HAPPY EASTER !

We all had a lovely last week - making Easter nests - chocolate ones !! and paper chicks and an Easter Egg hunt on the last Forest School session.  Jude thinks she saw the easter bunny hopping up to the Tower!

 Hopefully the grass heads will be growing well at home - they should be able to have a 'hair' cut soon.

         Have a lovely Easter everyone !

      Back on Monday 13th April

SPRING ECLIPSE!

At Broadway Playschool we are seeing some great role play from the children. The dolls house is extremely popular and is encouraging a lot of shared play. 

A lovely time was had in the water play, making boats out of junk modelling & finding objects that float or sink – this was all one child wanted to do all morning !

The children and staff enjoyed laughing at Jo, when she lost her balance and fell back off the logs of their "car" at Forest School....it was funny!   One child’s chuckles could be heard streets away !

Bug hunting revealed a lot of woodlice and it was lovely to feel the sun on our faces and hear the bird sing.

The children have enjoyed planting their carrot seed and thinking about what other things are needed to make them grow.

 

The partial eclipse was felt rather than viewed- even though we have our ‘pinhole’ cameras at the ready ....... – it went really cold for a short while and very quiet – then the sun came back out !

Our felt flower & spring paintings display is looking lovely and colourful – take a look when you are in !!

Last week Jo & Jude attended the SENdCo conference on special needs and bereavement and this Saturday Jude attended the Montessori conference in London – looking at ICT in Playschool.

PHOTO ORDERS NEED TO BE BACK IN START OF NEXT WEEK – THANKYOU!

 

Happy Mothering Sunday !

AT Broadway  Playschool the children really enjoyed creating their Mother's Day peppermint creams sweets this week...they had to knead the icing to mix the colour in and then shape the sweets, lots of concentrating. They were very creative!!

At Towerview we had a lovely, sunny walk to see the diggers at the road works on Tuesday morning.

 At Forest School the staff enjoyed supporting the children make their ‘mud medallions’.

We were all busy rolling out wool weft to make felt flowers and hand printing flowers for Mothering Sunday.

TRAINING-The staff team have been updating their training again. Alison, Jo and Becky went to a conference on ‘2 year old’s’ and Jude and Jo went to the SENd Conference. We all learnt a lot and revisited previous training. Amy & Charlotte are off to learn about how to use visuals to support children’s learning too.

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

We have started our Spring theme with some excellent artwork being produced  including  fantastic paintings of the tulips.

At Towerview Playschool we have a nice big craft/collage table with lots of different things to use and try and the children have been very creative making flags, ‘a horse’, ‘pig’, fishing rods, ‘a house’ and flowers amongst other things.

It was a lovely sunny forest school session on Wednesday – making mud pies – climbing the climbing tree and digging for worms – then we all sat and said what our favourite thing had been that day while the birds sang to us over head!

All had fun trying out our obstacle course too.

Over in the school hall – the children are now good at finding a space and had fun balancing along the beams and crawling like spiders and hopping like rabbits – all great gross motor skills developing & in a REAL SCHOOL !!!

On Friday - we walked to se the lambs - we also saw 5 horse a lady walkingher dogs, daffodils, fir cones and some great tits in the tree !

At Broadway Playschool we have seen some beautiful artwork this week. Lots of colour mixing and sticking and gluing using different materials to create some great pieces! There has also been lots of role play happening. The children are enjoying building towers with the grey blocks and enjoying the dolls house too!