Hello everyone......

 Hello everyone,

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

Last week we had a great week continuing to explore fireworks through a variety of activities. We also explored Remembrance Day and Children in Need Day.

On Monday we talked about Remembrance Day and watched the CBeebies poppies video. We also made a poppy biscuit to bring home. We also created our own poppy using tissue paper, crayons and felt tips. We also had PE and we used the large climbing equipment and beches to explore climbing and balancing. 

On Tuesday we went to the woods and explored Autumn. We looked at all the diffrent coloured leaves and how they have changed. We also talked about the diffrent types of trees. We learnt all about evergreen tree's. We had a great time climbing on logs and balancing. We also enjoyed running down the hills. We played hide the adult and seek them out. We found lot's of horse chest nuts. In the afternoon we recalled our trip to the woods and drew some pictures of our trip to the woods. 

On Wednesday morning a group of children had PE with Colleen and Lauren. We used some equipment to practice jumping off and landing on two feet, balancing and climbing over and under. Another group went to the care home for a sing song and a yummy cake. The children are becoming more confident with talking to the residents. In the afternoon we created our own firework names. We had to find our name and then make it into rocket. We peeled the star stickers off and stuck them on our picture.

On  Wednesday and Thursday we created a Christmas Picture for the Tesco shopping trolleys. Look out for your design.

On Thursday afternoon we played shape bingo in small groups. Throughout the week we have also been playing the hedgehog game.

On Friday we learnt all about Children in Need and we coloured in Pudsey Bears. In the afternoon we had Razz and we had a great time dancing and going on a bear hunt. 

Throughout the week we have been busy constructing with K'nex, geomag and magnetic shapes. Our finger frenzy this week has been using spinners.We loved making the spinner spin.  We have been exploring our object tray and learning lots of new vocabularly. On the small world table for had a bonfire small world scene with wooden people. In our role play are we have been playing with the woodland and campfire scene along with the tent. We have been making firework using playdough. 

This week we met Reggie the Resilient Tortoise which is one of our Building learning Powers. Here is some information about Reggie the Resilient Tortoise:-

Here are some pictures from this week...

This week we will be learning about Spiders and Hedgehogs. we have lots of exciting learning planned. We are also going to be making the decorations for the Christmas Tree Festival at St Georges Church.

Home learning:

Can you practice catching a large ball?

Can you recognise some words which word from a Julia Donaldson story?

Can you go a Shape hunt and name the different shapes you find? Can you describe the shape e.g. corners, sides, points

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 Tuesday 19th November we have Stay and Learn from 9.00-9.20am. We look forward to seeing you there.

 We also have a Stay and Play session on Saturday  23rd November in the morning from 10-11.30am. 

It was great to see everyone at parents evening before Half term. If you were unable to make an appointment please do come and speak to Julia to arrange a convenient time to catch up

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:-

Don't forget to book.....

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