For every ticket sale made through our Pre-School DCFC will kindly donate £5 to Rolleston Pre-School. Tickets cost £18 adults and £8 concessions and are available for matches vs. Swansea City, 3rd March, or Burnley, 4th April.

To take advantage of this superb offer, please email tickets@dcfc.co.uk or call 01332 821072 and quote “Rolleston”.

What better way to support the Rams?!

Rolleston Pre-school has been fortunate to be able to rent a mobile classroom from John of Rolleston Primary School for a number of years. However, it receives no funding from the school and is run as a separate charity.

A structural survey of the deteriorating pre-school building was carried out around two years ago and it may soon not be safe to use. We have requested support from the local education authority but they will not fund the pre-school replacement.

We are aiming to replace the building by September 2010.

Without the pre-school, there would be a shortage of childcare provision in the village. The school has capacity for fifty seven reception places.

The pre-school is highly regarded and has been fortunate to recruit very experienced staff. We need to be able to provide assurance that we are doing everything possible to keep the pre-school running to retain them. It is the staff that make the pre-school the special place it is.

Following a recent change in Committee, we are now looking at new ways of raising money to make a New Build possible. Alongside various grant application possibilities, local fundraising and support is going to be vital for our success.

Please support us in any way you can – signing petitions, attending the events held throughout the year or endorsing any of the fundraising initiatives listed in our newsletters or on this website.

A new building can help maintain the excellent level of childcare and Pre-School education for many years to come.

Thank you for any support you can give to Rolleston Pre-School.

If your child is at either the Pre-School or Primary School, please support us by logging onto www.easyfundraising.org.uk/rollestonpreschool or www.easyfundraising.org.uk/fojorps and register. It’s free, easy and quick, and can benefit us enormously.

Thank you.

Special thanks must go to our generous donors, who ensured we had really special lots to auction; our enigmatic auctioneer, Richard Leverington, who kept the bids in order; all our hard working Committee members for organising the event; and Sharon Harrison (and family!) who put in so much time and dedication to the night.

But the biggest Thank you must go to all of you who attended the Auction and bid so generously. What a night it was!

Derby County Football Club has kindly promised a signed ball, a signed shirt and 4 Premier Lounge match tickets. These tickets offer some of the best hospitality in the club with seats right behind the dugout. What better way to support those Rams?!

What a night it’s going to be! Make sure you get your tickets for Saturday’s Auction. Someone is going to be walking away with a wonderful promise.

Shop and support us with easyfundraising and you could win a fantastic Apple iPod touch worth £199!

Until October 31st simply log on to: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/rollestonpreschool and make a purchase with any of the 600+ retailers listed on the site to be entered into a free prize draw to win this great prize.

The new iPod touch features an amazingly thin contoured metal design and a 3.5 inch widescreen glass display – perfect for music, movies and games. It could make the perfect Christmas present for the music lover in your family – or why not keep it all for yourself?

How to Enter:

• You’ll get one entry for every purchase you make. So if you make 20 purchases, you’ll get 20 chances to win!
• You can earn more chances to win just by telling your friends about easyfundraising. There’s one extra entry for every friend you refer – tell 10 friends and you’ll get 10 extra entries! Log on to: www.easyfundraising.org.uk/rollestonpreschool and visit the Refer a Friend page for more details
• When you make a purchase with competition sponsor Apple you’ll earn two entries into the draw.
• If you haven’t yet registered with easyfundraising to help support us, sign up right now at www.easyfundraising.org.uk/rollestonpreschool and you’ll receive one entry into the draw.

Best of luck!

Rolleston Pre-School is once again participating in Operation Christmas Child – the annual activity that encourages children across the UK to fill shoe boxes with presents and other essential items such as toothpaste and soap, and send them to some of the world’s poorest children.

Last year, Rolleston Pre-School sent 32 shoe boxes filled with presents to the elected areas of Mozambique, Kosovo and the Ukraine – a great offering from our 53 children.

We now need empty shoe boxes with detachable lids for our 2008 Christmas Shoe Box Appeal.

If you are able to wrap them in Christmas paper that would be wonderful, but if not, please just bring them along to Pre-School and we will wrap them.

Many thanks.

Rolleston Pre-School are pleased to confirm that we will be participating in the ‘Christmas Card Art Project’ through Fat-Chilli Cards & Gifts. This project is designed to encourage creativity in our children and to help them develop their design skills, whilst also raising valuable funds for our charitable organisation. Details about the scheme can be found at www.fat-chilli.com.

During your child’s forthcoming Pre-School, Toddlers or Inbetweenies session, they will create a lovely artwork design for a Christmas Card. With your consent, we will send this off to Fat-Chilli Cards & Gifts and they will use it to create a professional greetings card that is unique to your child. Fat-Chilli will return a free complementary proof card of your child’s artwork design that you may keep. There is no obligation for you to buy.

Please note, there is also the option for us to include your child’s name and photograph on the back of the card which adds to the unique personal quality of the cards. Letters requesting your consent for this have been sent out during Pre-School, Toddlers and Inbetweenies sessions. Kindly return these to Pre-School if you would like a photo to be included on your child’s artwork.

Pledges and donations are updated regularly on our website, so check out the link above to see what lots are going to be available on the night.

This event is always very popular so get yours before they are going, going, gone!

Louise raised a total of £352.30. Many thanks, and a huge well done to Louise, and all her sponsers.