This week, our young pre-school gardeners have been busy planting green beans and tomato plants in Mrs Hudson’s Community Grow Garden. The children enjoyed preparing the soil, carefully planting young plants, and learning how to water and care for them. Green beans...

We’ve been enjoying lots of engaging water play both indoors and outdoors! The children explored a variety of sensory experiences as we enhanced the water with delicate cherry blossom, fragrant herbs and a splash of food colouring to create inviting and exciting play...

Our mud kitchen has been a hive of creativity this term! The children have been busy “cooking” using natural resources such as pine cones, sea shells and fresh herbs, sparking their imaginations as they created all sorts of wonderful muddy meals. As they played, the...

We’ve been making the most of our outdoor space this week with lots of active, hands-on play! The children have loved crawling through tunnels, building their confidence and coordination, and taking part in a fun “cleaning” activity—washing our colourful rainbow fence...

This week, the Story Fairy sent us a wonderful surprise – Zog by Julia Donaldson. The children have absolutely loved this much‑loved story, full of dragons, friendship and determination. It quickly became a firm favourite at story time, with lots of excitement and...

We have been talking to the children about where the fruit they eat for snack comes from. Lots of them knew that apples and pears grow on trees and so we decided to plant some fruit trees of our own. We planted two apples trees, a pear tree and a plum tree. Maybe one...

World Book Day in pre-school was brilliant fun, we decided to celebrate the importance of bedtime stories. We all came to pre-school in our pyjamas and invited our parents in to join us for the morning. A good bedtime routine and a story before we go to sleep is the...

In pre-school the children are always learning through their play. When we are making and using playdough what are children learning? Cognitive DevelopmentChildren explore early concepts such as shape, size, pattern, and problem‑solving as they create and manipulate...

We were so excited this week to receive a visit from Santa. He bought his Reindeer Dog and Moose Dog to see us too. We loved meeting his doggy helpers and we were all very gentle when we stroked them. Santa said all the children had been so good he had bought them...

We have had so much fun celebrating Christmas in pre-school. Our Story Fairy delivered a huge box from Santa at the beginning of December. Inside were Christmas trees, decorations and dressing up costumes. Our children have loved decorating our Christmas trees and...

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...