Soham Playgroup - Windmills

Last week we held our first ever parents evening (meetings usually held during daytime) these meetings were for parents of children moving up to nursery in September and were very well supported, thank you to all the parents that attended and gave such positive feedback. As we approach the end of this school year we will be having lots of trips into nursery and mixed playtime hopefully this will support your little ones with transition. Don’t forget suncream and hats with the lovely weather forecast for the next few weeks.

Hi all. We will be doing a teddy tombola stall at the Weatheralls summer fair on the 6th July. If anyone has any soft toys they would like to donate please drop them in to playgroup. Thanks and hope to see some of you there.

This week at St Andrews we are reading “Maisy goes to Nursery” and singing “wheels on the bus”This week at St Andrews we are reading “Maisy goes to Nursery” and singing “wheels on the bus”

This week at Weatheralls we are reading Chocolate moose for Greedy Goose and singing Hurry Hurry drive the Fire TruckThis week at Weatheralls we are reading Chocolate moose for Greedy Goose and singing Hurry Hurry drive the Fire Truck

W/c 17.6.19 St Andrews we are reading ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ and singing the ‘Tractor Song’. Weatheralls we are reading ‘Owl Babies’ and singing ‘Five Current Buns’.W/c 17.6.19 St Andrews we are reading ‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ and singing the ‘Tractor Song’. Weatheralls we are reading ‘Owl Babies’ and singing ‘Five Current Buns’.

This week at Playgroup we are reading ‘Big Pig’ and singing ‘old Mac Donald’s Farm’

We've been notified that our St Andrews setting will be having an inspection by Ofsted tomorrow.
We are very excited to show them our new facilities, and would like to encourage parents and carers to speak to the inspector about our service before and after sessions if you wish. Thank you
Playgroup Committee & Staff

We really enjoyed our day fundraising at the Chicken Shed in Fordham, highly recommend a visit with your little ones this summer.

Just a reminder next week is our Healthy eating week, so we are providing snacks and lunches all week.

The plants at St Andrews have had a growth spurt over the half term! Looking great. Think some strawberries were picked and eaten by the children today. ❤️

Massive thank you to all the Windmills children, parents, & staff for our wonderful carnival float, it's great to be part of such a lovely community event. Congratulations to Wombatz and the Shade for 1st & 2nd place too.
Extra special thank you to Hayley James for co-ordinating everything.
... Windmills Committee
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Soham Playgroup
Newsletter May 2019
Welcome to the last term of this school year.
... We plan in the next few weeks to incorporate ‘People who help us in the community’ We have already had offers of visits from the Police, Soham Vicar, Chef at St Andrews, a farmer at St Andrews, a Hairdresser at St Andrews and a Nurse to visit both settings, we would like more volunteers to come in ideally another chef, hairdresser, or anyone else who would like to come in and chat about their profession i.e.; Fire fighter, post person, lolly pop person etc. Please speak to a member of staff if you can help.
Carnival preparations are going well thanks to Hayley James and others for organising this.
End of term parties have been booked for Friday 19th July, you will receive a letter with full information regarding the party soon.
Week commencing 10th June is our Healthy eating week where we are providing snacks and lunches so you can all enjoy a week off from arranging pack up.
Please remember to apply sun cream before your child comes into playgroup, and if you can provide a bottle of sun cream with your CHILDS NAME ON then we can apply to those children that do all day sessions or when needed. Please provide sun hats and we do have a supply of spare hats if you forget.
Date for your Diary We are holding a parents evening on Wednesday 26th June you will receive an allocated time slot via a letter.
Term Dates Break for Whitsun Friday 24th May retuning Tuesday 4th June School closure Monday 3rd Finish for summer Wednesday 24th July Monday 22nd to Wednesday 24th will be teddy bears picnic days so please send a teddy named.
Please can we have any donations of tissues, gentle reminder to name everything, hats, jackets, cups, boxes, bags, also don’t forget to check in on Tapestry to view your child’s progress.
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Don’t forget if anyone wants to be on the carnival float and you’ve not already given your details please speak to a staff member, carnival is on Monday 27th May, also remember we are closed Monday 6th May for May Day.

Over the Easter holidays the committee have been working hard on the out door spaces at both sites.
The Weatheralls has had a big facelift, clearing out all the storage units to give more space. Fresh paint on the fence and the mud kitchen. Trellis installed with some greenery. Also lovely new bright planters which the children will be planting up with flowers, vegetables and herbs. New mirrors installed in the walls. Really has made a big difference. We will be continuing w...ith this over the coming weeks to make it as lovely as possible.
St Andrews now has a designated wildlife area which is behind a live willow fence. It is all barked with tree trunk seats, bird boxes and feeders, bee and insect houses. This area is to encourage imaginative play so there are lots of hidden fairies and elves and also fairy doors and windows. There have been raised beds built which again will be filled by the children with flowers, vegetables and herbs. We are hoping they will be able to try the things they grow like tomatoes, peas, cucumbers etc. There are planters filled with sensory plants that smell and feel nice. Lots of new sensory things around like wind spinners and chimes of different types. This is an evolving garden which will continue along the theme of sensory and wildlife in the future.
We hope you love it as much as we do and can’t wait for all the children to play and have fun in the new areas.
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Carnival float meetings; for those who would like a place for their child on the Windmills float:
This Monday, April 1st. 9am at the children's centre. 7.30pm in the Windmills portacabin at St Andrews.
... Please come along to either or both. Playgroup Committee
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**important info** We are holding two meetings to discuss the carnival float on Monday 1st April one at 9.00am at the children’s centre (Weatheralls) and one at 7:30pm at the portacabin (st Andrews), you can attend either or both, at this stage we getting people together who would like their children on the float.

We would like to enter a float in Soham carnival to be held on 27th May, we have sent letters out about this, please can you return the slip from the letter or speak to a staff member if you would like to be involved in the float.