This week we have been very busy in the lead up to Christmas. We spent some time unboxing our Christmas tree and decorating it with baubles and tinsel whilst listening to Christmas songs. The children helped to stick the hanging decorations up in the pre-school room. We then started making Christmas crafts which included making […]
This week at pre-school we have enjoyed celebrating Children in Need, with the lead up to the big day today, Friday! We have decorated Pudsey Bear pictures with craft resources and displayed them in our pre-school windows to show our families. We also made masks so that we could pretend to be Pudsey bear too. […]
This week we have spoken about Remembrance Day. We looked at poppies and recreated our own ones in the expressive arts area. The children spoke about what colour paint we would need to paint the poppies, the children all agreed that the colour was red. In the mud kitchen we have explored sand which the […]
This week we have celebrated Diwali at Pre-School. We have done this by creating rice patterns out of different coloured rice. Once we had finished with the coloured rice, we took it to explore outside in the mud kitchen in which the children used cups to fill and pour and make each other different foods. […]
This week we have had Halloween themed activities. One of the activities has been decorating biscuits. The children carefully spread the icing over the biscuit using the back of a spoon. They then used a syringe to make a face with black icing. Each child made a different face. We also made playdough with spider/ […]
This week we have explored the arts and crafts area by choosing our own resources to create pictures. There has been sticking, gluing as well as using crayons to create our own pictures. This area has different coloured paper as well as different sizes too. The children can choose what they’d like, set it out […]
This week we have had lots of fun on our new farm, and our new castle, lots of lovely imaginary play and sharing of resourcesWe have made lots of silly shapes in the playdough, worms, sausages and lots of letters and numbers!The children have loved the new buggies and wheelbarrows. They have found various items […]
This week we made a giant train track, the children really enjoyed making the track go around the room, this enabled the children to negotiate work together and take turns in laying the track down. They liked to chat about where they would go on a train and what stops were along the way. We […]
This week we did a joint Macmillan coffee morning with Langham Community Shop. This was very successful, and we would like to announce that we raised approximately £400. Thank you to everybody who came along to support us and a big thank you to those who donated cakes and raffle prizes. We do hope you […]
This week we have had new friends start pre school, our older children have been very kind and helpful to their peers, and the new children have explored the setting confidently. They have settled in really well and are happy to come to pre school and play. We have had lots of fun in the […]
The past two weeks have been extremely busy at Pre-School! We had a visit from Jaws and Claws! They came with a big selection of animals, for us to look at and touch. First, they showed us a skink. The children described him as scaly and shiny. Phil at Jaws and Claws then showed us […]
This week, in advance of Jaws and Claws, we have been looking at nature that surrounds Pre-School. We have been concentrating on the local birds this week, and the children have really embraced this activity, they began to learn the names of the different birds, and how many there are, and are listening to the […]
This week we have been very busy! We have been practising our focus time by using the coloured pens to colour in squares to see who could last the longest. The children enjoyed choosing their own colours for each square. We were donated some new toys from a lovely lady in the village. This included […]
In the past few weeks, we have been very busy. We have been exploring more of the outside with the variety of different weather, we used kites in the wind and jumped in puddles in the rain! The children have been very engaged in planting and repotting the flowers and herbs. We have been taking […]
This week we have been exploring the sand with the new insects we have. The children have been burying them in the sand, then asking their peers to find them. The children have been talking about how the insects are all different. Some have more legs, and some have the same colours as each other. […]
This week we have had a new interactive whiteboard fitted in pre-school! The children have been very keen to explore what we can do on it. They have liked drawing their own pictures on the big canvas. We have also explored the number games on the board which has been enjoyed by all children. The […]
Welcome back to the Summer term. We have started the week off with planting sunflower seeds. Our aim is to start growing them at pre-school and then send them home to be planted in the garden. We will then see whose can grow their flower the tallest! This has been successful in previous years and […]
On Monday we went in small groups to the woods to explore nature. Along the way we picked up sticks, leaves, flowers, bark, and grass. The children really enjoyed exploring the woods and listening to the birds in the trees. We even saw a horse on our walk to the woods and gave him a […]
This week we have been making obstacle courses in the garden using wood and the benches to climb over. The children were using their gross motor skills to move around the obstacle course in different ways such as balancing, walking, climbing, and crawling. We have been exploring colours being mixed. The children have predicted what […]
This week the children have been interested in listening to the Stick Man audiobook. The children have used the book to follow along whilst listening carefully. We have also been busy making cards and flowers for Mother’s Day. The children wrote in their cards using resources of their choice. They were able to choose different […]
This week we have made a new graphics area. The children have been keen to get in there and use the resources. Children have used scissors which encourages their fine motor skills as well as practising their cutting skills. We have also used sellotape, bingo dabbers, felt tips, crayons and pencils to create pictures of […]
Welcome back! It has been a fun filled week back at pre-school. We have been playing with small part activities such as pom poms and tweezers. The children have found resources around the pre-school to add to the small parts table. They choose stacking cups to then fill them with the different coloured pom poms. […]
This week we have had snow; This enabled the children to explore. We have been outside making igloos, snowballs and using the spray bottles with paint in them to make marks in the snow. The children have talked a lot about what happens to snow inside. We then brought snow inside to see what would […]
This week we have been practicing our pencil control by using pencil control work sheets. The children have really enjoyed following the lines with their pencil to make the aeroplanes on the sheet meet. We have also made playdough and used it to strengthen the muscles in our hands to help with pencil control. The […]
This week we have spent a lot of time in the garden. The children spoke about the weather and how cold it was. We decided to put some coloured water into the tuff spots and in buckets. We put some animals into the water and told the children to wait until the next day. The […]
This week we have been carrying on with our under the sea display board. We have been making divers to go on the board. The children have each decorated their diver with paint. We have also linked our board to a fishing game. One of our families enjoys fishing so we put the wooden fish […]
Welcome back to a new year and new term! It has been a great first week back after the Christmas holidays. We hope you all had a safe but good Christmas and new year. This week we have had a new toy delivery! The children were extremely excited about this. We have new sensory toys, […]
This week we have continued with our christmas festivities! We have made christmas tree toppers, decorations to hang on the christmas tree and even christmas pudding decorations. The children have been listening to christmas songs whilst doing activites which they have really enjoyed. The children have also been making their own Christmas themed decorations using […]
We have had a fantastic two weeks with the children, we began our countdown to Christmas with decorating our Christmas tree, and putting decorations around the room! We have begun our Christmas wall display, and the children painted the Christmas tree and fireplace for their own decorated stockings! The children have started to make decorations […]
This week we got a new resource, a sensory mood table, this encouraged the children to explore colours and how they change, and to observe the changes of colour on the table and how that changes the coloured looking discs. The children also really enjoyed decorating the box that it came in, and they spent […]
This week we have continued our Halloween crafts. We have been making witches hats and decorating them with a variety of resources such as Halloween themed sprinkles, glitter and plastic spiders! The children also explored real pumpkins and helped to remove the innards. They used their imaginations to create their own pumpkin recipes using the […]
This week we have started to make pumpkin pictures for Halloween, and decorations for our Halloween party which is next Friday. We have also made pictures of "me", this encouraged the children to talk about themselves, their features and what clothes they are wearing. They were able to find the colours of their clothes and […]
This week we have continued our dough gym, with lots of malleable movements and rotation, the children followed the instructions really well and like the silly music! We played "Shopping list" and other memory games is week to encourage turn taking and talking through play, as they correctly identified the shopping and who may need […]
This week we have been coming together as a group to do playdough gym. The children experienced squeezing the dough and moving to music whilst they listened to instructions from an adult. We have also been to the woods in small groups to explore and collect resources to bring back to Pre-School for the mud […]
This week we have had our outdoor flooring resurfaced! The children have enjoyed watching the process. On Monday, the workmen pulled up the old green flooring and were here until Wednesday when they laid the new tarmac flooring. The children were able to recognise some of the tools the workmen were using. Whilst this was […]
This week has been fun filled; activities have included crafts to create pictures to go on our new display board. Some pictures have been painted, glued, or drawn. We have left the choice down to the children and all have been very pleased with their creations. We have been practicing our fine motor skills this […]
Welcome back everyone! It's been a great first week and brilliant welcoming so many new families. Be sure to say hello to any new faces you see. All children have settled in well and have enjoyed exploring the home corner with the new toys that we were gifted in July from families. We have enjoyed […]
The last week of pre-school was lots of fun. We did lots of mark making outside with the chalks. We used the floor as a piece of paper and filled it up with shapes, houses and even made a treasure map on it. We used water in a tray and added ducks. The children had […]
This week has been fun packed! We have been making obstacle courses out of resources in the outside area. The children have been using planks of wood to make a plank to walk across. The children have been putting their arms out to help them balance when walking across the plank. We have been exploring […]
What another fun and enjoyable week at pre-school. The weather has been very up and down but we have explored different weather with the children. We had a talk about the big storm that we had on Thursday. The children observed this from the inside and we spoke about how storms are made. We have […]
This week has been full of sunshine and fun! The children have enjoyed plenty of water play this week. We've taken small groups onto the field to run through a sprinkler if they wish. All the children enjoyed this as a way of staying cool.As well as water play on field, we had some new […]
This week we've had a fun packed week. We started off by taking Woody (our pre-school rabbit) to the vets on Monday morning. He went for his yearly injections and a nail trim. He was very good and when he got back to pre-school, we treated him with lots of vegetables.We've also been doing some […]
This week has been our second week back since lockdown and the children have all settled in well and starting to get back into our pre-school routine. This week the younger children (bears/ cubs) have enjoyed exploring vehicles as well as painting the fence with water. We have again used the water wall this week […]
Welcome back everybody! It's been a brilliant week welcoming lots of our families back. The children have loved being back with their peers and telling the adults what they've been up to. Many children had been on walks with their families on their bikes, scooters etc and said they've enjoyed spending time at home with […]
This week we have been making surprises for the special ladies in our life to give to them on Sunday 22nd March 2020. All children have made a special card and gift. We hope you like them. We have been getting creative by cutting and sticking, using our new creative station which has been replenished […]
This week we’ve been able to access the outside area a lot more than usual! The weather has been much brighter which means the children have explored things such as the insects outside. This led to trying to find other insects that lived outside in our garden such as snails, ants and spiders. The children […]
This week we have been exploring the mud kitchen and adding ingredients such as oats, rice, soil and more into there. The children have loved this and have been making lots of oaty cakes and pretending to make curry and rice. They have also been making mud cakes with the soil. On Tuesday it was […]
Welcome back! We hope you all enjoyed your week off. This week has been very exciting for us as we started our new music, story and play session on Wednesday. We had many new families come along and lots of existing families too. Thank you to everybody who came, and we hope you enjoyed it […]
On Monday we continued to practice our phonics and our daily yoga, we did a cooking activity for Valentine’s Day, the children made the mixture and then decorated them with icing for their chosen loved one, we also made a card, which the children coloured in. We also had a cornflake train track, and the […]
On Monday the children helped make the playdough. This was started by a group of children who were in the home corner and were pretending to make some dinner. An adult then asked if they would like to make some playdough so that they were then able to create the foods they’d like to serve […]
On Monday we continued to practice our phonics and our daily yoga. We also decorated our own lanterns in aid of Chinese New Year. We spoke about Chinese New Year and what people did to celebrate this. On Tuesday the children took an interest to our musical instruments. To extend their thinking, we made our […]
On Monday we did small scale sticking with various small media, such as buttons and wool, we had lots of fun in the dolls house and the dinosaurs came out to play as well! We also practised our daily yoga and our phonics, with the lions doing work on reading their tricky words. On Tuesday […]
On Monday we continued to practice our phonics and our daily yoga. We also continued to experiment with black and white, and used black ink on white paint to drag the ink and make marks. We also got a new game, Crazy Blender! The children loved throwing in the ingredients and shouting out what they […]
Welcome back and Happy New Year! On Monday we played with large scale lego and created lots of walls and towers! We did a variety of sponge painting using different textures and media, and had a playdough kitchen, and the children really liked making pies and cakes and pies and putting them in the oven! […]
What a fun week we’ve had! On Monday we had our Christmas nativity. The children did so well, and we would also like to thank the families of the children that came to the nativity and supported us all. We had a fantastic party with lots of party food and games. On Tuesday, Santa came […]
This week has been another busy week at Pre School. On Monday we decorated Gingerbread men with icing and covered them with sprinkles, we also had the Gingerbread shape mats out with the playdough so the children could make their own faces and bodies. On Tuesday we did several small construction activities to encourage sharing, […]
First, we would like to thank everybody who brought raffle tickets for the charity night last Saturday night (30th November 2019). We raised an amazing £540 which got split between ourselves, Langham Community Shop and The Langham Community Centre. This week, we explored playdough with glitter and pasta. The children made lots of funny faces using […]
This week we have been very busy and we've had lots of fun! On Monday we went to the farm down the road to see lots of animals, we even saw a ferret! When we returned, the children drew pictures of all the animals that we saw! We played our Christmas Shopping game and have […]
We have had a very busy week this week! On Monday we had a busy day with the photographer, and all the children participated in having pictures done. The photographs are ready to collect and look beautiful! On Tuesday we continued our Christmas craft by doing window silhouettes and continuing with our Christmas board. On […]
This week we have been continuing with our Christmas board and creating Christmas cards for you to purchase. If you have not received your child’s card, please speak to a member of staff. We have been exploring large scale messy play, including shaving foam, paint and other textured items. We have also had playdough in […]
This week we have been making some decorations, for our Christmas board. We looked at different textures and what happens when you mix them. The children choose different ingredients to mix and had so much fun. The children decided that the gap between the benches was a river and that it was shark infested; they […]
This week we went on a nature walk to find some Autumn treasure. We looked at Autumn colours and also saw a horse and a cat along the way. We collected some leaves and sticks and tiny cones, which we bought back to pre-school to show our friends, we then made some Autumn pictures. We […]
This week we looked at ourselves and what makes us special, children were invited to draw themselves and then talk about why we are special. We had picnic fun indoors with our Friends. Lilly got sick and needed a doctor and a nurse, so we made a hospital. We made pizzas and spoke about ingredients […]
This week we looked at Autumn and made some window pictures for our display. We have also been looking at various textures, the children have had so much fun with this. We practiced cutting cabbage for our fine motor skills, which we then gave to Woody for breakfast. We are still getting to know each […]
This week we have been looking at the changes of the plants and environment as Autumn sets in. We collected some Autumn leaves and flowers that we found around Langham and made a potion and some soup. We have explored sand and water and tipping and pouring. The children have also been looking at phonics […]
Welcome back to our new term. All our children have settled in well and are busy exploring inside and out. The children that have come back are all excited to be lions (School starters 2020). The weather has been on our side this week and we have had fun with our new areas: Water wall, […]
So we are nearly starting back at preschool! Lots of nervous and excited children (as well as parents too). All parents are invited to stay with their children until they are settled, there is no hard and fast rule. All children are different. We are all looking forward to seeing how much your children have […]
I am sure your children have informed you if they are becoming a lion this term! Some children were so excited. If your child starts school in September 2020, they are now a lion. If your child starts school in September 2021, they are now a bear. The lion’s day is more structured towards learning […]