What We’ve Been Up To!

Latest Educational Programme news, plus what we’ve been up to.

We’re excited to let you know that our new educational programme will be rolled out in the coming weeks, once staff have completed their relevant training. As highlighted in our previous e-newsletters, we’re providing the children with seven key stages of learning in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework. The intention behind this new structure is to help the children develop their knowledge by reinforcing their understanding through varied and innovative approaches to key topics.

Here are the educational programmes for each child’s age group.

Educational Programme for Babies

• Babbling Babies
• Messy Fingers
• Super Sensory

Educational Programme for Toddlers

• I move, you move, we move
• Art Attack
• Fingers and Thumbs
• Toddler Talk

Educational Programme for Pre-Schoolers

• Jolly Phonics
• Let’s Get Physical
• Letters and Sounds
• Magical Maths
• Creative Stars
• Little Chefs
• Silly Science
• School Readiness (June – August 2018)

In the meantime, here of are some of the projects the children have enjoyed this month.

Pre-Schoolers in Action

Our pre-schoolers have been very busy over the past few weeks. Activities have included making Valentine’s cards, cooking biscuits (yum!) and making robots. They’ve acted out their favourite stories to the rest of the group and produced some fantastic wriggly worm and ant pictures, inspired by digging for worms in the nursery garden the day before.

Our Pre-schooler’s fantastic wriggly worms!

Our toddlers have been having a marvellous time in the nursery kitchen whipping up delicious Valentine’s biscuits and decorating pancakes to celebrate pancake day. They’ve also been practising writing the letters which feature in their name and cutting out shapes and learning about each one. To top this off they’ve also enjoyed a teddy bear picnic and even been on an adventurous bear hunt. Busy times indeed!

Babies have the best fun!

What a fun month it’s been for our babies who’ve been making tasty cheese straws and rustling up some very sticky mud pies in the mud kitchen. Mmm, seconds for us please!

They’ve also been super creative helping us make our new Hungry Caterpillar themed board and making pretty Valentine’s cards for their favourite people (we hope you liked them!).

The babies’ colourful Hungry Caterpillar Display