Layer Preschool

What a lovely start we have had to the last half of the summer term😃
Today we made some really yummy smoothies, we carefully cut up strawberries, raspberries, bananas and grapes and added them to the smoothie maker. We also added vanilla ice cream and not forgetting some little marshmallows..... then we pressed the button on the smoothie maker and watched all the ingredients mix together! The best bit was tasting them 😋 delicious 😋
This afternoon we all went outside to the p...laying field to watch the fly past for the 75th anniversary of D day! Sadly it was delayed by 90 minutes so we were unable to watch them 😞
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To all our parents of children leaving to start school this September.
As we approach the last half term of the academic year 2019, we will working with all our little ones leaving us in July to help them get ready for their next very big step!..... “Big school” really exciting times ahead 🏫 😊

We hope everyone has been having a wonderful half term. Preschool starts back on Monday and we are delighted to announce that Kay Burcham joins us on Monday as Operations Manager. We are sure you will all join us in welcoming her to the team. Please do say hello, Kay will be getting to know all the children and parents over the next few weeks.

We apologise for the lack of newsletter, as you know we are recruiting for the role of Operations Manager so please bear with us in this interim period.
Meanwhile here are dates for your diaries:
Fri 24th May - break up for half term... Mon 3rd June - first day back Thurs 27th June - preschool trip Sat 29th June - Layer Primary School summer fete Mon 1st July - Parents Evening Wed 3rd July - 2pm Sports Day Fri 19th July - 1.30pm Graduation Ceremony for those starting primary school Wed 24th July - last day of term Wed 4th September - first day back
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Preschool Trip!
We are planning a preschool outing to Cudmore Grove, East Mersea, on Thursday 27th June for play and picnic. All children and parents are invited, regardless of what day you usually attend.
If your child does not usually attend on a Thursday, they must be accompanied by their parent/carer/grandparent.
... All children would need to be brought to Cudmore Grove for 9.30am can be collected from 2pm. A packed lunch will need to be provided as usual.
Please let us know if you would be interested in attending or if you have any problem with transport to Mersea that would prevent you from being able to attend or an issue with timings. Please inform Paula in the setting or discuss with your key person or email info@layerpreschool.co.uk as we need to know numbers to be able to arrange.
We hope everyone can join us for a fun day 😀
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We took advantage of the beautiful sunshine this afternoon,and went for a lovely walk through the woods to discover nature, we are so lucky to have the woods right next to our Pre School 😊

What an AMAZING event this was for our community! We are so very grateful for the generous donation to our preschool from Run Layer 5, thank you thank you thank you!! 🙌👏🙌👏
They are already busy planning their event for next year on 5th April 2020, why not check them out and sign up as registration is now open.

We have been enjoying the wonderful sunshine today, making some delicious creations in the mud kitchen using mud sand and lots and lots of water! We made our very own puddles to play and splash in and put all the water to good use and gave the cars a quick wash. We also created some fun monsters on the craft table , played with the dinosaurs in the cereal swap and used scissors to develop our cutting skills ....and had great fun with our wooden train track and the trains! What a very busy fun day we have had 😃

We have had some great learning experiences this week which included counting and recognising numbers, recognising the letters in our name and making it into a pretty flower picture. We have also enjoyed story time and singing nursery rhymes. We also had fun using the story dice to create our very own story. In the garden we made our very own camp fire and then collected leaves, twigs water and other things to make our very own delicious stew 😃 what a wonderful time we had.

Deadline for ordering your photographs from Rob Sambrook is midnight on 2nd May please don’t delay if you haven’t placed your order yet 😉

Welcome back to this new term everyone, we hope you had a lovely Easter break. We have had a good start to the new term. We have been making clocks this helped us recognise numbers and do some counting. We have also been using scissors to improve our cutting skills, and had great fun in our mud kitchen creating some lovely meals including ‘salad’. This week we are having a planting week! We started this off with planting some cress to grow at home with our Mummies and Daddies 😃

Just a reminder to order any photos you want from Rob Sambrook by 2nd May please for free delivery back to preschool. There are often more images to choose from online, details are on your proof card.

Good luck to all those finding out primary school places tomorrow 🤞

A huge thank you to all who purchased raffle tickets we made £250 profit! The money we make from fundraising is only used to purchase new toys so we are very grateful for your amazing support and for all the local businesses who donated prizes 👏

Well done to our team for completing the Layer 5 mile run this morning ...you did us proud 👍🏻😊

And the winners are.....
£50 Donkey & Buskins voucher, 0125 Irfan Khan
Meal for 2 at Layer Fox, 0506 N Woods
... £30 Leggy Bird Hair voucher, 0310 Hannah Sargeant
£20 Wick Farm Meat voucher, 0263 Junior Daniels
Leg of lamb from The Kiln, 0799 Alice Lochore
Reflexology voucher, 0431 E Avis
Jo Malone gift set, 0859 Carol James
Syd's Beauty on Wheels voucher, 0128 Liz Oosthuzen
Basket with Easter eggs, Champneys gift set, hairdressing voucher for CI Salons, 0384 Naomi Cranfield
Basket with Easter egg, wine and £10 Perrywood voucher, 0849 Julie Gorski
Basket with Easter eggs, wine & perfume, 0487 Greenley
Luxury bathing set & CI Salons £10 voucher, 0371 Katie Heigham
Prosecco from Mr Wheeler, 0071 Chantelle Taylor
Smiffy bunny outfit from Fancy Dress Forever, 0694 Rachel Whybrow
Well done everyone! Thank you so much for your support and all the business who donated!
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Raffle prizes ready and we hope to do live draw on here at 1.30. Good luck everyone!