This week we enjoyed the Aliens in Underpants Book, as well as Dinosaurs Love Underpants, the Queen’s Knickers and The Royal Nappy. As usual there was messy play with children and staff getting stuck in to cover balloons with paper mache, resulting in some fantastic alien masks, they had fun painting & decorating them the […]

2 cups plain flour 2 tbsp vegetable oil ½ cup salt 2 tbsp cream of tartar 1 ½ cups of boiling water 1 sachet raspberry jelly powder few drops glycerine can be used to make it more shiny Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil Add the boiling water Stir continuously until it […]

Favourite pants are often mentioned in our chats here at Pre-School, whether they be printed with roaring dinosaurs or pretty, pink and frilly. With such interest from the children and a fantastic conversation starter, we felt that this topic needed further coverage! There are an incredible amount of children’s books available with this topic so […]

What a busy week we had continuing our birthday theme. We all enjoyed the story of ‘Alfie lends a hand’ when he went to Bernard’s birthday party with his blanket. The children listened very well and were able to engage in chat around the feelings and behaviour in the story. We planned our own parties […]

This week we have been learning all about celebrations; the children cut out cake using number cutters and decorated with icing and chocolate numbers as well as tiny marshmallows, they took their individual cakes home.  On Wednesday the children at Tiddy Hall made their own sandwiches, we used lots of butter, marmite, jam and cream […]

We have been talking about harvest this week – corn, fruit and vegetables and have continued with our harvest songs and reading The Little Red Hen, Scarecrow’s Secret and The Scarecrow Who Couldn’t Scare. The children have had the opportunity to make a scarecrow plate, a harvest shaker, a cheerio necklace and a blackberry and […]

2 cups of plain flour 1 cup of salt 2 cups of water (add food colouring to this if you like) 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar 2 tablespoons of cooking oil Stir all the ingredients together in a saucepan and cook over a medium heat until your arm really aches and all the flour […]

This week our topic is Harvest; we have been talking about harvesting the crops with chat about different foods and where they come from.  Of course we also had lots of play and talk around BIG farm machinery too, which we notice is of interest to a lot of our children!  We have enjoyed reading […]

For two weeks we have been following the topic ‘All About Me’.  A ‘Me Doll’ template has been sent home to be decorated by your child; these are filtering back into us and will be made into a Welcome Board – the children will be able to stick their name up next to their ‘Me […]

Beech group had their first Forest School session. We walked down the Lane over the road from the Hall-it was quite squishy, there were puddles & we spoke about the rain that had filled them.  The leaves on the trees were still green but on the ground they were yellow/red/brown/black-we chatted about the colour changes […]