Dear Families We hope you had a lovely Easter break. We should like to welcome those children and families who have recently joined us. Please find below this week’s news and information. Requests from the team Suncream As the weather starts to improve, please remember to apply suncream before your child arrives at the setting....Read More
This week’s activity Easter Egg hunt Our main activity this week was our egg hunt. The children were all given a worksheet which included pictures that they had to find around Wren garden. Once they’d managed to match all the pictures to their worksheet they then had to hunt for their chocolate bunny. This led...Read More
This week’s activities Fort building – collaborative working The children had access to plastic poles and ball connectors. These come in a box with pictures of different designs that can be made. The teacher asked them to look at the pictures and decide which fort they would like to build. Once they had chosen which...Read More
This week’s activities Exploring emotions It can sometimes be difficult to fully engage children in exploring theirs and others emotions. To make it fun, the teacher used balloons. She blew them up and then drew a range of different faces displaying different emotions, including happy, sad, cross, surprised and angry. As the children identified the...Read More
Mothers’ Day Shopping – week of 4th-8th March (inclusive) Thank you to everyone who sent in money for our Mothers’ Day shop. Tomorrow is the last day to get your gift if you haven’t already done so. There are some photos on our Facebook page and website of the children planting their seeds and buying...Read More
World Book Day – week of 4th-8th March (inclusive) Tomorrow is the last day for you to bring in your child’s favourite book for them to share with their friends and teachers. The children have enjoyed hearing their favourite stories from home being read in the Pre-school and sharing why they love the story so...Read More
This week’s activities Planting broad beans We introduce the children to new vocabulary, ensuring that it has some relevance to their lives, the time of year or festivities. We also introduce new language through the activities the children take part in. Our current ‘word of the week’ is ‘germinate/ germination’. To make the word relevant...Read More
This week’s activities Exploring our senses The children were thinking about their senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. One of the children commented “we touch with our hands”. The teacher asked if they could use any other parts of their body to experience the sense of touch. They weren’t sure, so they tried an...Read More
This week’s activity Car counting We took a small group of children up to the gates to count how many cars we could spot in 4 different colours. Those colours were red, black, green and blue. We took a tally chart with us and the children took it in turns to make a mark under...Read More
