Physical activity!

We have welcomed some new children to preschool this week. It’s lovely to see new faces and families and we hope that you are all having a good time! This week we have taken advantage of the better weather to go outside for physical activities. The children...

Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day

This week we have been celebrating both the Lunar New Year and making Valentine craft. Today is the beginning of the year of the ox, Mrs Chapple is an ox ๐Ÿ‚, so they are obviously fantastic people! The children discovered that they are either monkeys ๐Ÿ’ (like Mrs...

A watery week!

We had lots of watery activities this week.๐Ÿ’ฆ Mrs Matthews reinforced the importance of good hand washing with the soap and pepper activity, which you may have seen on social media. This is a really good visual demonstration of how soap repels germs and helps make this...

Another rainy week!

This week it has felt a bit like the rain will never go away and we are all looking forward to some nicer spring weather soon! However, this hasn’t stopped us from going outside and the children do enjoy the puddles. Lots of children have been practising their...

Making our own Gruffalo.

This week we continued our Gruffalo theme as the children are still really engaged with this. We made some playdough together, choosing the colours needed for the Gruffalo and used this to make our own Gruffalo models. The children looked very carefully at our toy and...

The Gruffalo!

This week we have been sharing the story of The Gruffalo and have had lots of activities based on this.ย The children were excited by the gruffalo den that we made and this led to lots of imaginative play. Some snakes were cooked and eaten! We also made a gruffalo...