Christmas Tree Festival

All the children have worked hard to make all of our decorations for our Christmas tree, which is part of the Christmas tree festival at St Giles church this weekend. Friday 1st December - Sunday 3rd December. Hope you can all pop along to see all the lovely trees decorated by different community groups in Sandiacre. 

What's Happening at pre-school w/c 27.11.23

 Hi Everyone,

Our Autumn topic continues this week and our focus will be on Scissor control including promoting our fine manipulative development. We will be using scissors to cut up different natural objects, in the water we will be making potions using herbs, small containers and pipettes and we will be creating lots of Autumn themed pictures on the creative table. 

During our movement time we will be using the parachute with real leaves and Autumn coloured scarves. We will continue to sing some of our favourite Autumn songs and we will be sharing lots of Autumn themed stories. 

Outdoors in the sand tray we will be using the scissor scoops with conkers and sieves, and we will be hunting for bugs in the investigation unit using the tweezers. 

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Many Thanks

'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-school w/c 20.11.23

 Hi Everyone,

This week we start our new topic which will be all about Autumn. We will be talking about what happens outdoors during Autumn time, we will be exploring different Autumn objects and learning about Autumn animals too. On creative we will be printing with leaves, making hedgehogs, conker rolling and much, much more. 

Our focus of the week will be on length/height and weight/capacity. To support our focus our story of the week will be 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. For our messy play this week we will be using different sized bowls and spoons to fill and empty with porridge oats. We will be exploring capacity in the water tray too by filling and emptying different sized containers.  We will be weighing different autumn objects using our bucket scales and we will be exploring measure by using, tape measures, rulers, measuring worms and counting cubes. 

We will also be singing some of our favourite Autumn songs and experimenting moving like different Autumn animals during our movement time. 

Thursday afternoon we will be having a visit from the Police, who will be coming to talk with the children and show us around a Police van. 

A fun packed week ahead!

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 13th November 2023

 Hi Everyone,

Our 'People who helps us' topic continues this week. Although our focus has been on the fire and police service, on Tuesday afternoon this week, we will be having a visit from the dentist. They will be doing a short talk with the children, promoting the importance of why we need to brush our teeth and visit the dentist. 

Our focus of the week will be on Technology. The children will have the opportunity to explore different technology toys, finding out how things work and what they are used for. 

👗There is still time to purchase your tickets if you would like to come along to our fundraising fashion show on Thursday night. Your support as always will be very much appreciated in helping to raise much needed funds for pre-school 👗

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'The Ladies'

Charity Fashion Show

What's Happening at pre-school w/c 6.11.23

 Hi Everyone, 

We hope you all had a lovely half term break and we are looking forward to welcoming all the children back to pre-school. 

Our topic for the next two weeks will be ‘People who help us’ focusing mainly on the police and fire service.

To start our new topic off we will hopefully be getting a visit from the fire service on Monday morning. They will be coming into pre-school to talk to the children about fire safety and give them all a chance to look around a fire engine too. 

We will be turning our role play area into a police station. We will be playing with our fire station and fire trucks on the small world table and taking part in lots of topic related activities in our creative area. 

Our focus of the week will be on the children’s understanding. Can they follow simple instructions? Can they follow instructions containing two or more parts? Do they understand positional language and are they able to use it too? 

🍁Please remember to fill and return your Autumn collection bags over the next couple of weeks ready for our next topic which will be all about Autumn 🍁 

👗We only have a couple of weeks left until our fundraising fashion show. There is still time to purchase your tickets if you would like to come along. Your support as always will be very much appreciated in helping to raise much needed funds for pre-school 👗

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at pre-school w/c 23.10.23

 Hi Everyone,

It's our Halloween fun week this week, and to tie in with our 'All About Me' topic we will be focusing on the 5 senses. (touch, taste, feel, smell and sight). 

We invite the children to come dressed in their favourite Halloween costumes each day. Our decorate a cauldron competition will be drawn on Tuesday, so please remember to return your child's decorated cauldron before then. 

We have Asda's new community champion Jayne visiting us on Tuesday afternoon. She will be judging our competition and will be pumpkin carving with the children. 

We will be busy in our creative area. We will be getting messy in shaving foam and cornflour, making potions in the water tray and exploring our creepy swamp in the investigation unit. We will be making textured pumpkins, spiders webs and ghosts. 

Please remember that pre-school is shut for our inset days on Thursday and Friday. We return back to pre-school on Monday 6th November. 

🍰🍬Don't forget we will be selling cakes and sweety bags at the end of each session. Raising much needed funds that will help us to renew some of our resources. 🍰🍬 

👗Our fashion show tickets are now on sale, if you would like to come along then tickets are £5 each. Just bank transfer the money across to pre-school with the reference 'Fashion Show' and we will allocate you your ticket numbers 👗

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'The Ladies'

Fashion Show Thursday 16th November 2023

It’s happening…

Springfield will be hosting a fashion show on Thursday 16th November, with doors opening at 6:30pm. You will be able to shop your favourite high street brands at incredible discounted prices

Tickets are priced at £5 each, please contact us via email or message to purchase your’s!

We will be selling refreshments as well as holding a raffle to help raise much needed funds for pre-school.

We do require models for this event, again please contact us if you think you’d be able to help

It will be a fantastic event and we look forward to hopefully seeing lots of you there

 

What's Happening at pre-school w/c 16.10.23

 Hi Everyone,

This week we will be continuing our topic of 'All About Me' and we will be learning all about how to keep ourselves healthy. We will be talking about foods that are good for us and how exercise helps to keep us fit.

Our focus of the week will be on the children's gross motor development. Can they move in different ways, balance on equipment, jump off an object landing appropriately, jump two feet together, throw, catch and kick a ball? We will also be practicing the children's independent dressing skills too. 

We will be doing exercises at movement time, exploring the affects exercise has on our bodies. We will have an obstacle course set out in the physical area for the children to complete and we will be doing the 'Hokey Cokey' for our ring game. 

We will be opening 'Springfield's Farm Shop' selling lots of healthy fruit and vegetables and we will be fruit and vegetable printing on the creative table. 

We will be using our muscles in the construction area too, building with big boxes and junk modelling. 

It's our ‘bring your parent’ to school day on Monday. If your child attends pre-school tomorrow, you can join us from 9.15am- 10.15am. We hope to see you all there 🙂.

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'The Ladies'

What's Happening at Pre-School w/c 9.10.23

 Hi Everyone,

Our topic 'All About Me' continues this week with a focus on people who care for us and who help us to stay healthy. We will be talking about visiting the dentist, opticians, doctors, hairdressers etc. 

Our interest table will include lots of information books and pictures to learn about all these people, including different self care resources to talk about. e.g. hair brushes, tooth brushes, toothpaste tubes, shampoo bottles. 

The children will be taking part in lots of activities that promote our fine manipulative skills and pencil control development. This will be our focus of the week. We will be doing our playdough finger gym, using a variety of different tools to draw with, paint with and trace patterns in the sand. We will be hunting for bugs in the investigation unit outdoors, using the tweezers to catch them. In the water tray we will be using our scissor scoops to catch the fish as well as using the pipettes to fill small containers. 

During singing time, we will be singing lots of our favourite finger rhymes. For example, two little dicky birds, 1,2,3,4,5 and Tommy thumb. 

🍂Please keep a look out in your children's book bags. Each child will be provided with a brown paper bag to collect some Autumn objects, when you are out and about. Once filled we ask for you to return them, these will be used for our upcoming Autumn topic after October half term.🍂 

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'The Ladies'