A day in the life of…Handsworth Pre-school

Handsworth Pre-school in Highams Park, East London, recently celebrated its jubilee year, with 25 years of providing community play and learning for pre-schoolers. This thriving pre-school for two to five year olds is run from a church hall and presently has 38 children on its books. It caters for both mainstream and special needs children, offering four sessions in the morning and one in the afternoon every week. It aims to deliver an environment of learning through play, and certainly provides enough activities on a daily basis to keep even the liveliest minds (and bodies) occupied throughout.

Pre-school leader Kitty West, has worked at Handsworth for many years and showed me around when I visited the setting during a morning session.