Dear Parents and Carers

We are expecting some severe weather over the next few days and we will be open as normal but kindly ask parents to be contactable in the event of closure. This is something we do our upmost to avoid however, if we  should experience a deluge of snow, we may need to contact parents to collect earlier than usual. Please could all children be provided with appropriate clothing such as wellies, warm coats, hats gloves and scarves.

Snails

The babies will be looking at treasure baskets; they will be creating new treasure baskets that will include a bathroom basket with flannels, sponges and toothbrushes, a kitchen basket with pastry brushes, metal bowls, cork boards and nail brushes and an outside basket with feathers, pine cones, wooden pegs and balls.

 Days off Jenni – Thursday

  

Caterpillars

The children will be looking at Transport, they will be painting pictures of different transport such as cars, trucks and planes, using pull along cars and aeroplanes, happy land village and train track, making marks with cars in cornflour, table painting with cars and crayoning using transport stencils.

Days Off  Jamie – Friday

Alisha is training on Tuesday

Ladybirds

The children will continue to centre their activities on music and movement, they will be exploring musical instruments, soft play in the garden, singing their favourite action rhymes such as Sleeping Bunnies and Wind the Bobbin up.

 Days off   Julie – Wednesday    Abi – Monday

Julie is training on Monday

Elly is training on Tuesday

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at forest animals, they will be painting pictures of forest animals, puppet shows, looking and listening for birds in the garden, making animal masks, reading stories about forest animals, trying to make different sounds of forest animals, making dens/burrows, making animals pictures using different textures and animal puzzles.

Days off – Krissi – Monday    Tash – Thursday

Tash is training Wednesday

Nicki is training Thursday

Butterflies

The children will be centring their activities around weather, they will be talking about what clothes we take on holiday, ice play with animals and people, drawing weather pictures using different textures, talking about what weather we like and dislike, making snowmen/snowgirls and encouraging the children with self-help skills putting on coat, hats and gloves.

 Days off – Jo – Tuesday     Claire –  Thursday

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.

We sadly say goodbye to Claire from Preschool on the 22^nd February as she is moving on to pastures new, Claire will be very much missed by the Children, Parents and Staff and we would like you all to join us in wishing her lots of luck for the future. Amy will be taking over all Claire’s Keyworker children. If you do have any queries or questions please do not hesitate to contact Michelle or Leanne.

Dear Parents and Carers

We hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It has come to that time of year where the weather is changing and it is starting to get a bit chilly, please can you make sure your children are well equipped with warm clothes, a coat, hat, gloves and some wellies.   

Snails

The babies will be looking at textures, they will be body painting, looking at touchy feely books, painting with sand, exploring different weighted balls and water play.

Days off Jenni – Thursday

  

Caterpillars

The children will be looking at transport, they will be riding bikes and cars in the garden, role play with the train track and happy land toys, exploring cars and trains in cornflour and looking at transport books.

We have a new member of staff joining our caterpillars this week, Stacey Jones is NNEB trained and will be working Monday afternoon, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9-6.

Days Off  Jamie – Friday

Ladybirds

The children will continue to centre their activities on music and movement, they will be using instruments to make music and singing songs, running ball games in the garden, colouring in musical instrument pictures, soft play and moving and dancing to different types of music.

Days off   Julie – Thursday    Abi – Monday

Bumblebees

The children will be looking at seasons, they will be making handprint flowers, reading books about seasons, cutting snowflakes, duplo painting to represent snow, role playing being at the beach where they will be pretending to apply suncream and splashing in water. The bumblebees would like to make a tree using leaves and sticks and would like your help to collect these; please could all children collect some leaves and sticks for the tree.

Days off – Krissi – Monday

Butterflies

The children will be exploring the new room, they will be reading stories in the book corner about Bob the Builder, role play builders in the block area, talking about new areas of the room and what they are used for, using outdoor equipment to role play Bob the Builder, dressing up in occupation dress, using sand and water indoors and out, helping key workers to put room back together asking the children where they would like things to go.

Days off – Jo – Tuesday     Claire –  Thursday

Amy will be joining the preschool team this week as a senior practitioner working Tuesday to Friday.

Please may we remind parents to replenish their children’s nappies and wipes on a regular basis, we are finding a lot of children without either nappies or wipes for weeks at a time. Please see your child’s communication book or room door for a reminder when they need replenishing.