It was lovely to welcome everyone back after the school closures. The children have all settled back in well and thoroughly enjoyed all our topics and being able to socialise again—and when parents can socialise again and enter the foyer, we’re planning a new-look parent information board and staff board! Read more…
March brought us mixed weather (as always!), but we have been taking the children out for fresh air and exercise when it’s not too grim. They’ve enjoyed the space the field offers and loved kicking a football around. Indoors, we’ve been celebrating events such as St David’s Day, Mother’s Day, Read more…
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, Read more…
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. Read more…
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. Read more…
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, Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…