The Glendale Playgroup

Our Playgroup is a registered charity and is situated in the mobile on the Wooler First School site – between the school and Sure Start.

Sessions are as follows:
Every morning from 9.00am – 11.30am
On Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 12.30 – 3.00pm.

Only pre-school children can attend on a Wednesday and/or Friday. They have the option of staying all day – 9.00am to 3.00pm – or just for the morning or afternoon session.

Children are eligible to start Playgroup in the term that they are three years old, providing they are toilet trained. There are three intakes: September, January and April. An opportunity will be made available for you and your child to visit Playgroup before the start date when you will be invited to attend one of the sessions, meet the staff and look around.

During the sessions children participate in a variety of activities, which will encourage them in their individual development. The activities are the areas of learning from the Foundation Stage of the National Curriculum which are: Creative Development; Mathematical Development; Language and Literacy; Physical Development; Knowledge of the World; Personal, Social and Emotional Development. Most importantly we want children to enjoy themselves, make new friend and have fun. After an activity has ended the children are encouraged to tidy up and then sit down together for a snack, which consists of a drink of milk/water and fruit/biscuit.

Each Wednesday morning the children get used to a school environment by attending assembly at Wooler First School. They sit with the school’s pupils and participate in prayers and listening to a story. Afterwards they do PE in the school hall, using apparatus etc. The children also get the chance to sample school dinners in the school dining room before they start school.

Wooler First School keeps close links with the Playgroup so that thechildren there regard the school as a familiar part of their lives and not something special and perhaps intimidating.

Playgroup has six members of staff and a voluntary assistant. The staff, together with a committee made up of parents or carers, volunteer to take on certain administrative roles for a year (or more!). Playgroup cannot function without this extra help so when you register your child we hope that you will serve a term on the committee.

Playgroup, as a charity, receives no outside funding (apart from Government funding for 3 and 4 year olds where applicable) so must be financed by donations, fund raising events and session charges alone. The fees are as follows:

Morning or afternoon session = £3.75
All day sessions = £7.50 + £1.50 lunch cover

There is also a termly registration fee of £2.00

Fees are calculated on a half termly basis and must be paid before the end of term. Fees can be paid in a lump sum, daily or weekly, but full payment is required through absence, holidays and illness.

If you would like more information please contact us on
01668-282-458