Sparklers Pre-School

Sparklers Pre-School We are a small friendly preschool in the village of Upper Basildon, Berks. Based in the local primary school, set in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

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Sparklers Preschool is a small friendly preschool in the rural village of Upper Basildon, Berkshire. We are based in the village primary school which is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty. We provide children with the opportunity to grow and develop in a happy and secure environment with excellent indoor and outdoor activities. We are a Registered Charity and are run by professional and fully trained staff and supported by a Committee of volunteer parents. We have highly qualified and very experienced staff who are committed to providing an exceptionally stimulating and fun learning environment. At Sparklers ‘Learning through play’ isn’t a slogan. We carefully plan to ensure each of our children has the right play opportunities to learn and thrive and we take every opportunity to allow our children to have fun and expand their ideas. We recognise that every child approaches learning differently and we attach considerable importance to supporting every child so that they can learn in a way and at a rate appropriate for them. We can do this because we take a lot of care getting to understand our children. We ask parents to complete a questionnaire through which we hope to get an insight into their child and we assign each child a key worker whose role it is to support and understand them. In addition to play, we also use lots of hands on activities where the children learn through exploration and experimentation. Along with arts and crafts and computer time, we go on bug hunts and do pond dipping; we build "Beasty Hotels" and wormaries and we have recently resumed our gardening and the children have planted strawberries and potatoes. We do baking and have been making biscuits which the children decorate themselves and we are currently making a Herman friendship cake. Often we participate in joint activities with Basildon Primary School and in April we joined in with "Walk to School" week. During the preschool day, the children can choose to play with a range of toys and resources. They can also take part in lots of different activities, with an emphasis on the children choosing where they want to play, and what they'd like to play with. Older children are given some adult directed activities to develop their literacy skills.Our setting is 'free flow', which means that the children can move freely between indoors and outdoors as they wish. The activities we offer are based on the Early Years Foundation Stage, the statutory curriculum for children in this age group. We also provide some "extra-curricula" activities such as Ball Skills with Charlie who helps to develops the children's co-ordination and confidence with throwing, catching and kicking balls. We offer a music and movement class, French lessons and we have P.E. in the school hall. Sessions, Fees and Sure Start Funding from April 2013:

We are open 5 days a week during school term times. Sessions:
Monday - Friday

09.00 - 12.00
12.00 - 15.00

Children can attend for the morning session (9.00 - 12.00), morning session plus lunch (9.00 - 1.00), afternoon session (12.00 - 15.00) or all day (9.00 - 15.00). Lunch can either be a packed lunch or a school dinner which incurs an additional £2 payable directly to the schools chef. Fees
2 - 3 Year old £15 per session
3 - 5 Year old £13 per session
Lunch Club Fee £3.50

SureStart Funding for
3 - 4 Year olds
Children are entitled to 15 hours free pre school education from the term after their 3rd birthday through SureStart Funding. At Sparklers Pre School this is equivalent to 2 and half days. Further information on Surestart funding can be found in the Preschool Handbook

Ofsted No: 955551 Charity Number: 1097640

Hi everyone, we have been slowly working through all of our equipment and re homing what we can. We have some bits left ...
20/09/2021

Hi everyone, we have been slowly working through all of our equipment and re homing what we can. We have some bits left for sale if anyone is interested please message us!

What a fun afternoon at the pirate party ☠️
15/07/2021

What a fun afternoon at the pirate party ☠️

Last week we had a lovely walk to enjoy the local play ground 😁🌼🌞
16/06/2021

Last week we had a lovely walk to enjoy the local play ground 😁🌼🌞

Sparklers is 20 this September!!!! We’re having a big fun day with stalls, bouncy castles, bar, food and lots more! We a...
16/06/2021

Sparklers is 20 this September!!!! We’re having a big fun day with stalls, bouncy castles, bar, food and lots more! We are also hoping to do a big raffle so we are looking for donations of prizes! If you or your company can help us please message us 😁😁

20/05/2021
We went for outdoor learning and collected lots of different things to make patterns and numbers with in the classroom
20/05/2021

We went for outdoor learning and collected lots of different things to make patterns and numbers with in the classroom

Here’s some photos of our outdoor fun the last couple of weeks. Having fun with new PE equipment and climbing on the big...
20/05/2021

Here’s some photos of our outdoor fun the last couple of weeks. Having fun with new PE equipment and climbing on the big climbing frame

We had a lovely end to sparklers this half term. Our mini-beast party was great fun ...We even had a visit from a very s...
09/04/2021

We had a lovely end to sparklers this half term. Our mini-beast party was great fun ...We even had a visit from a very special bunny🐰the children’s Easter bonnets were amazing!!! Thank you everyone for joining in 😃
We walked to the church and had story time with Rev.Grant Fensome, Bethany's daddy.
Have a lovely half term and see you soon,
Soarklers team

This week for outdoor learning we went out for a walk to find signs of spring. The children used different shapes to loo...
18/03/2021

This week for outdoor learning we went out for a walk to find signs of spring. The children used different shapes to look for spring flowers. 🌸🌼

We have had lots of fun learning and playing in sparklers over the last few weeks. Here’s just a small selection to show...
18/03/2021

We have had lots of fun learning and playing in sparklers over the last few weeks. Here’s just a small selection to show all parents what we have been up to!
(Sorry some of the photos are not great quality we had a problem with the iPad so they’re pictures of pictures)

Our beautiful rainbow made with our children’s hand prints. This is now on display up in the window for passers by to se...
15/03/2021

Our beautiful rainbow made with our children’s hand prints. This is now on display up in the window for passers by to see 🌈

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C/o Basildon CofE Primary School, Beckfords
Reading
RG88PD

Telephone

+441491671910

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