Bevan Lodge Community Pre-School CIO
📰 Our latest September newsletter is now available - catch up on all the latest news, reminders and upcoming events from Bevan Lodge
News & Events
Keep up to date with all the latest news and updates from Bevan Lodge. Here you'll find important reminders, useful information and what's happening at the Pre-School.
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SEPTEMBER 2026 - NEWSLETTER
Welcome back!
We hope you all had a lovely summer break.
Welcome back to all our existing children and welcome to our new starters!
My name is Michelle, and I am the manager at Bevan Lodge.
Gina is our deputy manager, Emily is our special needs co-ordinator/practitioner, Kathryn is our registrar, Lisa, Becky, Karen and Dawn are our amazing practitioners, and Sarah is our Bank Staff lady.
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Everyday Reminders
Labelling
Please make sure all your children’s items of clothing are labelled.
Water Bottles / Snack Boxes
Please can you ensure your child’s water bottles, etc., are clearly named. The children have access to their bottles throughout the session.
In supporting the children’s transition to school, please ensure they only have drinking water in their bottle and NO JUICE.
Please provide a healthy snack such as a piece of fruit in a small named box for your child. If they attend Bevan all day, they will need 2 snack boxes, one for the morning session and one for the afternoon session.
We provide milk for them to drink.
If your child likes to eat grapes and blueberries, please can you ensure that you cut them into quarters to prevent choking.
Lunch Boxes
We have a healthy eating policy at Bevan whereby we encourage children to have savoury foods, for example sandwiches, sausage rolls, sausages, pasta etc., fruit and yoghurts, steering away from sweets and chocolate in their lunch boxes​​​​​
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Children’s Allergies
NO NUTS!!!
Please DO NOT provide any nut products (including hazelnut, chocolate spread and peanut butter). We currently have children with severe allergies within our setting. Newsletter Sept 2026
Supporting Bevan Lodge
Voluntary Donations
As a non-profit-making charity pre-school, we welcome any donations to support the daily running of the pre-school.
Donations of liquid hand soap, small pedal bin liners, non-biological washing liquid for our washing machine and antibacterial spray would be greatly welcomed.
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Important Reminders About Our Procedures
Infectious Diseases / Sickness
Children must not attend pre-school within 48 hours of a bout of sickness and diarrhoea.
This policy is for the protection of all the children, staff and parents/carers at pre-school.
If your child is feeling poorly, then please keep them at home; they do not benefit from being in pre-school.
Collection Procedures
Children will only be released to adults that have been named on your registration form as authorised to collect.
It is helpful if you can introduce us to child minders, grandparents, etc. who are collecting your child, although we may still ask for the password if the staff member at the door does not know them.
When you need to ask someone else to collect your child as a one-off, please ensure you leave this person’s details with us at the start of the session so that we can contact them if necessary.
If you need to make a permanent change to your collection arrangements, you must let us have these details in writing to add to your child’s registration records.
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Keeping in Touch
We try to use email to keep in touch with parents. If you are not already receiving newsletters via email and would like to, please contact us.
We currently give out paper copies of any correspondence from the pre-school and newsletters from the manager and from the management committee are also on our website.​
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We have our own closed Facebook page only for parents of children who attend Bevan Lodge Pre School: BEVANLODGE NOTICEBOARD.
Please check our Facebook page as we have regular updates on there. Remember to check your settings to make sure you are getting notifications.
Please bear with us with WhatsApp; we are trying to set up a broadcast list for information purposes. You can use this to send us messages if you wish.
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