Pre-nursery Car wash!

This week Pre-nursery have been working together to fix cars in the garage, fill up with petrol and wash the cars in the car wash!

Pre-nursery Zoolab

Pre-nursery really enjoyed meeting all the mini-beasts, the children were able to stroke or hold the each one. 

Every Child a Talker Parent Workshop

Today we had a parent workshop for helping to develop communication and language in Early Years.  Jan Stevens is a speech and language therapist who now delivers training to parents and educators across Southampton. 

Together we looked at 'top tips' for helping children develop their communication and language, how singing nursery rhymes aid children with their reading skills and how developing children's muscles in their mouth can help speech sounds and being active by doing large arm movements can develop writing skills.  

Parents who attended were given a free resource pack including games and listening ears to play with their children at home.

Please feel free to come and checkout our ECaT (Every Child a Talker) display in Nursery for top tips or speak to a member of staff!

This Week in Pre-nursery

Pre-nursery have been learning all about 'People Who Help Us'. The children have enjoyed pretending to be fire fighters, they have been putting out fires using spray water bottles. The children have been driving to the rescue in our police car and fire engine!

Planting Potatoes

Pre-nursery children have been planting potatoes this week. The children helped to fill up the bag with soil and have been watering the potatoes on a regular basis.

During one of our snack times this week we tried mash potatoes. Which some of the children really enjoyed.

Pre-nursery's Jungle

The Pre-nursery have enjoyed playing in our jungle role play. They have pretended to be different jungle animals using masks we have made. We have also been making binoculars with the children for them to use in our role play.

Making Gingerbread Men

We enjoyed making Gingerbread men in Pre-nursery this week. We all took it in turns to add the the ingredients to the mixture. Once the mixture was ready we used the rolling pin to roll the dough out. Using a Gingerbread Man cutter we pushed it into the dough then placed them on a baking tray and out them in the oven to cook.

Pre-Nursery Sports Day

The afternoon children enjoying sports day.