WECLOME BACK TO THE SUMMER TERM !

Hope you all had a lovely Easter.

We started back to lovely spring weather – REMINDER that your child will need a sun hat each dayand sun screen on before they attend.

This term we are doing experiments, building dens and looking at mini beasts- the caterpillars are on order !

We have been busy painting pictures of daffodils and spring flowers and making our initials out of cress. The grass heads at home have grown well and the children report enjoying cutting their grass head’s hair !

The new children have settled well into Towerview Playschool – our rolling a ball to each other and saying our names game has supported this transition.

At Broadway Playschool the new children to the 2-3 group to seemed to settle well and we're all looking forward to getting to know them and their families.

It has been good to get outside with plenty of sand play- block building and whizzing around on the bikes and scooters.

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!

Baby it's cold outside !

Even though it has been bitterly cold this week, some of the children have enjoyed having a blast on the bikes and scooters. We have enjoyed finding ice in the tyres and tuff tray – making our fingers ssooooooo cooooold !

RSPB BIRD WATCH - Great to see so many children enjoying the bird watching area, then looking in the books to see if they can find one that they've seen.

Musicians in the making singing "push the button to make it go" song for flushing the loo !

The junk modelling is still going with even more fantastical models being made. Some excellent vehicle pictures were made out of 2D shapes too.

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At Broadway Playschool  the children have been exploring the dried pasta table - filling big and small containers, pouring and practising how to hold and use the tongs to transfer the pieces of pasta from one container to another - lots of concentrating!!  Also making shakers, using the tweezers to pick pieces up, counting, more or less, full, empty – lots and lots of ‘learning through play’!

Outside the children really enjoyed the balls in the paddling pool, colour matching & counting & rolling them down the guttering and transporting them around the room in baskets.

 

REMINDER – sending in a piece of fruit or veg each week helps us offer more variety for the children’s snack time – thankyou !

INTO THE SCHOOL HALL FOR THE BEETLE CRAWL !

This week we started using the school hall as part of the transition to get the children used to a school environment. Everyone had fun being beetles and snakes as we crawled, jumped and balanced during P.E.  It was great to see the children getting used to the hall and some really great ‘slithering like snakes’ going on!

Junk modelling is popular at the moment; the children have been very imaginative and created some brilliant models including aeroplanes, rockets, 'houses with chimneys' and 'boats with engines'.

They enjoyed finishing off the traffic light biscuits after wee made the biscuits and then iced them and put sweets on them. They all knew stop = RED, get ready= ORANGE and  Go = GREEN !