MAGIC DRAGON PRE-SCHOOL Bishopston, Bristol Registered Office: 66 Kings Drive. Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8JH Registered os a Company limited by Guarantee in England & Wales Registered No. 5165820 Registered Charity No. 1105204 Accounts and reportforyear ended 31 August 2020
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Magic Dragon Pre-school, Bristol Annual Report for year ended 31 August 2020 Regtstered as a company hmted ty Guarantee in Er¥Jland and Wa5 Registered oifKe'. 66 Kings Drive. BshLWon. Bristol BS7 8JH Registered No." 5165820 Re9te(l Chatrty No". 1105204 1. COVID-19 Preschool closed on March 19th 2020 and did not reopen until September 2020. Six members of staff were furloughed. The leader continued to provide some level of support to the preschool community with regular emails. activity suggestions. Fabook posts and story reading videos, video messages for the children, letters from the staff to their key children, home packs available to borrow and a Having Fun At Home booklet full of play ideas and information. 2. Staffing Sadly after many years Cathy has stepped down as a preschool practitioner at Magic Dragon. We would like to thank Cathy for all of her hard work supporting children in their learning. Niki has moved to the yellow group and Sally has moved to work with the blue group. 3. BAND We are a member of this organisation which supports us with weare requirements. Our development worker, Elizabeth Male, has provided us with support throughout the year. Ellie and Elizabeth from BAND carried out a pre-OFSTED check of our preschool in December 2019. We have some actions as a result of this visit including ensuring all staff are confident to discuss Safeguarding questions with an inspector. The management team drafted a set of questions with model answers relating to Magic Dragon to be shared with staff and the committee. Our policies were reviewed and as a result we have adopted all of the BAND policies from September 2020. A suggestion was made by BAND about lunch club provision and as a result, children now go outside after lunch and access our outdoor provision as well as having an activity available inside 'to ensure that children are still accessing comprehensive learning opportunities,. A target for the staff was to ensure that stsff knew about the role of the Local Authority Designated Officer {LADO) in managing staff allegations. As a result of this target, staff meeting time was allocated to talking about the role of the LADO. Another tsrget was to further encourage children to be more independent which we are achieving by encouraging children to wash their hands rather than just using hand sanitiser, being involved in snack preparation, selecting their lunch boxes themselves from the trolley at lunch time and being involved in setting up activities outside. 4. Policies Magic Dragon Preschool policies have been reviewed and updated during the year according to our schedule. We have adopted the BAND policies on their recommendation. New policies adopted include a COVID-19 policy. environmental policy, contingency planning policy, zero tolerance policy and a sun cream policy. 5. Health and Safety The team carries out a daily check of premises and equipment. An annual health and safety and fire risk assessment was due to be carried out on the premises by the Committee Chair together with Sally in June 2020, but this has been postponed until November 2020. The church hall representative has carried out a heatth and safety check with Niki in September 2020.
New body map forms were introduced last year to ensure a comprehensive record of any accidents was kept. Sally also compiles and analyses all of the accidents that occur at Magic Dragon and feeds back to staff at each staff meeting. 6. Staff development and training During the year staff attended various training and workshops. and completed some online training through Educare (provided by The Eady Years Allian, of which we are a member) to update and enhance their knowledge and skills. Sally, our SENCO. has attended regular briefings throughout the year. Visits with the local authority Inclusion and Portage team were also carried out. Niki has undertaken the necessary training for her role as Leader, including attending the local Leaders Network meetings, a very useful forum for sharing common issues. Ali, our Designated Safeguarding Leader, has attended Safeguarding cluster meetings and a multi- agency neOrk workshop. All staff have been kept up-to-date by in-house safeguarding training. SupeNision sessions (individual and group) and appraisals have been carried out for all staff. An INSET in September 2020 focused on preparations for the children returning after lockdown including how we could support children's mental health and sharing of information beeen keypeople for the blue group childien. 7. Fundraising & Events The Having Fun At Home booklet was designed and produced in order to raise some funds for preschool and promote the preschool in the local area. This is an ongoing task. 8. Other ev•nts The children enjoyed lots of trips last year including a trip to the post box. a shape hunt around Bishop Road, an Autumn sensory walk, a traffic survey on Bishop Road. a sports day at a local school, a trip to the supermarket to buy ingredients to make bird feeders and a pirate treasure hunt following a route on a map of the local area. Termly coffee mornings were held for parents to get to know each other and a short workshoplpresentation was delivered by Niki to support parents in helping their children at home. Parents were invited in to share lunch with the children after we had made an Autumn soup, they were also invited in to watch the Chinese New Year dance and to watch our Christmas show on the stage in the hall. We also had visits from a local Optician, a Chinese dragon head was loaned to us by a parent to help celebrate Chinese New Year and a parent doctor came in to lead a session with the children. Learning journals now go home every term and the children's next steps are shared verbally with parents so that we can work together and share what we do at preschool. 9. Register At the end of the year there were twenty children on the register at Magic Dragon, with 5 leaving to start Reception and 3 to join another preschool in September and one child moving away from the area. 10. Promotion This has been a focus over the past year. Flyers have been designed, printed and dropped through letterboxes and put up around the local area. The Facebook page has been more widely used to promote what we do at preschool. An open moming was organised for October 2019 and the one to be held on March 19th 2020 was canlled. The website has been updated to make it more accessible for parents to access information and for new parents enquiring to get in touch more easily. This reportwas approv&J on 21st Ikteber 2020 Signed.. STrJned.' txrector.. B Ojari Dwector". M Lord
CHARITY COMMISSION, FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of PEr- On accounts for the year ended Charity no {if any) Ilo£2c>*- Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {'the Trust") for the year ended3 i l Responsibilities and As the charty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ltthe Acr}. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commission under section 145{5}Ib) of the Act. I have compleled my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention {QÈk8kdiS6I0s8d.b@lO4w l in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe thal in, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in a¢¢ordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the aGGounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding oflhe accounts to be reached. Please delete the worfs in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: Partr4 T -. Relevant professional qualification(sl or body (if any): Address: 2ts STts r--4 IER October 2018