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 2023 - August 2024
Kaleidoscope committee set a one-year development plan this year with targets that evolved from the previous year’s achievements. Our focus’ this year was to continue with great numbers on the register and improve our garden area.
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. This year we also started offering the working families funding which is available to lots of families when they turn 2 which has meant we have had lots of just turned two-year-olds starting with us.
During this year we have continued to provide care over 10 sessions a week. The year started with 30 children and ended with 36 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. We also contacted Emma who specialises in supporting transitions to Reception to help some of our children who needed a little more support.
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 ‘Getting to know you’. We did this with reading and activities based on the children’s likes and any information they were happy to share about themselves. We then continued with activities chosen by the children including Halloween, bonfire night, fireworks, our pets, celebrating children in need by dressing up, 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 supporting our mental health. We read some of our favourite stories including the colour monster to discuss our feeling and looked at why it is so important to support each other. We then celebrated world book day by bringing in our favourite books and dressing as our favourite characters. We had a special spring visitor and met a baby lamb from a local farm before starting our Easter topics and celebrations.
We started our summer term with a very exciting topic in which the children got to experience hatching baby chicks from their eggs. We then kept two of the baby chicks which the children loved and we hope to be collecting eggs each day soon! We then went on to celebrate National Firefighters week and even had a visit from our local fire station where the children got to ride in the engine and a go on the hose! Next was Oral health week where we discussed with the children the importance of keeping our teeth clean and had lots of fun with related activities. We then had our animal encounters topic and another special visitor showed us his hedgehog. We then had a visit from
some students from Seaford College who worked so hard to sort out our gardens, did some painting and constructed a new mud kitchen for the children! Throughout the summer term we also had our preschoolies sessions where we introduced our leavers to phonics, p.e. and other things that would help them get ready for starting school. Finally, we finished our summer term with our graduation ceremony and sports day – all school leavers received a certificate, medal and leavers present – all the families were invited to this too.
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. As well as now taking care of our new baby chicks. We have some big plans for the summer holidays where our new garden equipment is being installed too.
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. This year we have supported a child who is diagnosed with autism with a 121 and worked alongside SENAT to try and get him a school place however this has not been successful, so we have agreed to keep him with us until his 5[th] birthday. We will continue to work with his parents and SENAT to find him a school that can support his needs as soon as possible.
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. This year we managed to start up our minibus visits again where our main feeder school collected us and the children to go for some extra school visits – this really helps the children to be prepared for school and feel safe in that environment.
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 parents about using this form of communication with them.
We have 8 members of staff. At the start of the year our manager returned from maternity leave on 3 days per week and has confidently worked alongside our deputy to support this transition. She also came in during her maternity leave to lead our OFSTED inspection which went well, and we maintained our GOOD rating. 5 members of staff hold their level 3 in Childcare Qualifications, with 1 member having a Qualified Teacher Status. One of our staff members completed their level 2 qualification this year, which is fantastic. Our volunteer supervisor is continuing to support our setting for 12 hours per week.
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