Pre-School

Pre School Autumn 2 Week 3 Hedgehogs

This week we listened to the story ‘Any Room for me?’ where a man drops his glove and lots of animals make their home in his glove. We have been thinking about how we all have the right to a home and what kind of homes different animals have. We enjoyed making homes for hedgehogs […]

Firework and Bonfire fun

Today we looked at pictures and films of fireworks. The children then squirted water and paint onto paper to make their own fire work shapes and colours. In the afternoon we cooked sausages over the fire and chips over the fire YUM ! Happy Bonfire weekend everyone . We enjoyed chips and sausages over the […]

Autumn 1 week 7

A lovely and busy last week at Pre-school . We drilled and threaded conkers to make an abacus, and had a visit from Mrs Atkinson who taught us some first aid to try out on our teddies and each other. We also made some natural potions and medicines, Then finished the week by making cheese […]

Pre-School Autumn 2 Week 1 – Autumn, Halloween and bonfire night!

This week we have been exploring Autumn and celebrations. We started the week with Room on the Broom and making witches potions. We made spiders webs with string and masking tape, skeletons with cotton buds and witches eyeballs with salt dough. We’ve been talking about how our family celebrates (or not) Halloween. Pumpkin hammering, pumpkin […]

Pre-School Autumn 1 Week 6 – Squirrel Nutkin

This week we have continues our Squirrel Nutkin story and exploring all things to do with Autumn. We re-told the story- the children are becoming more familiar with the songs now and a firm favourite is ‘Roly poly ever so slowly, roly poly ever so fast’! We have been discussing squirrels and the colour of […]

Pre-School Autumn 1 Week 5 Autumn Story

This week we are thinking about Autumn and going out and about to look for signs of Autumn. We have been on a long walk to find acorns, conkers, beech nuts and colourful leaves. We also learnt a new oral story called the Autumn Story. The children listened to songs and joined in with actions […]

Pre-School Autumn 1 Week 4

This week we have been reading the Enormous Turnip. The children have been acting out the story using masks and digging for their own vegetables using trowels. They’ve been hammering and chopping up the vegetables and using them to print with paint. They’ve also been thinking about how we can help people. We read the […]

Autumn 1 Week 3

The Apple Fairy Continued . This week the children have been tasting different types apples, making apple fairy wands and acting out The Apple Fairy Story . We have also explored the trees in Kingscroft and around school, we found lots of early autumnal treasures such as acorns, beech nuts and sweet chestnuts . We […]

2022 Pre-School Autumn 1 Week 1

WELCOME everyone ,to all of our new starters, and the old hands !. What an amazing first week back. Its been so lovely to be with the children again We’ve had lots of fun this week, exploring the new areas and making new friends. We’ve been making our own stick people and printing our hand. […]