Dear Existing and New Families,

A HUGE warm welcome to Little Kenelms Pre School/ Family. We feel honoured that you have chosen our educational setting. We look forward to working in partnership with you in the care and development of your precious child. Our creative and stimulating curriculum will allow your child to explore and learn in a safe, loving and nurturing environment.

We as an Early Years Team are truly excited about the next chapter in your child’s life and look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday 3rd September at 8.30. Please remember your water bottle, slippers and a huge smile.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday with your family and friends 😊

With Love Mrs Ray, Mrs Pugh and Miss McCrum xxx

Thank you to all those who were able to attend the Colourful Semantics Workshop today. Please find below the ppt from today for your reference. All the children will be coming home with a Colourful Semantics bookmark to use together as you read, talk and play.

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Colourful Semantics Workshop For parents and children Thursday 1st February

Parents (1 adult per child due to space) are invited to join  Mrs Pugh and Mrs Mitchell to find out about Colourful Semantics, a communication tool to help your children with developing their communication skills through stories. Mrs Pugh will give a brief demonstration of how to use colourful semantics and you will get an opportunity to share a story with your child.

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Happy New Year to all our beautiful families and a HUGE THANK YOU for all your kind, thoughtful gifts we felt “ truly spoilt.” 😊 at Christmas 🎄.

Also a HUGE Thank You 🙏 to all our little ones for a lovely first day back at Little Kenelms “ It was great to have you ALL back with us. Well done to our New friends who joined us today you are truly welcome to our “ Family “ and settled very well. Looking to opening our doors to you tomorrow x x sleep well 😴 

To all parents from Pre School you are invited to come to “stay and pray” on Wednesday 6th December when you drop your child off at 8.30. Hope you can join us 🙏

On. Friday 17th November, we are celebrating community language day in school! Our focus country is France. Pleases wear your own clothes in the colour of the country’s flag.

Thank You

This term “ Autumn 2” our topic in Pre school is What do we celebrate? The children will have the opportunity to celebrate our cultural differences and confidently talk about their own experiences and knowledge of any celebrations they have been apart of. To begin to recognise what makes them special and communicate some of the similarities and differences in relation to friends and family.

This term our topic is “ Who do I belong to?” During this topic we want the children to know……..

*We are different but God loves us all the same.

*How our family looks after us and how we can look after them.

*The different parts of our body.

So with this in mind could you please send in some family photos, in a labelled envelope for us to share and discuss during our circle time. 
Thank You 😊 Mrs Ray

Hello to all our new and existing families,

We are very excited and ready to meet you ALL Wednesday.  We hope you all had a wonderful summer holiday with family and friends, and are ready to start your EXCITING journey with us in Pre school.  Have an early night and make sure your uniform is ready, your drink, lunch bag ( If you stay full time) and cosy slippers.

We can't wait to see your big beaming smiles and to get you know you all.

Big hugs from 

Your excited teachers X X (We are also having an early night)

Opening times for Little Kenelm’s Pre-School…
 

Morning session starts at 8.30am

Morning session ends at 11.30am

Afternoon session starts at 12.30pm

Afternoon session ends at 3.30pm

Sessions can be taken as full days, morning sessions or afternoon sessions. If your child is staying for the full day, there is a small charge for the lunch hour and you will need to provide your child with a lunch box. For more information, please contact the school office and ask for Mrs Hughes. 
 

Please be punctual at the beginning and end of each session. It is also important that all parents are available during the Pre- school sessions to be contacted if necessary.

Show and Tell

Throughout the year in pre-school, we will be having ‘Show and Tell’ sessions every Tuesday. As part of these sessions, children are invited to bring in an item from home that they would like to show to the rest of the class and tell us about. The rest of the class will have the chance to ask your child questions about their item. This is a great opportunity for the children to practise their speaking and listening skills and also develop their self-confidence when speaking to a group.

We will notify you when it is your child's turn for show and tell. 

Letters from parents May 2021:

"I just wanted to say how lovely yesterday’s pre-school drop-in hour was.

The welcome that myself and my daughter Bridie Hodge received from Mrs Finnegan and Mrs Ray was so lovely and made us feel very relaxed.

Bridie had a lovely time and she is really excited to start her pre-school journey in September." with OLSK.

Kind regards,

Caroline Hodge

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"My partner and daughter, Isabella attended Little Kenelm's Open Day this week and I just wanted to thank the staff for making it so special. 

Isabella told me how much fun she had when she got home, in great detail! She cannot wait to come back and we are so happy that she got the opportunity to visit." 

Thank you again, 

Becky Colston

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