This week our children have been picking fruit and vegetables in the school Community Grow Garden. We picked red and yellow tomatoes, chilli's, lettuce, potatoes and green beans. We also smelt all the herbs, they smelt delicious!

Our children have enjoyed sailing the seven seas as Pirates this week. The Story Fairy sent us the Night Pirates book to read together which the children loved. We dug for treasure in our sandpit, dressed a Pirates and walked the plank. Then we celebrated the end of...

We spent a sunny morning in our Mud Kitchen today. We used some of the herbs we have been growing in our culinary creations. We made pasta, noodles and cup cakes! Our children love playing here, getting messy, using their imaginations and developing their gross and...

Pre-School have had such a busy week enjoying the sunshine. We have been playing in the waterplay to cool down, using our music wall to make sounds and doing lots of building in our construction area. We also opened our own ice cream parlour and had an ice cream...

On Tuesday we held our Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2025. It was a wonderful chance to celebrate our children's many achievements over their time with us. We were delighted to have so many family members join us and the children loved wearing their cap and...

We've had lots of fun this week making dens outside in the sunshine.

This week we have invited our families in to join their children for a gardening morning. We planted lots of seeds and plants together and the children will be taking some of them home later in the week to watch them grow over half term. After we had finished our...

Our children were very excited on Monday to take delivery of some Hen's eggs in an incubator. We have been watching the eggs to see when they hatched and now we are looking after the chicks. So far 9 of our 10 eggs have hatched and we have named them Popcorn, Jupiter,...

The pre-school children really enjoyed our Easter celebrations. Lots of our parents and carers came into pre-school and helped us make Easter bonnets. It was lots of fun, we love having parents in to visit us and do activities. We also had a visit from the Easter...

The last day of term was our Pre-School Manager Rachel's last day in pre-school, Rachel has taken early retirement. We are so sad she is leaving us and staff, children and families will really miss her. Rachel transformed pre-school in her 12 years as Manager, going...

We've been so busy this term learning through play. Our children are always learning new skills and having new exciting experiences, always through the medium of play.

The Story Fairy sent us Oi Dog! to read together. We loved this hilarious rhyming story and had a lots of fun pretending to be dogs with our home made dog ears. We found time to play in our fantastic mud kitchen, making soups and potions. We did some gardening,...

We had a brilliant time in pre-school last week. The Story Fairy sent us I Really Want the Cake to read together so we decided to make chocolate cup cakes. We measured the ingredients, cracked the eggs, mixed and put the batter into cake cases. It was a bit messy but...

We have had a brilliant World Book Day. It was lots of fun coming into pre-school in our PJs. We sat under blankets and read bedtime stories that The Story Fairy 🧚‍♀️ had sent us for this special day. We believe bedtime stories are such an important part of children's...

Yesterday we played in our mud kitchen. The children had a great time using lots of natural ingredients such as pine cones, flowers, leaves and conkers to make cakes, soups and hot chocolate. We enjoyed getting a little bit messy and being very imaginative.

We have been lucky enough to be gifted a new builders workbench by Mrs Millward in big school - Thank you so much! The children have been exploring our new builders workshop. Fixing and building, dressing up in hard hats and hi-vis and working together. It has been...

We have been so busy in pre-school this term. We welcomed some new children and their families to pre-school. They have all settled in really well and are enjoying pre-school life. The Story Fairy has been visiting us and we have enjoyed reading The Tiger Who Came to...

What a fun few weeks we've had in the run up to Christmas.  Our children have been making lots of Christmas crafts, we've been covered in glitter for weeks!  Santa sent us lots of Christmas books to read together and then came to visit us on party day.  It was so...

The Story Fairy has sent us The Gruffalo to read together.  It's been lots of fun, we have made Gruffalo paper bag hand puppets and houses for the Gruffalo out of Lego.  

This week we've had lots of snowy fun outside.  When it got too cold to play outside we made snow with flour!

The Story Fairy has been to visit us again.  Last week she sent us Shark in the Park to read, we loved this story.  We made our own telescopes, put our wellies on and went to the forest to hunt for sharks.  We had lots of fun lying on our tummies to draw sharks on a...