This week the children made ‘Superhero Salads at our mud kitchen area! Ms Mulhern provided children with a range of different vegetables, herbs, spices and oils throughout the week to encourage experimentation and exploration! Everything from beetroot to avocado from garlic to orange oil, it… Read More »5-a-day for Outdoor Play (and Extended Service!)
Our direct outdoor space has been out of bounds the past few weeks due to our roof being put on by the wonderful Freddie! We have been wanting a roof on our outdoor space as this helps us weatherproof the area and ensures children can… Read More »Our roof is on & wonderful new play spaces!
We have been super busy over the last weeks and now we are into the swing for our last term this year, we ae focusing on project themes each week. To coincide with Mental Health Awareness week 2 weeks ago, we introduced our new friend… Read More »Promoting wellbeing – The Colour Monster
A few weeks back, we had some new residents at Pre School. We had our lovely caterpillars, whom we have been observing closely as one of our themes for this term– lifecycles. We have enjoyed creating butterfly arts and crafts, singing caterpillar rhymes, looking at… Read More »Hello Butterflies!
For our seventh week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Ms Mulhern and the children explored the story sack ‘The Rainbow Fish’ – a story by Marcus Pfister. This story is about a very colourful fish who is reluctant… Read More »Week 7 (1st – 4th March) theme – The Rainbow Fish
“When you hug people, it makes their heart go faster” – Emilia For our sixth week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Mrs Scott and the children explored the story sack ‘Ringo the Flamingo’ – another wonderful story by… Read More »Week 6 (22nd – 25th February) theme – Ringo the Flamingo
For our fourth and fifth week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Ms Mulhern and Mrs Scott brought two celebratory themes together! One of our celebratory themes was St. Valentine’s Day! The range of activities involved focusing on the… Read More »Week 4/5 (1st – 11th February) Theme : Celebrations – St. Valentine’s Day
For our fourth and fifth week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Ms Mulhern and Mrs Scott brought two celebratory themes together! One of our celebratory themes was Chinese New Year – the year of the Ox! The range… Read More »Week 4/5 (1st – 11th February) Theme : Celebrations – Chinese New Year!
For our third week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Ms Mulhern and the children explored the story sack ‘Mrs Rainbow’ – a story by Neil Griffiths. This story is about a colourful character, Mrs Rainbow and her incredibly… Read More »Week 3 (25th – 28th January)theme – ‘Mrs Rainbow’
For our second week of our planning cycle and as part of our weekly project themes, Mrs Scott and the children explored the very well known book ‘The Gruffalo!’ – a story by Julia Donaldson. In case you didn’t know, the story is about a… Read More »Week 2 (18th – 21st January) theme – ‘The Gruffalo’