Last week when we were in the garden some children were interested in the sunflower seeds that were on the ground. To extend their interest I brought the sunflower inside and placed them on the table. Some children came over to the table to look at it and found it fascinating how the enormous sunflower …
Apple Crumble
We picked some apples from the tree in our garden – we knew they were ripe enough because we just had to give a little twist and they came off the tree. Together we washed and sliced them and put them in a dish with a sprinkling of cinnamon. We then made a crumble mix; …
Summertime at The Priory
There have been many new experiences in the garden for the children to get involved in. Sunflower seeds were planted in March and as you can see, what a success this year. The children were having fun measuring with measuring tapes, talking about their own height to the height of the sunflowers. There were also …
The Court House Leavers Party 2022
We had a festival celebration for the school leavers, the children had so much fun performing on stage, camping, and having yummy drinks at the bar. There were lots of things to do inside and outside, glitter and tattoo bar as well as face painting. The children, staff and parents enjoyed the graduation ceremony where …
Mornington House Preschool Sports Day
We had a fun morning taking part in lots of physical challenges such as: Running, jumping, walking backwards races Throwing 3-legged race Hop sack race Tug o’ war Egg and spoon race Every child received a medal for participating. We all needed a big drink afterwards and a rest in the afternoon!
Ella has qualified!
Congratulations to our apprentice Ella who has qualified as an Early Years Educator. Ella joined us aged 16, straight from school during the summer after her GCSE’s had been cancelled due to coronavirus. We were immediately impressed with Ella’s maturity, drive and commitment and we are so pleased that she has qualified, achieving distinction in …
Sandwiches @ The Court House
For our afternoon snack, in the twos room, we decided to promote independence some more by getting the children to make their own sandwiches. Each child was able to choose how they wanted to eat their sandwich; some of them folded their bread in half with the ham inside while others ate the bread and …
Catterpillars
The children in preschool were excited to have some caterpillars to care for. When they arrived, they were really tiny! They ate all the food in the bottom of the pot and the children watched them as they crawled up to the lid, hung upside down and began to form chrysalises. They then transferred them …
Visit to Pia’s house
Pia’s mum, Flo, kindly invited us to visit as they have tadpoles in their pond. They live near to nursery so we walked around together, the children were excited to point out things they recognised from their journeys to nursery. Mohammed said “I go this way home” as we walked round the corner onto Blackboy …
Imagination & Play
The twos at The Court House have been really into reusing old materials such as big cardboard boxes! Some of the twos made this into a house where they listened to stories and then once they were finished they slid down it turning it into a slide. We have also been doing lots of junk …