Annual Parental Feedback Form – The Results Each year we ask the parents and carers of our children to complete a feedback form of 10 questions. We are always open to hearing the thoughts and comments of our parents and carers and always consider any feedback, good or bad, carefully. This year we have had 12 responses from […]
On Wednesday we had a lovely visit from Louise of Tiny Toes Ballet, a new baby and tots ballet class in Ilkley, Otley, and Guiseley. The children had a great time dancing with lots of props (including teddies and pom-poms) to keep them entertained. Louise runs classes are for children aged between 6 months and 4 years. […]
We are very pleased to announce that we have had another successful Open Week this year! Numerous families popped in to visit us and one has already signed up to start this week. But that doesn’t mean our doors are now closed to everyone else – as ‘Every Day is an Open Day’ at Ilkley Pre-school and we […]
On Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th March from 10.00 am until 12 noon, we are opening our doors and welcoming members of the local community into our garden, as a part of national ‘Food for Life Grandparent Gardening Week’. All gardeners – especially grandparents – are invited to come along and help the children with the […]
We really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day last Thursday. Everyone enjoyed dressing up and showing us their favourite books. We had a fabulous Singing Mermaid (Author: Julia Donaldson) and Hermione Granger (from the Harry Potter books. Author: J K Rowling) here to play. Can anyone guess who our manager Tracy came as? (See answer below.) The children also had some […]
Our lovely Karley left us last week for pastures new. She has been a great asset to our team and will be sorely missed. Here and some of her best bits!
OUR BANNER IS BACK! It’s a bit bruised and battered and will have had a very interesting journey, if only it could tell us! With a bit of TLC it will be back to it’s usual bright self and proudly displayed again outside. Thank-you very much to Anne-Marie from “just up the hill” for dropping […]
Has anyone seen our big, yellow banner? It usually hangs outside our pre-school to let everyone know where we are but appears to have flown off in the very windy night, on Tuesday 10th January, and we haven’t seen it since. If it landed in your garden or a patch of land near you, please could you contact us and […]
Thank-you to everyone who nominated us in October, by filling in a leaflet at the Ilkley branch of the Yorkshire Building Society, and recommending Ilkley Pre-school as a local charity. We were thrilled to receive a donation of £100 by post in January. What a lovely way to start the new year! The letter from Fiona May, […]
It all started on 29th November when we arrived at pre-school and noticed that a strange little door had appeared in the Messy Room. It had a notice on the front saying ‘Little Helpers Wanted’ and a key hung up beside it. On 30th November a pile of green glitter was left outside the door! […]