by Sam Matthews | Jun 14, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we got our big school dressing up out and turned part of our room into ‘primary school’. The children have loved the opportunity to role play what they expect to happen at school with their friends and this has coincided with lots of school...
by Sam Matthews | Jun 7, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week we had yet another new addition to the preschool: some caterpillars! We will be watching them grow and develop over the coming days and hopefully eventually turn into butterflies. They’ve already really grown since Monday so we expect them to pupate...
by Sam Matthews | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Monday was World Bee Day and we talked about bees at group time and coloured bee pictures and made bee models. Some children had a walk to Collings Park to look at the bee habitat there. At the other end of the spectrum, Tuesday was World Dinosaur Day and that was...
by Sam Matthews | May 17, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Thank you to everyone who entered our ‘guess the name of our stick insect’ competition. We have now ordered our new home for them with the money that was raised and will post a picture of it when it comes. We all love our stick insects at preschool! We had...
by Sam Matthews | May 10, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week the sun had finally started to shine! Thank you to all of you who have handed in your £2 or your sun cream so that we can apply at lunch time. if you have yet to do this, please could you do so ASAP. Thank you too for ensuring that your child has sun cream...
by Sam Matthews | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
We made some playdough this week and had a ‘dough disco’ where we played with playdough to music together. Doing this is fun and is a good way to strengthen hands and hone fine motor skills. This week our letter of the week has been ‘O’ and we...
by Sam Matthews | Apr 26, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This Tuesday was Earth Day and we used this opportunity to talk about all of the ways that we can help to look after our planet. We also did some earth based craft activities. We have used the opportunity of better weather to have some trips to Collings Park and have...
by Sam Matthews | Apr 19, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Welcome back everyone, we hope that you had a lovely Easter and are ready to go for the start of the Summer term. This term we will be doing lots of activities around school readiness to ensure that our children who are off to big school in September are prepared and...
by Sam Matthews | Mar 22, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Last Friday we were really lucky to have a visit from Emily from Moo Music. The children had a fantastic time joining in with the songs and dances and we recommend you checking out their activities at their cafe on Mutley Plain if you have yet to do so! This week we...
by Sam Matthews | Mar 15, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments
This week has seen the start of Ramadan and we talked about this and did some activities based on it. We have also made some musical instruments this week and experimented with the different sounds that we could make with different materials and methods. We’ve...
