One of our Significant Six statements in our curriculum is “To treasure and celebrate family life in all its diversity.” So this year in preschool, we asked parents to come in and talk about how their family celebrate at Christmas. This has been a wonderful and valuable learning opportunity for the children and adults and …
Christmas carols in the garden
At Mornington House, we had a lovely time singing Christmas Carols in the garden with children and parents. It was really cold, but we all wrapped up warm with hats, scarves and gloves. Afterwards we enjoyed hot chocolate and Lou’s delicious home-made mince pies. Merry Christmas everyone!
St Nicholas Day
Recently at Mornington House, we learned about St. Nicholas day, which is celebrated in some countries, like Belgium where Rachelle grew up. Now that Rachelle has her own child, she celebrates with her at home and thought it would be a lovely idea to talk about this with the children from the Twos room and …
Playing doctors
The children at The Priory enjoy role play. They recently dressed up as doctors and gave their friends a check up!
Drawing flowers at The Priory
Amber asked Katie if she could draw a flower. Katie drew one flower and asked Amber to copy the flower that Katie had drawn. After lots of encouragement Amber felt very proud of herself and drew several flowers. Well done Amber!!
Talking Tots
Our recent session of Talking tots was brilliant. The children were really focused. They engaged really well and loved all the listening games. Shelley will repeat some of them next week to consolidate the learning and introduce some new games too.
Armistice Day
On Friday 11 November all staff and children at The Court House talked about Armistice Day – Remembrance Day. We made poppies in all different ways; the babies did some sticking, the twos some baking and the pre-school used paper plates. We all thought about people we loved and who care for us during the …
Diwali
Some of our children celebrated Diwali or Deepawali recently. This is ‘The Festival of Lights’ and it symbolises the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”. Baby Room We learned that people celebrating Diwali might draw Goddess Lakshmi’s footprints at the entrance of their house pointing inwards. These footprints …
Happy Diwali
Today we had a visit from Margaret the Librarian. Margaret brought a few books with her to read to the pre-school children. Hopefully in a few weeks we will walk to the Library. We can choose a few books to bring back to nursery to read ourselves.
What else can you do when it’s raining?
The children planned a trip to the park but it started to rain so a quick decision was made and all Preschool children went to Filton Soft Play. They all had a wonderful time!!