Hi everyone

Hi everyone,

Here are some interactive ideas based on the story of The Gingerbread Man.......

There is a great gingerbread number game to play https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/gingerbread-man-game

You may like to listened to the song of 5 gingerbread men @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ3dzFK6BI

The story of The Gingerbread Man on the CBeebies Radio @ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p072vhzg

Have a great rest of the week and we look forward to hearing more about your home adventures. 

Keep smiling 😃

Julia, Helen, Colleen, Sharon and Karen 

Hello everyone...

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a good weekend.  We would like to thank you all for your support, as always during this challenging time. We have enjoyed seeing all your amazing home learning you have been sending in. It looks like you have all been having lots of fun adventures. Keep sending all the wonderful things you are up to by emailing them to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk and headteacher@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk. 

This week we will be continuing the story of The gingerbread man and we have got lots of activities planned during the week including making a bridge outside with large construction, gingerbread men threading, making a puppet of the gingerbread man, acting out the story, making a display of the story of gingerbread man using different materials and textures, gingerbread stamping, making a raft/boat for the gingerbread man to cross the river, gingerbread number game on the computer.

Things you might like to do at home this week....

Everyday Mr Spracklen has Good morning POW at 9.30, 11.20 virtual assembly and 4.00pm Evening POW. This can be accessed on Facebook and you tube and is a great way of seeing what everyone is up to. It's really interactive and guarantee to make you smile. 

The Banana Challenge- Each person in the family has a banana. The challenge is to see who can cut the banana into the most pieces! Can you count how many pieces? Who has the more or less pieces? How many altogether? Ready Steady Go!

Fruit Hoops Bird Feeder

The weather is really cold at the moment and the birds need lots of food during the winter, can you make one of these and hang it outside?

Step 1

Ask a grown-up to cut cubes of apple and cheese.

Step 2

Be very careful and ask a grown-up to help you thread fruit and cheese onto the wire like a necklace.

Step 3

Make a hoop with the wire and tie it to some string. Ready!

BUBBLE SNAKES 

YOU WILL NEED

Washing up liquid, water, bowl, plastic bottle, sock, scissors

WHAT TO DO

Cut bottom off  bottle and place sock over.

Put washing up lid and water into a bowl.

Pop the cock end into the solution and the take out and blow through the lid end.

The more you blow, the longer your snake

                                                                                                                            Notices

Last week we sent out a letter explaining that you would be able to come and collect your home learning packs. As we are open we will be giving the children who are attending the home learning packs when they are in at Preschool towards the end of the week. If your child is not attending pre-school we will deliver the home learning packs to you at home.

If you are not attending pre-school you will not be charged for your sessions. If you are attending sessions Caroline will send out an invoice for these sessions soon.

Local Food Links is continuing with hot lunches, If your child normally has a hot lunch and is going to be attending Pre-school these can now be ordered as normal. We have ordered enough hot lunches for this week for all children who would normally have a hot lunch.

We love seeing all the lovely home learning you are all doing so please do email it in to j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk and headteacher@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk 

Stay safe and we will look forward to speaking or seeing you soon.

Julia, Sharon, Helen, Karen and Colleen

Happy New Year and Welcome back to the Spring term

 

Hello everyone,

We would all like to wish you a Happy New Year and we hope you had a wonderful Christmas. Thank you for the lovely gift of vouchers for the team to to enjoy a meal together at YC'S. We are all really looking forward to doing this when we can. Also thank you for all the lovely presents  which we have all enjoyed sharing with our families.

This week we will be sharing the story of The gingerbread man and have got lots of great activities planned including cooking our own gingerbread men, using large construction outside to help the gingerbread man cross the river, some science experiments to enable us to make predictions of what might happen, gingerbread men puppets, acting out the story. We will be learning the 5 little gingerbread men song, here is the link to the song- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ3dzFK6BI&list=PLjKs_NzR8ACoYWc_fGJXSYOb_OF68OJ3R&index=1

At group time we will also be talking about our adventures at Christmas, children are really welcomed to bring in photos to share. 

Letters and Sounds

Last term we introduced Maisie next to the Mountain, Apple, Snake, Tower, Dinosaur, Insect from the read write inc cards. We will also continue with Fred talk with Fred the frog. This week we will continue with our rhyming games. introduce net, pirate and girls from the read write inc cards. 

Home Learning

When you bring home your gingerbread men, can you decorate them and bring a photo in of your yummy decorated gingerbread men?

Notices

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have. If you would like some WOW slips, these can be found on the outside notice board in a wallet.

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Over the next couple of weeks we will send the Magical moments books home so you can contribute your Christmas adventures.

On Tuesday 5th January @7.30pm in the main school staff room is a POWSA meeting. If you would like more information please speak to a member of staff.

Primary school applications:- You can now apply for your child's place for Primary schools. The closing date for application is the 15th January 2021. Here is the link:-  https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/education-and-training/schools-and-learning/apply-for-a-school-place/starting-school-for-the-first-time.aspx

Here's to amazing  first week back.

Julia, Karen, Colleen, Helen and Sharon

A magical last week of term...

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. 

WOW, I can't believe we are just about to have our final week of the Autumn term. It has been amazing  term with lot's of adventures full of fun and learning. It has been lovely to watch the children grow in confidence and their progress across all areas of their learning. 

Last week we have been busy decorating our Christmas cakes to bring home this week. We have also been making some fantastic Christmas crafts to bring home.

We have been enjoying sharing lot's of Christmas stories at group time . If you have a Christmas story at home, you are very welcome to bring it to pre-school to share at group time.

On Monday we really enjoyed watching the show of The Elves and the shoemakers and joining in with the show. 

On Tuesday morning we had PE with Mr Treble and we practiced our balancing and spatial awareness skills with a variety of games.

On Wednesday and Thursday morning we had great fun singing and playing with the Grinch at pre-school.

On Thursday and Friday we made a Santa's sleigh out of crates and wheels and had great fun playing Santa and Rudolph outside. On Friday afternoon we enjoyed playing number Bingo. 

This week we are going to finish off our Christmas crafts to bring home. we will continue to share some lovely Christmas stories and songs.  On Tuesday morning we have got Mr Treble for some Christmas dancing. On Thursday afternoon we have 2 surprise visitors coming. 

Letters and Sounds

Last week we introduced dinosaur and tower from the read write inc cards. We will also began Fred talk with Fred the frog. This week we will continue with our rhyming games. introduce insect, net and pirate from the read write inc cards. We will also begin Fred talk with Fred the frog. 

Home Learning

Can you go on a shape hunt and find as many different shapes as you can? Can you name the shapes? Can you describe the shape? 

Notices

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have. If you would like some WOW slips, these can be found on the outside notice board in a wallet.

On Tuesday evening it is the virtual Christmas Carol service at 5.00pm via Facebook and Youtube.

On Wednesday lunch time we have got our Christmas dinner. It's going to be yummy.

On Thursday evening it is the Virtual Christmas quiz via Facebook and Youtube. 

On Friday we have got our Christmas party in the morning from 9-12.30pm. Children will need to bring in their own lunch with a Christmas theme and all wrapped up. We are going to have a great time and play some party games.

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas.

Here's to a magical week.

Julia, Helen, Colleen, Sharon and Karen

Christmas is coming....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a fantastic weekend.

Last week we have enjoyed listening to the Nativity story along with lots of other Christmas stories. We have been very busy singing jingle bells, when Santa got stuck up the chimney and Rudolph the red nose reindeer. 

Every morning this week a group of children have been busy in the kitchen making their very own Christmas cakes to bring home at the end of term. They look and smell delicious. 

On Monday we used the Christmas sponges to do some printing on paper to then make in to paper chains. In the afternoon we made our own snowflakes and we loved unfolding the snowflake once we had made the snips to see the surprise. We then put silver glitter on them.

 

On Tuesday we had PE with Mr Treble. We worked together in pairs in bouncing a ball into the hoop and we played a game of stuck in the mud. In the afternoon we made a swirly Christmas tree which helped us practice our scissors skills.  We also threaded some cheerios onto a pipe cleaner to hang outside for the birds.

On Wednesday we made paper chains with our printed paper and these are up in our classroom. In the afternoon we made Christmas shaped fat balls for the birds in our garden. We also took Santa on a sleigh ride around the school. This was great fun. We worked in teams to pull the sleigh.  

On Thursday morning we made an obstacle course in the hall. We moved in a variety of ways including balancing, jumping, twisting, hopping etc. We challenge ourselves to move along the bench in lots of different ways. In the afternoon we went in groups to go puddle jumping in our new all in one suits. We thought we looked like the Grinch as we were all green. It was so much fun and we found some great puddles. We also made some salt dough Christmas tree decorations.

On Friday we painted our hedgehogs we made out of salt dough a few weeks back. We also went in small groups to soft play. In the afternoon we went to the trim trail at school. We did some amazing balancing, swinging, climbing. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed playing in the Winter wonderland room with Santa's workshop, Christmas fuzzy felt and polar express train set. We have been busy using the play dough with Christmas tree cutters and decorating our tree's with buttons, gems, pom poms. On the painting easel with have decorated the precept Christmas tree shapes. We have enjoyed exploring the sensory tray which is full of a variety of Christmas objects to feel, smell, see. We have been recognising numerals 1-6 and decorating them with the correct number of objects. We have enjoyed the small world scene of Father Christmas, reindeer, white fabric, polar bears, blue shiny fabric, blue rice and making up our own stories. We have been playing the hedgehog number game with our friends this week.

This week we have got lots more fun Christmas activities to do this week. We are going to be decorating our Christmas cakes, decorating our salt dough Christmas Tree's decorations and lots more suprises..

Some of our learning in pictures this week.....

Letters and Sounds

Last week we introduced Maisie next to the mountain, apple and snake from the read write inc cards. We will also began Fred talk with Fred the frog. This week we will continue with our rhyming games. introduce dinosaur, tower, insect from the read write inc cards. We will also begin Fred talk with Fred the frog. 

Home Learning

Can you go on a shape hunt and find as many different shapes as you can? Can you name the shapes? Can you describe the shape? 

Notices

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have. If you would like some WOW slips, these can be found on the outside notice board in a wallet.

On Monday we are going to be watching the performance of Elves and the shoemaker. Children are welcome to dress up as elves on Monday, although this of course is not compulsory!

Also on Monday we have our Christmas story telling session with hot chocolate and a biscuit around the Christmas tree and magical lights in the main school hall at 4.15-4.50pm. Children are welcome to come in pyjamas, dressing gowns, onesies and slippers along with bringing their favourite cuddly toy. The pre-school team will greet the children at the back doors of the main school hall doors and pick up will also be from here. 

On Wednesday and Thursday it would be great if the children could come in with a piece of Christmas headwear for our Christmas sing song recording. 

On Friday it is Save the Children Christmas Jumper day. Children can come to Pre-school in their Christmas jumper with a donation for Save the Children. 

Also on Friday it is the Christmas Virtual school Disco at 5.00pm. An email has sent been out with login details. 

Here is the information from the Dorchester primary schools of some virtual look arounds and videos. Here are the details for Damers First school 

There is a virtual video tour of St Marys Catholic First school. Here is the link for this:- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6SwMyVJNjY&feature=youtu.be

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Here's to another amazing week.

Julia, Karen, Colleen, Helen and Sharon

Christmas....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. 

Last week we have all enjoyed listening to the story of Stickman and joining in with the repeated refrains and rhyming ends. We are becoming amazing at rhyming words and have really enjoyed singing jingle bells, when Santa got stuck up the chimney and on a starry night. 

On Monday we really enjoyed the Christmas winter wonderland surprise at Pre-school and had great fun exploring the different areas. We also enjoyed going over to school to see the Winter Wonderland scene in the main school hall. We also made our own stickman out of cardboard tubes and a variety of different materials. In the afternoon we made large baubles using a salad spinner with marbles and paint. It was great fun finding out what happened. 

On Tuesday we had PE with Mr Treble and we played some great games. We had a challenge of finding different natural objects and picking up as many as we could in 10 seconds. At the end we had the challenge of creating a smiley face. We also played a game of toilet tag, which was great fun. We continued making our stickman. In the afternoon we went on a stick hunt and made our sticks into stickman and put them in water, We then placed the water and stickman in the freeze to see what might happen.

On Wednesday we discovered the frozen stickman and exploring ways of freeing stickman. We had a great idea of using warm water to melt the ice. We went on a stick hunt around the school grounds finding different sticks like long, short, curvy etc and recording them on or tally chart. We also found a hedgehog. At group time we watched the film of stickman which we really enjoyed watching. In the afternoon we found a stick to make a wand. We wrapped our sticks in our chosen colour of wool and then decorated a star to put on the end. We had great fun using our wands. 

On Thursday we made some more wands and drew our candy canes for the schools display in Dorchester town.  We discovered the frozen stickman and exploring ways of freeing stickman.

On Friday we had a great day outside in the pre-school garden and did a great job sweeping up the leaves and going to the compost with the wheelbarrows. 

Throughout the week we have really all the Christmas winter wonderland role play area including wrapping/unwrapping presents, making cards, dressing up, playing in the sleigh. We have also enjoyed experimenting with ice and stickman. The children have liked the threading pens and boards and creating all sorts of patterns. We have been busy making stickman in the play dough and making bugs out of k'nex. 

This week we are going to be sharing lot's of Christmas stories in particular The Nativity Story. We will continue to be singing lots of Christmas songs and rhymes. We are going to be busy in the kitchen making our very own Christmas cakes along with lot's of Christmas crafts to bring home at the end of term. 

Our learning this week in pictures...

Letters and Sounds

We will continue with our rhyming games. This week will introduce Maisie next to the mountain, apple and snake from the read write inc cards. We will also begin Fred talk with Fred the frog. 

Home Learning

Can you go on a shape hunt and find as many different shapes as you can? Can you name the shapes? Can you describe the shape? 

Notices

Please bring any WOW's for our WOW board you have. If you would like some WOW slips, these can be found on the outside notice board in a wallet.

On Wednesday 2nd December there is a POWSA meeting in the school staff room at 7.30pm. If you would like more information please let me know.

If you would like breakfast/after school club next half term, please returns forms by this Friday and payment if applicable. 

Here is the information from the Dorchester primary schools of some virtual look arounds and videos. Here are the details for Damers First school 

There is a virtual video tour of St Marys Catholic First school. Here is the link for this:- 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6SwMyVJNjY&feature=youtu.be

If you would like your child to have a Christmas Dinner on Wednesday 16th December and they don't normally have a hot lunch, please email Caroline @ preschool@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk for a code to login to the Local food links page. Please see letter for more details.

You can order your child's Christmas cards they have made at https://www.myschoolart.co.uk

This has been kindly organised by POWSA as a fundraising event. 

Please always remember you can  call or email  us anytime if you have a question or need anything.

My email is: j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk

Here's to another magical week.

Julia, Helen, Colleen, Sharon and Karen

Winter wonderland surprise

 Evening everyone,

This morning all the children enjoyed the winter wonderland surprise at Pre-school. Here are some pictures of the winter wonderland . If your child was not in Pre-school today, we look forward to welcoming them tomorrow for the Winter wonderland surprise. 

The children have really enjoyed exploring and being imaginative within the different areas of winter wonderland today.

Here's to lots more magical Christmas fun.

Julia, Helen, Karen, Colleen and Sharon