The start of Christmas

Hello everyone,

Last week we had great fun playing the pizza shape game and we wanted to keep playing more and more. We also made our own pizza's to bring home. The children really enjoyed this and wanted to make seconds!!! We did lots about naming and describing shapes as well. We have enjoyed doing shape hunts around the classroom.  We have been busy making our surprises to take to the post box this week. We have enjoyed going out on the balance bikes and doing some Yoga. We had a   fantastic time in PE and played some new games. We are great at listening to instructions and following them. On Friday afternoon we went for a dinosaur hunt around the school grounds. We really enjoyed guessing the clues. 

This week we will be making Christmas Decorations based the Nativity Musical for the Christmas Tree Festival at St George's Church. The Christmas tree festival is open from this Friday evening and over the weekend. Will put more details up on Thursday evening. We will also be taking out surprises to the post box this week. We are going to be busy making lanterns for the Poundbury Buttermarket Square Lantern parade. It's going to be a great week.

Home learning

Can you find different shapes around your environment? Can you bring some different shapes in or make a list of all the ones you found. 

Letters and sounds:- 

We have made our rhyming door. We will be thinking of all the words we know that rhyme to add the door. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain, orange, snake, net, dinosaur and tower.

Notices

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. 

On Friday we should have our story time at 5.00pm but we are going to reschedule this to Friday 7th December at 5.00pm. Sorry to change the date but it is the Poundbury Buttermarket Christmas night. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

On Friday 30th November come and join use for the big Christmas with on at  Buttermarket Square. We are meeting at the Duchy farmhouse at 5.30 for a lantern parade to Buttermarket Square for Christmas carol singing and light switch on. Please see poster.

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

Please return permission slips for the garden centre trip and bring car seats into pre-school on the day your child is going to the garden centre. Any questions come and see Julia.

Thank you for all the help at our community make over weekend. It was a very successful weekend. Look out for the next community make over day. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 23rd November it was POWSA Bingo night. We raised an amazing £209.00.

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Please see letter.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

On Tuesday 18th December 5-6pm at St Mary's Church there will be a school carol service. Reception and Pre-school Year 2 will doing a nativity. Please return form by Friday to inform us whether your child would like to join in.

Julia and Pre-school team

Shape

Hello everyone,

I hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. Last week we had great fun learning all about shapes. We went on shape walks around the school looking for different shapes and using the iPad to take photos of the shapes we found. We have made a poster of all the shapes we have found. We have played shape bingo in small groups. We have made our own shape pictures using different shapes. We have also done some shape printing. We have enjoyed making models out of junk and are getting more creative with our models. We have enjoyed finding shapes in the sand. On Friday for Children in Need we made Pudsey masks which we enjoyed making and wearing. Also on Friday a group of children went to watch Year 2 Assembly. On Wednesday morning Helen bought in her ducklings and we noticed how much they have grown. On Thursday afternoon we went on the balance bikes around the school grounds. Our confidence has grown so much in using them. We have also played the shape bag game. 

This week we will be continuing our learning about shape. We will be playing a game called name the shape which involves describing the shape and guessing what shape it is. We will be exploring 3d shapes. We will also be playing the pizza shape game and making our own pizzas to bring home. We will also be preparing for our post box trip (a surprise). We will be continuing making model with junk so please bring in any boxes, yogurt pots etc. 

Home learning

Can you find different shapes around your environment? Can you bring some different shapes in or make a list of all the ones you found. 

Letters and sounds:- 

We have made our rhyming door. We will be thinking of all the words we know that rhyme to add the door. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain, orange, snake, net and dinosaur.

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

Notices

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. 

On Thursday at 3.10pm we have got our third story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

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

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

We have also got our community makeover weekend on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th November from 9-4.00pm. Please see poster for more details or speak to Julia.

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 23rd November it is POWSA Bingo night. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm in the main school hall. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

On Tuesday 18th December 5-6pm at St Mary's Church there will be a school carol service. Reception and Pre-school Year 2 will doing a nativity. More information to follow. 

Julia and Pre-school team

Shape

Hello everyone,

Last week we had great fun exploring colours and talking about bonfires and fireworks. On Monday morning we listened to a firework poem which we all joined in with. For our snack we all went to the roundhouse area and had a real bonfire with hot dogs for snack. We all then had a go at toasting our marshmallows on the fire and then making a biscuit marshmallow sandwich. They were very yummy. Reception and pre-school year 1 joined us.  We all had a wonderful time.
We have also been making our rocket names. We had to find our name and then we made it into a rocket. We counted how many letters are in our name. 
We have had great fun exploring colour, colour mixing and different paint techniques whilst creating our firework paintings. We also used chalks to create firework pictures. Also we created our bonfire pictures using sticks and coloured cellophane. We have also been making chocolate sparkles in the kitchen. We predicted what might happen when you heat up chocolate and then carried out our experiment. They looked very yummy. 
On Thursday afternoon we went to the music room at school and explored all the different musical instruments and the sounds they make. We had a go at making our own firework music. 
On Friday morning we went and watched Reception assembly which we all enjoyed. We did some great listening. On Friday afternoon we played shape bingo which was great fun. 

For the next two weeks we will be doing lots of shapes activities including playing games, shape hunt, chaperons craft activities, cooking and lots more. We will be looking at 2d and 3d shapes. 

Home learning

Can you find different shapes around your environment? Can you bring some different shapes in or make a list of all the ones you found. 

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we will be making our rhyming door. We will be thinking of all the words we know that rhyme. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain, orange, snake and net. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

Notices

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. 

On Tuesday at 3.10pm we have got our second story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

On Friday 16th November it is Children in Need Day. Children can dress up in stripes and spots and bring a donation in towards Children in Need.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 16th November  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Friday 23rd November it is POWSA Bingo night. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm in the main school hall. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

On Tuesday 18th December 5-6pm at St Mary's Church there will be a school carol service. Reception and Pre-school Year 2 will doing a nativity. More information to follow. 

Julia and Pre-school team

Fireworks

Hello everyone,

Wow, what a great first week back we have had. We started our week by reading the story of Pumpkin Soup by Helen Copper. On Tuesday the children took the wheelbarrows up to the poly tunnel and collected the 7 different sized pumpkins. They really enjoyed this job. In the afternoon the children helped to scoop out the pumpkin and design different faces on them. The children practiced their spoon and knife skills. They talked about the textures they could feel. On Tuesday morning we had Mr Treble for PE and we did lots of games which involved negotiating spaces. We are getting really good at putting on our plimsols. On Wednesday morning the children helped to make pumpkin soup which they really enjoyed. On Wednesday afternoon we went to the chickens and gave them the excess pumpkins which the chickens loved. All the leaves had come off the tree's so we had a great afternoon throwing piles of leaves up into the air and rolling in big piles of leaves. On Thursday we had our NSPCC PANTS Day. We got to meet Pantasarus the dinosaur and watch the NSPCC PANTS video. We then designed our own pants.
On Thursday afternoon we went to the play trail and then played some ring games in the hall. 
On Friday some children went to watch Year 3 Assembly which they really enjoyed and did some great listening. On Friday afternoon the children made their own potions. This idea came from the children from our rhyming soup potion game. 

This week we will be talking about bonfires and fireworks. We will be exploring and talking about colours, mixing colours and sounds of fireworks. We will be creating our own firework pictures using different techniques and mixing colour. We will be making our own music to represent fireworks.  We are going to be experimenting with chocolate and making edible sparkles. Also we we will be making our own name rockets and decorating the letters of our name in stars. Its going to be a very exciting week. 

Home learning

Can you find different logos and signs in your environment? Can you recognise what they are? Bring them in and show your friends during group time.

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we continue to  play a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain and net. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

Notices

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. 

On Wednesday at 3.10pm we have got our first story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

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

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats in the mornings, all important post will be there. 

On Tuesday 6th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is the POWSA AGM.  For those who have never attended a PTA session before the thought can be intimidating but we are all friendly parents who want to help the school offer the best of opportunities to all the pupils who pass through it's doors, whilst having a little fun along the way. We give up a little bit of time every now and then to help provide some of those extras that help make our school such a fantastic place and if you would like to learn more we would love to see you. It would be lovely to see you there. If you unable to attend the meeting but would like more information please do come and see me.

Julia and Pre-school team