CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY - FRIDAY 11TH DECEMBER
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Monday 7 December 2020
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to yourself.
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Exploring and making the most of the varied weather conditions
We’ve had inside water play, at first we had dolls that the children could wash, dry and put nappies on, this was short lived as going with the children’s interests it was soon turned into water play with sea animals.
At forest school on a drizzly Friday morning a child instigated laying on the ground at first looking up in the trees, it was then suggested catching rain on our tongue lots of laughter was heard as the rain fell on our noses, cheeks, eyes and eventually on the tongue.
The 2-3yr children in the Broadway setting have made the most of the varied weather conditions. We took full advantage of the wet weather and they togged up in waterproofs and wellies instigating and engaging in water play using buckets to catch water falling from guttering, exploring capacity filling them and emptying to make puddles for splashing.
Over the last 2 weeks the 2 - 3 year olds are getting really confident in the setting and we have seen some really good building with the large lego bricks outside and the wooden blocks inside, with help from each other.
Also the children have really enjoyed doing some dancing at the end of the session and we have seen some really good moves from them all with lots of smiling and laughing.
Also the children have really enjoyed doing some dancing at the end of the session and we have seen some really good moves from them all with lots of smiling and laughing.
Despite the cold weather the children have enjoyed time at Forest School. Many have enjoyed being involved in the mud kitchen digging and transporting mud for cupcakes. Some have enjoyed the opportunity to do whittling in preparation for cooking on an open fire. Great activity to develop coordination and build gross motor skills.
Saturday 14 November 2020
Staying safe, fireworks and poppies.
We talked with the children about keeping ourselves safe around bonfires and fireworks when we made our bonfire cake. They all enjoyed watching the sparklers while safely keeping their distance remembering not to get too close!
The 2-3yrs have been enjoying the Hokey Cokey following actions and singing along.
Both groups have enjoyed firework splat painting with teabags and paint watching the effect they make as the teabags hit the paper when dropped. All the children have been keen to do apple print poppies to commemorate 100yrs since WW1 Armistice.
Towerview children have been introduced to the Winter Forest school site, they are enjoying the mud kitchen area and the ‘tunnel’, an area where the hedgerow has grown and cascaded to provide a shelter, very inviting and a good place to hide out.
Sunday 1 November 2020
Pumpkins, fires and sparkly spider webs.
The children continued to enjoy using the colour paddles as a traffic light system remembering what each colour represented. Red- stop, amber - get ready , green -go, additions blue -backwards, purple- puncture and yellow petrol. This activity was introduced in music and movement and then the children with adult guidance outdoors used the colour paddles whilst playing on trikes and scooters and two wheeled bikes. The children were so confident in remembering what each colour signified that they took turns at being traffic control ,enjoying instructing their peers in traffic management and a few speeding tickets handed out too!
The younger 2-3 year olds have enjoyed building with the blocks outside this week and also have been sitting very nicely whilst enjoying storytime. They have also enjoyed the process of creating their sparkly spider web pictures by drizzling the glue and shaking the glitter pots, and couldn’t resist the temptation to explore the soft glitter with their fingers.
They have a enjoyed exploring the stringy texture of the inside of the pumpkin willingly getting hands sticky! One child initiated an idea of posting conkers through the holes we cut for eyes.
Children in the older group explored the idea of using the cut pieces as a shape sorter! They also took the opportunity to use the pumpkins to role play accessing the medical cases. Others explored size and weight lifting them to see which weighed heavier as well as comparing sizes and using tools to try to crack them open. Lots of discussion and opportunity for language as we talked about why they only had three teeth and why it’s so important to look after our own to keep them strong and healthy.
During both Forest School sessions the children enjoyed crumpets and brioche cooked on the basecamp fire. They used this experience to extend their role play by building their own fire with log pieces back at Playschool.
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Stop, ready, Go!
The children have been very involved in road traffic role play, using colour codes to “stop, ready and go” which lead to some mark making speeding tickets! Too fast in their bikes. We explored the idea of making our own speed camera and traffic light with the junk modelling to use for role play. This involved measuring with a marble?! Exploring tools and what we need to use for sawing to make the post and looking at shapes to decide which would be appropriate for the task.
Children were encouraged to be creative with the conkers they found and produced a giant spider, there was some debate over how many legs a spider has.
At Forest School children had the opportunity to saw branches in preparation for the woodland fire the following week. We practised our emergency evacuation too which the children coped brilliantly.
The children in the 2-3yr group made a collage bus, using a sample for reference they explored shapes selecting circles for wheels and squares for windows - problem solving, counting and positional language.
Thursday 1 October 2020
Great involvement and problem solving
It’s been lovely to see smiley faces at Broadway Playschool (2-3yrs) and we have seen the children show some good painting skills, sand digging and balancing on planks.
It’s been really encouraging to watch the children get to know each other through role play and building constructions together. A super team effort!
The children are demonstrating good looking, listening and sitting skills at circle time recognising the symbols of the routine they put on the visual timetable. The children are also recognising their name label to put on the tower.
There has been some great problem solving on how to collect up leaves from the ground and what to use to scoop them up.
The children seemed very excited when they spotted an aeroplane fly over Playschool. Following a suggestion from an adult a large group became involved in large outdoor construction building their own aeroplane. Lots of problem solving working together to think about what they needed ie. wings , cockpit for the pilot bringing opportunity for vocabulary and language development.
At Forest school we observed lots of activity in the digging area, one child discovered a dinosaur bone! A small group were involved in fossil hunting too.
Saturday 19 September 2020
Welcome back!
We have enjoyed welcoming the children back to Playschool after such a long absence for many and children new to Playschool who have settled incredibly well and picking up the routine quickly. The 3-4yrs haven’t taken very long at all in becoming very involved and engrossed in play.
In the first couple of weeks we have witnessed some wonderful imaginative play with small world and animal play where one child made up some inventive names for them.
Children attending Tuesdays and Fridays have been re introduced to Forest school and have remembered the rules brilliantly. It’s been great to watch them exploring and running around freely. They are picking up the “123 Where are you?” game brilliantly.
We are all getting used to our new Broadway setting, the older 2yr children have adapted brilliantly following the routine and children new to the group are picking up cues and coping very well. They have instigated the story ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’ and are seating and listening to the story beautifully.
Saturday 20 June 2020
Re opening Towerview- Happy outdoors 😄 🌦
Towerview Playschool has reopened to key worker and vulnerable children, also those who are transitioning to school in September and Autumn born 3yr olds. We have had to put a cap on spaces due to some staff members self isolating with vulnerable family members.
We are trying to do our best to keep in touch with all families, we can be contacted by phone and email. We have a Facebook page where we have uploaded ideas for activities to do at home along including speech and language posts shared from Worcestershire Speech and Language.
The children who have returned to Playschool have settled very well and seem to be coping with the routine and rules very well and are delighting us with their new skills they have learnt during lockdown. We have seen some very impressive mark making and writing skills, new songs and rhymes and have heard how one child can now “crack eggs without getting the shell in the mixture”.
This week the children have enjoyed being together, we have seen some lovely building role play where the whole group - all eight of them - have worked to together to ‘fix the playhouse’ and with all the wet weather they are keen to be outside. Together they have discovered that the rain has collected on the sail they we have put up and have taken turns to manipulate it to create a waterfall over them, brilliant thinking!! With coats on of course. They’ve also made great use of the Playschool spare wellies for puddle splashing in the outside area and at Forest school. Children new to Forest school seem to enjoy it immensely! It was a great opportunity for all the children to run around freely and just enjoy the space. Relaxing for the adults too, especially to see how happy the children are.
We are trying to do our best to keep in touch with all families, we can be contacted by phone and email. We have a Facebook page where we have uploaded ideas for activities to do at home along including speech and language posts shared from Worcestershire Speech and Language.
The children who have returned to Playschool have settled very well and seem to be coping with the routine and rules very well and are delighting us with their new skills they have learnt during lockdown. We have seen some very impressive mark making and writing skills, new songs and rhymes and have heard how one child can now “crack eggs without getting the shell in the mixture”.
This week the children have enjoyed being together, we have seen some lovely building role play where the whole group - all eight of them - have worked to together to ‘fix the playhouse’ and with all the wet weather they are keen to be outside. Together they have discovered that the rain has collected on the sail they we have put up and have taken turns to manipulate it to create a waterfall over them, brilliant thinking!! With coats on of course. They’ve also made great use of the Playschool spare wellies for puddle splashing in the outside area and at Forest school. Children new to Forest school seem to enjoy it immensely! It was a great opportunity for all the children to run around freely and just enjoy the space. Relaxing for the adults too, especially to see how happy the children are.
Tuesday 31 March 2020
If parents have some ideas they would like to share please feel free to contribute by commenting on the Playschool blog.
Stay safe
Friday 20 March 2020
Update on Keyworker
COVID-19
Dear parents and carers,
The Department for Education has issued guidance today for schools and colleges on maintaining educational provision during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Schools and educational settings have a key role to play, alongside other partners, in meeting our priority to preserve life, prevent spread of infection and keep critical services going. We are working together with key partners, including the Local Authority, to coordinate our response to the pandemic.
The guidance makes it clear that where children can safely stay at home they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
We are being asked by Government to continue to provide care for a limited number of children including children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
We are working with the local authority to identify all children defined as vulnerable.
The guidance published includes children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with education, health and care (EHC) plans.
We will talk to these parents directly about how care will be provided.
Please note, as a school, we need to ensure we can prioritise those most in need so that our provision is sustainable and supports the Government’s number one key principle from their latest guidance that maintains social distancing:
If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response may need support from schools and educational settings and we are working hard to provide that support wherever possible.
Many parents in this category will be able to keep their children at home and where children can be safely cared for at home they should be.
For those who cannot keep children safely at home and who work in one of the critical sectors listed below, your children will be priorities for education provision when you are at work.
However, it may not be possible to provide this in your child’s usual school, as inevitably school staff will also be impacted by the virus and our shared priority is to keep children safe and prevent the spread of the virus.
If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:
• Health and social care
• Education and childcare
• Key public services
o This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.
• Local and national government
• Food and other necessary goods
• Public safety and national security
• Transport
• Utilities, communication and financial services
Provision is only available when you are required to work. It is not available at other times.
Where only one parent/carer is a ‘critical worker’ there is an expectation that the child stays at home with the other parent to ensure the principal and impact of social distancing is maximised.
Further guidance on key workers can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
If you are a key worker and your child needs educational provision, please send us the following information to broadwaytowerview@gmail.com by Sunday 22nd March.
• Your name:
• Your most up to date contact details:
• Evidence of each parent’s / carer’s job role:
• Name of employer and contact details (for verification):
• Student’s name and year group:
More information on the closure of educational settings for parents and children can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers
Many thanks for your assistance through this challenging situation.
Dear parents and carers,
The Department for Education has issued guidance today for schools and colleges on maintaining educational provision during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Schools and educational settings have a key role to play, alongside other partners, in meeting our priority to preserve life, prevent spread of infection and keep critical services going. We are working together with key partners, including the Local Authority, to coordinate our response to the pandemic.
The guidance makes it clear that where children can safely stay at home they should, to limit the chance of the virus spreading.
We are being asked by Government to continue to provide care for a limited number of children including children who are vulnerable and children whose parents are critical to the COVID-19 response and cannot be safely cared for at home.
We are working with the local authority to identify all children defined as vulnerable.
The guidance published includes children who are supported by social care, those with safeguarding and welfare needs, including child in need plans, on child protection plans, ‘looked after’ children, young carers, disabled children and those with education, health and care (EHC) plans.
We will talk to these parents directly about how care will be provided.
Please note, as a school, we need to ensure we can prioritise those most in need so that our provision is sustainable and supports the Government’s number one key principle from their latest guidance that maintains social distancing:
If it is at all possible for children to be at home, then they should be.
Parents whose work is critical to the COVID-19 response may need support from schools and educational settings and we are working hard to provide that support wherever possible.
Many parents in this category will be able to keep their children at home and where children can be safely cared for at home they should be.
For those who cannot keep children safely at home and who work in one of the critical sectors listed below, your children will be priorities for education provision when you are at work.
However, it may not be possible to provide this in your child’s usual school, as inevitably school staff will also be impacted by the virus and our shared priority is to keep children safe and prevent the spread of the virus.
If your work is critical to the COVID-19 response, or you work in one of the critical sectors listed below, and you cannot keep your child safe at home then your children will be prioritised for education provision:
• Health and social care
• Education and childcare
• Key public services
o This includes those essential to the running of the justice system, religious staff, charities and workers delivering key frontline services, those responsible for the management of the deceased, and journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting.
• Local and national government
• Food and other necessary goods
• Public safety and national security
• Transport
• Utilities, communication and financial services
Provision is only available when you are required to work. It is not available at other times.
Where only one parent/carer is a ‘critical worker’ there is an expectation that the child stays at home with the other parent to ensure the principal and impact of social distancing is maximised.
Further guidance on key workers can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-maintaining-educational-provision/guidance-for-schools-colleges-and-local-authorities-on-maintaining-educational-provision
If you are a key worker and your child needs educational provision, please send us the following information to broadwaytowerview@gmail.com by Sunday 22nd March.
• Your name:
• Your most up to date contact details:
• Evidence of each parent’s / carer’s job role:
• Name of employer and contact details (for verification):
• Student’s name and year group:
More information on the closure of educational settings for parents and children can be found in the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/closure-of-educational-settings-information-for-parents-and-carers
Many thanks for your assistance through this challenging situation.
Sunday 15 March 2020
Building fine and gross motor skills through imaginative play.
This week up at Broadway Playschool some of the younger children enjoyed
being outside in the sunshine and enjoyed doing some building & fixing in
the wendy house.
We encouraged them to really explore and access resources from the outside store which got them to engage in building, shape matching and chalking.
Towerview older children also enjoyed time outside in the sunshine and wind,
the children worked out throwing up a piece of paper and then watching it
floating in the wind!! It created a lot of laughter.
Great being ‘waited’ on by some of the children, coffee, tea, cakes and donuts in the home corner, nice chats and great little chefs!!!
Being led by the children’s interest, main interest this week has been dinosaurs, on Tuesday a dinosaur had been and laid eggs in the outside area ( musical instruments that looks like eggs). In forest school today (Friday) the children found frozen dinosaur eggs they could see the dinosaurs inside the eggs, some children managed to get the dinosaurs to hatch by putting the eggs in water.
With drier weather outside has been used more. The children are playing in larger groups where tag, hide and seek, running and ball play are involved. They negotiate the games between themselves and taking turns.
The children have enjoyed exploring media and materials in 2 and 3 dimensions. Collectively the children decided that the grandfather clock for their hickory dickory dock activity would be 'rainbow colours' and what a multi-coloured clock it is! It was lovely to observe the children working creatively together on their project with a purpose in mind and how thrilled they were at the end result. Working individually and on a small scale the children created their mice by looking at the example template then choosing the shapes and materials they wanted to use. The end result were a collection of very colourful characterful mice ready to run up and down the grandfather clock!
We printed an image of a Grandfather clock for the children to work from, many hadn’t seen one before, they did a brilliant job. Take a look in the home corner!
being outside in the sunshine and enjoyed doing some building & fixing in
the wendy house.
We encouraged them to really explore and access resources from the outside store which got them to engage in building, shape matching and chalking.
Towerview older children also enjoyed time outside in the sunshine and wind,
the children worked out throwing up a piece of paper and then watching it
floating in the wind!! It created a lot of laughter.
Great being ‘waited’ on by some of the children, coffee, tea, cakes and donuts in the home corner, nice chats and great little chefs!!!
Being led by the children’s interest, main interest this week has been dinosaurs, on Tuesday a dinosaur had been and laid eggs in the outside area ( musical instruments that looks like eggs). In forest school today (Friday) the children found frozen dinosaur eggs they could see the dinosaurs inside the eggs, some children managed to get the dinosaurs to hatch by putting the eggs in water.
With drier weather outside has been used more. The children are playing in larger groups where tag, hide and seek, running and ball play are involved. They negotiate the games between themselves and taking turns.
The children have enjoyed exploring media and materials in 2 and 3 dimensions. Collectively the children decided that the grandfather clock for their hickory dickory dock activity would be 'rainbow colours' and what a multi-coloured clock it is! It was lovely to observe the children working creatively together on their project with a purpose in mind and how thrilled they were at the end result. Working individually and on a small scale the children created their mice by looking at the example template then choosing the shapes and materials they wanted to use. The end result were a collection of very colourful characterful mice ready to run up and down the grandfather clock!
We printed an image of a Grandfather clock for the children to work from, many hadn’t seen one before, they did a brilliant job. Take a look in the home corner!
Friday 13 March 2020
Letter to parents
BROADWAY & TOWERVIEWPLAYSCHOOL
Within AppleVale Children’s Centre,
Broadway, Worcs, WR127BD
Jo Bason Leader. Becky Davis Manager
www.btvplayschool.co.uk
Towerview PS – Tel 07922025902
Email: broadwaytowerview@gmail.com
Children and those with family members living together who have a high temperature or continuous cough should not attend Playschooland self isolate for a minimum of seven days.
Washing hands frequently for at least 20 seconds.
At Playschool the children are washing hands before and after snack and lunch, and are singing the rhyme;
Wash your dirty hands,
Wash your dirty hands,
Rub and scrub and rub and scrub,
And wash your dirty hands
Repeat
Do not touch your face.
Playschool closures will be on the Playschool website ‘blog’
Thursday 12 March 2020
Sunday 1 March 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus
Latest information and advice can also be found at:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Advice for parents/guardians
You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus.
There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting as normal.
If you have returned from these specific areas since February 19, you should call NHS111 and stay indoors and avoid contact with other people even if you do not have symptoms:
• Iran
• Specific lockdown areas in Northern Italy as designated by the Government of Italy
• Special care zones in South Korea as designated by the Government of the Republic of South Korea
• Hubei province (returned in the past 14 days)
If you have returned from these areas since February 19th and develop symptoms, however mild, you should stay indoors at home and avoid contact with other people immediately and call NHS111. You do not need to follow this advice if you have no symptoms.
• Northern Italy (defined by a line above, and not including, Pisa, Florence and Rimini),
• Vietnam
• Cambodia
• Laos
• Myanmar
Creative and Imaginative role play
Lovely to see the children excited about the snow on Thursday!
Lovely to see the children excited about the snow on Thursday!
They enjoyed making hand and foot prints and watched the snow melt.
We talked about where snow comes from and what animals live in snowy countries, we pretended to be penguins which was hilarious!!
Children at both settings enjoyed pancakes this week, they learnt that we need, eggs, flour and milk for the ingredients. They took turns to take part by scooping and counting spoonfuls of flour and using the whisk to mix the mixture and there was some good thinking about how we could make the mixture running by adding milk. Unfortunately Jo attempted to flip the very first pancake which fell to the floor!....the disappointment on their faces! Luckily we had made made plenty of mixture so after another go she managed to get it in the pan...yay!
Some were made for role play so the children were able to have a go too.
Lovely to see some new faces at the ‘Broadway’ setting. With a little support they settled well and followed the routine.
The children at Towerview setting noticed that the role play area had been rearranged and showed a renewed interest in the area. Children were observed sitting together on the sofa engaging in conversation with one another .Children played cooperatively as part of a group as well as playing independently engrossed in their own imaginative role play. Resources had been sorted and made easier for the children to access making play more creative through the props they chose to support their role play.
There was lots of creativity and focus with the play dough this week. Lots of gross and fine motor skills were in use, and the blob monsters were really good.
Unfortunately on Friday we all got ourselves ready but it was too windy to go into our Forest school site. So instead we enjoyed some physical activities on the school field, the children spent time rolling, walking and running through the long grass as we went on a ‘Bear hunt’.
Unfortunately on Friday we all got ourselves ready but it was too windy to go into our Forest school site. So instead we enjoyed some physical activities on the school field, the children spent time rolling, walking and running through the long grass as we went on a ‘Bear hunt’.
Monday 10 February 2020
Great cooperative role play and language
On Thursday the children made meringue ‘clouds’ Good to see them counting out the spoonfuls of sugar, and using the electric whisk, some found it a little noisy! Those who joined in were really engaged and fascinated to watch as the egg turned ‘fluffy’ as it was whisked, and then changed again as the sugar was added, becoming ‘shiny’ and ‘silky’.
They were so excited!
The 2-3yr children at the URC group enjoyed building bridges with the planks wooden logs and crates. They tested their balancing skills and some showed empathy by offering their hand as support to help their peers across the bridge.
It was lovely to see the children interacting with each other at Forest School searching out wiggly worms and counting them and also making and flipping tasty pancakes in the mud kitchen!
The children were engrossed in the story of goldilocks and the three bears using props from the story sack.The children showed sustained attentive listening, responding to what they heard and responded to adult questions with relevant comments, questions and answers.
The art table was accessed by a number of children who enjoyed making their own decisions as to what media and materials they preferred to create their intended designs.Some children understood that different media can be combined to create new effects.
Sunday 2 February 2020
Enjoying the outdoors
It’s been great seeing some of the children using the bats and balls great hand eye coordination and attempting to hit it backwards and forwards to each other, also with the larger footballs some children drop kicking the ball fantastic coordination.
It was lovely to see the children playing outside later in the week enjoying the morning sunshine! Some great construction materials being used to make a house (blocks & wood ) and a ‘walkway’ created by using the milk crates.
This week on Friday we had some really good, strong tree climbing from some
of the children. They really enjoyed it and showed strength & confidence.
So this week we tried the ‘tornado in a jar’ experiment. First attempt was using a plastic bottle, we added a bit too much washing up liquid so that when we shook it it became really cloudy. With the second attempt we tried a glass jar remembering to reduce the amount of washing up liquid, shaking it we were able to see the tornado for a split second! We explored the idea of adding glitter which was much more interesting for the children and they seemed to enjoy it swiping then settle at the bottom.
Friday 24 January 2020
Involved and concentrating
It's been lovely watching the children settling back into the routine so quickly and confidently after an exciting break. Also how the older children have helped and supported the younger ones.
There have been many opportunities this week for the children to participate in group activities such as large floor puzzle building and table top board games. During the play children have used good listening understanding and verbal communication. They have recognised that print has meaning and negotiated taking turns.
The children have had the opportunity to use the bow saw at forest school. They are helping to cut up some of the branches which have been pruned and their sticks are being put aside for our fire at the end of the term. They are understanding their world and how to look after it as well as themselves when risk is involved.
The children have amazed us with their impressive mark making producing beautiful rainbow pictures learning all the colours by singing the ‘rainbow’ song, some of which are displayed in the corridor of the Childrens Centre.
There have been many opportunities this week for the children to participate in group activities such as large floor puzzle building and table top board games. During the play children have used good listening understanding and verbal communication. They have recognised that print has meaning and negotiated taking turns.
The children have had the opportunity to use the bow saw at forest school. They are helping to cut up some of the branches which have been pruned and their sticks are being put aside for our fire at the end of the term. They are understanding their world and how to look after it as well as themselves when risk is involved.
The children have amazed us with their impressive mark making producing beautiful rainbow pictures learning all the colours by singing the ‘rainbow’ song, some of which are displayed in the corridor of the Childrens Centre.
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