News

As you are aware the Tweenie Room is closing on the 1st April 2021. Yusra, Susan, Nafeesah, Gail and Farat will be finishing and moving onto pastures new. We wish them all the best and thank them for all their hard work and dedication to providing outstanding childcare and education for the children.

Tracy, Lisa, Helen, Natalie, Emma and Munira (who is from St Mary's) will be continuing to provide childcare and education for the Pre School Children.  

Congratulations Helen

 Every Thursday for the past 12 weeks Helen has been attending SENCO Level 3 training

Congratulations Helen on passing your course 

 

World Book Day

 'Story Treasure Trails' is our theme for this years World Book Day - look out for photographs on the Blog

We will not be asking children to dress up this year, because with dressing up comes props and we are limiting the amount of objects coming from homes (Covid) 

Story sharing with children of all ages:
• Is great fun!
• Is a positive experience for parents too
• Boosts creativity and imagination
• Improves wellbeing
• Increases self-esteem

Imaginative play.....

Who knew you could have so much fun with sleeping pods, blankets, animals and loose parts.....

'It's a boat' 

'It's a car' 

'It's a den'

'I'm making a fort' 

'It's a house for the dragons' 

This activity carried on for 2 days 

 

Pancake day

 

This is me.....

 

Ice Cream parlour

 

Save the dinosaurs

We brought some ice in from outside and the children broke it up with hammers. 

A discussion took place about where ice comes from. The children filled a washing up bowl full of water (and dinosaurs - their choice) and put it outside overnight to see what would happen. 

The following morning : 'The dinosaurs are stuck in the ice' 

'How can we get the dinosaurs out?' 

 

 

The great outdoors

Positional Language  

Whilst outside staff wanted to develop the children's understanding of positional language. They wanted to see children's understanding of :

In 

Under

On 

 

The Hungry Caterpillar

Having listened to and acting out the story of the  'The Hungry Caterpillar' staff set up some activities to see how much of the story the children could recall and to practice scissor control. 

Impact 

-Maths - Uses number names and number language spontaneously

-Characteristic of effective learning- paying attention to detail   -Showing satisfaction in meeting their own goals -Being proud of how they accomplished something 

-C&L - Literacy - Describe the main story settings, events and principal characters  - repeats words and phrases from the story

-Physical - Uses one-handed tools and equipment