Spring

Hello Everyone,

We have had a very creative week making some special gifts which I hope the parents have enjoyed. The children worked really hard on these and did lots of mark making which was good to see.

This week we will be looking at ‘spring’ and the changes that take place during this time.  We will do some planting in the garden and plant some cress seeds.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be having ‘listening moment’s’ during the day. We will be using a sand timer to time how long we are going to listen for. Then we are going to report back to the class what noises we heard. The children will model each of the sounds.

We will also introduce ‘Mrs Browning has a box’ we sing a song and add in a different sound from behind a box and the children have to guess what it is.

Jigsaw

We will be continuing to have discussions at group times throughout the day. We will be discussing that we are all different and looking at the differences of animals we have seen out and about.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Thank you so much for sharing all of your snow photos and sending in lots of Wow’s with them. If you could bring in or email any pictures of your pets we can add these to our board as we are looking at differences between animals.

Thank you all for taking time out to come to parent’s evenings, we were really pleased to share with you your child’s progress. 

Notices

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 16th March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

It was lovely to see some of our families at Bingo on Friday night. Thank you for the donations of cakes for the refreshments. The total raised was £320.00. 

On Tuesday 13th March at 7.30pm in the main school staff room POWSA are having a meeting about future fund raising events. If you would like to get involved, please do come along. If you have any questions come and see Julia. 

Due to the weather this weekend we decided to cancel our garden makeover afternoon. We will put up a new date very soon.

On Friday 23rd March, POWSA have organised a film night. Tickets will be able to buy from the school office soon. Look out for more information. 

Zoe and Pre-school team

Pre-school garden make over cancelled tomorrow

Hello everyone,

Due to the wet weather today and the forecast for tomorrow, we have decided to cancel our Pre-school garden make over. We were going to paint the sheds and they are now to wet to paint. Look out for the new date.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you next week.

Thanks

Julia

This week we are.....

Hello Everyone,

What an interesting week we have had!! Thank you so much to you all for making the effort to get to Pre-School on Thursday all dressed up. The weather finally brought some snow and we all had a chance to have some great family times playing in the snow. 

Last week the children really enjoyed the activities focussed on ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Most of all they liked to talk about the wolf and how he ended up in the cooking pot! 

This week we will be focussing on craft activities and making some special gifts for the weekend. These will be focussing on fine motor skills and using our imaginations to make something really special. 

Letters and Sounds

Did any of your children notice how quiet it was when it was snowing with no cars on the road.  We will be seeing if we can hear anything different now the weather is changing. Hopefully we will start to hear the birds sing and the plants start to grow.

We will be playing picture lotto and following instructions while we are playing with the musical instruments. 

We will also include ‘Pass the puzzle game’ as we have been working on our sharing skills and team work.

Jigsaw

The children have been enjoying their group time discussions. We will be discussing spring and the changes we will be expecting to see in the environment soon.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Please send in any snow photo’s for the board, hopefully you have lots of snaps on your phones and can email them straight across. 

Notices 

Sorry we had to cancel the parents evening on the Thursday please keep an eye out to when we will re schedule this for in the near future.  Looking forward to lots of fun learning experiences with your children over the coming week.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 8th March from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Our Saturday Stay and Play morning is on the 10th March from 10.00-11.30am. After this we are having a community make over afternoon on the pre-school garden. It would be great to see all you. If you are able to come along and help, please let Julia know. 

On Friday 9th March POWSA are running an Easter Bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. POWSA will be sending home a plate this week for donations of cakes for the refreshments for the evening. 

On Tuesday 13th March there is a POWSA meeting to discuss future events. This is in the school staff room at 7.30pm. Please ask Julia if you would like more information.

Zoe and  Pre-School Team

Pre-school closed Friday 2nd March

Dear Parents

SPECIAL NOTICE - Due to the inclement weather, PRE-SCHOOL WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW. 

The main school remains unaffected at this stage.

Please look on the facebook page and Dorset for You for regular updates regarding the Main school.

Thank you for all your support.

Julia and Pre-School Team

Books....

Hello Everyone,

We’ve had fantastic experiences this week learning all about the Chinese New-Year.  We used lots of skills to make our decorations and loved dancing to the Chinese music. Another thing we learnt is that our Goldfish are very good luck to the Chinese, We hope they are going to be very lucky for us too!

The children were all really happy to try the Chinese food and this brought lots of descriptive language about the colour, taste and what were the keen favourites. 

The children were excited to tell us what they had been doing over the half term and we have recorded their news in their Learning Journey’s

This week we will be focussing on our Favourite story’s with World book day on Thursday. We can’t wait to dress us and have a fun day to celebrate how special books are to our children as well as everyone around the world.

The story focus will be ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ during free play last week the children were acting out being Wolf’s in the garden and this really caught their imagination and focus. It was great to see so much working together, listening and recall being created.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be listening to environmental sound. We will be seeing if we can hear anything different now the weather is changing.

We will be playing the hiding the clock game and seeing if the children can take on the adult’s role in this game.

We will also include ‘who’s under the blanket’ as we have some children who have changed their session day so the children have learned all of their friend’s names.

Jigsaw

The children have been enjoying their group time discussions. We will be discussing what makes us happy /sad and how this makes us feel. Being kind to each other and taking turns during activities.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Fantastic WOW moments have come through this week so please keep these coming in. Your children are making fantastic progress and are making such great relationships in the group its amazing to observe.

Looking forward to a busy week and looking forward to catching up with you all at parent’s evenings. If you have not booked a slot and you would like one, please let Zoe/Chloe know and we can arrange a suitable time. 

Can’t wait to see you all on Monday.

Notices 

With a cold snap forecasted... just a reminder about our school closure procedures.

In the event of snow, Mr. Spracklen will make a decision if the school is to close before 06:30am. School will only close in the MOST EXTREME circumstances.

If a decision to close the school is made:

- Mr. Spracklen will officially close the school through the Dorset For You website.

- Mr. Spracklen will update social media and the school website with school closure notice.

All staff, parents and children should check Dorset For You website, social media and/or the school website which by 07:00am will show if the school is open or closed.

We have now got a new noticeboard which is on the wall by the Pre-School Year 2 door. Notices and daily information will be placed on this board. Please still look at the blog as this is where we display what we have been learning about and lots more. The noticeboard is for quick reference or daily information.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 28th February from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

This week on Thursday 1st March it is world book day. Children may come dressed as their favourite character from a story. 

On Friday 2nd March from 6.00pm-7.00pm in the Main school we are having a bedtime story hour. Children can come in their pyjamas  and bring their favourite teddy. There will be hot chocolate and biscuits.  Please see letter for information regarding this event.

Our Saturday Stay and Play morning is on the 10th March from 10.00-11.30am. After this we are having a community make over afternoon on the pre-school garden. It would be great to see all you. 

On Friday 9th March POWSA are running an Easter Bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. POWSA will be sending home a plate for donations of cakes for the refreshments for the evening. 

Zoe and  Pre-School Team

Chinese New Year

Hello Everyone,

This week we will be learning all about the Chinese New-Year.  We will be making decorations, listening to Chinese music and seeing how they like to celebrate the year of the dog.

We will also be baking, starting work on our Water topic where we have lots of fun activities planned.

We hope you have had a great half term and had some lovely times together.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be listening to different instruments and describing how they sound. We will be seeing if we can use our own voices loud and soft by following simple instructions and visual clues.

We will do some recall of the other activates and encouraging the children to work as a group.

Jigsaw

The children have been enjoying their group time discussions. We will be recalling our holiday news and getting the children to draw a picture of something they can remember from the week off. We will be proudly entering this into their ‘Learning Journey’s’

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices.

Home Learning

Please continue to bring in any WOW moments and remember you can always email through photos and we can write stick them in your child’s Learning Journey. I’m sure you will all bring in one with a holiday ‘Wow’

If they have been very helpful or kind we would love to hear about it.

Looking forward to a busy and exciting time leading up to Easter with lots of new learning planned.

Can’t wait to see you all on Monday

Notices

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 23rd February from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Please sign up for parents evening which is the second week back after half term. Sign up sheet is in the corridor on the wall.

Next week on Thursday 1st March it is world book day. Children may come dressed as their favourite character from a story. 

On Friday 2nd March from 6.00pm-7.00pm in the Main school we are having a bedtime story hour. Children can come in their pyjamas  and bring their favourite teddy. There will be hot chocolate and biscuits.  Please see letter for information regarding this event.

Our Saturday Stay and Play morning is on the 10th March from 10.00-11.30am. After this we are having a community make over afternoon on the pre-school garden. It would be great to see all you. 

On Friday 9th March POWSA are running an Easter Bingo evening. Doors open at 5.30pm and eyes down for 6.00pm. POWSA will be sending home a plate for donations of cakes for the refreshments for the evening. 

Zoe and Pre-school team

Science week

Hello Everyone,

This week we will be continuing with our Science topic.  We will be doing some simple smell test so the children can learn to use their sense of smell.

We will also be baking so that the children can see the changing process that the ingredients go through and how they end up.

Last weeks activities were really interesting and the children made some great ideas about the items we placed in bottles. They had some good guesses about what was going to happen to them and learnt some new language. They were very keen to keep checking to see if there had been any changes to the object.

They also had fun with the candle magic painting and enjoyed seeing their creations appear once they added a thin layer of water paint to them. These will be up on display for you all to see.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will be listening to different instruments and describing how they sound. We will also listen to some different music to see how it makes us feel.

The hiding ticking clock has been a challenge for the children and we will continue with this during the week. We will be trying to see if we can follow simple instructions and sing loud and soft following a signal. We will also start to see if we can do some clapping rhythms.

Jigsaw

The children have been enjoying their group time discussions. We have now been talking about places we have been to visit and what they have seen at them. They also like to know where the adults are going and what they like to do in there spare time.

This week we will discuss the Half Term plans and who and what they may be seeing and doing over the days off.

This is to help reinforce Personal, Social and Emotional Development and help them to make life choices. 

Home Learning 

Please continue to bring in any WOW moments and remember you can always email through photos and we can write stick them in your child’s Learning Journey. It’s been great to see a few more WOW’S on the board so if you have not already done one lets see if we can fill it up?!

If they have been very helpful or kind we would love to hear about it. 

Notices

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 8th February from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Don't forget it is a staff training day on Friday 9th February so the last day of term will be Thursday 8th February. 

Please sign up for parents evening which is the second week back after half term. Sign up sheet is in the cloakroom on the door.

There is a POWSA meeting on the 6th February in the main school staff room at 7.30pm. Please ask Julia for more information. 

On 10th February from 2-5pm is another community make over day of the wildlife garden. Everyone is very welcome. If you are able to help, please do come along.

Hope you all have a lovely Half Term break and we look forward to hearing all about it when you return.

Here’s to another fun week with lots of learning together.