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.

Parents need to keep updated by visiting www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Playschool closures will be on the Playschool website ‘blog’

STOP THE SPREAD OF GERMS

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!

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’.

Great cooperative role play and language

Throughout the week the children have been fascinated with buried treasure and hunting for it in the play school garden. They even started using an X to mark the spot. The play experience was extended further on Friday when digging for treasure at forest school. One of the children found a beautiful looking stone which lead to all the children being amazed at finding real treasure. 

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.

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.

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.