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