At The Priory, we had a visit from Ben from uSports. The focus was on the children’s physical development. We worked on breathing and practising some yoga moves. Ben started by warming the body up with a range of different movements such as walking, running, hopping, and stomping. We drove around the world to visit …
Spring walk
The children in Twos room enjoyed a spring walk to the Downs and played football too!
Hay Hay the chicken
Wow! What an exciting morning we have had at The Priory! Evelyn’s famous family chicken, Hay Hay, came in to visit all the children. We learnt lots of amazing facts about what chickens like to eat, what they do when they might be scared, how to pick them up correctly, where they live and what …
Oral Health Day
At The Priory we have been learning all about how to keep our teeth clean. At circle time we talked about why we need to clean our teeth, when, and for how long. There were lots of positive responses and the children knew that we need to clean our teeth at least twice a day because …
Adventure Babies!
At Mornington House, we had such a wonderful visit from Gemma of Adventure Babies. She told us the story called ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy. She brought loads of props with her – a story sack each, beautiful sensory lights, jelly and jam to make sandwiches, moon sand and rocks, books and bubbles – and …
Library visit
The Children at The Priory were very excited to visit the library for a story with Margaret the Librarian. There were so many books to choose from they couldn’t decide which ones to read.
World Book Day at The Priory
The staff dressed up as characters from the book ‘The Colour Monster.’ This is a favourite core book at the Priory. Do you know what all the colours mean?
World Book Day at The Court House 2023!
This year we have celebrated World Book Day throughout the week. We have encouraged children to bring in their own books from home to help develop a love of stories! In baby room they have been sharing stories from home at lunch time. In the twos room they have been creating salt dough dinosaur feet …
Pancake Day!
Recently we celebrated pancake day, with lots of yummy pancakes made by our cook. We got to choose the toppings we wanted on them. They were delicious!!
Storytime at The Priory
We love reading books and sharing stories at The Priory 📚Enjoying stories, songs and rhymes is one of the core elements of our curriculum and it’s wonderful to see the children so absorbed.