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 …
The Priory Aquarium!
It started with 3 and now we have lots of Mermaids. This was inspired by the children reading one of our core books called Julian is a Mermaid and initiated becoming Mermaids.
Jubilee Celebrations @ Mornington House
We had a lovely time learning about and celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee! The baby room made crowns using cardboard, glue and foil and the 2s room helped Louise make a special red, white and blue Victoria sponge. Louise used face paints to draw the union flag on the children and we all tried to …
Jubilee Day @ The Priory
Today (Wednesday 1st June) was a day for dressing up. The staff and children enjoyed the day playing in the garden and looking forward to their high tea this afternoon.