Wootton & Dry Sandford Pre-School
Chair’s Report for the year ending 31 December 2021
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 2021:
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To maintain a high intake of local children for the new academic year
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To improve our learning environment and facilities • To improve our monitoring of children for EYFS
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To maintain a high level of care for pupils
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To maintain and better links with the local schools and community
Review of our achievements
With things getting back to normal after Covid our numbers increased greatly to us been extremely busy with all of our available spaces been taken.
After having new play equipment we replaced the sandpit which depleted our funds some. Fundraising has been difficult after the effects of Covid but we have slowly begun to start this again so that we can make some more improvements.
Our last Ofsted was a successful visit with another ‘Good’ with some lovely feedback testimonials from our parents but again because of Covid we are still waiting for a next one.
Pupil numbers and fees
We ran at full capacity for much of the year and have maintained a waiting list of children. Intake in September 2021 remained very high along with a healthy waiting list looking into January and April 2022. We accepted both funded and non-funded local children, including funded two-year olds. We have the capacity for having special needs children.
Improvement of learning environment
We have made lost of changes in previous years to our garden space and now we have a few jobs that need doing to make it complete, we have had to ask the community centre board to make these changes and we finally have permission we just need to make a little money so that we are able to complete these.
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 again been active in the community through Pre-School visits into the local area and shops.
Our links with schools were improved by increased visits to the local schools and by the class teachers visiting the Pre-School during the summer term to talk to our pupils. Pupils starting Primary school in September had the opportunity to visit them on a number of occasions, increasing their familiarity with the environment they were moving into.
This year, 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.
Future plans
We need to improve our learning environment in the garden and so any future fundraising will go towards this
Finances
The committee regularly review the finances, budgets and spend against our income and monthly cash flow.
Staff pay is reviewed on an annual basis and a plan implemented to increase staff salaries by 2.5% every six months to keep us in line with National Minimum Wage rises.
WOOTTON AND DRY SANDFORD PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP ASSOCIATION BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st DECEMBER 2021
| CASH AT BANK Enterprise high interest account Treasurer account Petty Cash DEBTORS CREDITORS REPRESENTED BY Accumulated general fund at 1st January 2021 Surplus/(defcit) for the year |
2021 £ 41207 4666 202 0 -1016 45059 39257 5802 45059 |
2020 |
|---|---|---|
| £ 40203 4187 201 0 -5334 |
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| 39257 | ||
| 57246 -17989 |
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| 39257 |
The Financial statements were approved by the Trustees on
Chair Person
Independent examiner's report to th¢ Trnstees of Wootton and Dry Sandford PrSchool Plydygroup knoeiatioD I rert to the trteeS on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('*he Trusv) for the year ended 31" D¢cember 2021 as set out on pages l and 2. As the charity's trustees you are resnsIble for the preparation of the awounts in accordance with the requirements of the CbltieS Act 2011 ('tthe A¢t"}. I report in respect of my examination of th¢ Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applkcable Directions given by the Ch8rity Commission under section 145 (5)(b) of the ACL I have completed my examination. I confirn] 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 s¢¢tion 130 of the Act. or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records. I have no concerns and have come across no oth¢r matters in ¢onn¢ction with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enabl¢ a proper understandmg of the accounts to be reached. c.Lf I Mr Michael Varnom 5 The Willows, Wootton, Oxford 8 March 2022