Oh Christmas Tree ! Oh Christmas tree.! ........

This week the children have been busy making snowmen for the late night shopping in Broadway this Friday and next. They then walked to the church to put their own snowman on the tree and se the other trees there.

Do come and see our Xmas tree at the United Reformed Church in the upper High Street !

We have had play dough that smells like ginger  bread and glitter in the sand !

At Broadway Playschool penguin potato prints have been made by the children and ice explored outside.

At Towerview Playschool ice was also found inside the tyres and brought in to setting to see how long it would take to melt.

The children have taken home their Diwalli lights and are busy making junk model construction of every kind imaginable!

Some of the children have walked down to see the Xmas tree in the church and to look in the decorated shop windows.

MEETINGS WITH STAFF to talk about your child's development are available every afternoon next week - please see form or talk to staff to book a slot.

 

FESTIVAL OF LIGHT

There was some fab mark making and collage this week from flowers to 'Minecraft' at Towerview.  Most of the children have also enjoyed getting messy with the clay making Diwalli tea lights for the Hindu Festival of Light.

It was great to see some of the children role playing using the puppets and soft toys, with a dragon theme this week. They have also  been getting really involved with role play with the outside building equipment again making ‘aeroplanes’.  

At Broadway Playschool the children are becoming more settled now and we are having good fun playing "who's wearing the glasses game" and getting to know each other at snack time.

Forest school session - saw many children building on their confidence to climb the tree at various heights, and challenge themselves further. This also helps builds the muscles they need to write with.

Jude and Jo have been on Local Authority SENdCo training in Worcester . This is training for our special educational needs support in Playschool and benefits all the children with their development.

THE PLAYSCHOOL COMMITTEE HAVE THEIR ANNUAL MEETING THIS TUESDAY EVENING AT 6.30 AT TOWERVIEW PLAYSCHOOL. ALL PARENTS ARE INVITED.

bonfires and remembrance...

This week we have been seeing wind & rain lashing the playschool – the children have still managed to get outside and build aeroplanes, trains and houses. The one plane even had ‘TVs in the seats’ so we could all ‘watch’ different films!!

We have made felt poppies and talked about remembering people and soldiers and wars. The children worked hard to split the wool weft and to layer it – then to soap it then roll it out and then leave to dry. The poppies look very effective !

We have also been discussing fire safety and how to keep ourselves safe. The children have made a ‘krispie’ bonfire cake at both settings – it all tumbled down the sides of the bowl and they added different sweets to make the ‘flames’. They have seen matches and sparklers and we have talked about ‘fire’ ,‘hot’, heat’ and ‘burning’. They know these things are for adults to do and they can watch, to keep safe.

The bonfire cake at Towewrview went to Forest School and was beautiful with the sparklers in it – then we all had a piece- yum yum !

AUTUMNAL FUN!

This week we had a fantastic time making birdfeeders at Forest school with the children. we have had fun getting our fingers sticky in forest school making seed feeders for the birds.  We mixed the ingredients then used our fingers to put the food into fir cones, hanging them in the trees for the birds to find.  It was great fun, with lots of language from discussions about where to hang the feeders.

One of our newest Play assistants felt that the best thing she had enjoyed doing with the children was footprint painting and making the iced biscuit faces – she now felt confident enough to take responsibility of doing the activities on her own with the children. 

Other staff members also enjoyed supporting the children whilst they decorated their biscuits to make their ‘face’. The children really had fun with this activity.

Another staff member said she enjoyed the yoga session and playing in the shaving foam with the children.

At Broadway Playschool, on Wednesday morning, the children enjoyed their walk, chatting about what they saw and collecting the autumn leaves. It was incredible how much more language was used; out and about !

OCTOBER SHOWERS !

This week the rain ‘wooshed’ into Playschool – so the children got out the umbrellas and enjoyed singing in the rain!  They were surprised when the rain washed away their chalk floor drawings and explored the raindrops coming from the roof and fence.

They have enjoyed filling containers with different amounts of conkers in, and shaking them to hear the different sounds they make.

There is much interactive role play emerging with plenty of interesting conversations and engagement. When one child was asked if he could let his friend share their ideas – his friend piped up – “oh I don’t have any ideas” !!!  There has been some lovely kindness shown by our older children to young children who are still settling.

A number of children constructed a balancing walkway using planks, crates and logs.  Most of the children enjoyed spending time balancing as they walked along the walkway, time after time, after time.  Someone even decided to crawl underneath it!

CONKER TIME !

At Towerview Playschool everyone had great fun joining in with action songs and raps and realising they were getting hot because they were ‘moving around’. They all seem to be really enjoying group activities, joining in with yoga and action songs.

We have been on a ‘conker ‘ walk and collected leaves and even had birthday snack under the trees.  We have been sorting them into different sizes, counting them and sorting them into different size boxes.

All the children enjoyed the forest on Wednesday digging with water, lots of jumping in muddy puddles and very dirty faces and hands. Some children made nests for the animals as we have been talking with them about which ones hibernate for the winter.

The children have been involved in role play, working together to build a train to go to CBeebiesland and Cheltenham racecourse. Learning to share their ideas and using the timer to take turns to drive the train.

At Broadway Playschool the younger ones have been learning to climb the 'A' frame safely and slide down the slide. They have been outside in the sand and stacking the soft blocks to make towers.

Welcome back to the autumn term 2015 !

We have got off to a grand start with children settling quickly in with a few tears but soon dried and happy and involved!

At Broadway Playschool the children have been busy learning the routine and enjoying playing in the sand in the autumn sunshine & rain!

At Towerview we have also had sand play and lots of role play and interaction as the more confident children support the other children to become involved- lots of chatter as they play.

BROADWAY HORTICULTURAL SHOW 2015

We won the Junior cup back with our clay mini beasts, we made at the end of last term.

We had a 1^st and 3^rd prize and  four ‘ Highly Commended’ – well done to all the children – their entries looked great in the big marquee!