This week’s activities Thinking about our bodies The teacher began by looking through one of our reference books, all about the human body. The children were intrigued by the different layers of the body – skin, muscles, veins, nerves and skeleton. They were interested in learning how each part works and how, when they all...Read More

This week’s activities Education for Sustainable Development activity – water walk Initially, the teacher engaged the children by talking about the various uses of water and how we are lucky to be able to get fresh running water from the tap. She went on to explain how some children/families in other parts of the world...Read More

This week’s activities We’re Going on a Bear Hunt! The children love to hear stories that they are familiar with and they love joining in with repeated refrains. ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt!’ is a classic for a reason. To extend the story and really get the children involved in the telling, one of...Read More

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