Brightside Preschool

We are excited to return tomorrow into our new rooms:
❄️ Snowflake room for 3 mths - 2 yrs
☀️ Sunshine room for 2 and 3 yrs
🌈 Rainbow room for 3 to 5 yrs

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☀️ Tickets for our Annual Summer Raffle are on sale from tomorrow! The raffle is open to the local community as well as Brightside families, to help us raise funds towards garden equipment and resources. Lots of fantastic prizes have been donated by some amazing local businesses 💛 follow our page to receive more information on prizes as they are announced. The raffle will be drawn on Tuesday 23rd July ☀️ Tickets can be bought in person at Brightside Preschool, Breaks Manor, Link Drive, Hatfield

Aldenham Country Park are ready to welcome you for farm day-trips and camping in the picturesque countryside this Summer. So, plan a playdate and hop, skip and jump on down to the Park & Farm. To book visit www.aldenhamcountrypark.co.uk

Have you checked your child’s eligibility for funded childcare? Children aged from 9 months old will be able to apply for 15 hours of funded childcare from September - please note this commences from the term following them becoming 9 months old.

Brightside Preschool aim to provide affordable childcare to parents and are proud to offer all of our places as government funded, where parents are eligible.

Please be aware that places are FUNDED not free. Parents need to apply for the funding, provide us with a funding code, and then the cost is claimed back from the county council/government.

We also ask parents to contribute £1 per week to pay for the snack provided to the children. Funding does not cover the cost of food or other consumables used in the process of delivering funded childcare.

Today the first stage of the country’s largest expansion in childcare begins.

Thousands of working parents of two-year-olds are now able to access 15 hours a week of government-funded childcare.

Here’s how it works 👇

From right now, working parents of 2-year-olds can get 15 hours a week of free childcare during term time.

From 1 September, this will expand to cover children aged 9 months to 2 years.

And from September 2025, the 15 hours will increase to 30 hours a week.

This means parents will get funded childcare from the end of parental leave until their child starts primary school.

Thats’s an average saving of £6,900 per year.

But we’re also making sure the childcare sector is prepared to deliver it, by:

🧒Increasing how much funding nurseries receive per child
🧒Increasing the number of staff and childcare places
🧒Boosting the recruitment and retention of childminders

See how much you can save 👇
https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/

Are you curious about how your child learns and develops? Family learning sessions can help you support your child as they learn and grow. Visit Family Corner today and book your FREE learning session! https://bit.ly/4aiFHFq

We were honoured to be invited to the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council Community Awards last night 💛 where we were shortlisted as runners up for the Business of the Year Award 🥈 we are so grateful to even be recognised in an awards ceremony after just one year of operation.

We couldn’t do what we do without the dedication of our amazing team, the support from our families, parents, and also the support of Breaks Manor and ARISE Hatfield. Thank you everyone 🌈

Today marks 1 year since we opened the doors at Brightside Preschool 🥳 Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the year and we look forward to many more years to come 🌈

As of today, eligible working parents of two year olds can apply to receive up to 15 hours of childcare per week, for the offer starting in April 2024.

Recommended time to apply is between mid-January and the end of February.

Visit the Childcare Choices website to find out more and to sign up to receive updates.

https://loom.ly/4zjrbmo

Free community event for the children of Hatfield

If you require a booking for our SEN hours please let us know in advance as we will only be allowing 30 children to this session to ensure its not overwealming for them. Siblings welcome at SEN session.

Everything will be available free to all including

Santa grotto with gift
Biscuit decorating
Hot chocolate
Glitter tattoos
Arts and crafts.

Today we had an inset day for our staff to take part in Makaton training. Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. It supports the development of essential communication skills such as attention and listening, comprehension, memory, recall and organisation of language and expression. We are looking forward to using our Makaton training in the Preschool and will be sharing weekly signs with our families too

Some great advice from Welwyn Hatfield Family Centre Service

Here is the first in a series of Top Tips to help you support your child in developing their speech and language ⭐

Our Emerging Needs Team are available to help if you would like to speak to someone about your child's development, call us on 0300 123 7572 📞

Check out everything we're up to ▶️ https://ow.ly/6biv50Q0vgR

Next week we are closed for half term but don’t worry there’s lot available to keep the little ones busy with Welwyn Hatfield Family Centre Service