Author: Michaela

Firstly I must apologise for not posting in a while.

I would like to let you all know that the children are currently doing children’s yoga on a Friday morning with Hayley of Namaste Kids for half hour, children and staff are both enjoying it.

On Tuesday mornings we are taking the children to Biddenden Squash courts to take part in a session of Racket Tots with Tom Swain .

Both of the above activities provide new people for the children to interact with, new fun and games to participate in whilst developing their physical skills.

Hope you all had an enjoyable half-term but are now settled back in the playschool routine.

Just to let you all know that Peggy from Fun Train will be visiting the setting on Wednesday to do Music and movement with the children.

Playschool are currently collecting various kitchen items for sand and water play, eg. saucepans, bun tins, tongs, spoons, jugs, bowls etc. If you are throwing out any of these please think of us!

Hello all , in a while we will be doing Chinese New Year as our topic. I would like to ask if you have any items in anyway linked to China that you would like to share with us or donate it would be greatly appreciated. It could be a pair of chopsticks or a chinese flag or a golden cat or a oriental dragon model to name but a few. Any input is appreciated.

I would like to wish everybody a Happy New  Year and hope you all had the Christmas you wanted.

Thank you to everybody who attended our Nativity in the Church – the children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I would welcome any feedback from the audience on things to improve, and what you enjoyed about it. I would also appreciate it if anybody has a good group photo if they could e mail it to michaela@biddendenplayschool.co.uk as staff did not have chance to take any and one for the notice board would be nice.

Playschool re starts Monday 7th January, look forward to seeing you all.

Playschool will be open as usual tomorrow, Tuesday 18th December, this is the last day of the Autumn term.

We are going to do our Nativity in the church at 2.30pm  on Tuesday 18th December. All children  are welcome to join us even if it is not a normal session they attend. Any queries call me.

Although staff have made it into playschool unfortunately we have to close due to advice from the Fire Brigade.

The Nativity is also cancelled this afternoon, will try and rearrange for tomorrow –  please check website for what is happening later on.

I have heard about the fire in the High Street.

John Mayne is shut til 10.

Myself and staff are making our way in and will open as soon as traffic allows us to get there.

Come in as and when you can safely and easily get to us.

Will post on here in a little while if Nativity in church will go ahead, will do all i can to make it happen.

Thinking of all those involved in fire.

Don’t Forget 2.30pm at Biddenden Church tomorrow, Monday 17th December, for the Playschool Nativity.

Last day of Term Tuesday 18th December .

Playschool will be doing our version of the nativity at Biddenden Church on Monday 17th December in the afternoon.  All children are invited to take part , I will talk to all parents of children who do not attend this session. The Nativity starts at 14.30pm  and on this day all children need to be collected from the church. Parents do not need to provide anything for the play  just come support your children.

Last day of Term is Tuesday 18th December and  we return to playschool on Monday 7th January.

Please ensure all fees for this term are paid by Friday 14th December.

For the last week of term we  will be playing party games most days and would encourage the children to wear fancy dress  or Christmas clothing .

Firstly I would like to say Thank You for all the kind donations of baby bits for our role play area, the children really enjoyed playing with the various baby items.

Please could you all think about what sessions you will require in January. For all parents of children who become eligible for the universal 15 hours funding I will be talking to you about completing a parent declaration form, you may also be entitled to the extended 30 hour funding click here to see your entitlements. Please also consider if your child is going to John Mayne School in September 2019 and whether you would like them to attend the rising 5’s session on Tuesday afternoon.