5 tips to help your child get ready for Reception Dear Families 5 tips to help your child get ready for Reception We know that many of you will be eagerly anticipating confirmation of your child’s primary school after the Easter holidays. To help with the preparation for the move to ‘Big School’, Family Corner...Read More
This week’s activities Fat ball bird feeders We have been making fat ball bird feeders with the children this week. The teacher explained that February, March and April are good times to feed the birds, as the summer insects that many birds feed on, have not yet emerged and winter food sources are running low....Read More
This week’s activities Growing cress The children are learning about what happens to seeds to make them grow into plants; some of which we can eat, whilst others enhance our world through their natural beauty and benefit insects, birds and animals. A simple starting point is cress. Cress grows easily, doesn’t need much looking after...Read More
This week’s activities Alongside the usual activities, this week the children celebrated two occasions: Pancake Day – to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, the children made scrummy pancakes. They followed the recipe – learning about quantity, such as one egg, 500ml of milk, 500 grammes of flour. They explored what happens when different items are mixed together and...Read More
Supporting your child’s emotions As well as the usual continuous provision and activities, the children have been thinking about emotions this week. As adults, we take for granted how we feel and are able to put a name to that feeling. For a young child, these feelings are something that they may struggle to...Read More
This week’s activities Please find below a summary of some of the activities that have happened over the last couple of weeks. One of the children, who had been reading a book with penguins in, was curious about whether a penguin was an amphibian? This led to discussion around what animals are amphibians, so the...Read More
This week’s extra activities Cooking The children made ‘egg muffins’ during cooking this week. The simple ingredients were eggs, milk, red peppers and tomatoes. First a couple of children carefully helped to crack the eggs – this is quite tricky for younger children, so the adult was on hand to make sure no shell...Read More
This week’s one-off activity We have had a mixture of weather this week – sometimes bitterly cold, sometimes mild and sunny. At the beginning of the week, when it was very cold, some of the children noticed that some ice had formed on the crates in Robin Garden. They carefully transported the ice to...Read More
