We are excited to invite all our Mummies and Grannies to have morning coffee and cake here at preschool to celebrate Mother’s Day.
Thursday 24th March at 11am, please RSVP to whpsadmissions@gmail.com
*We would really appreciate it if you could lateral flow test before you come to preschool*
The heating has now been fixed and we will be back tomorrow morning as usual.
Unfortunately I’m afraid we don’t have good news; the heating cannot be fixed until tomorrow. A reading was taken as staff left yesterday and it was 9c, this is well below guidelines for classrooms. We will have to reopen THURSDAY morning. We will update you if there are any further developments.
This morning we have had problems with the heating system in the hall. This has meant that we have not been able to heat the hall today. Unfortunately we will not be able to run preschool tomorrow morning until this problem is rectified. Please check your emails tomorrow for more blogs as to whether it has been fixed.
We are really sorry about this but we are trying to get this fixed as soon as possible.
This Thursday is World Book Day! We would love it if the children could bring their favourite books to show us all. If they wish to dress up as a book character that is fine but there’s no pressure to do this.
I’m sure you are all aware of the situation in Ukraine. A group of local Mums are collecting items to be sent to those in need, one of our Mums is organising collections. It would be lovely if you have any items spare to help them.
Nappies
Baby Wipes
First aid kits, plasters and bandages.
Toiletries, shampoo, shower gel etc
Sanitary items
Pain killers
Batteries
Torches
Candles
Sturdy supermarket bags
If you could bring anything to preschool (in a bag) for Thursday.
Thank you
As you are all aware Covid restrictions and testing rules have now changed. As a preschool we have been very lucky and faced minimal disruption. We thank you all for helping us to achieve this and for all your support. We would really appreciate parents to continue not to bring children in who are unwell with any of the symptoms of Covid. Whilst we appreciate we all want to get back to some sort of normal there are still members of our staff, their families and our community who are still vulnerable.
Before we broke up for half term we were looking at Valentines Day and who we love, writing letters, working in the post office, posting letters in the correct door numbers, and we posted cards we made for our preschool friends.
We wanted to share one of our favourite sensory tray activities. Today we used coloured rice in our tray, we started with saucepans, different types of spoons, flowers from the garden and jugs. As the morning went on and the children’s interest developed we added other items such as paper bags a plastic tray with small compartments to fill. We sometimes fill our trays with flour, water, mud, paint etc
There are great benefits for children using sensory trays. They encourage children to problem solve, experiment, develop language, increase fine motor skills and brain development. But the children just think they’re having really great fun!!
Here’s a link for the recipe we used today for our pink rice-
We were so lucky with such beautiful weather yesterday, there was a little frost in the shade. It was so lovely to be out in the woods again the children really enjoyed themselves and we were complimented by the Forest instructors about how lovely and engaged with the children were.
We investigated the frosty grass and leaves.
We planted more trees.
We drank blackberry and apple tea. The blackberries we collected last year and had been saved in the freezer.
Erica melted wax on the fire, she then made small holes in the ground and popped a string in for the wick.
We made fairy houses against the trees using sticks and leaves.
We had songs and stories around the fire while we ate our snacks.
We put wool we found on a fallen tree for the birds to use in their nest building.
Here is information from the NHS website about what to do if your child is showing any Covid like symptoms.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms in children
Children can get coronavirus (COVID-19), but they seem to get it less often than adults and it’s usually less serious.
The main symptoms of COVID-19 are:
a high temperature
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot, for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
a loss or change to sense of smell or taste – this means they cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
What to do if your child has symptoms
If your child has any of the main symptoms of COVID-19, even if they’re mild:
Get a PCR test (test that is sent to a lab) to check if they have COVID-19 as soon as possible.
Your child should stay at home and not have visitors (self-isolate) until you get the test result – they can only leave home to have the test. Check if you and anyone else your child lives with need to self-isolate.
PCR booking –
West Hoathly Preschool 
