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 September 2021 - August 2022
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 continue 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 sessions all week running from 9am until 3pm. This enables us to offer ’30 hours’ of care for families that are eligible for the 30-hour funding. We also offer the ’15 hours’ of care for 2-year-olds whose families are eligible.
During this year we have continued to provide care over 10 sessions a week. The year started with 20 children and ended with 22 children on the register.
The children’s transition to Primary School was again successful this year. The reception teacher was able to visit us and spend a couple of afternoons here at Kaleidoscope to get to know the children before starting school in the new academic year. The school also contacted the families of those children going to school to ensure that the best transition was possible for them. We also organised with our local school a couple of visits for our leavers where the Headmaster brought the school minibus and picked us up from the setting. We then spent a couple of hours there getting to know the school and then we were taken back to our setting.
We have again implemented our ‘Shared Child’ system and worked with the other settings that the child attends, to ensure that links were in place to share information about the children’s development and progress.
After a couple of weeks ‘settling in’ at the beginning of the Autumn term, we then encouraged the children’s learning and development through the topic ‘All About Me’. We did this with reading and activities based on the children’s likes and any information they where happy to share about themselves. We then continued with activities chosen by the children which then lead into our Christmas activities. We finished the Autumn term with our annual Christmas Party, we had games, party food and even a special visit from Father Christmas! The parents were welcome to come and listen to our Christmas songs that we spent a lot of time practicing.
We started the new Spring term by recalling our Christmas memories and then started activities around the topic of animals. We read some of our favourite animal stories and even did some role play. Also, we furthered the topic and talked about vets and how they keep animals healthy and how we can help.
During the Summer term we started to focus each week on learning a letter sound. We now follow the ‘Phonics Shed’ teaching tool, this is also the tool used by our local school, so it helps with the transition for the leavers. We finished the term with a Leavers Ceremony and Sports Day of those children leaving to go to school and presented each of them with a certificate and a leaver’s present.
Throughout the year the children have enjoyed and had access to the learning opportunities that we offer from the use of our outdoor spaces. We have a nature garden, where the children can learn how to take care of the Goldfish in the covered pond and look at the bugs in the bug hotel. In the nature garden also, the children help harvest all the fruits and vegetables they’ve helped grow and there is a ‘Water Wall’ for them to enjoy.
We continue to work alongside the Health Visitors and SaLSS speech and language support team. This all helps towards providing good communication links between professionals and the families. It also helps us to gain advice for families that require additional support.
We have continued to use our links with the local primary school to help to enable staff the opportunity to meet with the reception teacher and other teaching assistants and the Headmaster to spend time and review the children’s learning journal’s.
Our learning journals continue to be done electronically via Tapestry. Being able to share the children’s observations easily with parents as and when they occur is a great tool. Also, it allows the parents to reply with their input and helps if they have any questions. Parents are also able to use the platform at home and upload information that they would like to make the child’s Key Person aware of.
We have 6 members of staff. 5 of which hold their level 3 in Childcare Qualifications. 1 member of staff is currently doing their level 2 diploma. Our volunteer supervisor is continuing to support our setting for 12 hours per week.
Year Ending 31st August 2022
Kaleidoscope Pre-school Charity Number 1044767
Balance Sheet
| CURRENT ASSETS Debtors Closing NW bank balance Closing NW fundraising bank balance Closing cash balance Closing BACS Fees bank balance Closing toddlers cash balance Closing reserves bank balance TOTAL CLOSING BALANCE CURRENT LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Creditors TOTAL Current Liabilities Current Assests Less Current Liabilities |
31st August 2022 31st August 2022 5,704.60 £ 28,668.64 £ 33.24 £ 0.02 £ - £ - £ |
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| - £ 34,406.50 £ |
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| - £ 34,406.50 £ |
Certified Correct
Signed: LAUREN DEMPSTER
Name: Lauren Dempster
Role: Preschool Manager
Date : 15.06.2023
Year Ending 31st August 2022
Kaleidoscope Pre-school Charity Number 1044767
Income & Expense Account at end of August 2022
| Opening NW bank balance Opening NW fundraising bank balance Opening cash balance Opening building project balance Opening BACS Fees bank balance Opening toddlers cash balance TOTAL OPENING BALANCE INCOME Fees Funding Donations Milk Remittance Bacs fees Fundraising income & interest Other TOTAL INCOME Total Opening Balances + Income EXPENSES Wages Utilities: telephone, broadband, electricity, water, insurance etc Building & Garden Maintenance Groceries: kitchen items, cleaning materials, snacks, drinks etc Office: paper, ink etc Bookkeeping / Admin Cleaning Presents / Gifts New equipment / toys / books & equipment maintenance Toddlers Nature Garden Project Training Activities / Materials Other TOTAL EXPENDITURE Total Opening Balances + Income_less_Total Expenditure Closing NW bank balance Closing NW fundraising bank balance Closing cash balance Closing reserves bank balance Closing BACS Fees bank balance Closing toddlers cash balance TOTAL CLOSING BALANCE |
£10,512.07 £6,230.25 £51.80 £24,965.03 £0.00 £0.00 |
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| £41,759.15 | |
| £1,759.00 £48,688.07 £150.00 £0.00 £15,927.15 £1,543.50 £2,909.54 |
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| £70,977.26 | |
| £112,736.41 | |
| £60,231.61 £9,342.20 £2,186.81 £672.87 £989.18 £520.70 £52.10 £723.03 £588.92 £0.00 £0.00 £1,944.20 £751.26 £327.03 |
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| £78,329.91 | |
| £34,406.50 | |
| £5,704.60 £28,668.64 £33.24 £0.00 £0.02 £0.00 |
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| £34,406.50 |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Indepeftdent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl membars of On accounts for the year ended Charlty no Irf any) 31 < Aubuj Set out on page$ I report to the trustees on my examination of the acco nts of the above charityllhe Trust") for the year ended 315f lu6u J < }èA > Responsibilities and basis of report As th8 charity's trustees. you are responslble foi the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requiraments of the Charities Act 2011 l.the Ad'}. I re¥)ort in respe¢t of my examination of the Trust's acwunls caffied out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)Ibl of the Act. Independent rrhe charity's gross income examinerfs statomont undertake the examinab'on by applicable listed bodyll. Delet eeded £250.000 and l am qualifi eing a qualrfied member of linse ot applicable. lo name of I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention in connectSon wth the examination lolher than that disch)s8d below") which gives me cause lo believe thal in. any material respect.. the 2ccounling records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act.. or the accounts did not accord with the accountlng records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charities IAccounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requiremant that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no Concerns and have com8 across no other matters in connection wlh the examination to which attention should be drawn in this Teport in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not epply. Signad: Date: Name: fr41c trl A&L- 6 Relevant professional qualificallon{sl or body ILA& IER O¢t 2018
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