MAGIC DRAGON PRE-SCHOOL
Bishopston, Bristol
Registered Office: 66 Kings Drive, Bishopston, Bristol BS7 8JH
Registered as a Company limited by Guarantee in England & Wales
Registered No. 5165820
Registered Charity No. 1105204

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Balance Sheet, yearryend 31st August 2025
Registered as a company Iwniled by Guarantee in England & Wales
Regkstertrj Office: 66 Kings Drive. Bishopston. Bristol, BS7 8JH
Registered No: 5165820
Registered Charity No: 1105204
2025
2024
General Fund
Balance at 1.9.24
Sncorne
Expendrture
Balan￿ at 31.8.25
16,494
105.812
21.640
58.076
Represented by:
Cash at Bank
Bank t)eposii Account
11.515
9S2
15.532
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Magic Dragon Preschool
Annual Report for year ended 31st August 2025
Registered as a company limited by Guarantee in England and Wales
Registered OfFice: 66 Kings Drive. Bishotson. Bristol B57 8J H
Reg isiered No: ￿65820 Registered Charity No:1105204
Staffing
We have a full complement of staff with five preschool practitioners and one admin
assistant. Martha Watton completed her Early Years Initial Teacher Training with us in
house completing weekly obserdation and feedback sessions and with a considerable
amount of studying in her own time. Martha is now a Level 3 qualified preschool
practitioner.
2. Policies
Magic Dragon Preschool policies have been reviewed and updated during the year
according to our schedule and ba￿d on any updates from The Bristol Association of
Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND}.
A new behaviour policy was introduced based on the Bristol Behaviour project-
Attachment and trauma informed approach.
Staff, committee membersand parents have read the 6 main policie5. These policies
are available on our website.
3. Health and Safety
The team carries out a daily check of premises and equipment.
An annual Health and Safety and Fire Risk Assessment was carried out on the premi*s
by the Preschool Leader together with Sally Wales. No issues of concern.
Sally also compiles and analyses all the accidents that occur at Magic Dragon and feeds
back to staff at each staff meeting.
IK Staff development and training
During the year staff attended various training and workshops, and completed some
online training to update and enhance their knowledge and skills.
All statutory training for all staff is up to date.
All staff had fire safety and heavy lifting training at the INSET at the start of theyear
along with in-house safeguarding training on the signs of abu*.
Sally, our SENCO, has attended some of her regular SENCO cluster meetings
throughout the year. Sally also attended a child protection training run through BAND.
Naomi completed her Child Protection Training.
Ali our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) did an online training session on Domestic
Violence. She a150 had a course on the LADO and low level concerns.
Ali, our Designated Safeguarding Leader, has attended the Safeguarding cluster
meeting. She has also attended the online DSL network cluster meetings.
Martha attended a child protection course run by BAND.
A representative from Bristol Speech and language services led a session at our
September INSET Identifying and supporting children with Speech and Language
and communication needs which covered the types of speech issues, how to identify a
child who needs further support and howto accessthe right service for them.
All staff have been kept up-to-date by in-house safeguarding training each term at staff
meetings and as a whole staff undertook the Government PREVENT training course.
Supervision sessions {individual and group} and appraisals were carried out for all staff.
Ali and Niki continued towork through the Safeguarding Audit.
Naomi attended an in person course on Sustainability in preparation for writing our
Climate Action Plan.
Keyperson-Parent consultations were held twice throughout the year giving parents an
opportunity to hear how their child was settling in and the progress they were making

based on OPAL milestones. Two Year progress checks were held for the younger
cohort. Information for the children's Centre and oral health were shared during these
meetings.
5. Bristol City Council's Quality Improvement Framework QIF / Ofsted
The Autumn /wintervisit focused on PSED and the introduction of the new Eight to Relate
audit tool to enhance provision and practi￿. The Spring/Summer visit focused on the
privilege of Working with Two-year-olds: What is it like to be a Two-year-old in our
Setting.
The team continue to use the Bristol Standard framework reflective questions throughout
the year to reflect on their practise and set targets and we also introduced the Eight to
Relate reflective questions for reflection.
6. Fundraising events
Parentsorganised a Christmasfundrai*rcollating a hamperto be raffled off along with
a beautiful piece of art work.
The children and staff came to preschool in Pyjamas to raise money for a charity
Tommys which was selected by the parents.
Parents were invited in at the end of Term 6 to enjoy a show with songs, dances and a
chance for the children to share their artwork.
7. Other events
Termly coffee mornings were held for the parents.
Parents very generously brought in items to donate to the local food bank charity.
The children enjoyed lots of trips last year including a trip to the post box, a traffic
survey, an Autumn walk in the neighbourhood, a walk around the church grounds and
a trip to the community allotment.
Rog Newby was invited in to share his woodworking skills with the children. The
children made reindeer with Rog using a range of woodworking skills.
Parents were invited to join us for a Christmas sing-song at the end of term 2.
James the tennis coach from KingsTennis Club led a tennis session for both the blue
and yellow group children each term.
The children took part in a sports day filled with lots of activities led by the staff.
We celebrated World Book Day where the children came dressed up in their PJS,
brought in their favourite book to share and enjoyed a story in the garden with hot
chocolate.
The children took part in cooking activities each term and made biscuits, soup, wraps,
pizzas, smoothies and salt dough.
We celebrated St Patrick's day with a parent coming in to demonstrate and teach us
some Irish dancing. To celebrate St David's day, we cooked welsh cakes.
The local Primary school reception teacherswere invited in to meetthe children
transitioning to school and to talk to the keypersons to gain insight about the children
to help them have a positive transition to Primary School. Staff attended the transition
meeting to handover information to the receiving Reception teachers to help ensure a
positive transition to Primary school.
We organised a visit for 5 tortoises to join us at preschool and the children had the
opportunity to feed, wash and touch the tortoi￿5 and learn some interesting facts
about tortoises.
A parent was invited in to read his soon to be published book to the children and led a
drawing workshop.
We organised an international week to celebrate our diverse cultures at preschool. We
made pizzas, made flags, sang songs and said hello in different languages and made
Rio festival masks. A parent also read us a Scottish story, came dressed in a kilt and
taught us some Scottish dancing.
We ran two stay and play sessions during theyear and invited the parents in to see
what their child gets up to at Preschool.

8 Other things to note
A Year ten studentfrom Redland Green School undertook a week long work experience
with us in June.
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Di rector:
Hazel Robinson
Di rector."
Miriam Lord

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