternoons here at Kaleidoscope getting to know the children. The school made contact with the families of those children going to that school and ensured the best transition possible.
We have again this year implemented our “ shared child ” system and worked with other settings that shared a child with us to ensure links were in place to share information about the children ’ s development and progress.
After a couple of weeks of “settling in” at the start of the Autumn term we then continued the term encouraging the children’s learning and development through an ‘animals’ topic, reading and activities based around some of our favourite animal stories, we also had a visit from Tarzan the tortoise. We then enjoyed our Christmas activities. We finished the term with a Christmas party, there were games, party food and a special ‘socially distanced’ visit from Father Christmas! The parents were welcome to come and listen to our Christmas songs!
In the Spring term we started by recalling our Christmas memories, and then we focused on our bodies and how to keep them healthy. We had our own ‘hospital’ in the role play area. We then furthered this topic and moved on to vets and how to look after and care for animals.
During the Summer term we focused each week on learning a letter sound! We follow the ‘Jolly Phonics’ teaching tool. We finished the term with a gathering of those going to school to present each child with a certificate and a leavers present.
Again throughout the year the children have enjoyed all of the learning opportunities offered through the use of our outside spaces, in the nature garden learning how to care for our goldfish in the pond and harvesting the different fruits and vegetables we had grown. We have added a ‘water wall’ in the nature garden.
Again this year we have been working with the Health Visitors and SaLSS speech and language support team, this all
helping provide good communication links between professionals and families and to gain advice for families that require additional support.
We have continued to use our links with the local primary school to enable staff opportunities to meet with the reception teacher and head of Early Years to spend time reviewing the children ’ s learning journals and monitoring their effectiveness for both our Pre-school and the Primary school.
We have moved from our paper learning journals onto electronic journals via Tapestry. This allows observations to be shared with parents as and when they occur, allowing parents to reply with their input and views. This platform also allows observations from home to be uploaded and shared with their keyperson.
We have 7 Members of staff, 6 of which hold their level 3 childcare qualifications, 1 member of staff is currently doing her level 2 diploma. Our volunteer supervisor continues to support us for 12 hours per week.
Kaleidoscope Pre-School Charity Number 1044767
Year Ending 31st August 2018
Balance Sheet
| CURRENT ASSETS Debtors Closing NW bank balance Closing NW fundraising bank balance Closing cash balance Closing toddlers bank balance Closing toddlers cash balance Closing Building/Reserves bank balance TOTAL Current Assets CURRENT LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Creditors TOTAL Current Liabilites Current Assests Less Current Liabilites Represented by: Funds of the charity |
31st August 2018 31st August 2018 10,512.07 £ 6,230.25 £ 45.05 £ 25,165.03 £ |
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| £0.00 £41,952.40 |
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| £0.00 £41,952.40 |
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Certified Correct
Signed: Name: L Dempster Role: Setting manager Date: 27.06.2022
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