Chairpersons report – AGM – 7[th] September 2023
Thank you everyone for coming tonight to our preschool AGM meeting.
Staffing
On behalf of the committee I would like to thank all staff for your hard work the past year and for your support towards us as a new committee finding our feet.
We’ve managed to put on a number of events with the huge support of the preschool staff, those include a pumpkin disco, Christmas raffle which also welcome parents to watch the children in a Christmas nativity, Easter bonnet parade and a sports day (despite the great British weather trying to stop us!), we ended the summer term with a graduation for our school leavers, we wish them all the best in their new schools
This year we welcomed Linda as a new member of staff, who will hopefully be starting her level 3 training in the new year, we have also seen Jess reduce her hours to a casual contract, which we are sad to be losing her as a full member of the staffing team but glad she will still be working in the preschool even if it's at a reduced capacity. We currently have a team of 4 hour practitioners and 2 members of bank staff, we may need to increase this in the new year (2024) with a bigger intake of children expected, this will be reviewed as necessary.
Committee
Thank you to all the committee members over the last year, you’ve all been a brilliant support for the preschool and given your own time to help with fundraising and event planning, of which we have raised over £1600 for the preschool, something we need to continue and exceed in the next school year.
We’ve had a difficult time since February with the sudden stepping down of the chairperson but we all really pulled together to keep the committee and preschool running and proved what a great team we are. We faced another challenge at the end of the summer term with the possible closure of the preschool due to not having enough committee members joining from September, I’m very glad to say this is now not the case and we have enough members to continue, however numbers are still low so we need to keep pushing for more members to join.
I have been standing in as the acting chairperson since February but this isn’t a role I can continue with so we will need someone else to step forward, I will however support whoever takes on this role, along with Laura. We also will be losing Becca as our treasure, Linda as secutary and both Annas as members
Preschool
We need to work hard with preschool staff to enrol more children throughout the school year.
Moving forward we are going to discuss with the manager of ways we can improve our preschool including parent communication and advertising.
Our staff will be keeping their training up to date by attending various training courses and we will continue to work with our collaboration partners.
Supporters
Massive thank you on behalf of the Kingswood Preschool staff & committee to the following local supporters, who year upon year, are always there supporting our small charity run preschool. Their help and generosity go such a long way and it is really appreciated;
NISA, Kingswood for easter egg donations Winterwood Farm for continued donations of fruit Chris Simpson Photography for school photos
A local farm & Morrisons for the donation of pumpkins
All the small local businesses who were part of the Christmas raffle, by donating prizes Local community for supporting and attending our jumble sale this year Parish council and Hall committee for providing us with a safe space to work. Kingswood Primary School for working with us to ensure a smooth transition for the school leavers.
And finally, to all the parents and children who use our setting. Thank you.
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