New Pre School Building Opens

August 2007 saw our long awaited new portable classroom being delivered to its new position in Winford CE Primary School, and November 1st 2007 saw the children using it for the first time.
The new building, situated at the back of Winford CE School buildings boasts a lovely large open plan play area, a special “quiet” corner with lots of soft cushions and books to look at, a proper cloak room, toddler size toilets, a HUGE cupboard and an office – all things the pre-school has never enjoyed before. There is also a fully equipped kitchen, outdoor play area, and a special floor to ceiling window that allows the children to look at the school pond from the safety of the building.

Wendy Cleghorn, Pre-school Play Leader says “it’s wonderful to finally be in this new building. We can offer the children so much more now in terms of session times, play space and independence. We can also integrate far better with school now we are on the same grounds, and we look forward to getting involved a lot more with the Reception class and other school activities. At the same time, school can now get more involved with us, and have already spent time visiting us and making us lovely welcome cards”.

The Primary school really did get involved on Friday November 16th, when it opened up it’s school hall to host the official opening ceremony of the new pre-school building. Many past parents and committee members were able to attend, as well as a number of those who have donated funds towards the project. The ribbon was cut by Guest of Honour Dr Liam Fox (MP), who was then shown round the new building by the children. A special cake (donated by Sainsburys) was cut by Wendy and the oldest member of the pre-school, and the committee took the opportunity to Thank all those who had helped us reach this special day.

It is very important to us that EVERYONE who has helped us over the years knows how very grateful we are. We could never have got here without the support we have found within the village and the Chew Valley, as well as from large companies who have heard of our plight and dug deep. We must also say a huge Thank You to the committee of Winford Village Hall, who enabled us to run for 20 odd years from their building and helped us as much as they could with our storage problems!

At the time of writing, our fund raising continues, as we have not finished paying for everything yet!! See our fundraising page to find out more.