Around the world...China

Hello everyone,

WoW what  a brilliant week we had exploring Spain. We started our week off by traveling to Spain on a boat. We all used our imagination and we went through passport control and then on to a ferry. We all had our passports stamped. We had a storm whilst on the boat and we got to eat on the ferry. The children continued their role play in the boat throughout the week. We have been making our own passports by drawing a picture of our faces in the photo box. We talked about our eye colour and colour, length of hair. We had a go at writing our name in the signature box and also how old we are. We all remembered we live in England. At snack time we have enjoyed trying Spanish foods including chorizo, Spanish omelette and olives. On Tuesday morning a group of children made a tapas dish of potato's, chorizo and cheese. It was lovely to look at the Spanish plate that Wren bought in to show everyone. The children really enjoyed this snack. On Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning we looked at different types of boats and then we had a go at making our own boats using a variety of materials. We then had a go at testing them out to see if they float.  On Tuesday morning we had a visit from a Spanish teacher and we learnt hello, bye and head, shoulders knees and toes in Spanish. We enjoyed wearing the magic Spanish hat to talk in Spanish. Throughout the week we have enjoyed making maracas out of paper plates and a variety of different sounds including rice and pasta. We looked at the Spanish flag and how it is different to our flag. We made our own flags. On Thursday we met another Spanish teacher and learnt how to count in Spanish. On Thursday William bought in a book about Lanzarota. We enjoyed sharing his story and found out there was a volcano there. The children were really interested in this. We took this idea further and made our own volcano science experiment with bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and red food colouring. On Thursday we made spanish fans using pastels and folding paper. We also watched some Spanish dancing and had a go ourselves using different fabrics. On Friday afternoon we had great fun playing football on the school field and a game of bingo. 

This week we are going to be flying off to China to explore China and celebrating Chinese New Year. We will trying out lots of different Chinese food. Making some lanterns, exploring Chinese writing, stories and a visit from a parent to talk about living in Hong Kong along with lots more exciting activities. We have got a Chinese restaurant role play area as well. If you have any Chinese resources please do bring them in. 

Home learning

Can you bring in something you have made or have which is about the Chinese Culture?

Letters and sounds:- 

We have had great fun this week making a rhyming soup with a magic wand. We will continue to learn the Read Write Inc Pictures. We will also start with some alliteration. We have been thinking of words beginning with different sounds.

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 23rd January at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

 This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 23rd January  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 25th January from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

This term swimming will take place on a Friday morning. Children who attend on a Friday morning will receive a swimming letter this week. The children swim on a 2 week rota. Swimming will be this week.  

The sign up sheets are up in the corridor for parents evening. If these times and dates are not convenient, please come and see me to arrange a different date and time. 

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

Heres to another exciting  and exploring week.

Julia and Pre-school team

Around the world...Spain

Hello everyone,

Wow, what a great first week back of the new year. It was lovely to hear all about the children's Christmas celebrations with their families. The children have drawn a pictures of their Christmas memories. These are on display in the classroom. We have been really busy talking about where we live and the country we live in. We talked about where we live and the capital city of London. We looked at some pictures on the internet of London Bridge, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace. We also enjoyed finding out about the Queen.  From looking at pictures of London Bridge and Buckingham Place we used different types of construction to have a go at making some models. We enjoyed reading the stories of 'The Queens hat and The Queens Bag'. From these stories we had a go at designing the Queen a new hat and making a new handbag for her. We have talked bout our country flag and the colours on the flag. We painted some Great Britain flags with hard buds and blue and red paint. We also made some London buses. On Monday morning with made cheese on toast for snack. On Wednesday afternoon in small groups made the English traditional pudding Spotted Dick. On Thursday we had the pudding for snack with custard and we thought it was yummy. So much so we had seconds. On Friday for snack we made sandwiches. We spread the butter and put our favourite filling in. We ate them for snack and Ted suggested we had tea to go with our sandwiches. The children really enjoyed tasting tea. On Thursday afternoon we made parachutes with paper and string with playmobil people. This idea came from the story of The Queens Bag. The children really enjoyed testing out their parachutes. On Friday morning we looked at English money and talked about the coins. We did some rubbings of the coins. On Friday afternoon we planted some onions in or veg patch. Throughout the week we have looked after the animals and enjoyed visiting the guinea pigs in their new home.
We have also enjoyed talking about places we have visited in England and looking at where they are on the map and how we could get there. 
We have enjoyed playing in the travel agents and booking each other a holiday. 

This week we are going to sailing to Spain!! We have got our own passports to get stamped and to fill in our own passports. We will be tasting lots of yummy Spanish foods and finding out about the Spanish culture.. We are going to be doing some dancing and making some musicals instruments. We will be having a visit from a Spanish teacher to learn some Spanish and listend to a spanish story. Its going to be a great week. If you have any Spanish resources, please do bring them in. 

Home learning

Can you bring in something you have made or have which is about the Spanish Culture?

Letters and sounds:- 

We have had great fun this week making a rhyming soup with a magic wand. We will continue to learn the Read Write Inc Pictures. We will also start with some alliteration. We have been thinking of words beginning with different sounds.

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 15th January at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

 This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 15th January  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Saturday 18th we have got our first community makeover of the year from 10.00-5.00pm. Please come and join us. Any questions please come and see Julia. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 25th January from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

This term swimming will take place on a Friday morning. Children who attend on a Friday morning will receive a swimming letter this week. The children swim on a 2 week rota. Swimming will this week.  

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

Here to another exciting week.

Julia and Pre-school team

Happy New Year

Hello everyone,

We would all like to wish you a Happy New Year and we hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Thank you for all the lovely presents which we have all enjoyed sharing with our families.



This term we are going to be exploring different countries around the world and celebrations which happen in different countries. This week we will be talking about how we have celebrated Christmas and New Year with our families. With our key workers we will be mark making a picture of a memory from the Christmas holidays and talking about our celebrations.
Alongside this we will be discovering our own country and talking about our capital city London. 
If you have any connections with countries around the world and would like to come in and share you experiences, please come and see me. 

Home learning

Can you bring in a picture or pictures of your Christmas celebrations?

Letters and sounds:- 

We will continue with our rhyming door by adding new rhyming words and playing rhyming games. We will continue to learn the Read Write Inc Pictures. We will also start with some alliteration. 

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 7th January at 3.10pm we have got our story session. Please come and join us. 

 This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 10th January  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 25th January from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

On Tuesday 7th January is a POWSA meeting to discuss future fundraising events. It is in the main school staffroom at 7.30pm. Please see Julia for more details. It would be great to see you there. 

This term swimming will take place on a Friday morning. Children who attend on a Friday morning will receive a swimming letter this week. The children swim on a 2 week rota. Swimming will start next week. 

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

Here to another exciting term.

Julia and Pre-school team

Christmas

Hello everyone,

Last week we have been very busy decorating our yummy Christmas suprises. We are really good at using the rolling pins. we have been making our Christmas cards with lots of finger prints and sparkles. On Monday we really enjoyed watching the nativity puppet show. It was great way to understand the nativity story. The children then went on to tell the nativity story in the small world area with the nativity scene. On Wednesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we played a variety of Christmas games including a Christmas dance. The children really enjoyed playing the Santa key game. On Thursday a group went swimming. We are doing brilliant at singing the Christmas carol songs along with other Christmas songs. Throughout the week we have enjoyed sharing a wide collection of Christmas stories. We have also been making some Christmas decorations with corks and the glue gun.  We have also been doing some Christmas Yoga this week along with tinsel dancing which has been great fun. We have also been Christmas printing a bag to put our Christmas goodies into. It was lovely to see so many of our families at the Christmas breakfast. We all had a wonderful time. 

This week we are going to be continuing with our Christmas decorations and some children will be finishing off their Christmas treats. On Tuesday morning we are going to school to watch the Key Stage 1 Christmas Nativity  dress rehearsal. On Wednesday lunchtime we have got our Christmas Lunch. On Friday morning we have got our Christmas party. We will be playing lots of Christmas party games. We will continue sharing lots of Christmas stories. Please do bring in your favourite Christmas stories. We have got some onion sets to plant in the garden as well this week. 

Home Learning

When you are out and about can you recognise different logos e.g. the Tesco sign or car make signs? Can you make a poster of ones you have found?

If you have a favourite Christmas story or song, please bring into pre-school so we can share at group time.

Notices

On Tuesday 17th December it is the carol service at St Marys Church. If your child is taking part please arrive at the church between 4.30-4.45pm. Children need to come in costume. The service starts at 5.00pm. Any questions, please come and see Julia.

On Thursday 19th December  we have our story time at 3.10pm. Please come and join us. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of 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 19th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Wednesday 18th December is our Christmas Lunch. If your child is staying for lunch and then going home. Please pick up at 1.00pm.

There is no swimming this week

On Friday 20th December we have got our Christmas party from 9-12.00pm. Please come and sing up on the food list which is displayed in the corridor. Children may come in Christmas party wear. We are going over to school for 9.05, pre-school door will open at 9.50 to enable us to get to school for 9.05.

We break up for Christmas on Friday 20th December and return on Monday 6th January. 

Here to another fantastic week.

Julia and Pre-school Team

Christmas

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a great time visiting the garden centre and the cafe. We all enjoyed looking at the Christmas displays and decorations. We talked lots about the shapes, colours, textures and words to describe the decorations. We looked at the nativity scene and talked about the Christmas Story. We all loved trying on lots of Christmas hats and glasses. Pictures will be up on display this week. We then all enjoyed having a drink in the cafe. 

We have been very busy in the kitchen cooking a yummy Christmas surprise. Throughout the week we have been sharing a variety of Christmas stories and songs. We are getting really confident with the actions to our carols for the carol service.

Towards the end of the week we have started making our Christmas card using our fingerprints. 

On Wednesday a group had PE with Mr Treble and played a variety of games outside.

On Thursday afternoon we had great fun playing Santa hide and seek outside. Also we had great fun dancing to Christmas songs and frozen with tinsel. A group of children helped Caroline decorate the tree in the hall. On Friday afternoon a group of children went to St Georges Church to decorate the Christmas tree for the festival. We made all the decorations linked to the song of the twelve days of Christmas. Please pop by the church and take a look. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed riding on the polar express at the main school and looking t the North Pole display. We liked the science show on Monday morning. 

This week we will be continuing with making our yummy Christmas surprise and our Christmas cards. We will also be making some Christmas decorations. On Monday morning we have got a puppet show of the Christmas story. On Wednesday we have got PE with Mr Treble and on Thursday we have got swimming. We will continue to share lots of Christmas stories and learning our Christmas songs. 

Letters and Sounds

We will be using the signs from Read write inc which are "my turn, your turn" "talk to your partner". Looking at stories with rhyming endings. We have got a rhyming door in our classroom and we will be adding our rhyming words to the door. This week we will be learning the Read Write Inc picture names: Orange, kangaroo, Girl, caterpillar, net, pirate, tower, insect dinosaur, snake Maisie next to the mountain and apple. We will be using Fred the Frog. 

Home Learning

When you are out and about can you recognise different logos e.g. the Tesco sign or car make signs? Can you make a poster of ones you have found?

If you have a favourite Christmas story or song, please bring into pre-school so we can share at group time.

Notices

Please remember to check your Child’s post pocket when you hang up coats. Caroline puts lots of important letters, it gets quite busy with lots going on over the Christmas period.

On Wednesday 11th December  we have our story time at 3.10pm. Please come and join us. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. If you are able to arrive as close to 3:10pm as possible that would be fantastic, if you do not make it until after 3:15 we would politely request that you wait to collect your child at the normal pick up time as, I am sure you will appreciate, it is quite disturbing for the children and also getting ready for the end of the day is a busy time. Many thanks for your support and cooperation on this matter. 

On Friday 13th December is Christmas Jumper day supporting Save the Children. Suggested donation of £1.00.

  It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 11th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Friday 13th December from 3.30pm is the Christmas Fair in the main school hall. Please come and join us and raise money for POWSA.  Father Christmas is at the event and a slot can be booked at the main school office. 

On Thursday 12th December is our family Christmas breakfast from 8.30-9.15am. Please return slip to help us cater for the event. 

If your child would like a Christmas lunch, please see myself or Caroline for a Hot lunch code. These need to ordered by Monday 9th December.Here's to another great week.

If your child is taking part in the Christmas carol service on Tuesday 17th December, please provide them with a costume for the animal they have been given. If you have any questions, please do come and see me. 

Julia and Pre-school Team  

Missing beautiful black and white jelly cat cuddly toy

Hello everyone,

Could everyone have a look in bags for Wren’s very special black and white cat. He has gone missing today. Please email me at j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk if you find him.

Many thanks

Julia

Christmas :-)

Hello everyone,

Last week we had a great week making the decorations for the Christmas tree Festival at St Georges Church. We listened to the story of the 12 days of Christmas and talked about the different objects in the song. We then all had a go at making a decoration for the tree. 
We have now all been to post box and posted our Christmas Breakfast invitation to you. We really enjoyed going to the post box and we hope you liked your invitation. On Friday afternoon we had a special visitor. Albert's dad who is a postman came and visited us We looked at his post van. 
We have enjoyed making marble runs and building with the wood blocks this week. Some great models created. 
We have enjoyed listening to different rhyming stories and we are becoming confident with rhyming. We love to hear the children's rhyming words.
On Wednesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we did a variety of games in the hall. 
On Thursday a group went swimming and we are becoming more confident at collecting hoops from the bottom of the pool. 
On Friday morning a group of children went to watch Year 1 assembly. We did some brilliant listening and watching. We have been out on the balance bikes and have started learning some Christmas songs in preparation for our carol service. 

This week we are going to the garden centre in small groups and will be visiting the cafe for a drink. We will be looking at all the decorations and talking about colour, shape, texture and the story of Christmas. 
We are also going to be cooking and making a yummy surprise to bring home at Christmas. We will  start making some Christmas decorations to bring home at the end of term. We are going to be reading lots of Christmas stories and singing lots of carols and Christmas songs. On Wednesday we have got PE and Thursday there is swimming. We will be sharing the story of The Nativity this week. We have lots of Christmas activities to challenge our learning. 

Letters and Sounds

We will be using the signs from Read write inc which are "my turn, your turn" "talk to your partner". Looking at stories with rhyming endings. We have got a rhyming door in our classroom and we will be adding our rhyming words to the door. This week we will be learning the Read Write Inc picture names: Girl, Orange, caterpillar, net, pirate, tower, insect dinosaur, snake Maisie next to the mountain and apple. We will be using Fred the Frog. 

Home Learning

When you are out and about can you recognise different logos e.g. the Tesco sign or car make signs? Can you make a poster of ones you have found?

If you have a favourite Christmas story or song, please bring into pre-school so we can share at group time.

Notices

On Tuesday 3rd December  we have our story time at 3.10pm. Please come and join us. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. If you are able to arrive as close to 3:10pm as possible that would be fantastic, if you do not make it until after 3:15 we would politely request that you wait to collect your child at the normal pick up time as, I am sure you will appreciate, it is quite disturbing for the children and also getting ready for the end of the day is a busy time. Many thanks for your support and cooperation on this matter. 

On Friday 6th December is non-school uniform day. Please bring in a  tombola prizes for the Christmas Fayre - teddies, bottles, chocolates and general tombola all very welcome! 

  It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 6th December from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

On Thursday a group of children will be swimming. 

On Tuesday 3rd December is the next POWSA meeting in the staff room at 7.30pm. Please do come and join us. 

In each child's post pockets is a brown envelope for ordering the Christmas cards they have made. The preview and orders can be seen at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk/product-category/prince-of-wales/. Orders needs to be placed by 9th December or in the brown envelopes by 25th November. 

On Thursday 12th December is our family Christmas breakfast from 8.30-9.15am. Please return slip to help us cater for the event. 

On Friday 13th December is the Christmas Fair from 3.00-5.30pm. Father Christmas is at the event and a slot can be booked at the main school office. 
If your child would like a Christmas lunch, please see myself or Caroline for a Hot lunch code. These need to ordered by Monday 9th December.

Here's to another great week.

Julia and Pre-school Team