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Trustees report for year ending 31 August 2022
Purpose of the Pre-school
St Oliver Plunkett Preschool aims to provide a high quality preschool experience for every
child, to enable them to reach their full potential in a place of security and warmth.
We are registered with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and inspected annually by
BHSCT to ensure we provide a quality seniice and maintain high standards.
Our curriculum is guided by the various publications produced by the department of
Education and the school is inspected by the Department's Education and Training
Inspectorate to ensure high standards are maintained, that we provide an effective
preschool education ahd that we demonstrate the capacity to identifykand bring about
improvement in the interest of all our learners.
The curriculum is carefully designed to meet the children's physical, social, emotional and
cognitive needs at their particular stage of development. The programme is both broad and
balanced, and allows the children to make independent choices, it provides them with
opportunities to develop the learning associated with:
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Language Development
The Art5 (creative, aesthetic development)
Early Mathematical Development
The World Around Us
Charlty Trustees
St Oliver Plunkett Preschool is a voluntary organisation managed by a group of volunteers
consisting of members of the local community and parents (past and present) who meet to
discuss issues concerning the group.
The Charity Trustees aTe'
Lorraine Doherty- Chairperson
Winnifred Dougherty- Secretary
Roisin Connolly- Treasurer
Fr Aidan Brankin
Kieran Mccormick
Janine Donnelly
Staffing
We have three members of staff sUPPOrting 24 children.

The staff have developed a caring, nurturing atmosphere in the preschool. they are
COTnmitted and professional in all aspects of theirjob and this is evident in the progression
we see in the children's learning and development.
Parents have expressed their satisfaction that their children are experiencing a happy,
fulfilling start to their education and are well prepared to move to the next stage in their
education.
Children
In the year ended 31st August 2022, 24 children attended with three members of staff. All
24 children were eligible to receive a preschool place funded by the Preschool Education
Programme (PSEP).
Fundraising
The preschool is committed to raising funds through a variety of means, a number of
fundraising events were held throughout the year and were very well supported by the
parents and local community.
Recent work and future plan5
All the children attending the preschool are provided with a variety of learning
opportunlties designed to meet the children'5 physical, social, emotional and cognitive
needs at their particular stage of development. In order to do this we provide a wide variety
of progressive play situations in a stimulating and challenging environment. The play
situations and experiences are carefully planned and evaluated by the staff on a regular
basis.
Future plans include facilitating and providing a range of events, outings and visitors to the
group to enhance and support the children's learning on a range of topics, the planned
event5 are;
Visits from Jump Jiggle and Jive to promote physical play/development
Visits from a qualified music teacher to support development in The Arts, Speech,
language and communication development and personal, social and emotional
development
Visits from dentist, speech and language therapist. police, paramedic5, fire Service.
Parents Workshops to share practical ideas and advice on sUPPOrting their child's
learning at home.
Public Benefit Staternent
The preschool is established to promote play based learning environments for all children in
their preschool year in Lenadoon and surrounding areas without distinction of race, religion,
gender or disability by associating with Statutory authorities, community and voluntary
organisations and the inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and in
particular;

a) to advance the education of the beneficiaries by the provision of safe and
satisfying group play. with the right of parents/ carers to take responsible for and
to become involved in the activities of the group: and to promote the preservation
of health of the beneficiaries.
The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include the educational and
developrnental progression of Pre-school children in all six areas of learning. The
programme of learning and the experiences they have in preschool aims to prepare children
for life by helping to make children strong, capable and independent in their communities
more by building their resilience thus enabling them to cope with adversity and
disappointment, primarily aiming to prepare them for life.
These benefits can be demonstrated by feedback received from EYS, parents, children, staff,
the primary schoo15 our children move on to. our inspection repotts from BHSCT and ETI, all
of which contribute to our successful reputation in the community.
The beneficiaries are children in their immediate pre school year in the local community.
There is no harm flowing from this purpose.
There is no private benefit flowing from this purpose.
b) To 5UPPOrt the values and principles of Early Years.
The direct benefits which flow from this purpose include staff access to relevant training
opportunities through cluster meetings, staff development days and conference
attendance. This training enables staff to enrich or develop skills to as515t them in their role
which enables both staff and children to become stron& competent, visible in their
cornmunity, respectful of difference and eager and able to learn.
These benefits can be demonstrated by the staff s ability to implement their learning in
everyday practice, improved outcomes for the children's learning, social integration,
language and communication skills and the emotional well-being of the children as well as
the positive feedback from the Early Years Specialist, parents, Staff, children and positive
BHSCT and ETI inspection reports.
The beneficiaries are children aged three and four years old in the local community
There is no harm flowing from this purpose.
There is no private benefit flowing from this purpose.
AGM Date: 10111121
Signed:
Chairperson
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