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We are now using Tapestry to update parents and carers of the exciting things happening at preschool. Please let us know if you are unable to access your account.

For general updates and information please see our Facebook page – Therfield Village Preschool

 

Jan 30

Super Stars Sports Session.

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We were very excited to welcome Coach Julious from Super Stars Sports to lead the children in a fun, exciting and active Sports session. We were very impressed with the children’s enthusiastic response, and in particular their balancing skills.

Warming up activities.
Listening brilliantly to find out what’s next.
Dinosaur footprints over the cones
Can we keep up with Coach Julious.
Thank you for providing a bat and ball for each of us.
Safely and carefully hitting the balls off of the cones
Following the instuctions – can we lift them without dropping them?
Brilliant balancing skills, well done.
It’s getting really tricky now.
Thank you so much Coach Julious for a brilliant morning.
Dec 05

Christmas Market 2022

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What a fantastic day to kick start Christmas 2022!

Visitors aplenty came to visit our second Christmas market, held in the Village Hall on 29th November. Despite the grey sky and drizzle people were full of festive cheer and seemed happy to be out and about making a start on their Christmas shopping. There were lots of stalls to choose from; beautiful cakes, cookies and sweets, handmade crafts, artwork, jewellery and gifts, to name just a few.

A huge THANK YOU goes to organisers Abbie Knights and Danielle Lamb, who worked tirelessly to raise funds for our wonderful preschool and to our kind sponsors Abode Town & Country. Many thanks to everyone who helped on the day or contributed to our fantastic stall of raffle prizes. Our very own Natalie hosted a ‘Guess the Reindeer’s Name’ game whilst happily entertaining any small people who came to visit!

A huge sum of £560 was raised in total for Preschool, a fantastic achievement!

Dec 05

Autumn in pre-school

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We have enjoyed making the most of the milder weather with lots of outdoor play and exploration. We were able to learn about seasonal changes with colourful natural resources, using all of our senses in our play and activities and celebrating festivals including Harvest time, and Halloween with fright free fun and messy games and activities.

leaf printing
Decorating our own monster biscuits.
Happy Halloween
Decorating Halloween goody bags
Practicing safe trick or treating.
Trick or treat…..
Thank you.
More treats – we are so lucky, thank you.
We were very grateful to be visited by a real tractor during Harvest time.

As always we also respond to the interests of the children throughout the first half of the Autumn term as we get to know them. This has resulted in building/construction activities indoors and out, role-play including caring for babies as well as travelling on buses and trains, and favourite small world play has been pirates which we have developed with treasure maps and treasure hunting.

Every good pirate needs their own parrot
Getting ready for a long journey on the bus
Dec 04

Maths and Literacy in play.

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Throughout our sessions we are able to extend the children’s learning in all areas through play. We have recently had opportunities to include counting, numerals, shapes, measuring and capacity in our discovery play, shop role-play and construction activities.

Our shop role-play initiated by the children and enhanced by the addition of tills, shopping baskets etc included mark-making as we wrote our own shopping lists, and simple calculating, adding up the cost of the shopping, handing the shopkeeper the correct number of pennies etc. We just have to make sure the children don’t realise quite how hard they are working on these important skills!!

Treasure hunting following lots of interest in pirate small world play
We can’t find the treasure if we don’t have our treasure maps
Shopping Role-play, working together and sharing to make sure everyone had some shopping to take home.
Making our own individual name rockets
Where is my house on this local map?
We need to be careful on the roads as we visit friends and neighbours on our play dates.
Measuring out and combining ingredients to see what happens
Sep 18

Welcome back.

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We are very excited to be back for 2022-23. It is our priority to ensure that both the children returning, and new friends joining us feel safe, comfortable and valued in the setting. To ensure this is the case we begin with favourite activities, providing resources that we know the children can relate to and that they enjoy exploring as well as that encourage working with or alongside peers. We also ensure that children are able to request and select from other options, such as those found in our choice trolley.

May 07

Celebrating Spring

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Spring is always a wonderful time to notice and observe the changes taking place around us.

We have also thought about growth, attempting to grow cress and plants from seeds and bulbs, learning about and ‘caring for’ soft and toy animals, as well as handling and looking closely at real creatures we have found in the garden. The children also requested our hospital enhancement basket which developed into a full hospital role-play area with the children thinking about our own bodies, looking after ourselves and looking after each other.

Finally we were able to use our Easter week to think about new life and lifecycles before finishing off with our End of Term Party and Easter Egg Hunt (in the snow!!).

Preparing to grow cress seeds
Celebrating St Patrick’s Day
Thinking about what the cress seeds need to grow
Can we make Natalie better?
Remembering to record what is wrong with our patients.
Egg and Spoon races
Decorations for our Easter party
Party food time
Getting ready to find the eggs

Mar 13

World Book Day

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World Book day is always an exciting opportunity to develop our love of literacy. We enjoyed various stories and books including factual and social stories throughout the week. We have also provided props and resources to support and encourage story telling in play.

Working together to write our own story.
Laminating our letters of the alphabet to hang up in the garden.
Decorating the colour monster as we talked about our own feelings

We are now using Tapestry to update parents and carers of the exciting things happening at preschool. Please let us know if you are unable to access your account.

For general updates and information please see our Facebook page – Therfield Village Preschool

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