by Sam Matthews | Feb 10, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we have been really enjoying the winter sunshine and have been outside making the most of it. We have been talking about Valentines Day and who we all love. We hope you liked your heart, biscuit and chocolates! The children are really enjoying matching pairs...
by Sam Matthews | Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we have been reading stories about dinosaurs and doing lots of dinosaur activities. The children painted dinosaurs, did dinosaur printing and dinosaur footprints. At snack they made their food into dinosaur shapes! We also made dinosaur biscuits, although...
by Sam Matthews | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we have been reading the book ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell. This has led to lots of animal related activities. The children made their own animal face snack. The spreading is good motor skill practise and we could also talk about healthy food...
by Sam Matthews | Jan 20, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we have been celebrating Chinese New Year which falls on Sunday. We are entering the year of the rabbit and we have done lots of activities based on this. We also talked about what signs the children fall under. We have an assortment of dogs, pigs and rats...
by Sam Matthews | Jan 13, 2023 | Uncategorized | 3 Comments
This week the new children have continued to settle in and familiarise themselves with us and the setting. We have done some baking this week, making both banana cakes and also some lovely green ones! As I’m sure you can tell from looking at the cakes, the...
by Sam Matthews | Jan 6, 2023 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a lovely Christmas and are all ready for a new year and a new term. It has been lovely to welcome some new families this week. There have been a few tears but the children are starting to settle nicely and get to know us. We have...
by Sam Matthews | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We’ve finally reached the end of term and are looking forward to our Christmas break after a very busy time! This week has been super cold and icy so we decided to bring the outside in on Tuesday. As always though, we have used the outside area as well. We even went...
by Sam Matthews | Dec 9, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week has been quite a rollercoaster for us. After hearing from Compton Primary that we couldn’t have the hall for our Nativity we all rallied round and managed to arrange to have it in Emmanuel Church. We hope you enjoyed it and we’re so grateful to the church...
by Sam Matthews | Dec 2, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
You may have seen on Tapestry that we have resumed our visits to Greenacres Care Home. We started doing this a few years ago following research which highlighted the benefits of intergenerational relationships for both children and the elderly. It has always been a...
by Sam Matthews | Nov 25, 2022 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we decided to go with the weather and took advantage of the rain to be experimental. A group of children caught the rain in jugs and looked to see what numbers the level rose to. Some also used the water to make channels with the pipes and gutters. Of course...
