You’re invited to 

Springfield Pre-School Play Days!

Sandiacre Scout Hut, Stanton Road, Sandiacre

Next to Sandiacre Town Football Club

On the Sandiacre I4 bus route!

Join us for our open play sessions!

Everyone is welcome, no booking required.

(Activities suitable from 0-5yrs but older children also welcome)

           Wednesday 3rd April 2024

Wednesday 10th April 2024

10.00am - 11.30am

£2.00 per child

Free tea,coffee, juice and biscuits.

Extra sweet treats to buy!

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 18.03.24

 Hi Everyone,

This week our Springtime topic continues and our focus will be on length and height. We will be measuring the length and height of different objects around the playroom using different tools. We will be using tape measures, rulers, counting cubes, measuring worms and we will be using our hands and feet too!

Our water play this week will be a swamp, with frogs, lizards, snakes, rocks, and leaves. The imaginative area will stay the same 'Springfield Garden Centre and Farm Shop' as the children have had lots of fun in this area so far. 

We have been learning all about how plants grow, so this week the children will have the opportunity to decorate a plant pot and plant some cress seeds. 

Our Easter raffle tickets will be on sale all week. Tickets are just £1 each. The raffle will be drawn on Monday 25^th March. Please see separate email for more details. 

Please remember to log onto Tapestry, this gives you the opportunity to share all the lovely photos and activities that your child has done at Pre-School, with them at home. Including what their next steps are.

Any questions please ask or use Tapestry.

Thanks 

'The Ladies' 🙂

Easter Raffle 2024

 Hi Everyone,

We will be holding a virtual Easter raffle again this year. Tickets will go on sale from the Monday 18^th March. Prizes include a Children's Easter hamper, Easter craft box, Easter eggs and more. 

'Tickets' are just £1 a number and you can buy as many as you would like...and please feel free to share far and wide with family and friends.

Simply email us with how many 'tickets' you would like and send payment by bank transfer using your 'surname and raffle' as reference. We will provide details once you have contacted us. Once we have received payment, we will allocate you with the correct amount of numbers and let you know what they are via email.

On Monday 25^th March the winners will be drawn using a random number generator.

Many thanks as always for your continued support.

'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 11.03.24

 Hi Everyone,

This week we move onto our new topic Springtime. We will be learning all about baby animals and how plants grow. 

Our home corner will be turned into 'Springfield's Garden Centre and Farm Shop'. We will be playing with flowers, real vegetables, plant pots and tools. Our focus of the week will be weight and capacity; we will incorporate this into our imaginative area by providing weighing scales and different sized plant pots. 

In our small world and messy play tray we will have our farm set out, with green spaghetti and cornflakes to play in too! 

We will be bringing our large outdoor scales indoors this week into our maths area. The children will be provided with lots of different objects and resources to explore with and weigh. 

Outdoors in our investigation unit the children will be playing in compost with real baby vegetables, spades and plant pots. The sand tray will have different sixed containers for the children to fill and empty, and we will be taking our playdough outdoors this week, with rolling pins and springtime cutters. 

We have lot's of spring themed activities planned on creative, we will be making textured sheep, decorating and painting flowers, vegetable printing and much, much more. 

We will be reading some of our favourite Spring themed stories and singing lots of different animal songs too. 

A busy week ahead but lots of fun 🌸

Please remember to log onto Tapestry, this gives you the opportunity to share all the lovely photos and activities that your child has done at Pre-School, with them at home. Including what their next steps are.

Any questions please ask or use Tapestry.

Thanks 

'The Ladies' 🙂

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 04.03.24

 Hi Everyone,

Our focus on EAD (Expressive Arts and Design) continues this week and we have lots more creative, role play and fun activities planned. 

The children will continue to have access to a variety of our dressing up clothes and props in our physical area. This is to promote their imagination, their ability to build up stories and to join in role play with others. We will also be den making and providing different open-ended resources that the children can use to extend their play. 

We will be having a large construction/small world area this week themed around a construction site. We will have construction trucks, hats, wooden blocks, gravel, tubes, drains pipes and different level trays. The children will be able to build and transport all while using their imaginations. 

Our creative area remains the same, giving the children an opportunity to take part in free art, exploring with different materials, textures, tools and colour. 

At movement time we will be using our imaginations to drive a car along to the driving rhythm song and tapping along to our hand rhythm song too.  

Don't forget that Thursday is world book day. All children who attend a Thursday session are invited to dress up as one of their favorite story book characters. 

Please remember to log into Tapestry, this gives you the opportunity to share all the lovely activities and photos with your children at home. Including what their next steps are. 

Any questions please ask or use Tapestry 

Many Thanks

'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 26.02.24

 Hi Everyone,

We are starting our new term off with a focus on the EAD (Expressive arts and Design) area of the EYFS. This is a huge area to focus on so we will run our observations over two weeks. 

EAD is a fun and creative area and we are looking forward to taking part in many activities that support this. 

The children will have access to a variety of our dressing up clothes and props in our physical area. This is to promote their imagination, their ability to build up stories and to join in role play with others. We will also be den making and providing different open-ended resources that the children can use to extend their play. 

We will have free art available on the creative table where the children can experiment with different materials, textures and colours. Incorporating junk modelling too! 

Our small world play and messy play will be combined this week as we create an under the sea themed tuff spot. We will also be colour sorting a range of different textured objects and materials to see if we can create our very own rainbow on the investigation table. 

We will be exploring and building with a mix of different construction materials this week, to see what we can join together and build. We will have wooden blocks, pegs, sticks, cups, bamboo logs and much, much more. 

We will be playing musical instruments along to the rhythm of our favourite nursery rhymes and for our movement time we will be dancing to different types of music using ribbons. 

Outdoors we will be mark making onto rocks with chalk and we will be using a variety of natural and home items and recycled objects to make musical instruments.  

A reminder that our AGM is on Thursday night at 7.00pm if you wish to join us. 

Please remember to log into Tapestry, this gives you the opportunity to share all the lovely activities and photos with your children at home. Including what their next steps are. 

Any questions please ask or use Tapestry 

Many Thanks

'The Ladies'

  

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 12.02.24

 Hi Everyone, 

This week we will be celebrating Chinese New Year. It's the year of the dragon 🐉. We will be turning the home corner into a Chinese restaurant. In the messy play tray we will be playing with noodles, chopsticks, tweezers and bowls. We will be seeing if we can copy and draw Chinese numbers in red, yellow and orange rice using a variety of different tools. During our movement time we will being doing our dragon dance, dancing along to Chinese music and marching with the musical instruments. Each child will be making an Ang Po envelope to take home too. 

Tuesday day is Pancake day! We will be flipping pancakes, pancake racing and of course having pancakes for snack too. Yum!🥞

Wednesday is Valentines day so we will be doing some Valentines themed craft and decorating biscuits. 💕

🍰Don't forget it is Cake Sale week. All donations of cakes will be gratefully received. Cakes will be on sale at the end of each session. 🍰

Please remember to log into Tapestry, this gives you the opportunity to share all the lovely activities and photos with your children at home. Including what their next steps are. 

Any questions please ask or use Tapestry 🐉

Many Thanks

'The Ladies'