We had such a fun filled week in Preschool at The Court House. We enjoyed lots of activities for World Book Day, such as a sensory filled tuff tray based on the story The Smeds and The Smoos, The Tiger Who Came to Tea creative activities, The Very Hungry Caterpillar activity where the children made …
The Smeds & The Smoos
At Mornington House, our core book of the month is The Smeds & The Smoos and we have been busy supporting the children to extend their learning through play and new experiences. They have tried pink milk, green stew, explored black tea and even tried to make their own SmooSmed by mixing paints. We decided …
New Story Sacks
We have recently invested in four new Story Sacks for each nursery. The babies at The Priory chose Dear Zoo (one of our core books) which had finger puppets of each animal. Justine sang the Dear Zoo song and paused at each animal while she took the animal from the sack and asked the children …
February Core Book – The Smeds and the Smoos
Every month in Preschool at Mornington House, we focus on one of our Core Books. This month it is ‘The Smeds and the Smoos’, by Julia Donaldson. We will be learning about the story throughout February. It is a great story to explore and learn to value the differences between us all. One of the …
Woodland Makery visit
Last week at The Court House, we had a visit from Elise from Woodland Makery who provided us with a forest school experience! We began with sitting and listening to Elise who taught us about how to be safe around a fire and even sung us a song about it with her ukulele. We really …
The Gruffalo
One of the children in the twos room at The Court House is particularly interested in the story of The Gruffalo, so we extended this by creating a tuff tray with the Gruffalo characters along with matching pairs. The children then decided they wanted to make a big Gruffalo, so Ruby found some boxes and …
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
At the Court House, we are basing our focus on one of our core books in Baby Room – The Very Hungry Caterpillar. We started the morning with a themed tuff tray to encourage the children to make links with the role play food (mixing media from other areas of the room), and sequencing events. …
Forest school session
At Mornington House, we had such a lovely visit from Elise from Woodland Makery. She taught us lots of different bird calls and we practised them – wood pigeons sound like they are saying “your pizza’s ready” and great tits sound like they say “teacher teacher”! We made bird feeders with coconut oil and seeds …
Recognising body parts
Upon returning from the winter break, the Babies have shown a big interest in their body parts and we have been encouraging this through play in reflections. We have ended the week with a tuff tray with reflective pebbles and a mirror with questions for practitioners to ask the children to encourage them to find …
Christmas lunch at The Priory
Thank you Heather and Trish for a wonderful Christmas lunch. It was so lovely to see all three rooms enjoying their delicious meal together. We also enjoyed a visit from Kayleigh and baby Leo too.