Upper Hopton Pre-School

Celebrating 30 years of providing a joyful and supportive learning environment in West Yorkshire.

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June Newsletter

Our topic this term is Holidays and Under the Sea 🏖️🐟

We will be exploring all about different kinds of sea creatures and marine life through lots of fun activities, such as ice excavation of arctic animals, walking the plank through homemade shark infested waters, and exploring textures and sizes of different shells.

In the home corner we will set up a travel agents, and provide a suitcase so that the children can decide what to take on holiday with them. If you have any pictures of your family holidays please send them in so the children can show their friends.

🏠 Home learning ideas:

Make ice lollies! Play in the sand and water Put up a tent in the garden

Sponsored Sports Week - We are inviting the children to take part in a sponsored sports week. There will be relay races, an egg and spoon race, and jumping races. The children are welcome to come in fancy dress but please ensure they are wearing appropriate footwear. Please see the WhatsApp message for more information. The sponsor money raised will buy new toys and resources for pre-school.

School Leaver’s Party - To celebrate the children going to school we will hold a party between 9:30-11:30am on Tuesday 14th July. There will be games, dancing and party food for snack (they still need their own packed lunch). The children are welcome to come dressed up in their favourite outfits.

If your child is transitioning to school this year and does not attend on Tuesdays, their key worker will speak to you about attending the party.

September Children - If you require any extra sessions for your child from September please let Emily or Vicky know before the summer holidays.

AGM on Tuesday 30th June - All are welcome to attend the Annual General Meeting held at pre-school at 9am. Please let Emily or Vicky know if you plan to attend.

Key dates 📆:

• Stay and Play – Wednesday 24th June, 9-10am

• Sports Week – week commencing 29th June

• AGM - Tuesday 30th June, 9am at pre-school.

• School Leaver’s Party - Tuesday 14th July, 9:30-11:30am

• Pre-School closes  on Friday 17th July and reopens Tuesday 1st September

Feedback from parents:

"My child's development whilst being at pre-school is coming on in leaps and bounds. She comes home full of stories and new skills that she has learnt at pre-school."

"The stay and play mornings are lovely too, my child loves me coming to see what he gets up to at preschool and loves introducing me to his friends."

"It is clear to me that Upper Hopton Pre-school has been instrumental to my child’s development – their commitment to fostering a loving, thriving and inclusive environment and the level of individual attention provided by the staff ensures that each child can develop both emotionally and academically in a wonderfully supportive setting."

April Newsletter

Our topic this term is 'Growth and Nature’ 🐛🦋 

We will be exploring what people, animals and plants need to grow and talking about healthy eating and exercise. The children will also be planting and growing with the volunteers from Hopton in Bloom, and measuring themselves on our height chart. 

We also have five little caterpillars at pre-school. The children will watch them grow, feed them and see them change into beautiful butterflies. 

🏠 Home learning ideas:  

• Borrow our ‘Outdoor Scavenger Hunt’ home learning pack 

• Go on a minibeast hunt 

• Do some gardening and planting 

• Collect natural objects and create a picture with them 

Fundraising 📚 

We recently received a donation of £215 from Mirfield Masonic Lodge. We have used some of this money already to buy new books and replace some of our older books. With the rest we will purchase new group time activity resources, including story sacks and puppets. Thank you to Mirfield Masonic Lodge. 

Our Easter raffle raised a brilliant £200! Some of this money has been spent on new mark marking resources, new cushions for the children to sit on in group times, and minibeast hunting supplies for our topic on growth and nature. 

Outdoor Play 🌞 

John has kindly painted and built our new outdoor playhouse and the children are loving it! 

Now that the weather is improving, please remember to send suncream and sunhats with your child on warm days. 

Key dates 📆:  

• Bank Holiday – Pre-School is closed on Monday 4th May 

• Polling day – Pre-school is closed on Thursday 7th May as Croft House is used as a polling station. 

• Pre-School closes  on Friday 22nd May and reopens Monday 1st June.