Shenley Church End Preschool

All the hard work over the years , all the families we have helped , giving back to so many has made closing so much easier and rewarding,

a piece of Shenley church end pre school spread across helping lots of children , leaving our footprint makes us smile ,

In this sector we are all in it for the love , some settings are fortunate to have more then others , but the love doesn't change ,

I will miss our community and helping each other ,

some of the resources have gone between us all over the years and that's what makes me happy, no competition, no we are better then you just pure love and help!

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Thank you again so much 🙏 I've not had the strength to read my cards just yet , considering the email of the closure only went out yesterday, I am blown away 💓

I am writing this with complete devastation.

In October last year, I underwent major surgery for a full hysterectomy and to remove Stage 1 cancer.

I did my utmost to keep our Pre-School running as normal and our staff were amazing and worked extremely hard in my absence.

I returned sooner than I should have due to my passion for our Pre-School and then we had an Ofsted inspection which went well.

Sadly, my son, who has a life limiting condition, has started to decline sooner than we anticipated. With my own health scare and trying to meet the needs of the Pre-School and our Pre-School families, our staff and myself and my family, I’m sure you can imagine the pressure that I have been under.

With the Early Years staffing issues that are regularly reported in the national press, we have found it increasingly difficult to recruit qualified and reliable staff that are willing and able to work the hours that we need in order to provide you with the hours that you require from us.

We have previously sought help from the local surrounding pre-schools and they have helped us in our times of need, for which we are extremely grateful, however, they are currently unable to release staff to us when we need them.

A huge shout out to Two Mile Ash Pre School who supported us through my surgery and had many discussions on merging but the time was not right for letting my setting go , they supported with advise , staff and was a huge support

Sandra , Simone and team at bletchley pre school and little rascals for the support over the years !

Ruth and Colette at Shenley Lodge Pre-school the support again over the years

Karen at mini monsters again for all the support

Our small charity settings have all worked together to support each other and I will miss the community a lot

Shenley Leisure Centre and Mo Selvester for putting up with us and helping us give the children more , with dance studio and much more thank you

Shenley Church End Parish Council for our lovely litter picking days

We will be supporting all charity settings with our reserve money left

With donating lovely resources to children centres , local pres schools and buttons

We have been in close liaison with Buttons Preschools, an Outstanding provider, and the have agreed to take over the provision. A bigger ‘chain’ who have multiple settings with a greater number of staff are more able to cope with the ‘ups and downs’ of any future staffing issues in any one setting by ‘lending’ staff across settings. We felt that this would be in the best interests of our Pre-School.

We have been working with Ofsted to try to expedite the process so that we could make the changeover as smooth as possible for the children. We had hoped that we could stay open until the new registration for Buttons was in place - sadly, with committee paperwork to be completed, it is not as straightforward as we had hoped.

My son has been called for an emergency surgery on the 24th September, and with not enough qualified staff to act in my absence, we legally cannot open.

So with great sadness, we are shutting the doors to the Pre-School at the end of sessions on Friday 13th September.

This closure will last until the Ofsted registration for the new Buttons Pre-School has been completed. (This has already been applied for and Ofsted are aware of the situation and will complete this as soon as possible.)

I have not taken this decision lightly and have contacted our local community pre-schools who have kindly agreed to accept any of our children (those currently attending and any on our waiting list) who wish to go to them. They are as close to Shenley Church End as we could source, and they have all worked closely with us throughout the years.

The local pre-schools are Shenley Lodge Pre-School and Little Rascals Pre-School (in Furzton) nurturville and mini monsters

They will welcome your children with open arms and we will arrange for some of our staff to be in those settings, to ensure that your children have a friendly face that they recognise to welcome them on their arrival.

If you are able to wait for the new Buttons Pre-school to open once they receive their Ofsted registration – which should take no more than 6 weeks. We have registration packs for Buttons that we can email out to parents, however, if you need a printed copy, please contact Buttons direct.


I have taught many children and siblings, with some families having been with us for over 7 years and we have always had very close ties with our local community. We love our setting and our community and we are very sad that we are having to close.

We hope that you understand these unfortunate circumstances and we wish you and your children all the best in the future.

Huge thanks to old staff new staff and my rock Ruth and Odessa for pulling me through COVID , no ew funding , Ofsted and staff issues

My team this week have been AMAZING keeping strong and wiping my tears and just being fantastic

Considering the devastating news to parents and the worry of a few weeks till buttons could open , and how their children would feel , I expected floods of un happy parents , but not a single parent, you all showed up today with open arms of preys , cuddles , gifts , flowers this reminded me why I loved our community so much , you families was not customers you was family , a charity with open arms , through every tear every grazed knee , you parents have always shown nothing but love and support and that reminded me what all the hard work and tears was for

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Jodie and the Team

Huge thanks Taylor Wimpey ! We cannot wait for our so very much needed resources, the children are going to benefit so much 🙏

Taylor Wimpey awards £1000 to improve outdoor play area at pre-school in Milton Keynes House builders Taylor Wimpey have given a £1000 handout to a local pre-school so it can improve its outdoor play facilities.

Graduation where we celebrated our children's achievements, watching memories , singing our fav songs , dancing to our fav song purple people eater ,

followed by parents and children eating lunch together , was so lovely to spend time with our families before we opened the doors for our afternoon party for all children to join

Schools out for summer 🌞

Did these ladies do a dance routine in silly outfits in the heat yes

Did these ladies put a fantastic raffle on yes

Did these ladies dance in mascots in this heat yes

Did we work our socks off yes but was it all worth it ?

YES

We will upload graduation video on eylog soon and pictures once I have recovered from a week of craziness

Huge thanks for so many lovely gifts

Huge thanks Shenley Leisure Centre for putting up with our changing plans to meet the need of the heat and putting up with our antics

Huge thanks to our chair for helping with raffle prizes

Huge thanks for parents for attending

Huge thanks Corina's Cool Kids Parties

HUGE thank u for staff being so dedicated in making the graduation and party so special

Please any safeguarding concerns over the holidays or needing food boxes please call the safeguarding line on our website

The biggest shout out to these amazing people , dancing in this heat , would not give up !

The children loved the foam party ,quick dash for a hose and sprinkler to cool everyone down ,

Very unsure how minion and turtle danced in the heat but they of course pulled it out the bag

Forever thankful for always given our children the best time ❤️

Pictures to follow once I have recovered from the day ❤️ any parent pictures please send them in

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The Labour party wins the 2024 general election with a ‘landslide victory’ The Labour party have won the 2024 UK general election with a current total of 412 seats and a majority of 174, in what many are calling a ‘landslide victory’.

ListingsThe Labour party wins the 2024 general election with a ‘landslide victory’OnJul 5, 2024
by Jess Gibson

The Labour party have won the 2024 UK general election with a total of 412 seats and a majority of 174, in what many are calling a ‘landslide victory’.

Meanwhile, the Conservative Party – who now have 121 seats – lost 121 seats, the Liberal Democrats now have 71 seats, and the Greens now have four MPs, up from one.

But what did the Labour party say they would prioritise in the early years sector?

Labour announced back in June that it will create 100,000 additional early education and childcare places for children from nine months old through 3,334 new nurseries, as part of its plan to meet demand in under-served areas. This would be funded by a VAT levied on private schools.

The party also stated its commitment to continuing the rollout of the early entitlement expansion, the first phase of which began in April under a Conservative government.

Commenting, Neil Leitch, CEO of the Early Years Alliance, said:

“There is no doubt that Labour is entering government at a crucial and challenging time for England's early years sector.

“Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders are less than two months away from the next phase of the early entitlement expansion, at a time when the sector continues to deal with the consequences of a severe staffing crisis and sustained underfunding. As such, clear and decisive action to address the multitude of challenges facing the early years has never been more urgently needed.

“And while Labour’s manifesto includes a commitment to increase primary school-based nurseries, we at the Alliance are absolutely clear that this must form part of much wider plans to support the sector and safeguard its future, underpinned by increased early years funding and a comprehensive workforce strategy.

“We welcome today’s election result as an important opportunity for a fresh start, and look forward to working closely with the new government to support the meaningful action needed to ensure that our vital sector is able not just to survive, but to thrive.”

Summer play events at Crownhill
Something to do with the children during the holidays 😄