This week’s activities Practicing for Sports Day The children are getting really skilled at the Sports Day races, from the tiny two year olds, to the competitive four year olds. They have been learning about patience – as they need to wait until it is their team’s turn to race; following instructions – they need to listen...Read More
This week’s activities Safeguarding acitivities The team regularly carry out ‘safeguarding’ activities with the children. We promote how children can keep themselves safe in different scenarios in age appropriate ways. This week they have watched the NSPCC ‘Pants’ video. This video uses child friendly images and a catchy tune to give children the confidence to...Read More
Sports Day and Teddy Bears Picnic Dear Families We are really pleased to be able to announce a return to two annual events that we haven’t been able to hold in the last two years. Details below: Sports Day – Tuesday 12th July at 9.00am (drop-off) The Anthony Roper Primary School will be running their...Read More
Fruit and vegetables for sale from today! Dear Families We are proud to announce that some of our lovely organic fruit and vegetables are now ready to buy, as follows: Rhubarb Broad beans Spring onions Beetroot Strawberries Please bring along some cash (a reasonable donation please) this afternoon and over the next couple of days...Read More
This week’s activities Economics – part 1 A group of children wanted to play shops. One child held the till, two others held calculators, pretending that they were tills. They looked at the numbers on their ’tills’. They wanted to sell the teacher some Duplo bricks. The teacher asked “how many bricks am I buying?”...Read More
This week’s activities Woodwork and investigation station Prior to the pandemic, the children took part in two closely supervised activities; woodworking and investigation of equipment that no longer works. We have just re-introduced these activities. The stations themselves are available all of the time, with some simple items to explore and some ‘toy’ tools. However,...Read More
This week’s activities Queen’s Platinum Jubliee Celebrations We have been talking to the children about the forthcoming celebrations. The children have explored images of the Queen through her 70 year reign, they have looked at photos of the Queen and her family. They have been involved in creating bunting, flags, crowns, etc, through different media...Read More
This week’s activities Water play in Wren Garden Children love playing in water, and with the beautiful weather this week, it was the perfect time to play outside with the large water tray and the large tubes. Children learn a lot from playing in water – it is a lovely sensory activity and is very...Read More
This week’s activities Climbing trees Some of the children wanted to climb one of our lovely trees in Wren Garden. They had to think about the best way to do it and how they could reach the branch they needed to pull themselves up. Having solved the problem, they took it in turns, demonstrating...Read More
