Spring Term Week 11

Glorious sunshine all week! What a treat! The children have loved the warmth and not needing to put their coats on and we have even got the sunhats out! We have been working on our strength again outside, using numbers on blocks and building towers and obstacles courses, we have written numbers on the path and played a great game of number hunt, we have also done some running races with timers and a whiteboard and a tally chart too. Adding numbers into play is a great way to build up knowledge.

On Tuesday we took two groups out to Home Bargains for a nice wander and a shop for some Easter items, the children behaved beautifully in the shop and on the walk and loved scaling the wall into the carpark! We decided it was safer to go over the wall than walk through the car park with all the cars moving around and the children really thought about what they would say was safer.

We also took a small group up to Willowbank for a school visit, the children took part in a treasure hunt around the older children’s classrooms and then explored the Forest School with Miss Mogford and found a newt! We will be organising a trip to St Andrews as well but after April both schools will get in touch with us to arrange transition visits and visits to our setting from the teachers as well.

We have made some wonderful worlds on the sun table and floor – a castle and a farm and a playground and a town!

Our circle times have been busy with a focus on maths, and our free flow times have been full of play in the mud kitchen and cafe areas, making pizzas to sell, donuts to sell and lots of delicious mud cakes and pies and chocolate milkshakes! We have kept the garden tidy with a litter pick and listened to story sacks every day as well – really bringing stories to life together. Pre School has been a bit quieter than usual due to some colds and illness but please do keep an eye on your child and if they have COVID 19 symptoms please keep them at home and organise a PCR test. The current guidance is that you should stay at home and isolate for 5 days if you have COVID 19 and we do have 4 cases at present in children who attend the setting.

Next week we are playing with water outside and developing a nice home corner and family role play inside too. More maths work and sorting work and pattern work and Easter craft and sensory play will be on offer too – thank you for all the donations of the Easter bits from Home Bargains!