Dear Friends On behalf of Sevenoaks Loaves and Fishes Foodbank, can I say a big “thank you” for the harvest donations we received last week? We are always so amazed at the kindness of children, their families and staff members, in the way that they show concern and compassion towards those is need. We are...Read More
This week’s activities To help with developing their fine motor skills, the children had fun using the tongs and coloured pasta to fill up bowels. Very tricky to do when your hands are small and the bones and muscles are still developing. In their sensory play, they have explored the sand mousse, together with...Read More
This week’s activities In their arts and crafts this week, the children have been busy learning what happens when they mix paint colours together; sometimes successfully, other times just making a non-descript sludge colour. This is great for not only helping learn about colours but helps with beginning to understand cause and effect. In...Read More
This week’s activities A briefer summary this week due to staff shortages. The children worked collaboratively in the garden to create a ‘dinosaur land’. They used the crates and a tarpaulin to build mountains and valleys, plus a deep, dark cave, where the dinosaurs became trapped. Some of the crates then became a bus...Read More
This week’s activities Autumn has finally arrived and so we are exploring what the season has to offer in terms of colours through exploration of the natural environment. The children have then drawn on these experiences and reflected them in their arts and crafts; learning the names of the colours, brown, yellow, orange and...Read More
This week’s activities Please find below this week’s summary of activities: In their literacy development, the children have been engaging with the lovely book “Room on the Broom”. Alongside listening to the story and repeating some of the refrains (great for speech and language, as well as literacy development), lots of resources were used alongside...Read More
This week’s activities The children have loved exploring the playdough this week, using it in a variety of ways, for example, earlier in the week it was used to create nuts for the squirrels and spines for the hedgehogs. The following day it was used to create cakes. It was one of the children’s birthdays,...Read More
This week’s activities As you will have hopefully noticed, we have grown some very impressive sunflowers this summer. They are now beginning to fade and droop, so we have made the most of the ones we have cut down to explore them more closely. The children talked about the parts of the sunflower and learnt...Read More
The Revised Early Years Foundation Stage September 2021 The Statutory Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage was updated as of September 2021. Please find below an article by the Early Learning Alliance summarising what this means for you and your child. An introduction to the Early Years Foundation Stage for parents If your child is...Read More
