WELCOME TO THE AUTUMN TERM

Welcome to all our families new and old!

The children have come in and mostly settled quickly some needing a bit more time and reassurance.

The 'roll the ball and say your name game' has been fun - and we are all beginning to get to know each other.

We have been making some hedgerow muffins today for the Food Festival Sunday and have entries from last term for the Horticultural Show on Saturday.   Both on the village green.
The children really enjoyed using the electric cake mixer and putting in the blackberries they had picked the previous day.

Forest school sessions will start next week - Weds & Fridays

Our theme this half term will be 'all about ourselves ' - learning about each other too !

HAVE A VERY HAPPY SUMMER FROM US ALL !

Our walk from Broadway Tower back to Playschool took place this week. It was fabulous how well the children all walked and it was fun watching them enjoy Tracy B’s Billy Goats Gruff performance at snack time – some walkers stopped to listen too !!!.  Sarah & Angie noticed that the children all behaved so well and loved looking out for sheep poo !!

Jo reported that she has loved watching a few of the children reading their favourite stories to the rest of the group, and they have all sat and listened so well! Tracy B noted that one boy told everyone the 3 little pig’s story on Monday afternoon ! He was brilliant!

At Broadway Playschool the ‘little ones’ have enjoyed water play , transporting water, filling up , and LOTS of splashing !!! 

At Towerview Playschool lots of children have enjoyed playing and getting wet in the water play, then drying off in the hot weather we've had during our last week.

Alison and Jo supported the children to do some excellent painting pebble animals for the village Horticultural show ( Sept 6^th ).  Hope we win the cup again !!!

The slide show proved popular – parents and family enjoying and celebrating the children’s successes over the last two terms.

We said ‘goodbye’ & thank you to our students Katie and Katherine this week – we wish them all the best in their future careers.

Goodbye and good luck to all our children leaving us to begin their school journey, it has been lots of fun getting to know you at Playschool and we will miss you !

Love from all the Playschool Team.

     WE START BACK ON MONDAY  8^TH SEPTEMBER

Forest school trip to Sandfield Farm

We all really enjoyed the farm trip, was lovely seeing all the children have so much fun playing in the mud - even though they lost their wellies and were rolling in it like little piglets!  

 

 We saw real pigs, farm dogs and chickens - including a huge cockerel - there was a cow about to calf !

 The children enjoyed loosing their wellies in the squelchy mud whilst exploring what the forest had to offer. 

They loved walking round the forest and acted out 'going on a bear hunt' with some of the children making the noises like in the mud ‘squelch squelch’ etc!

 

We all gathered around the camp fire  cooking and eating, twice – pancakes at snack time and then toasting marshmallows after lunch.

 

Two children fell asleep on the coach on the way home !

An excellent trip ! The children behaved really well and all took more mud home with them as a souvenir !! 

 

A big thank you to Emma for allowing us to use the farm

 

 

ROAD SAFETY & VISIT TO THE DOCTORS SURGERY

The visit to doctors surgery was fantastic all the children were really good . They sat brilliantly and listened well while Dr Hughes spoke to them. They were all enthusiastic to volunteer to have temperature use the stethoscope to listen to each other's heartbeats.  He put glitter glue  on hands to show them how germs spread. He showed them models of  how the heart looks and your feet. All children were fantastic great walking and practising crossing using the pedestrian crossing in the village. 

There has been masses of excellent communication and interaction going on this week with building things with different materials and listening to each others ideas.  Some great team work going on and one boy said ‘wow this has been the best day ever!’ once finished building a huge ‘palace’ role play in the whole outdoor area with a few peers.

 

We have been looking at how to cross the road safely, making traffic light biscuits and have made a stop /go sign for the bikes !

SUNFLOWERS,NURSES, FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE DOG HANDLERS !

The children have done some lovely sunflower pictures this week – we shall make them into a book !

A real nurse came into playschool on Thursday and talked to the children and let them hear their heart beats and put bandages on our dolls. She really enjoyed the children’s enthusiasm!

The visit to the Fire station by the two Playschools  was a huge success – the two fire fighters were great showing the children how everything worked and bringing fire safety into every conversation. The children clambered on board the fire engine, tried on equipment and explored the station. We all had a great time and the best bit was when the children got to have a go with the water hose ! 

Even the little ones seemed to really enjoy it all and the siren didn’t scare them at all- 'yay for Fireman Sam' (tv). When one fireman got big object off the back of the engine and asked the children if anyone knew what it was, several quickly answered with "Jaws of life" !!

We then had a picnic snack on the grass while they put the fire engine way.  The children got stickers, books and colouring sheets to take away. 

Later in the week we had two Police vans and sniffer dogs into playschool. The dogs were kept safely in the vans but the children enjoyed seeing them, trying on police uniform and pretending to drive the police cars and setting the sirens off. Everyone enjoyed the visit by the police dog handlers today.  The children loved trying on the different police hats and clothes and meeting ‘Murphy’ the small sniffer dog.

Later some of the school children came to have a talk with the police as well. It was a fabulous opportunity for all of us !   Some excellent reflective stickers were given to all the children.

We would like to thank all our Emergency Services very much for helping us to educate our children about ‘People who help us’.

HEROES

This week one of our student’s brother's came to Playschool  in his army medic gear – the children, listen really well and tried on his army mask and helmet. They learnt about how the British Forces help people by rescuing them in floods and protecting people in danger. They also saw his dried food ration and tried some reconstituted apple juice – some children said it was nice some said it tasted “disgusting”!

This week  we were all busy making Father’s day bookmarks at forest school , and love cards– these were stencil printed bulldozer cards and the children also attempted writing their names inside.

The sunshine meant that water play was in big demand – and lots of thought went into working out how to make the water flow down the guttering and back to the bowls – it was “good fun”.

STAFF TRAINING - Jude & Tracy B attended the Forest school Learning Initiatives’ conference down near Slimbridge – it was a fab day where we revisited using saws and drills, made a pot holder – learnt about free food from the forest, how to sustain you forest school area, and leant allot of new ideas to bring back for our children in playschool.

PARENTS FOREST SCHOOL EVENING - On Wednesday evening some of the parents joined playschool staff in a forest school cookout evening – they had a tour of the FS area, sat around the fire chatting, made bread to go with their veggie bean chilli and toasted marshmallows. One of the team’s yummy banana bread finished the evening off – all the parents reported what a lovely evening they’d had!    

HEALTHY TEETH

We had a lovely week brushing teeth and each making a paper mouth with 20 teeth - which we then held up in front of our faces and laughed at each other.

On the walk to visit the dentist it was lovely and sunny - we would like to thank Broadway Dental Surgery for their great reception and for providing the children with a tour of the dentist and a chat with dentist and dental nurses. The children really enjoyed their experience and marched back to playschool full of the visit.

REMINDER - your child needs a coat every day - so that they can access the outdoors even when it is raining - thankyou