After a lovely half term break we welcome everyone back to our favourite half term of the year! The glitter and sparkles will be making their way into everything we do as we approach our Christmas party and performance!!
Topics/Themes This half-term we will be looking at Bonfire Night, making patterns and investigating colour mixing, we will look at fire and firework safety and look forward to hearing tales of events that they have been to! We have loved hearing about their Halloween celebrations also and if you have any photos you would like to share of the children dressed up or with their decorations we would love to see these. You can either bring them in or email them to buttercross-ps@hotmail.co.uk and we can share them. We will also be practicing our Christmas songs and getting ready to show off our singing at our Christmas play which will be held on Monday morning on the 19th December (Details to follow)
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (Also on our website)
Show and tell dates – bring something from home to talk about.
Monday 7th November
Tuesday 15Th November
Wednesday 23rd November
Thursday 1st December
Friday 9th December
From Monday 5th December to Friday 9th of December we will be having a Dress up week.
Dress up in their favourite outfits and bring a donation of chocolate for our chocolate tombola to be held at the Christmas party.
Christmas Party will be held on 19th December at 9.15am at the Bingham Leisure Centre. (Parents must accompany their children and further information will follow).
Pre-School closes for Christmas on Tuesday 20th December and reopens on Wednesday 4th January 2017
Please can you ensure that all lunch boxes, sweatshirts and t-shirts are named to ensure that they go home to the correct family! Thank you
TAPESTRY
If you haven’t received your invitation to view your child’s learning journey can you please let me know so that I can check I have the right email address for you… you may find also that it has gone to your trash folder so it is worth checking there too,
*School Admissions.*
If your child turns 5 between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018, it is time to apply for their school place. You can apply from the 7th November 2016 until the 15th January 2017. To do this Please visit http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/education/school-admissions/apply-for-a-school-place
If you require any help with this, please see Tracey.
**Allergy advice**
Thanks again for your continued support regarding Nut allergies. To ensure that our children are safe at all times can you please ensure that you do not send in food containing nuts or products that say they may contain nuts.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
The children are busy designing their own Christmas cards at the minute. These will then be available to purchase in packs of 4, 8 or 12. To view your child’s art work please ask a member of staff. Order forms will be in your child’s tray.
PARENTS EVENING
We will be holding Parents Evening during the week commencing 14th November. It will be a chance to sit down with your child’s Key Person and discuss how they are doing and talk about how we will support them moving forward. To see which days your child’s key person is available please see Tracey and book a time slot.
CHILDREN IN NEED COUNTRYFILE RAMBLE
This year we have decided to raise money for Children in Need by organising our own Countryfile Ramble. We thought this would be a lovely way of involving the whole family in an activity while raising money for a good cause. The ramble will take place on Sunday 20th November at 12pm at the Linear Walk in Bingham with refreshments available back at Pre-School. We hope to see lots of you there!
