Thank you to our families for supporting our Children in Need fundraiser by sending your little ones in wearing spots! We are a charity ourselves and money is always so tight for us, we often make a loss at the end of the year as the government funding is not enough to cover the costs to run our pre-school so we need to be as full as we can be to try to break even! All extras such as Robot Reg, resources, new equipment and garden items are paid for by fundraising or grants that I can secure or by amazing donations from our families! If you can lend Rhi Bates a hand with any fundraising please do get in touch with her via the office or on the newsletter she shared her number – she is planning a sky dive for pre-school so if you fancy jumping out of a plane for us get in touch!!
The children have absolutely loved pre-school this week, it has been a really busy week with a hat and bag shop in the Sun room, we have set up a lovely home corner outside and this has encouraged lots of children into that role play area and there are some sweet photos of them having little tea parties! The stage has been extremely popular with Moana, Frozen and lots of other movie songs being played for the children to sing and dance along to. Lots of dressing up which promotes independence and turn taking with the favourite bridesmaid dress being much sought after!
Forest School children have been learning about hedgehogs this week. They now know that hedgehogs are intolerant to milk and that they can swim which was the favourite fact of the day! Hedgehogs eat beetles, millipedes and worms and slugs and snails. One child said “they furl when they are scared” and the hot chocolate this week was pronounced as “delicious”!
We had a brilliant two trips to Willowbank’s Forest School on Thursday morning with the Moons and Friday afternoon with the Sun group. they walked beautifully and absolutely loved the session, getting very muddy indeed!
Robot Reg came in on Tuesday and we made our own snack this week – jam muffins and some playdoh too – they do love to make and bake and create!
Sun and Moon groups have had a focus on numbers this week, learning what numbers mean, recognising numbers and matching amounts to the numbers too and the Star group have worked on seeing patterns and being able to find ones that match, a really important skills for future maths and working on basic counting too, songs and games support that really well. We have lots of info on our website so do have a look and a new document which shows our curriculum steps – our guide that we have built together on where children may be when they start and where we would like them to be when they leave us, ready for the next stage of learning having had a wonderful time with us we hope!
Any questions about any aspect of your child’s development or family life or worries please never hesitate to get in touch.
