Welcome to another week of activity-packed fun at Preschool. This week, we have had a special focus on Children’s Mental Health. It’s important to teach children about self-care and ways to boost their self-esteem, so we created an activity with mirrors, asking them to draw their favourite thing about themselves. For Monday’s PE lesson, we used a ‘friendship yoga’ theme which encouraged children to work on poses together in pairs before demonstrating them to the rest of the group. To promote positivity, we also tried giggle breaths and ended with big hugs all round and some calm mandala colour ..read more

Hello Everyone!, We hope you’ve been enjoying the sunshine, although a little too warm at times! We’ve had a great week in Green Room keeping cool in the pool, practicing our mark making skills and celebrating Father’s Day! It was a little warm on Tuesday, and we thought it was a little too far to walk to and from the park in the heat, so we opted to paddle in the garden instead. The children used the cold water as a cooling station and then turned it in to a pirate ship and had to walk the plank!  In PE the children have been practicing their egg and spoon balancing skills which will he ..read more

Hello Everyone! We’ve had a great week going on this week learning about symmetry, keeping our oceans clean and the ‘p’ sound. On Monday, we introduced the children to the concept of symmetry. We used this webpage for the children match the other side of the picture and shape. You can have a go at home too following this link https://www.topmarks.co.uk/symmetry/symmetry-matching We then investigated symmetry further by using mirrors, to see the other half of the butterfly in the mirror. They were then each given half a butterfly and had to find the other half. We got out our butterfl ..read more

We’ve had a great week going on a bug hunt, writing our own bus story and making honey biscuits. On Muddy Morning we went to Stamford Park on a bug hunt, armed with clipboards and magnifying glasses. We looked under logs and in holes in trees to see what we could find! The children were able to tick off worms, beetles, earwigs, millipedes, spiders and bees. When we got back to nursery we read ‘Superworm’ and talked about all the bugs we had seen. While we were at the park we also went to the pond as we spotted a heron as we were passing and then we got to see ducks, geese and goslings too. We ..read more

Hello Everyone! We had a great time in Green Room this week drawing King Charles, playing car parks and adding to our allotment. At Circle Time, the children were keen to talk about the King’s Coronation, their observations and the celebrations they took part in over the weekend to commemorate it. As lots of our children love creating art, we decided to challenge them by giving them half a picture of King Charles. First, Kate modelled to them how they could go about creating the other side of his face and body, making observations about his facial features and the colours on his suit and medal ..read more

As we celebrate National Gardening Week, we wanted to invite you to join us on our allotment journey, to watch us grow into mini gardeners and become crop experts! This month, throughout the nursery, we have been exploring the art of growing the best veggies in town including developing an allotment space to plant crunchy carrots, perfect potatoes, succulent strawberries, lush lettuces, plump peppers and tasty tomatoes! We started our green finger mission by clearing our VERY over grown planter. This involved lots of heavy lifting developing our gross motor muscles, working together as a team ..read more

Hello Everyone! We’ve a great week in Green Room exploring vegetables, visiting the market and planting too. In PE, we took the skipping ropes, the hoops, different sized balls and scatch pads to the Town Hall. The children had a go at skipping with a rope by flipping the rope over their head and jumping over it and repeating this sequence. Not only great for their co-ordination but great for their gross motor skills too. They also practiced their throwing and catching skills with a Velcro pad and a ball, coordinating their bodies, negotiating space and working together. As we have been talki ..read more

Hello Everyone! We’ve had a great week here in Green Room learning sounds, drawing self portraits and adding to our allotment. On Muddy Morning we went to John Leigh park in the gorgeous sunshine. The children were very keen to get playing, making up their own games, playing hide and seek, balancing, digging, swinging, chatting and laughing. In their independent play the children have been playing with a Phonics game in our room, ‘Match and Spell’, and have been showing an interest in building the words with the different sounds. So, we have started introducing the Phase 2 sounds that they wi ..read more

Hello Everyone! We’ve had a very exciting week in Green Room talking about everything to do with pets! On Wednesday, we were all very excited to be heading off to the bus stop to go to Timperley Village Aquatics, affectionally referred to locally as Timperley Zoo. The children were looking at all the numbers on the buses trying to spot the number 11, as well as discussing how big they thought the bus might be. When we got on, the children were talking about all the things we were passing on the way to the pet shop and discussing when they usually take this route eg, going swimming, going to t ..read more

Hello Everyone, We’ve had a great week this week learning about Holi, exploring watercolour’s and celebrating our love for our mummies. Instead of going on Muddy Morning, we wanted to give all the children the experience of learning about Holi together, as a full class. Holi, a Hindu festival, is a celebration of colour and of good triumphing over evil and also the arrival of Spring. And so, we went outside, to side of the Town Hall and used powder paints to throw at a white sheet, as this is how Holi is traditionally celebrated. We also read a non-fiction book about Holi and Anaya showed us h ..read more