Hello everyone.....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a great weekend despite the heavy down pours of  rain. 

Last week we enjoyed talking about and learning about our families. We shared the photos of our families at group time and talked about who is in our family. The children really enjoyed this and if they haven't bought a photo in yet, they are very welcome to this week as well. 

We have been busy drawing and painting pictures of our families. We have shared a couple of stories about families. 

On Monday in the afternoon we made our own static electric butterflies using ballons. By rubbing the balloons on our jumpers or hair made the tissue paper wings on the butterfly move up and down. 

For PE with Mr Treble we have now split into two groups and group 1 went this week. We played Pac man using the lines on the playground. We also played jumping onto the different coloured lillypads. We went on the field and played find the cone which was great fun.  This week it will be group 2 for PE. In the afternoon on Tuesday we used clay to make our own face on the trees using natural objects like stones, grasss and sticks for eyes, hair etc. We created pre-school family trees. In the afternoon we had great fun looking for bugs and using the magnifying glasses to look at them. We ticked off bugs we found and drew them as well.

On Wednesday we had great fun risk taking and jumping off different heights of crates and landing on two feet. We were amazing at this and loved doing it.

On Thursday we celebrated Eid with Yasmine, Raneen and Hussain's family. Yasmine's mum and brother came into pre-school for the morning and we celebrated Eid by making Eid cookies, Eid cards and watching a Disney Junior short film/song about Eid. It was great fun making the cookies using the special tool to make the pattern on the cookie. In the afternoon we used black eyeliner to make Eid patterns on our hands.  We used chalk to draw mosque outside.

On Friday afternoon we had a great time playing on the play trail and the yellow slide. We were amazing and confident at climbing up the ladder to the slide all by ourselves. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed bathing the dolls and taking care of them by washing, dressing them and brushing their teeth. We have also been creating car and balls runs using draining pipes and guttering. We came up with great ideas of how to adapt them and add to the initial idea. We had been creating people and monsters using the popiods. 

For the next 2 weeks we are going to be exploring how to keep ourselves safe and healthy. We will be doing a variety of activities this week about healthy food, exercising and the effects of exercising and learning the names of part of bodies. 

Home learning Challenge

Can you help with a small job at home? For example setting the table for dinner, tidying up, watering the plants etc

Can you try a new food at home? We would love to hear a new food you have tried.

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. Please  apply suncream to your child before school and tick your child's name off on the list which will be on the green table by the pre-school door. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure either it is in their bags or a spare is kept at pre-school. 

On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.

Henry is missing a pre-school jumper which has his name in. Please could we check jumpers. 

We are also looking out for Adalynn's   LOL sunhat.

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

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Heres to another amazing week of adventures.

Julia,Sharon, Karen, Helen, Suzanne and Colleen

Hello everyone.....

 

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a lovely weekend despite the rainy weather. A great weekend for puddle jumping. 

Last week we continue with the story of Jack and the beanstalk and on Friday we shared the story of Jasper's beanstalk. 

On Tuesday we used our welly boot printed beanstalk to add some natural objects like leaves, sticks etc. We went on a hunt around the school grounds to pick up a variety of objects. We explored the different textures. In the afternoon we made some chalk paint by crunching chalk with a stone and adding water to it. We then painted our own pictures with the chalk paint onto black paper. We had Mr Treble for PE and we were on the school field. We did some great climbing and balancing on the trim trail. We also used bean bags to see how far we could throw them and aiming them into a goal. We finished off with a game of toilet tag which we all loved.On Wednesday we put some bean seeds into plastic bags and watered them. We are looking forward to watching them grow and to see the roots and the changes the beans make. In afternoon we played the bean game which involved naming different beans and moving in that way e.g. runner bean=running, string bean-standing on tiptoes, jelly bean-Wobbly moving.On Thursday we acted out the story of Jack and the beanstalk using the tree house. It was so much fun that we acting out the story a few times and then the children acted out their own version. On Friday we did some magic with the sun, water, leaves and special sunlight paper. We arranged our leaves on to the special paper and then let the sun shine down onto the paper. We then put our paper in water and it left the pattern of the leaves. We made some mud kitchen giant soup using natural ingredients from the garden. Throughout the week we have used the puppet theatre to retell the story of Jack and the beanstalk with the puppets. We have been busy creating models with the magnetic shapes including some houses for the teddies to live in. We used rulers and different objects to measure the beanstalks in the number area. We made habitats for the underwater sea animals in the wood block area and water play. We played a game with the beanbags and had a go at throwing them in the giants mouth. We pretended a crate was his mouth and that the beanbags were sausages. 

This week we are going to be exploring families and on Thursday we are going to be celebrating the festival of Eid with Yasmine. Yasmine's mum is going to be joining us for the day and we will be celebrating Eid with a variety of activities. If there are any traditions, celebrations or festivals that your family do and you would like to share at pre-school, please come and let us know. 

Home learning Challenge

Can you bring a picture in of your family to share at group time and for our class display?

Can you help with a small job at home? For example setting the table for dinner, tidying up, watering the plants etc

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. Please  apply suncream to your child before school and tick your child's name off on the list which will be on the green table by the pre-school door. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure either it is in their bags or a spare is kept at pre-school. 

On Wednesday 12th May in the evening at 8.00pm, there is a parent zoom information session. A link will be sent out on Wednesday for this meeting. If you have any questions you would like to ask please do email me. 

On Saturday 15th May we have our community makeover day 10.00am-4.00pm. If you would like more information or would like to volunteer please email j.nineham@princeofwales.dorset.sch.uk.

On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.

Henry is missing a pre-school jumper which has his name in. Please could we check jumpers. 

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

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Heres to another fantastic week of adventures.

Julia, Karen, Helen, Sharon, Colleen and Suzanne

Hello everyone....

 

Hello everyone, 

We hope you are all having a wonderful bank holiday weekend.

Last week we enjoyed sharing the story of Jack and the beanstalk. At snack time we tried green beans and had baked beans on toast. On Monday afternoon we went on a golden egg hunt in the forest school area. On Tuesday afternoon we painted with plants and fruits like raspberries. We had great fun bashing them and exploring colour.  On Thursday and Friday afternoon we planted our own magic beans and drew a castle for the bean to grew up too. If you haven't done ones of these yet you will next week. On Friday morning we created our own beanstalk with welly and foot printing. It was great fun.  On Friday morning we also created a great game of seeing how far we could jump and pretending the ruler was the beanstalk and then we adapted our game to seeing if we could jump over the castle. 

On Tuesday morning we had PE with Mr Treble and we played some games including sleepy pirate, follow my leader, moving in different ways like an animal. 

Throughout the week we have enjoyed making castles in the shaving foam, having a game of throwing the beanbags into the hoops. Each hoop had different points. We were amazing at throwing under and over arm and scoring some great points. We used the planks as surfboards and went surfing down the hill and Julia called out big wave, little wave. We threaded beads onto the pipe cleaners and we counted out the magic beans to match the numeral on the beanstalk leaf. We used the small  props to recall the story of Jack and the beanstalk. 

On Wednesday we extended our play from the week before of car servicing to car washing. We got the buckets, cloths and bubbles out and washed the pre-school bikes. It was great fun. We watched the story of Jack and the beanstalk on the television.

This week we are continuing with the story of Jack and the beanstalk along with the story of Jasper's beanstalk. We will be continuing with planting our beans to bring home, harp threading, bean experiment, leaf art in the sunshine science experiment, collage our enormous welly and foot print beanstalk and more.

Home learning Challenge

At pre-school this week and next week we are planting a magic bean to grow to our castle. The children are bringing these home to look after. It would be great to see some photos when they start growing. Can you look after you're bean?

Can you play your favourite board game? 

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. Please  apply suncream to your child before school and tick your child's name off on the list which will be on the green table by the pre-school door. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure either it is in their bags or a spare is kept at pre-school. 

On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.

On Wednesday 5th May POWSA are having their monthly meeting at 7.30pm in the main school hall. If you would like any further information, please come and see Julia. Everyone welcome to come along. 

Henry is missing a pre-school jumper which has his name in. Please could we check jumpers. 

Next term sessions

We sent home a letter about sessions for next term. If you attend this term on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday you will be able to have these session as well next term but if you were hoping to book a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday for next term we are full for these days. Please return this as soon as possible. Also please can all outstanding fees be paid. 

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

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Heres to another fantastic week of adventures.

Julia, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Karen and Suzanne

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a fantastic weekend. 

Last week we had a great time settling back into pre-school and spending lots of time exploring outside. We have really enjoyed playing and exploring with the new water play area. We have deheaded the daffodils and using them in the mud kitchen area. We explore what was inside the small pods. We have planted some sunflower seeds which will go into the preschool  daffodil bed. We have been pressing flowers and plants onto fabric using a pebble. They look amazing and we are go to make some bunting with them to display outside. We have been watering our plants. In the role play area we have got a clothes shop with clothes, Jewellery, shoes and bags. We have had lots of fun exploring this. Our tadpoles have got bigger and we have been observing them in the tank. 

This week we will sharing the story of Jack and the beanstalk with a variety of activities based around the story which include planting a bean, golden egg hunt, harp threading, tasting different types of beans, playing the bean game and lots more.

Jennie Jigsaw- At group time we will continue to talk about friendships. 

Home learning Challenge

Can you play your favourite board game? 

The beanstalk was very tall. Can you find 5 things in your house that are taller than you and 5 things that are shorter than you?

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. Please  apply suncream to your child before school and tick your child's name off on the list which will be on the green table by the pre-school door. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure either it is in their bags or a spare is kept at pre-school. 

On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.

The Big Pedal

The Big pedal continues tomorrow Monday (26th April) and we encourage children to come to school by bike or scooter if they can during this fortnight (and beyond). To prepare for the event Sustrans have provided us with some safety check videos to help you and your child get their bikes or scooters ready.

Click here for Sustrans Bicycle safety check guide.

Click here for Sustrans scooter safety check guide. 

Next term sessions

At the end of last week we sent home a letter about sessions for next term. If you attend this term on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday you will be able to have these session as well next term but if you were hoping to book a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday for next term we are full for these days. 

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

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Heres to an amazing week of adventures.

Julia, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Karen and Suzanne

Hello everyone

Hello everyone,

We hope you have all had a wonderful Easter hols enjoying lot's of adventures. What beautiful weather we have had. We look forward to hearing about all your adventures and please do bring in photos to share at group time.

This week we will be settling back in to pre-school, enjoying our new outdoor water play and doing lots of gardening including planting some sunflower seeds. 

Jennie Jigsaw- At group time we will be talking about friendships. 

We welcome Suzanne to the Pre-School team this term and Suzanne is very much looking forward to working with the children. Suzanne will be based in the Year 1 class in the mornings and working with the Year 2 some afternoons.

Notices

As the weather is starting to warm, please could all children bring sun hats to school. We do have a box of spares if needed. If you have applied suncream to your child before school please could you let a member of staff know. If you have ticked to supply your own suncream, please could you make sure children have this when they come to Pre-school ready for us to apply.

On the whiteboard outside the classroom door is a pocket with Home Wow slips in, please help yourself to these. We love celebrating the children's home WOW'S.

The Big Pedal

The Big pedal starts tomorrow Monday (19th April) and we encourage children to come to school by bike or scooter if they can during this fortnight (and beyond). To prepare for the event Sustrans have provided us with some safety check videos to help you and your child get their bikes or scooters ready.

Click here for Sustrans Bicycle safety check guide.

Click here for Sustrans scooter safety check guide. 

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

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Heres to a great week of adventures.

Julia, Helen, Karen, Colleen, Karen and Suzanne