About Orleton Pre-School

Orleton Pre-School Group is a registered charity (No. 1180030), run by a voluntary, parent-run committee for the community of Orleton and the surrounding areas.

We have established for well over 40 years, having moved to our present location alongside Orleton Primary School in 2009.

Our mission is to foster a love of learning in your little ones.

The Committee oversee the running of the group, representing the wishes of the families attending, ensuring that children’s well-being remains the most important aim.

The Pre-School premises comprise an entrance hall, where each child can choose a peg of their choice daily, selecting their own name-tag from a board, to help them learn to recognise their own names.

This leads on to a large and flexible main room, with washable flooring at one end, utilised for painting, craft and messy play, and more comfortable carpeting on the other, where role-play areas, a reading corner, and a large selection of child-accessible resources are located. Off this main room, are two offices, a small kitchen (main meals are cooked in the attached primary school kitchen) and the children’s toilets. There is a toilet with disabled access situated in the main entrance hall.

There are ramps to the front and side of the building suitable for wheelchair access.

Learning through play, every step of the way!

We pride ourselves on creating a wonderful environment where children can learn and grow.

Our Philosophy

Our Passion, Their Future

In partnership with parents, we aim to provide each child with a safe and nurturing environment, supporting all areas of their learning and development, offering a range of both child-initiated and adult-initiated play-based learning experiences that will help children to become active, positive and confident learners.

Every child:

  • Is supported in developing at their own pace physically, intellectually, socially and spiritually, with the help of knowledgeable and caring practitioners, no matter what their background, ethnicity, religion, or ability.

  • Is encouraged to take forward their learning and development by being supported in building on what they already know and can do.

  • Is in a setting which sees parents as equal partners in helping their child to learn and develop.

  • Is in a setting where parents help to shape the service it offers.

  • Has a Key Person, who ensures the child is settled, happy, making progress, with all their needs at the forefront of what we do.

Timetable

Note: This is just a guide, we try to be flexible so that children do not have important, focused play interrupted.

8.45am - Welcome, meet and greet, free play

9.30am - Circle time. Weather/Days of the Week/Show and Tell time

9.45am - Tidy Up

10am - Healthy snack and drink (we provide this)

10.15am - Story Time with Letters and Sounds

10.40am - Outside Play

11.30am - Washing hands, book corner activities

11.45am - Lunch Time! Either provide us with a packed lunch, or children can have a cooked meal from the Primary School kitchen (charged in advance at £2.53 a day).

12.45pm - Focus Activities and Free Play

1.45pm - Tidy Up and Hand Wash for snack time

2.00pm - Light snack (we provide this)

2.15pm - Free Play and Activities

2.45pm - Home Time (or children can stay for Fun Club if booked in)

3.00pm - Fun Club children collected from School