Dear Parents / Carers
Please find below this week’s Weekly Update!
Letter & Sound of the Week – Our chosen letter after half term will be ‘w’. Please can your child bring in an item which has a ’w’.
Colour of the Week – Our next colour is light blue! Please can your child bring in a light blue item to share with us at Circle time!
Playhouse Activities This Week – We’ve had a really busy week! We’ve had great fun making Welsh cakes to celebrate St David’s Day. We’ve been creative with Mother’s Day activities. We had a great photograph session on Tuesday with lots of smiley children. Your children dressed up yesterday to celebrate World Book Day and some of us went over to join John Clare Primary for their special assembly, some of the children went up on stage to show off their outfits. We had lots of fun recreating the story ‘We are going on a Bear Hunt’. And finally, today we came to Preschool in our Pj’s for our Pyjama day!
Playhouse Activities Next Week – We will be making fruit kebabs and continuing to look at our healthy diet. The children will be involved with our Ecco School and will be carrying out a tally on how they came to Preschool. We’ll be making wooden sculptures using twigs! We’ll also look at caring for our animals and Lucy will bring in her dog Maisy for the children to meet.
Easter Fayre – Saturday 19th March 11.00am – 1.00pm – We need you…. Can you help with any of the following….:
- Sweetie Jars will be coming home with your child, please can you fill a jar with ‘wrapped’ sweets and return to the Playhouse
- Donations for the Raffle and Tombola
- Do you work for a company or know anyone who would like to donate a substantial prize for our Raffle, if you do, please can you speak to a member of the Committee. Thank you.
- Bake a cake – Would you like to bake a cake for our Cake stall!
- ‘Nearly new stall’ for toys and books – Do you have any toys or books you could donate for our ‘Nearly new stall’? We’ll happily take these from you!
Reminder: Phonics Workshops – Due to it’s popular demand we’ve added two more sessions: Tuesday 15th March at 2.45pm and Friday 18th March at 9.00am. The session on Friday 11th March is now fully booked.
New Member of the Playhouse Team – We are very pleased to announce that Amanda Webb will be joining our team. Amanda has been volunteering with us whilst undertaking her training and has decided to join us permanently on a part time basis. Congratulations Amanda!
A big Thank you – A very big thank you to Stuart Bunn for his fantastic work in changing our old sandpit into a new garden, he kindly gave up his Sunday morning! We’ve attached a few pictures of this new area! Thank you.
Bags2School – We have a fantastic opportunity to raise funds for both the Playhouse and Friends of John Clare via the Bags2School initiative. If you have a spring clean over the Easter Holidays, please can you donate adults’ and children’s clothes, shoes (tied together please), hats, belts, handbags and soft toys! Please note bedding, curtains, and household linen cannot be accepted. There are further details attached and we’ll be distributing bags shortly!
Have a lovely weekend!
Kind regards
The Playhouse Team