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All in a day's work - the annual general meeting

The Annual General Meeting is a good chance to reflect on the year and make plans for the future, say Nicola Bushell and Hayley Cannell, joint managers of Oakey Dokeys Pre-School in Essex.

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) gives us the chance to bring together staff, committee members and parents, to reflect on our progress, share our plans and showcase the setting.

Before this year's meeting, held last month, we smartened up the room - and ourselves, by making sure we dressed more formally, rather than just wearing our usual work clothes.

In the room, we created a few displays and laid these out on the tables. One display was our London 2012 floor book, which is always on display for parents but such books can still get missed during busy transition times. Another display was of all the playdough recipes that we like to make, and parents were given the chance to touch our favourite recipe - sensory outdoor 'chocolate' dough! Also on display for parents to read were all the articles that we have written for Nursery World.

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