Hello everyone,
We hope you have all had a great weekend with family and friends. What beautiful Autumn weather we have had.
Last week we enjoyed listening to the different variations of Shark in the Park. We listened to Shark in the dark, Shark in the park and Shark in the park on a windy day and Oh no, Shark in the Snow. We were great at joining in with the repeated refrains.
On Monday and Tuesday morning we had great fun exploring and experimenting using the torches in a dark room. We made shark shadows along with other shadows. We found sharks which were hiding around the room with our torches. We talked about what we saw and did. We also finished our Christmas cards. On Tuesday afternoon we went to forest school for an explore and play. We had a lovely time.
On Wednesday morning a group of us went to the care home for a sing song, story and to eat cake. The other group went to the park and had great fun exploring all the playground equipment. We did lots of swinging, sliding, climbing and balancing. In the afternoon we had our Relax Kids session with Sian. We had a lovely time playing games, stretching, peer massage and Relaxing.
On Thursday morning we made shark pizza's for afternoon snack or to bring home. We were great at spreading on the tomatoe sauce and trying olives and peppers. In the afternoon we went to the park and had great fun exploring all the playground equipment. We did lots of swinging, sliding, climbing and balancing.
On Friday morning we put on our wellies and waterproofs and went for a puddle walk around school. We had great fun jumping in puddles. In afternoon we had a lovely time in soft play and finished off with hot chocolate for snack.
Throughout the week we have enjoyed our vocabluarly tray of objects. We have enjoyed playing with the small world Oh no, Shark in the snow small world scene. We have been busy using our real life experiences to play in the role play home corner. On the finger frenzy table we were threading teddies and shapes onto thread. We have been busy constructing with the duplo, wooden animals bricks, transparent shapes and coloured blocks and pebbles. In the number area we have been exploring making towers with unifix cubes. We have counted how high our towers our and using tall and short vocabularly.
We met Respectful Raya which is one of our Building learning Powers. Here is some information about Respectful Raya:-
For the next fortnight we are going to be exploring food, faith and farming. We are going to be sharing lots of stories about this topic at group time. 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 have a go at putting your own shoes on this week?
Can you recognise your name?
Can you go on a shape hunt and find objects which are circle, square, triangle and rectangle?
Can you cook something which comes from eggs? Talk about where the different ingredients come from. Using vocab like ingredients, recipe etc
Notices
Last week each child came home with a Navy drawstring bag with the preschool logo. Please fill this bag with one whole set of spare clothes. These will be kept at school and onl come home if your child has been changed.
On Thursday we have our story time session at 3.10pm. Please come along to the classroom door at 3.05 and join us for story time.
On Tuesday afternoon we have our trip. Please can children bring in wellies and all in one waterproofs. If you dont have an all in one we have spares at preschool to borrow. Please see email for all details of trip.
On Saturday from 10.00-11.30 we have our Stay and Play session. Everyone welcome. Hope to see you there.
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 and have no straws.
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.
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 2026
You can apply for a reception place from 1 September 2025.
The closing date for applications is 15 January 2026.
https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/w/starting-school-for-the-first-time
Prince of Wales School have a opening morning on Wednesday 8th October @9.15am. This session will consist of a tour around our school and a parent/carer question and answer session.
To book a place, please fill in our online form at -
Damer's open Days are as follows-
Wednesday 15th October 9am
Tuesday 4th November 6pm
Powsa Events
On Wednesday evening at 7.30pm in the main school staffroom is POWSA monthly catchup. Everyone welcome. Hope to see you there.
This Friday we have our famous Autumn Fest. Tickets on sell from Monday from the main school office.
Please do come and see myself or a member of team if you have any questions.
Here's to an exciting and amazing first week back full of fun and adventures.
Julia, Colleen, Lauren and Lauren
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