This week’s activities Maths is everywhere! We understand that as parents you want your child to be ‘learning’ and you may think about your own school days and remember learning to count by rote, or memorising times tables and the names of shapes. Whilst these will no doubt form part of your child’s educational learning...Read More

This week’s activities Walking to the War Memorial As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, the children were going to go on a walk to the War Memorial to lay their poppies. Due to the very heavy rain on Friday, this didn’t happen until Monday of this week. The children respectfully laid their poppies, looking at...Read More

Exploring Remembrance It can be challenging approaching sensitive subjects with very young children. However, children are naturally curious. They cannot help but to notice people selling and wearing poppies. One of the teachers felt it would be helpful to try and explain in a child-friendly, sensitive way, why they are seeing poppies at this time...Read More

This week’s activities Exploring a pumpkin At this time of year, many children will have some experience of pumpkins, whether it be from visiting a farm to pick them, buying them from a shop or carving them ready for Halloween. We decided that we would look at a pumpkin in more detail. First of all...Read More

This week’s activities This week we saw how the weather has drastically changed and this was something that sparked an interest with the children, it lead to lots of lovely conversations about topics such as the changing seasons, what we need to wear now the weather has changed, with one child adding “it’s not sunny...Read More

This week’s activities Please see our Facebook page and website from Monday of next week for this week’s photos. Exploring our senses This week we explored our five senses, touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing, through a variety of interactive activities. The children thought hard about how they use their senses, with one child commenting...Read More

This weeks activities Scarecrow making In continuation from last weeks ‘harvest’ learning, the children had a look at the popular story book ‘The Scarecrows Wedding’. They discussed what scarecrows are used for and where we might find them, with one child adding “they scare away the birds” and the teacher then explaining that this is...Read More

Exploring harvest time (our word of the week – harvest) We try and introduce the children to new vocabulary. Having a wide-ranging vocabulary is beneficial throughout life and is particularly relevant as children move through the education system. Over the last two weeks we have been exploring the word ‘harvest’ and what this means. The...Read More

Songs and rhymes As we have many new and younger children joining the setting, we wanted to begin to help them with their lstening, turn-taking and sharing skills. These can all be challenging when you are only two, so we try and make the activities as fun and interactive as possible. Some examples of the...Read More

This week’s activities Alongside all of the usual activities the children get involved with, such as building, painting, drawing, running, climbing, exploring, experimenting, socialising, water play, role play – I could go on, this week the children have been learning some simple yoga exercises. They began with a breathing exercise: Balloon breath – balloon breath...Read More