Playroom news Aug 1 2014 - Kirk Hammerton Nursery School

 Playroom News – August 1 2014
Dates for your diary Parents/carers DIY day Saturday 30th August 2-­‐4pm th
• Saturday 30 2-­‐4pm DIY day A massive thank you to all our volunteers who came to • Wednesday 3rd September 9.15am – Welcome our DIY day on July 20th, Justyn Ashford, Joe Howard, back! Tom Poilto, Kevin Smith, James Moore and David • Weds 3rd Sept -­‐ 9.45am Baby and Toddler Abbott. In sweltering heat they dug, shifted, painted Group, Kirk Hammerton Village Hall and made great progress in preparing for the works on • Saturday 27th September – 10am – 12 noon, the outdoor area to begin the week after. Outdoor area official opening Last goodbyes and welcomes Good luck to our leavers as they start their next adventure at their new school. We have twenty two children leaving to go to five different schools and it is always sad for us as we break up a little community. However we are starting to build a new one and welcome all our new September starters: Merlin, Jemima, Arabella, Grace, Alfie, Luca, Georgia, Martha, Lucas, Emily and Lilly. Finally a huge ‘welcome back’ to all last year’s children Kevin has kindly offered to organise another session who are now pre-­‐schoolers – the ‘top class’ at this Saturday afternoon between 2 and 4pm to help playgroup! with some of the final preparations before we start back on Wednesday so if you can spare an hour to help painting and a few odd jobs with gardening, shelving, Baby and Toddler Group It was great to have so many we would love to see you. Sarah Smith and Katie Hanson will look forward to ums are welcome too! of our dads helping but m
welcoming everyone back on Wednesday 3rd September. The sessions run every Wednesday in term time at Kirk Hammerton Village Hall, 9.45am-­‐11.15am. For further information, “Like” us on FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/KirkBabyToddlerGroup OR Email -­‐ [email protected] Staffing We are very sorry to say goodbye to Sandra who will leave us at the start of term. She is taking up a new position as an Advanced Teaching Assistant at a school nearer to her home. We wish her well in her new position. New committee From the beginning of September, a new core committee will be in place, Leanne Eaton will be Chair, Caroline Howard will be Secretary and Ruth Taft will continue as Treasurer. Steph Talbot is in the process of organising the first ‘friends of’ meeting and so the next playroom news will announce that date. If you are interested in helping with any aspect of Playgroup we always welcome new faces and new skills. This term we are focussing on marketing and fundraising, so please get in touch if you would like to help [email protected] www.kirkhammertonplaygroup.co.uk
Registered Charity Number 1047327
The Pavilion, Kirk Hammerton Playing Fields, Crooked Lane, Kirk Hammerton, North Yorkshire, YO26 8DE, 01423 339404
Helen Herbert e: [email protected] or e: Lisa Moore [email protected]
New name…coming soon! As mentioned in previous news -­‐letters we are going through an exciting period of change at the moment. One element of which is our change of name to Kirk Hammerton Nursery School. This is taking place on a rolling basis over the next few weeks with a final launch of our name and logo at the open day at the end of September You choose At the end of term party we asked you to vote for a new item to buy for playgroup. The choice was between multi-­‐sensory building blocks or ‘Goldilocks and the Three bears’ puppets. The bears won and are on order at the moment -­‐ and will be making an appearance in a Learning Journey near you very soon! Official opening of our new outdoor area -­‐ Saturday 27th September 10-­‐12pm The summer holidays have seen a transformation of our outdoor area and all the structural work is now complete. A whole beach full of sand has been delivered, a performance stage constructed, a mud patch dug complete with a revamped mud kitchen, two new climbing frames, a magical mosaic path laid plus lots more… We are still fundraising for equipment, so we are not yet finished, but we want to celebrate our new area with anyone who wants to join us. Please come along to an open morning on Saturday 27th September 10-­‐12pm where you can have a play and an explore of all the new equipment. We especially hope our leavers can come along and play as it was your fundraising and ideas that helped us create such a S
fabulous play and learning area. End of Term Party Thank you’s Thank you to all the parents, carers and children who came to our end of term party on the last day of term. It was a lovely festival theme with sunshine, tents, music and picnic food to enjoy. Thank you to all the mums who baked. To all the staff for their help in making the day so successful, it was so lovely to hear the children singing all together. Sarah Smith and Katie Hanson for doing the raffle for pampered chef which raised enough money for us to buy some new tools and toys for the sandpit area. Special thanks to all the parents for their combined leaving gift of the tree trunk climbing frame (above) – it is very special to have something to remind us of all those lovely children that other children can enjoy and benefit from. www.kirkhammertonplaygroup.co.uk
Registered Charity Number 1047327
The Pavilion, Kirk Hammerton Playing Fields, Crooked Lane, Kirk Hammerton, North Yorkshire, YO26 8DE, 01423 339404
Helen Herbert e: [email protected] or e: Lisa Moore [email protected]
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