Thank you

Hi everyone,

Zoe, Chloe, Coleen and Rachel would like to say a massive ‘Thank you’ for all your lovely gifts/presents and kind words. We have had such an amazing time with your children and have loved every minute.

Have a fantastic few weeks off and look forward to seeing you all again in September.

Have lots of fun.

Zoe

Happy summer holidays

Hello Everyone,

Where has the last few weeks gone?! Here we are our last 3 days in Year 1.

We intend to have a fun time together and play with our favourite toys.

The children have made some lovely friendships and have come on so much in their development it has been really rewarding to watch and be part of.

We really want to wish that you all have a lovely break and get to make some great memories as a family over the coming weeks.

Please let us know if you would like to attend the Snail and the whale Show as we need to confirm numbers. This is the perfect chance to have a fun day out where the children can enjoy something really special. 

I would also like to thank Julia and the Team for their passion, dedication and for their enthusiasm to make the POW Pre-School the special Pre-School it is.

I would like to personally thank you as parents/Carers for making me feel so welcome and part of the POW community since I joined in November.

Can’t wait to see you all after the holidays to see what fun times you have had.

Notices 

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 25th July from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Funding forms are now out, please return these as soon as possible. If you have any questions please come and speak to myself, Julia or Caroline. 

We break up for the summer holidays on Wednesday 25th July and return on Wednesday 5th September. 

Have a lovely few weeks

Zoe and Pre-School Team

Pirates

Hello Everyone,

We had a great time talking about our holidays and what we were most looking forward to. 

We talked about how to stay safe when out and about and who to look for if we had a problem.

This week we are having a Pirate week which will lead up to our Pirate Party.

We will be making telescopes, treasure maps, and pin the patch on the pirate which we will look forward to playing at the party.

During the week we will learn some history about pirates and how they still exist in some waters today. The children seem very interested in this topic and eager to learn more.

Letters and Sounds

We will be having some fun with the musical instruments this week. Tapping rhymes and seeing if the children can copy and make up their own. The children will take it in turns to be the leader of the group.

Jigsaw

We will be talking about our friendship groups and our new classroom in year 2. The children have had a couple of sessions in the year 2 classroom and seemed to love it!

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

Home Learning 

Focus on numbers in the environment; see if your child can recognise some of the numbers on number plates. Look out for numbers on post boxes when out and about.

Notices 

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 20th July from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

The pirate party is on Wednesday 18th July from 3.45-4.30. Please see letter for further details. If you have not returned your slip, please do so ASAP. 

Funding forms are now out, please return these as soon as possible. If you have any questions please come and speak to myself, Julia or Caroline. 

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each.

The next POWSA planning meeting is on Tuesday 17th July at 7.30pm. 

We break up for the summer holidays on Wednesday 25th July and return on Wednesday 5th September. 

Our last full week lets make it a fun one!

Zoe and Pre-School Team

Holidays

Hello Everyone,

We had a lovely week hearing all about your families pets or borrowed ones!

Most of the children know what the basic things small animals need and how to look after them which is really promising.

At the end of the week our two new pets arrived and have been settling in to their new home. They are two boy Guinea Pigs who are 8 weeks old. I’m sure they will bring the children a lot of enjoyment over the coming months and years.

This week we are learning about different countries we may be visiting on our holidays, what we may see and how to stay safe.

Letters and Sounds

This week we will play sounds behind the screen to see if the children can identify the correct sound from the props in front of them. 

We will also be counting claps to help the children they do not always have to count with a steady beat.

Jigsaw

We will be discussing Holidays and different destinations so, if you have any pictures of where you are going over the holidays to prompt conversations then please bring them in.

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

Home Learning 

We will continue to collect any wow’s up until the end of this week Then we will log them in to the Learning Journeys.

If you could look out for numbers on doors, packets, cars etc when you are out and about that would be great. Making number hunts fun and varied.

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

Notices 

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Wednesday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Thursday 12th July from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

The pirate party is on Wednesday 18th July from 3.45-4.30. Please see letter for further details. If you have not returned your slip, please do so ASAP. 

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each.

The next POWSA planning meeting is on Tuesday 17th July at 7.30pm. 

We can’t wait for another fun weeks creating and learning together.  

Looking forward to a lovely slightly cooler week!

Zoe and Pre-school Team

Pets

Hello Everyone,

We had a great week making all of the display work for our banner about Africa.

The children also had fun making the ginger cake for the snack café in the hall.

The children made the recycling bin and have started to use it for odd scraps of paper they no longer need.

We read stories about animals and sung some songs and played the drumming instruments.

This week we will be talking about animal care as we are hoping to add a new addition to our chicken/Wildlife area towards the end of the week. Watch this space!

Letters and Sounds

We will be playing describe the animal this week. We will also be describing somebody in the room to see if the children can recognise that they are all different. Clapping out the rhythms of their names will be continued as they children are starting to recognise other children’s as well as their own which is good.

Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about animals and pets within our family settings.

If you could bring in ay photo’s this would be great to add to our Jigsaw display board.

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

Home Learning 

The Wow Board is looking great. If you can include any Wow’s about counting or noticing shapes in the environment this would be very helpful. 

Notices 

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Friday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Wednesday 4th July from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

It was lovely to see so many of you at the school summer fair. We hope you had a fabulous time. 

The next POWSA planning meeting is on Tuesday 17th July at 7.30pm. 

We can’t wait for another fun weeks creating and learning together.  

 

Looking forward to a lovely slightly cooler week!

Zoe and Pre-school Team

Global Awareness Fortnight

Hello Everyone,

We had a lovely week and we loved the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’

The children enjoyed tasting some of the fruits from the story and talking about the colours, texture and shapes the fruits come in.

The week was finished off with our great dancing which all the children loved. They particularly liked watching all the other classes perform. The children had fun making their necklaces and bracelets which encouraged a lot of counting and sequencing skills. We also tried the Elderflower Juice that was brought from the shop! It was not very popular I have to report.

We need to continue making new bins for plastic and paper and talk about how we can help the environment with recycling. During the week we will be making some display work to go in the main school hall. The country we have to cover is Africa.

We will be contributing to the banner on the theme of ’Handa’s Surprise’ also making some food to show what they like to eat in Africa.

Letters and Sounds

We will be continuing different rhymes with the drums and shakers. We will also listen to some African music to help us play in the right style. We will play ‘Teddy lost in the room.’ To re cap this and see how the children are working together. During the session we will be getting the children to clap out the rhythms of their names to see if they are able to copy them back. 

Jigsaw

This week we will be talking about families and what news we have to report to the group. We will use the map as a prompt to look at and see what conversations and interest it brings.  

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

Home Learning 

The Wow Board is looking great. We have had to extend the area to fit them all in so it’s been a great team effort so thank you. Please continue to add any Wow’s and photos of days out that your child can share.

Notices 

Please if you can cream up your child before you arrive, this would be a great help to us. Remember to make sure you are ticked off on the Sun Cream chart.

It was lovely to see some of you at Stay and Play on Thursday.  This week Stay and Play will be on Friday 29th June from 8.30-9.00am. Everyone is very welcome including younger and older siblings. Hope to see lots of you there.

Every Friday at 3.30 POWSA are selling ice creams by the play trail. 50p each. 

The School Summer Fayre will be on Saturday 30th June 11am to 3pm. There are lots of exciting plans afoot so watch this space for further info. We are looking to include a market place so if you would like to have a stall please get in touch.

If you able to help at the summer fayre, please come and see Julia.

We can’t wait for another fun weeks creating and learning together.  

Zoe and Pre-school Team

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