Pre School Says Goodbye

Pre-School says goodby to much loved seceratary

December 14th was a sad day for the children and parents of Winford Village Pre-school, as they bid farewell to their committee secretary who, with her family, has relocated to Reading. Vicki Jenkins joined the committee as secretary in 2005 when her son joined the pre-school, and during her 2 and quarter years in office, went above and beyond the call of duty, personally raising over £22,000 through grants and funding for the pre-school’s new building.

When Vicki volunteered for the role of secretary, she did not expect to find herself driving the pre-school’s New Building Project aswell. She became the main contact point for everything to do with this massive project, organising meetings, applying for planning permissions, grants and funding, and often being the pre-school’s only representitive at site inspections. This was all done whilst juggling her three children, a husband who worked away and, more recently, a dog!

Vicki intended to remain pre-school secretary until the end of the current school year, when her youngest daughter would leave the pre-school and start school in the Reception class, but in September 07 she announced that she and her family would be moving away from the area, as her husband had secured a new job. Due to complications with the move, their departure was a little delayed which meant that Vicki was still here to see the arrival and opening of the New Building that she had worked so hard for, and her youngest daughter got to use it for a few short weeks.

The pre-school committee would like to extend it’s over whelming graditude to Vicki, who has been enourmously important in getting their new building. At the annual Christmas Party, this year shared with the village Toddler Group Winford Ducklings, the evening was briefly hijacked so that Vicki could be presented with, amongst other things, a beautiful tree collage that the pre-school children had made for her new house.

Vicki will be greatly missed by all of us, and we wish her and her family the very best of luck in their new home.