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 2022 - August 2023
Kaleidoscope committee set a one year development plan this year with targets that evolved from the previous year’s achievements. Our main focus’ this year were to continue to improve our numbers on the register, encourage more members to join our committee and to do more Fundraising.
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. We are also looking ahead at how the new 2 year funding will work and offering this to all children who are eligible.
During this year we have continued to provide care over 10 sessions a week. The year started with 18 children and ended with 29 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 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 (Bonfire Night, Pumpkins and Autumn) 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 Superhero ’ s. We read some of our favourite stories about ‘ Super Potato ’ and ‘ Super Worm ’ and even did some role play. Also, we explored other topics like Traditional Stories, Chinese New Year and Science week. The children enjoyed all the experiments that they got to try.
During the Summer term we focused on the topics ‘Pirates and Mermaids’ and also ‘Kings and Queens’. We also 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, they also had a visit from the Ice Cream Van.
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. Unfortunately we were unable to do the headmaster minibus visits this year, hopefully this can be continued next year.
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 upload photos to Tapestry daily for the parents to see and also include the child’s WOW moments and also their Strengths and Challenges. We continue to receive positive feedback from the parents about using this form of communication with them.
We have 8 members of staff. Currently our manager is on Maternity Leave and returning in September so our deputy has stepped up in the mean time. 5 members of staff hold their level 3 in Childcare Qualifications, with 1 member having a Qualified Teacher Status. Also 1 member of staff has currently completed their level 2 diploma, were just awaiting their final result. Our volunteer supervisor is continuing to support our setting for 12 hours per week.
Year Ending 31st August 2023
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 2023 5,704.60 £ 18,369.61 £ 28,668.64 £ 26,445.38 £ 33.24 £ 14.30 £ 0.02 £ 0.36 £ - £ - £ - £ - £ |
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| 34,406.50 £ 44,829.65 £ |
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| - £ - £ |
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| - £ - £ |
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| 34,406.50 £ 44,829.65 £ |
Certified Correct
Signed: LAUREN DEMPSTER
Name: Lauren Dempster
Role: Preschool Manager
03.06.2024
Year Ending 31st August 2023
Kaleidoscope Pre-school Charity Number 1044767
Income & Expense Account at end of August 2023
| Opening NW bank balance Opening NW fundraising bank balance Opening cash balance Opening BACS Fees bank 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 BACS Fees bank balance TOTAL CLOSING BALANCE |
£5,704.60 £28,668.64 £33.24 £0.02 |
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| £34,406.50 | |
| £332.00 £74,860.45 £118.24 £0.00 £12,904.50 £258.50 £227.27 |
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| £88,700.96 | |
| £123,107.46 | |
| £63,845.02 £6,631.73 £676.06 £1,892.63 £677.66 £522.70 £0.00 £272.63 £1,145.18 £0.00 £0.00 £582.00 £1,412.48 £619.72 |
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| £78,277.81 | |
| £44,829.65 | |
| £18,369.61 £26,445.38 £14.30 £0.36 |
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| £44,829.65 |
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