Marlis Juerging-Coles
- Management Lead
- Joint Safeguarding Lead
- Language Lead
Grounded to grow, confident to fly.
An independent love and nurture preschool for two to four year olds, on Duncan Street in Calne.
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” Often attributed to Goethe, and the inspiration for our new name
Our name has changed
Over the past few years we've renovated our setting inside and out, most recently our garden. As a team we've grown together, and the ethos and practice we built led to our Outstanding Ofsted judgement in September 2024. With that growth, we felt we had outgrown our name, so Jack and Jill Community Preschool is now Roots and Wings Community Preschool.
Our practice and our setting aren't changing. We're simply leaving the cocoon of our old name and greeting the sun as Roots and Wings. You'll see our new name and logo on our signs, paperwork and emails over the coming weeks. There's nothing you need to do, and if you have any questions, we'd love to talk.
Our vision
With parents giving their children roots and wings, we believe our job as early educators is to ground children through effective co-regulation, and build their confidence and positive sense of self so they can soar.
Love and nurture
We take a holistic approach, with our children firmly at the centre of everything we do.
Partnership with home
We work closely with every family, and with other professionals, so each child is supported in the same way wherever they are.
Already incredible
We don't try to mould children into perfection. We help them see just how incredible they already are.
In their own words
From our children
- I enjoy playing outside, making things and building. I feel very happy and excited to come into Preschool every day.
- I like being there, play cars, play outside and I like snack.
- I really like the Sound Journeys with Mia and playing games.
- I feel happy here.
- Can I go to Preschool today?
From our parents
- You have provided the ultimate gift: a foundation of pure love and advocacy. Through grace and intention, you nurtured both child and parent, giving our family the Dragonfly spirit to navigate the unseen winds of the future.
- Thank you for allowing my daughter to be the confident, fearless dare devil she has become; for bringing out her creative side; for teaching her to think and feel her big emotions; and for helping her know that she can overcome anything she puts her mind to. I am sure you'll make a huge, beautiful impact on other little ones' lives.
- Thank you for taking such good care of my son over the past couple of years. I've loved watching him grow and thrive and I don't think he would have come so far without all your love, encouragement and support.
- You don't just give children a place to play, you give them a place to be themselves.
- What an incredible team of women you are! The love and dedication you show to the children is beyond admirable. You are the human embodiment of sunshine.
Meet the team
Louise Barlow
- Management Team Member
- Joint Safeguarding Lead
- Well-Being and Belonging Lead
Elizabeth Ealding
- Management Team Member
- SENCO
- Deputy Safeguarding Lead
Joosila Bosley
- Health and Safety Officer
- Early Years Professional
Nicola Taylor
- Creative Expression Lead
- Early Years Professional
Laura Slater
- Two-year-old Lead
- Early Years Professional
Trustees
- Todd McDonagh, Chair Person and Safeguarding Lead
- Laura Gummow
- Rebecca Wheeler
Every member of our team is Five to Thrive trained, holds at least an NCFE CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator qualification and a Paediatric First Aid certificate, and has completed Advanced Safeguarding training.
Sound Journeys with Mia
Every week, Mia from Nature's Resonance visits Preschool to take our children on a sound journey. With gongs, Himalayan singing bowls and crystal bowls, she helps them explore sound while calming their nervous systems and learning mindfulness. The children love it.
Mia also runs sound journeys for adults, and private one-to-one sessions in your home or at her treatment room in Calne.
Sessions and fees
We're open term-time only, Monday to Friday. Our morning and afternoon sessions are three hours long, and can be funded or paid. From Monday to Thursday we also offer a one-hour early bird and twilight session.
Daily sessions
| Morning | 9:00am to 12:00pm | Monday to Friday |
|---|---|---|
| Afternoon | 12:00pm to 3:00pm | Monday to Friday |
If your child is joining us for the afternoon, please send them in with a packed lunch, as we can't provide lunches on site.
Early bird and twilight sessions
| Early bird | 8:00am to 9:00am | Monday to Thursday |
|---|---|---|
| Twilight | 3:00pm to 4:00pm | Monday to Thursday |
Early bird and twilight sessions are privately funded only, charged at our usual hourly rates, and don't run on Fridays.
Privately funded hours
| 2-year-olds | £6.50 per hour |
|---|---|
| 3-year-olds | £6.00 per hour |
You can add paid hours alongside funded hours or use them for your whole place. We invoice half-termly in advance, with payment due before each half-term starts. Fees are reviewed quarterly, and we're always happy to arrange a personal payment plan.
Wellbeing payment
We ask for a voluntary £1 per session. It pays for the extras that make Preschool so rich and nurturing: sensory and creative materials, baking ingredients, celebrations, and our much-loved Sound Journeys. It isn't compulsory, and we're always happy to talk about how it works.
Information and resources
Funding, policies and useful links to help your child's time with us be safe and enjoyable.
Childcare funding
15 hours funded childcare
All children in England get 570 funded hours per academic year, usually taken as 15 hours a week for 38 weeks. You can claim this from the term after your child's third birthday. Some children can get funding earlier, depending on household circumstances: check eligibility for 2-year-old funding.
30 hours funded childcare
You may also be eligible for the working parent entitlement: an extra 570 funded hours each academic year, or 1,140 hours if your child is not yet three. If you qualify, register with HMRC and share your eligibility code with us once you receive it. Find out more from Wiltshire Council.
Our policies
- Allergy
- Calmness, kindness and connection-seeking behaviour
- Children's rights and entitlements
- Complaints, concerns and compliments
- Data protection and confidentiality
- Equipment and resources
- Extreme weather conditions
- Fire safety
- Home visits
- Late collection or uncollected child
- Looked after children
- Lost child
- Managing illness and sickness
- Medicine
- Online safety
- Prevent duty and radicalisation
- Safeguarding and child protection
- Safeguarding appendix 1
- Safeguarding appendix 2
- Safeguarding appendix 3
- Safer recruitment
- Social networking
- Suncare
- Use of mobile phones and cameras
- Visitors
- Visitor commitment questions and magic mirror
- Well-being, belonging and mindfulness
- Whistleblowing
Useful information
Local schools and community
Starting school
Primary schools in and around Calne
- Cherhill CofE (VA) Primary School
- Derry Hill CofE School
- Fynamore Primary School
- Heddington CofE (VA) Primary School
- Hilmarton Primary School
- Holy Trinity CofE Academy
- Marden Vale CofE Academy
- Priestley Primary School
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School
- Silverwood School
- St Margaret's Prep
- The Springfields Academy
Come and see us
We'd love to show you around. Get in touch to arrange a visit or ask us anything.
Where to find us
Roots and Wings Community PreschoolDuncan Street
Calne SN11 9BX
We're an independent community preschool. We share a site with St Edmund's Catholic Primary School but are not part of, or affiliated with, the school.