Shape

Hello everyone,

Last week we had great fun exploring colours and talking about bonfires and fireworks. On Monday morning we listened to a firework poem which we all joined in with. For our snack we all went to the roundhouse area and had a real bonfire with hot dogs for snack. We all then had a go at toasting our marshmallows on the fire and then making a biscuit marshmallow sandwich. They were very yummy. Reception and pre-school year 1 joined us.  We all had a wonderful time.
We have also been making our rocket names. We had to find our name and then we made it into a rocket. We counted how many letters are in our name. 
We have had great fun exploring colour, colour mixing and different paint techniques whilst creating our firework paintings. We also used chalks to create firework pictures. Also we created our bonfire pictures using sticks and coloured cellophane. We have also been making chocolate sparkles in the kitchen. We predicted what might happen when you heat up chocolate and then carried out our experiment. They looked very yummy. 
On Thursday afternoon we went to the music room at school and explored all the different musical instruments and the sounds they make. We had a go at making our own firework music. 
On Friday morning we went and watched Reception assembly which we all enjoyed. We did some great listening. On Friday afternoon we played shape bingo which was great fun. 

For the next two weeks we will be doing lots of shapes activities including playing games, shape hunt, chaperons craft activities, cooking and lots more. We will be looking at 2d and 3d shapes. 

Home learning

Can you find different shapes around your environment? Can you bring some different shapes in or make a list of all the ones you found. 

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we will be making our rhyming door. We will be thinking of all the words we know that rhyme. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain, orange, snake and net. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be looking at how special we are and what makes us special.

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 at 3.10pm we have got our second story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing you there.

On Friday 16th November it is Children in Need Day. Children can dress up in stripes and spots and bring a donation in towards Children in Need.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 16th November  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 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

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

On Friday 23rd November it is POWSA Bingo night. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm in the main school hall. 

On Friday 7th December there is a POWSA Christmas film night. More information to follow. 

Our Pre-school Christmas family breakfast will be on Thursday 13th December from 8.30am. Letter to follow soon.

The POWSA Christmas Fair will be on Friday 14th December from 3.30pm-5.00pm. Please see poster for more details.

On Tuesday 18th December 5-6pm at St Mary's Church there will be a school carol service. Reception and Pre-school Year 2 will doing a nativity. More information to follow. 

Julia and Pre-school team

Fireworks

Hello everyone,

Wow, what a great first week back we have had. We started our week by reading the story of Pumpkin Soup by Helen Copper. On Tuesday the children took the wheelbarrows up to the poly tunnel and collected the 7 different sized pumpkins. They really enjoyed this job. In the afternoon the children helped to scoop out the pumpkin and design different faces on them. The children practiced their spoon and knife skills. They talked about the textures they could feel. On Tuesday morning we had Mr Treble for PE and we did lots of games which involved negotiating spaces. We are getting really good at putting on our plimsols. On Wednesday morning the children helped to make pumpkin soup which they really enjoyed. On Wednesday afternoon we went to the chickens and gave them the excess pumpkins which the chickens loved. All the leaves had come off the tree's so we had a great afternoon throwing piles of leaves up into the air and rolling in big piles of leaves. On Thursday we had our NSPCC PANTS Day. We got to meet Pantasarus the dinosaur and watch the NSPCC PANTS video. We then designed our own pants.
On Thursday afternoon we went to the play trail and then played some ring games in the hall. 
On Friday some children went to watch Year 3 Assembly which they really enjoyed and did some great listening. On Friday afternoon the children made their own potions. This idea came from the children from our rhyming soup potion game. 

This week we will be talking about bonfires and fireworks. We will be exploring and talking about colours, mixing colours and sounds of fireworks. We will be creating our own firework pictures using different techniques and mixing colour. We will be making our own music to represent fireworks.  We are going to be experimenting with chocolate and making edible sparkles. Also we we will be making our own name rockets and decorating the letters of our name in stars. Its going to be a very exciting week. 

Home learning

Can you find different logos and signs in your environment? Can you recognise what they are? Bring them in and show your friends during group time.

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we continue to  play a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat. We have also begun to learn the Read Write inc pictures of apple, Maisie next to the mountain and net. 

Jennie Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

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 at 3.10pm we have got our first story time session. If you would like to join us please come to pre-school pickup door an adult will direct you to our story session. Look forward to seeing 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 8th November  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 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

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

On Tuesday 6th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is the POWSA AGM.  For those who have never attended a PTA session before the thought can be intimidating but we are all friendly parents who want to help the school offer the best of opportunities to all the pupils who pass through it's doors, whilst having a little fun along the way. We give up a little bit of time every now and then to help provide some of those extras that help make our school such a fantastic place and if you would like to learn more we would love to see you. It would be lovely to see you there. If you unable to attend the meeting but would like more information please do come and see me.

Julia and Pre-school team

Pumpkins......

Hello everyone,

We all hope you had a lovely half term. What beautiful weather we had. We looking forward to hearing about all the children's adventures during group time this week.
This week we will be sharing the story of Pumpkin soup along with some other pumpkins stories. This book is all about some animals sharing and taking turns to cook pumpkin soup. We will also be singing some pumpkin and spider songs this week. We will also be making pumpkin soup when we harvest our pumpkins from the poly tunnel. The children will be collecting the pumpkins in their wheelbarrows. We will be exploring what's inside the pumpkin and using different tools to scoop the inside out and cutting it up. On Thursday we are having a PANTS day. The children can wear their pants over their clothes if they wish. It is to promote awareness of saying ‘no’ and what’s in your pants belongs to you. During the day we will be doing some creative craft activities and showing the official NSPCC video. 
It's going to be another fantastic week. 


Home learning

Can you find different logos and signs in your environment? Can you recognise what they are? Bring them in and show your friends during group time.

Letters and sounds:- 

This week we will be playing a game of rhyming soup as a group. We will be finding words that rhyme together for our soup e.g. rat and bat.

Jennie Jigsaw

 

This week we will be talking about homes and houses and where we live.  

 

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. 

It was great to talk to everyone at parents evening and show you all the progress your children have been making over the last few weeks. 

If you were not able to sign up please just let Zoe know when will be a suitable time and we can arrange this. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday. This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 31st October  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 24th November from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

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

On Tuesday 6th Novemebr at 7.30pm in the main school staff room is the POWSA AGM.  For those who have never attended a PTA session before the thought can be intimidating but we are all friendly parents who want to help the school offer the best of opportunities to all the pupils who pass through it's doors, whilst having a little fun along the way. We give up a little bit of time every now and then to help provide some of those extras that help make our school such a fantastic place and if you would like to learn more we would love to see you. It would be lovely to see you there. If you unable to attend the meeting but would like more information please do come and see me.

Julia and Pre-school team

Autumn and hedgehogs

Hello everyone,

Last week we started our week off talking about what we knew about Autumn. The children talk about some of the changes that happen in Autumn. They were very keen to find out about hedgehogs. We shared some autumn poems, stories and songs. We read the story of we're going on a leaf hunt and afterwards we went on a leaf hunt around the school grounds finding different coloured leaves. We have enjoyed creating our own textured leaves with cellophane, tissue paper and using cotton buds and Autumn coloured paints. We have begun making our Kind hands poster and talking about how we can be kind at school, home and play. We had a great gym session on Tuesday morning playing fruit salad, moving in different ways and jumping from hoop to hoop. We are getting really good at putting our own shoes on. We have been looking after the chickens and guinea pigs. We bought the guinea pigs down to the playground for some lap time. The children really enjoyed this. We have been playing number bingo in small groups on Thursday afternoon and went and played in soft play. We have also been looking at our learning journeys with our key workers and have been talking about what we have enjoyed doing this term, what we have learnt to do and what we like to do next. These are on display in the classroom near the construction area. 

This week we will continue our learning about Autumn and hedgehogs through some different activities including a hedgehog number game, a trip to the woods on Thursday with Reception and lots more fun activities, stories and songs.
We will also be making our Christmas cards to send of to the publisher. You will be able to order these. More information to follow on how to order them soon. This is organised by POWSA. 
We will also be finishing of our kind hands poster. 

Home learning

Can you find a picture or an object which reminds you of Autumn to bring in for our interest table.


Jennie Jigsaw
We will continue talking about kind hands and kind words. Remembering how important these things are when playing with friends. We will be finishing off our poster. 

Letters and Sounds

 Fred frog from Read write inc

Joining in with repeated refrains and rhyming ends of stories

Notices

It's great to see so many WOW'S. We loved to share them at group time. Spare WOW slips are in the hall way. 

We have launch Marvellous  Me in Pre-school. Please check pigeon holes for login details and return permission slips as soon as possible. If you have any questions please come and see Julia. 

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday. This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 19th October  from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there. 

A letter has gone home about Parents evening which is on Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th October. The sign up sheet is in the corridor by the pigeon holes. If these dates are not convenient please do come and see me for an alternative date and time. 

We have got our trip to the woods on Thursday. If possible please could the children  wear Pre-school tops, have a coat depending on the weather - if they wear trainers but  bring wellies if it is wet. (We have been to carry out our risk assessment and it wasn't muddy, but who knows what the week will bring!) We will not be swimming on Thursday. 

On Friday we have got our teddy bears picnic from 2.30pm. Please see letter for more details. If you would like to attend please return slips to enable us to cater for everyone. This is a joint activity with Reception. Children can come dressed as a bear for the day on Friday. 

Our next Saturday Stay and Play is on Saturday 20th October from 10.00-11.30am. Younger and old siblings very welcome to join us. 

On Saturday 20th October we have got a community make over day from 2-5pm. We will be working on the wildlife garden. If you would like more information please come and see Julia.

On Monday 29th October it is a staff training day so the pre-school will be closed. We return to school on Tuesday 30th October

We would like to wish you all a wonderful half term. We have had a fantastic half term. There has been lots of exploring, fun leaning taking place. 

Please do come and see me if you have any questions. 

Here's to another fun and exciting week.

Julia and pre-school team