## **Wootton & Dry Sandford Pre-School**
## **Chair’s Report for the year ending 31 December 2019**
## **Our Aims**
Wootton & Dry Sandford Pre-School aims to provide a high-quality, affordable Pre-School service to the villages of Wootton, Dry Sandford and surrounding areas. We provide a safe, friendly environment for our children and educate them in line with the Early Years Foundation Stages and Goals. Our overall aim is to ready our pupils for their Reception Year at school.
## **Our Objectives**
Our objectives reflect the ethos of our Pre-School. We are committed to support and advance our children through learning and play. We are concerned with establishing great relationships with parents and the local community.
## **Key objectives for 2019:**
- To maintain a high intake of local children for the new academic year
- To improve our learning environment and facilities • To improve our monitoring of children for EYFS
- To maintain a high level of care for pupils
- To maintain and better links with the local schools and community
## **Review of our achievements**
We have successfully kept our extending opening hours of 30 hours a week. Maintaining full in mornings and only few spaces in afternoons. These factors have given us the opportunity to offer extra spaces for children requiring parttime childcare but also to those nearing to starting primary school to offer them further hours to ready them a full school day.
We have had a strong committee support with no changes to those on the committee which has been lovely to see. Our fundraising has been a lot lower this financial year due to covid, however we managed a few contactless raffles. This has made a massive difference to the amount preschool have managed to bring in to support buying new equipment for the children.
We have used the funds we had saved up from previous years to revamp up are garden area which has now got be completed with a new redesigned sandpit, climbing frame with slide, car road track, climbing net triangle and a house.
We also in this year added breakfast club into the setting this was very successful and has be very popular for the parents who have to commute to
work or start early. This opens at 8:30 every morning and we provide the children with a healthy breakfast to start the day.
## **Pupil numbers and fees**
We ran at full capacity for the times we were able to open during covid and have maintained a waiting list of children. Intake in September 2020 remained very high along with a healthy waiting list looking into January and April 2021. We accepted both funded and non-funded local children, including funded two-year olds. We have the capacity for having special needs children. We also remained open to support are keyworker and vulnerable families in covid.
## **Improvement of learning environment**
We achieved are garden revamp even with all the covid difficulties. We are waiting on a parent to be able to build us a mud kitchen for the outside area, we also will be focusing on developing an allotment for the children to be able to grow their own fruit and vegetables.
## **Monitoring of children for EYFS**
We continue to use ‘Tapestry’ an online application to journal to record and monitor children’s progress. It is very popular with parents, as they feel more in touch with their children’s progress. We continue to hold parent/key worker meetings at least three times every academic year, with more as and when is required. Parent satisfaction levels continue to be high.
## **Community and school links**
We have been active in the community through Pre-School visits into the local area, shops and parks this was enjoyed by all children who attended. However again some of are local visits were affected by covid.
Our links with schools were one of our biggest affected during covid. visits to the local schools and by the class teachers we unable to be face to face and tapestry videos from teachers were used to help with transition and postcards home to new pupils.
With parents’ permission we were able to share ‘Tapestry’ records of incoming pupils with one of the local schools that used this system for their Reception pupils.
We have also now secured with both local schools to use their forest school areas for our sessions visiting them alternately once Ann has done the forest school training.
## **Future plans**
We have still got a few plans for are outside area including allotment and mud kitchen this we are hoping to use local resources for the allotment like old tyres from the local car garage, long with a parent using pallets and an old kitchen sink for mud kitchen. This will be good to keep costs low but also use the outside connections we have and using real life equipment.
## **Finances**
The committee regularly review the finances, budgets and spend against our income and monthly cash flow. After the covid period it did make a massive difference to are accounts meaning we ran at greater loss to normal this was greatly due to the fact fundraising was a lot lower than usual and we had already booked in are revamp to the garden prior to covid hitting and made the discussion to carry on with the work as it was greatly needed.
## **WOOTTON AND DRY SANDFORD PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP ASSOCIAT INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT-YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER**
|**ROUTINE INCOME**
**OCC funding**
**Fees**
**Donations**
**Fund Raising**
**Fruit and snacks**
**Bank interest - high interest account**
**Enrollmernt fees**
**TOTAL INCOME**
**RECURRENT EXPENDITURE**
**Wages and Salaries**
**Accountancy and audit**
**Hall hire**
**Training**
**Insurance**
**Printing and Stationery**
**Toys and play resources**
**Consumable Materials & Equipment**
**IT software and consumable**
**Cleaning**
**Miscellaneous**
**Fruit and Snacks**
**Telephone**
**Repairs and maintenance**
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
**SURPLUS OF INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE**
**EXCEPTIONAL EXPENDITURE**
**Playground surfacing and equipment**
**SURPLUS/ (DEFICIT) of INCOME OVER EXPENDITURE**|**2020**|
|---|---|
||**£**
**41524**
**37521**
**0**
**1244**
**154**
**49**
**10**|
||**80502**
**60469**
**1277**
**11343**
**659**
**616**
**227**
**1045**
**0**
**27**
**345**
**429**
**629**
**441**
**455**|
||**77962**|
||**2540**
**20529**|
||**-17989**|
## **TION 2020**
**2019 £ 66535 17549 664 1379 929 101** 0 **87157**
**56118 1203 10996 1654 608 181 2683 1187 0 206 28 690 352 0 75906 11251 0 11251**
## **ST. PETER`S CHURCH, WOOTTON**
## **STATEMENT OF FUNDS AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2001**
|**1.GENERAL FUND**
**Balance at 1 January**
**Add: Surplus for the year**
**Less: Closing balance of Organ Fund**
**2. HAWKINS TRUST FUND (RESTRICTED)**
**Balance at 1 January**
**Less: Expenditure**
**Balance at 31 December**
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**REPRESENTED BY:**
**Cash on deposit**
**Current Account**
**Fete Account**
**Amounts due to parish**
**Amounts due by parish**|**2001**
**16164**
**4756**
**-**|
|---|---|
||**20920**
**180**
-|
||**180**|
||**21100**|
||**16539**
**4431**
**-**|
||**20970**
**442**|
||**21412**
**-312**|
||**21100**|
I have examined the books and records of St. Peter`s Church, Wootton, and, where necessa have obtained all the information and explanations I have required.
I certify that the foregoing Statement of Financial Activities and Statement of Funds are in accordance with the books and records and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, are co and conform to the requirements of the Charities Act, 1993.
**5 The Willows Wootton Abingdon OX1 5LD**
**M.S. VARNOM**
**Feb-01**
**2000 20001 27 -3864 16164 180** - **180 16344 13194 2526 890 16610 1405 18015 -1671 16344**
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Wootton and Dry Sandford Pre-School Playgroup Association**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31[st] December 2020 as set out on pages 1 and 2.
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145 (5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
I have no concerns 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 of the accounts to be reached.
Mr Michael Varnom 5 The Willows, Wootton, Oxford
25th February 2021