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The Community Centre, Fleming Avenue, North Baddesley. SO52 9AQ
Telephone: 07594 591935 Email: info@hollytreepreschool.org.uk
Registered Charity Number: 1002072
Home Links
At Hollytree working with our parents, carers and families is incredibly important. We have several ways in which we provide home/preschool links.
The Family Bag
The Family Bag gives the children the opportunity to share special things from home. These might be photographs, special toys, books or souvenirs from a special day out. The children love to share these things with the group and we all enjoy listening carefully to what they have to say about them!
Hollytree Toy Library
Our Toy Library offers the children the opportunity to take home a game, puzzle or activity to share with their parents or carers at home. Staff will choose the activities to support the child's current Next Steps, for example a counting game to help them with counting reliably or a rhyming activity to support their literacy skills. The Toy Library bag is sent home for a week.
Hollytree Bears!
Our Superstar Bears are here to make sure everyone is kind, listen carefully, take turns talking in a quiet voice and look after the toys at preschool! The children love to be chosen to take a Superstar Bear home if they have been a Superstar at Preschool during their session. They also receive a special certificate and their name is added to our Hollytree Superstars board.
Home Learning
There are lots of things you can do at home to support your child's learning through play.
One of the most valuable things you can do is share books and read stories to your child. All of the children have their own book bag and can choose books from preschool to bring home. Taking a few minutes each day to read their book helps to improve their focus and attention, their listening and language skills and their imagination. You can also borrow books free of charge from any local libraries. Children also love nursery rhymes and simple songs and again these are great for developing language skills.
You can support your child's independence and self-help skills by allowing them to dress and undress themselves, put on their own coats and shoes and feed themselves.
Co-operation can be developed by playing turn taking games, building a model together or creating pictures with paints, collage materials or things like leaves or sticks you have collected on a walk.
You can help your child with their maths skills by practising counting as they play. Lining up cars in a traffic jam and counting how many there are, building towers and counting the bricks. You can compare amounts - who has the most, the least or do we have the same? Look out for shapes in the environment, compare sizes of objects and look for patterns.
Children learn best through play and spending time interacting with them as they do is a wonderful way to support their development!
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