During February, the children were busy exploring winter topics and creating crafts for our winter display board. One of their activities involved threading beads onto pipe cleaners to make snowflakes. The purpose of activities like these is not just to create something beautiful but to increase the children’s manual dexterity, which is essential for developing […]
Happy New Year! Here at Preschool, we are still taking stringent precautions and constantly assessing our room layouts and routines to ensure we’re keeping our staff, children and families as safe as possible during this third lockdown. Most of our children are attending and we have welcomed some new starters. The children have been very […]
As Christmas draws near, we are looking forward to a New Year with hopes that it will be a better one – and looking forward to a time when taking the children’s temperatures every day, along with all of our other COVID-19 precautions, can be a thing of the past. In the meantime, we continue […]
As always, since the pandemic began, we’ve tried our hardest this month to make sure the children still have as many opportunities for fun and learning as they did before, and tried to provide some familiarity and routine for them at a time when things seem uncertain and different. Recently, our home corner has been […]
BREAKFAST CLUB FOR AGES 2-11 YEARS: WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED? We are considering opening a breakfast club for ages 2-11 years (Yr 6) after the October half term and would like to gauge how much interest there might be in this first. If this is something you would be interested in, please email us at […]
Preschool reopened for all pupils on 2nd September, and it was lovely to welcome everyone back—and to welcome our new starters and their families. The focus in our first week was on ’All About Me’ activities, helping everyone get to know each other. The children took selfies of themselves and measured their heights so that […]
As we look forward to a new school year, the plan is to open Preschool to all pupils again in September, with measures in place to ensure that social distancing is facilitated and that strict hygiene standards are maintained on the premise, alongside frequent and thorough handwashing sessions for pupils and staff. Of course, in […]
Soon, this most strange of academic years will be over. The children who have returned to Preschool as lockdown eases have adapted quickly to a new room layout and routine, which includes a temperature check on arrival and washing their hands thoroughly and regularly (while singing a song to ensure they’re staying at the sink […]
Hello from a (partly) re-opened Preschool! At present, we are only accepting a few children back to Preschool, but it has been lovely to welcome back these children and their families, and see familiar faces again! Of course, it’s not business as usual yet and all government advice is being followed to ensure that the […]
