This week’s activity We’re Going on a Bear Hunt! Each week, we have a ‘core’ book in each room.  These core books are familiar stories to the majority of the children.  They usually have a repeated refrain and often rhyme.  This makes them enjoyable for not only the children, but for the adult who is...Read More

This week’s activity Sports Day Well done to all of the children who took part in Sports Day yesterday.  They were brilliant.  It can be really daunting for children to be in front of all those people, but they managed really well. As we don’t have time to take photos at the event, there will...Read More

This week’s activity The life-cycle of a butterfly As in previous years, we have purchased a kit to allow the children to observe the real life-cycle of a butterfly.  Two weeks ago, the children were very excited to receive our caterpillar kit.  The kit comes with a small tub of caterpillars, with a supply of...Read More

This week’s activity Making robots Last week, some of the children were read the story “Harry and the Robot”.  One of the children requested that they make their own robots.  As it was nearly home time, the teacher explained that there wasn’t time that day but that they would be able to make some the...Read More

This week’s activity Our allotment garden Hopefully you will have noticed the flourishing of our allotment garden.  There are onions, rhubarb, potatoes, fennel, mint, lemon balm, to name a few.  We also have a wonderful strawberry patch.  Over recent weeks, the children have been looking at the allotment and noticing the changes that are happening...Read More

This week’s activity Celebrating World Bee Day Set out below is a whole day activity to mark and celebrate the importance of bees. Part One At snack time today, the children had the opportunity to try honey.  Some chose to have it on crumpets instead of spread, whilst others had it on their fruit.  Having...Read More

This week’s activity A visitor to Robin Garden Earlier this week, we were lucky enough to be visited by a lizard in Robin Garden.  We have never seen a lizard at Pre-school before, so this was very exciting.  The lizard had appeared on the blue area of Robin Garden.  The children decided that that wasn’t...Read More

This week’s activity VE Day – Women’s role in World War 2 Over the last couple of weeks we have been discussing, in simple terms, the importance of remembering the end of the Second World War in Europe. One of our teachers carried out a whole day activity around the role and contribution that women...Read More

This week’s activity Refreshing our scarecrow As promised last week, we have begun the process of retiring our old scarecrow, Mr Chips, and the children have wished him a fond farewell.  As they were moving Mr Chips, they noticed a snail slithering along his trouser leg.  One of the children commented about the snail “it...Read More

This week’s activity Navroze (Nowruz) (New Day) – Persian New Year One of the teachers, Zina, wanted to share with the children a special time in the Persian calendar.  20th-21st March marks the celebration of the spring equinox.  It is a joyful, colourful celebration that is at least 3000 years old.  It originated in the...Read More