Global Awareness

Hello Everyone, 

Last week we began the week talking about what we knew about Africa and what we would like to find out. We looked at the big atlas to see where Africa was in the world and where we lived. On Monday Morning we went on our flight to Moscow. We went through airport control and then got into the Prince of Wales Plane (School hall) and flew to Moscow. The children really enjoyed this imaginative role play. We looked at the African flags and then made our african flags.

On Tuesday we went on a safari. We watched a video of an african Safari. We saw all the different animals that live in Africa. On Wednesday we read the story of Handa's Surprise. We tried all the different fruits from the story over the week for our snack. I was very proud of the children trying new foods. We also painted Handa's surprise fruit basket. These will be used for the art display at school. On Thursday we listened to some African music and then went to the school hall and used the Afican drums to copy rhythms and make up our own. On Friday we did our gummy bear dance at the dance show. The children have really enjoyed doing this dance and were amazing at showing the rest of school and parents the dance. Well done Pre-school. 

We have also been talking about how we can look after our world by recycling. The children have made some recycling bins for plastic, paper and food waste.

This week we will be joining the school with Global Awareness fortnight and we will be learning all about Africa. Over the next week we will be exploring musical instruments, foods, safari, animals, jewellery, housing, music, songs and lot's more. 

Home learning
Has your beanstalk begun to grow? Can you bring a picture in of your beanstalk? 

Can you bring in some home learning about Africa? Could be a picture, book, food, made an instrument or jewellery etc.

Sounds and letters

A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This term Jennie jigsaw is talking about changing me. We will be talking about how our bodies are changing as time moves forward and how they have already changed since we were a baby. It would be great if you could bring a baby photo. 

Notices

As the weather is sun and hot, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

The children who are attending the Prince of Wales School in September will begin their Tuesday transition afternoons. This week it is group B going to Reception. If you have any questions about these afternoons please come and see Julia. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 29th June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Thursday 28th June at 2.30pm we are having a Sports day on the school field. We will be doing lots of fun race including running, egg and spoon and dressing up races etc. All parents and carers welcome to come and watch. If your child does not usually come to pre-school on a Thursday afternoon and would like to join in, please come along for 2.30pm on the main school field. Any questions please come and ask Julia.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team 

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Global Awareness fortnight

Hello everyone,

Hope all our Dad's have had a lovely Father's Day. 
Last week we all cooked some flapjack cookies for our dad's. The children really enjoyed making at treat for their dad's. We hope they were yummy. We also used watercolour paints to paint a sports car picture of our choice. The children painted with such control when painting their cars. We saw some fantastic name writing as well when writing their names in the cards. We talked about all the things that are special about our dad's and what things we enjoy doing with our dad's. I made this into a tagxedo which is on the back of the Father's Day card. 
We have also listened to some different variations of the story of Jack and the beanstalk which the children have really enjoyed. We have seen lot's of small world play of the story and recalling the story in the children's play. 
We have been playing the bean game which the children really enjoyed playing and were playing it independently outside and making up their own type of beans.  We planted some beans outside with Sharon which will grow and we will be making a bean wigwam.
On Thursday afternoon we went onto the school field and practice some races for Sports Day. We did some running, wheelbarrow and dressing up races. 

This week we will be joining the school with Global Awareness fortnight and we will be learning all about Africa. Over the next two weeks we will be finding about the African flag, musical instruments, foods, safari, animals, jewellery, housing, music, songs and lot's more. 
Also we will be talking about recycling and how we can begin recycling at pre-school with our paper, plastic and rain water. We will be reading the story of Handa's Surprise.

Home learning
Has your beanstalk begun to grow? Can you bring a picture in of your beanstalk? 

Can you bring in some home learning about Africa? Could be a picture, book, food, made an instrument or jewellery etc.

Sounds and letters

A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This term Jennie jigsaw is talking about changing me. We will be talking about how our bodies are changing as time moves forward and how they have already changed since we were a baby. It would be great if you could bring a baby photo. 

Notices

As the weather is sun and hot, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

The children who are attending the Prince of Wales School in September will begin their Tuesday transition afternoons. This week it is group A going to Reception. If you have any questions about these afternoons please come and see Julia. 

On Friday 22nd June on the school field at 2.30pm is dance afternoon. All classes are presenting a dance to parents and carers. All parents and Carers are welcome to come and watch. Please sign in at main school office and go to school field. If your child does not usually attend on a Friday afternoon, they are very welcome to come along and dance. Please bring them to school field for 2.30pm. Any questions please come and see Julia.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday and Thursday. Sorry for the confusion last week. This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 21st June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Thursday 28th June at 2.30pm we are having a Sports day on the school field. We will be doing lots of fun race including running, egg and spoon and dressing up races etc. All parents and carers welcome to come and watch. If your child does not usually come to pre-school on a Thursday afternoon and would like to join in, please come along for 2.30pm on the main school field. Any questions please come and ask Julia.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

On Friday 22nd June it is film night. Please see board for more information. The film being shown is Trolls. Tickets can be purchased from school office. 

On Saturday 23rd June is our Saturday stay and play morning from 10.00 till 11.30am. We welcome all our families to come and have a play. Younger and older siblings very welcome to.

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team 

Jack and the beanstalk

Hello everyone, 

Wow, what a great first week back from half term. The children have really enjoyed the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Whilst reading the story the children have been joining in with the giants repeated refrains and the missing words that the adult leaves out. On Tuesday we talked about what we had been doing in the half term holiday and then we drew some pictures of our memories of half term. Over the week we have begun playing the game Beans and throwing the bean bags into the bucket. We also recorded how many bean bags we could get in the bucket. On Wednesday morning we had a group photograph taken. We all really enjoyed having our photo taken and the photography made us smile lots. On Wednesday we found the Poundbury Florist lonely bouquet of flowers outside the fence. We collected them and on Thursday we drew pictures of the jar of flowers. Julia took our pictures to the florist to show. The copies will be up on display this week. On Wednesday afternoon a group of children went up to the vegetable patch to water our plants. We found some Rhubarb to pick. Henry had a great idea about making a rhubarb cake. We though about what ingredients we would need to make the cake and collected the eggs from the chickens. We washed and cut up the rhubarb using a knife and then made a cake mixture. We hope you liked the rhubarb cake. 
We have been planting our own magic beans to bring home. We talked about what a bean would need to be able to grow and designed a castle for the top of our stick. When your beanstalk begins to grow, we would love to see some photos. How tall will your beanstalk grow?
We have also been very busy with lot's of gardening over the week. On Friday afternoon we joined Reception and Year 1 and enjoyed playing and learning outside together. 
The children have really enjoyed retelling the story of Jack and the beanstalk in the small world area and also making their own beanstalk using hoops, green leaves and spaghetti on the Finger frenzy table. 

This week we will be continuing with our Jack and beanstalk stories as the children are really enjoying this. We will also be creating our Father's Day cards and making a yummy treat for our Dad's. We will be sharing some Dad stories and talking about our dad's during group time. 

Home learning
Have you got a story about a beanstalk?  We look forward to seeing some pictures of your beanstalk when they begin to grow.

Sounds and letters

A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This term Jennie jigsaw is talking about changing me. We will be talking about how our bodies are changing as time moves forward and how they have already changed since we were a baby. It would be great if you could bring a baby photo. 

Notices

As the weather is sun and hot, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

The children who are attending the Prince of Wales School in September will begin their Tuesday transition afternoons. This week it is group B going to Reception. If you have any questions about these afternoons please come and see Julia. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 13th June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

On Friday 22nd June it is film night. More information to follow. 

On Saturday 23rd June is our Saturday stay and play morning from 10.00 till 11.30am. We welcome all our families to come and have a play. Younger and older siblings very welcome to.

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team

Jack and the bean stalk

Hello everyone,

We all hope you had a wonderful half term. We have had some fantastic weather.  The week before half term we continued our learning about the seaside. We listened to lots of stories and poems about the seaside. On Tuesday the beach lifeguards came into the pre-school to talk about staying safe at the seaside. The children learnt about the different flags, staying safe at the seaside and what to do in emergency. The children took all the learning from this and role played being lifeguards outside on the climbing frame with resources like binoculars, mobile phones, rope and flags.
On Wednesday the Sealife centre came into visit us with a starfish. We learnt lots of facts about star fish and got to touch the starfish.
We have continued with lots of gardening by planting some vegetable seeds and plants in the beds and looking after the chickens.

This week we will be starting of our week talking about what we got unto in the half term and bring our news with our friends. The children were really interested in the story of Jack and the beanstalk so this week we will be sharing the story of Jack and the beanstalk and different variations of the story. We will be planting different types of beans for a beans experiment. We will be trying different beans for snack. We will be playing the game called beans. We will be planting our own beans to bring home to look after and watch them grow. We will doing lot's more activities around the story of Jack and the beanstalk over the week.

Home learning

Have you got a story about a beanstalk? Have you got some pictures you would like to share from your half term?

Sounds and letters

A mixture of rhyming, initial sounds and musical instruments. 


Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to pre-school ready for us to apply.

The children who are attending the Prince of Wales School in September will begin their Tuesday transition afternoons. If you have any questions about these afternoons please come and see Julia. 

On Wednesday 6th June it is the parent forum. This is from 8.45am in the old Year 4 classroom. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 8th June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

On Saturday 23rd June is our Saturday stay and play morning from 10.00 till 11.30am. We welcome all our families to come and have a play. Younger and older siblings very welcome to.

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

Don't forget to bring in your child's WOW moments. We love to share and celebrate these with everyone. There are spare WOW's by the WOW board in the corridor. 

Looking forward to a great week.

Julia and Pre-school team