Jigsaw Titchfield, Website Blog – Summer Term 2018.                                                                                                                                                    This half term we will be supporting our older children with a smooth transition to school. School teachers have been visiting the children in the setting and we have also been visiting schools with the children. We will be encouraging the children to become more independent by putting on their own shoes, coats, doing up zips, managing buttons, opening items in their lunch boxes and pouring their own drinks.        As the weather gets warmer, could you please supply your child with a named sun hat, and we would be very grateful if you could apply suncream to your child before bringing them to preschool, as applying suncream to all the children is a very time consuming task.                                                                                                                                              Thank you for your assistance. Jigsaw has kindly been given a ‘garden’ area by Titchfield Community Centre which was cleared of weeds, nettles and brambles recently, with the help of some amazing parent volunteers.  This will be a fantastic opportunity for the children to enjoy and learn about planting flowers, vegetables, fruit & herbs.  We are all very excited about this new venture!                         The children have been busy making bunting and flags to decorate the pre-school ready for Monday 9th July, when judges from the RHS will be walking through the village to judge the amazing floral displays.  Titchfield in Bloom members have invited the pre-school to decorate the outside of the building and wave our flags as the judges pass through the Community Centre – how exciting to be involved in such a wonderful community event!                                                                                                                                                                                  Our last pre-school session before the summer break will be Thursday 19th July.  Our leaver’s party and graduation, in celebration of the childrens’ time with us, (for school leavers only) will take place on Friday 20th July.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    We return to preschool on Wednesday 5th September 2018.