Hello everyone....

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a fabolous weekend with family and friends.

Last week we enjoyed listening to a variety of farm stories along with autumn stories. We also continued to talk about diffrent fruit and vegtables and where they grow e.g. on a tree, under the ground, on a plant. 

On Monday morning in small groups we went to the main school hall to do the whole school Harvest art project. We use a variety of vegetables to make prints onto the fabric. Also another group of children visited the school orchard to collect apples to make apple muffins to bring home. We hope you enjoyed tasting them. On Monday group of children went to PE and explored our ball skills through rolling to each other, throwing and catching. In the afternoon we went to the school assembly to find out all about Cows and milk from Craigs Farm. We also got to meet a calf. 

On Tuesday morning  we continued with making our apple muffins and visiting the orchard. In the afternoon we did an egg experiment. We used uncooked eggs and hard boiled eggs. We talked about the diffrent parts of an egg. We talked about what a science experiment is and a prediction. We explored what happened when you drop a egg wrapped in diffrent materials. 

On Wednesday morning a group of children went to the care home for a sing song, story and to eat cake. Another group of children went to PE and explored our ball skills through rolling to each other, throwing and catching. In the afternoon we had Jack come and visit us and took about respect. We did some colouring whilst he played his guitar to us. We also went to Reception for a story with Miss Gooden. 

On Thursday some children cooked their apple muffins. Another group of children played a game with sharon which involved them using their memeory and taking turns. Also we visited the school allotements to see what was grwoing. We were great at telling an adult what vegetables we could see. 

On Friday morning we went to Harvest assembly and sand Old McDonald had a farm and Dingle Dangle scarecrow to everyone. We were amazing at assemby. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed the finger frenzy table with wooden fruit threading. This developed our eye and hand co-ordination along with our pincer grip. We have enjoyed exploring the plastic fruit and sorting them into colours and groups in the number area. We have been very creative building marble runs and testing them out. We then went on to adapt them to make them bigger.  We have be constructing with zoo waffle, duplo monsters and mini octagons . On the small world table we have been playing with the allotment scene and sharing our knowledge of growing vegetables. In the playdough we have been playing with the plastic animals, cupcake cases, lollypop sticks, gems, cupcake tins and making cakes. We have also enjoyed playing with the large small world wooden farm. 

We continue to be Respectful Raya which is one of our Building learning Powers. Here is some information about Respectful Raya:-

Some photos from the week.....

 We are going to be exploring pumpkins this week and sharing lots of pumpkin stories. If you have a pumpkin book please do bring it in. We are going to be doing some science experiments, pumpkin soup, pumpkin threading along with lots of other activities to support our learning.

Home learning

-Can you go on a shape hunt at home? How many diffrent shapes can you find?

-Can you help lay the table for dinner at home?

- Can you create a den at home and share a story inside it?

Notices 

It was lovely to see you all at the parent information session. Here is a link to the recording. When you have watched the video please let Julia Know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1s3k04CzU If you have any questions please do come and ask or email.

 

 If you could provide us with a clearly marked water bottle that we can keep at preschool all year. This way we can ensure the children have access to fresh drinking water throughout the days with us. We find the children drink more from their own bottles. Can all drinks bottles be able to be placed in the dishwasher.

Every week there will be a blog about everything we have done during the week, what is happening at pre-school in the next week, home learning you may like to do and notices. This is normally published on a Sunday evening.

We place all lunch boxes in the fridge, please label lunch boxes and drinks bottles with your child's name. If you would like to order your child a hot lunch, please speak to a member of staff and Caroline will arrange a hot lunch code for you. 

It would great if all pre-school t-shirts and jumpers can be named.

On Friday we break up for Half Term and we return on Tuesday 5th November. 

I look forward to meeting with you at parents evening this week on Monday and Wednesday. Please see the sign up sheets. If this times and dates are not convenient please come and speak to Julia to organise a convenient time. 

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have and if you need some WOW slips, please pick some up from the notice board outside.

Applying for Reception Place to start in September 2025

You can apply for a reception place from 1 September 2024.

The closing date for applications is 15 January 2025.

https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/starting-school-for-the-first-time

Powsa Events:-

Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.

Here's to an exciting and amazing week full of fun and adventures. 

We wish you all a very Happy Half term and look forward to hearing all about your adventures when we return. 

Julia, Colleen, Sharon and Lauren

Hello everyone....

 Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a great weekend with family and friends.

Last week we enjoyed listening to a variety of farm stories along with autumn stories. We also talked about diffrent fruit and vegtables and where they grow e.g. on a tree, under the ground, on a plant. 

On Monday morning in small groups we went to look at the big green tractor outside school and used lots of vocabulary to describe it. We did some painting of our own pictures of the green tractor. On Monday group of children went to PE and pretended that we were on the farm, moving in different ways. We began by being the farmer, getting ready for the day on the farm balancing on one foot whilst put on our socks and wellies. 

We then thought about which animals are on the farm and how they moved, do they have 4 legs or 2 legs, do they move quickly or slowly. Do they walk, run, gallop or perhaps flap their wings.

Finally we pretended to feed the chickens concentrating on cross body movement.  In the afternoon we did some conker rolling with the tubes and pipes. It was great fun.

On Tuesday morning did some junk modelling and made tractors. We learnt about how to join materials together. In the afternoon we did some leaf threading using a needle and wool. 

On Wednesday morning a group of children created a shopping list and walked to Tesco's and piced up the shopping list items along with looking around Tesco and all the diffrent things you can buy. A group of us went to the care home for a sing song, story and to eat cake. In the afternoon we made apple boats and explored how they floated and sank. We also went and played on the trim trail and did some great balancing and swinging.

On Thursday we did some vegetable printing. We talked about the different types of vegetable and fruits and where they grow e.g under the ground, on a tree etc. In the afternoon we went to Reception for a story and then on the way back had a play on the playtrail.

On Friday morning we finished our vegetable printing. On Friday afternoon we went to Maiden Castle Farm and learnt all about harvest on the farm. We looked at the cows, sheep and horses. We looked at all farm machinery including the combine harvester. We loved stamping in the muddy puddles. We had a snack in the farm classroom. It was an amazing trip and we all had a great time. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed the finger frenzy table with sunflower heads and tweezers. We used the tweezers to pick the sunflower seeds out of the heads. We practiced using the tweezers one hand and with great hand eye coordination. We have enjoyed exploring the plastic fruit and sorting them into colours and groups in the number area. We have been very creative building marble runs and testing them out. We then went on to adapt them to make them bigger. We have been exploring the torches with different materials including coloured transparent film. We have been talking about what we have observed shinning the torch through the different materials. We have be constructing with zoo waffle and magnetic shapes . On the small world table we have been playing with the allotment scene and sharing our knowledge of growing vegetables. In the playdough we have been playing with the plastic animals and making them homes. 

We continue to be Respectful Raya which is one of our Building learning Powers. Here is some information about Respectful Raya:-

Some photos from the week.. Please see previous post on facebook on school page for farm trip photos.

 We are going to continue to explore food, faith and farming. We are going to be sharing lots of stories about this topic at group time. We have got some visitors coming into preschool. We will be cooking some yummy foods using eggs and apples. At snack time we will have a variety of foods to eat and will be talking about where each of the foods come from along with lots of other activities to support our learning.

Home learning

-Can you cook something new using a recipe?

- Can you name all the foods in a fridge/cupboard?

-Can you go on a Autumn scavenger hunt?

-Can you play catch using a large ball?

Notices 

It was lovely to see you all at the parent information session. Here is a link to the recording. When you have watched the video please let Julia Know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1s3k04CzU If you have any questions please do come and ask or email.

 

 If you could provide us with a clearly marked water bottle that we can keep at preschool all year. This way we can ensure the children have access to fresh drinking water throughout the days with us. We find the children drink more from their own bottles. Can all drinks bottles be able to be placed in the dishwasher.

Every week there will be a blog about everything we have done during the week, what is happening at pre-school in the next week, home learning you may like to do and notices. This is normally published on a Sunday evening.

We place all lunch boxes in the fridge, please label lunch boxes and drinks bottles with your child's name. If you would like to order your child a hot lunch, please speak to a member of staff and Caroline will arrange a hot lunch code for you. 

It would great if all pre-school t-shirts and jumpers can be named.

On  Thursday afternoon at 3.10pm we invite you to come to story time. Please come to the door which you drop off and collect from.  Hope to see you there.

On Friday it is Dress as a Farmer day. Children welcome to come dressed as a farmer.

We welcome you to our family harvest celebration in the main school hall on Friday 18th October at 10.30-11.15. 

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have and if you need some WOW slips, please pick some up from the notice board outside.

Applying for Reception Place to start in September 2025

The Prince of Wales School has an Opening morning on Wednesday 16th October at 9.30am.

You can apply for a reception place from 1 September 2024.

The closing date for applications is 15 January 2025.

https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/starting-school-for-the-first-time

Powsa Events:-

This Friday....

Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.

Here's to an exciting and amazing week full of fun and adventures. 

Julia, Colleen, Sharon and Lauren