Blog Author: Janine Brady

Pre School have been expressing their superpowers through art. The children looked at the artist Jackson Pollock, we chose a colour to represent each superpower such as green for strength, orange for fire, white for invisibility etc and used his style of action painting to create a picture. The…

Pre School have been learning about shapes. They had to find a superhero shape and match it to the correct shape in the garden. They tried really hard to talk about how many sides and corners their shape had. We also took part in some Super Sonic Yoga! Fantastic work Pre School! #enjoy #evolve

What a day we have had at Pre School. Aswell as learning all about Superworm and expressing our own super powers, we have made ice creams, acted out the 'The three little pigs', went for a sail in our boat to various places, became traffic lights and wrote our name using paint brushes just to name…

Pre School have been reading the book Superworm. We decided to get creative and use the playdough to make some of the creatures from the story. We had worms, lizzards, snails, slug, spiders and lots more. We then measured some worms, we compared each worm using the language or short/long and…

Pre School have loved exploring our new outdoor area, just look at those happy faces! We have been learning about Spring and explored the outdoors to look for signs of spring. They have also enjoyed acting out the story of 'The Enormous Turnip'. #enjoy #embrace #evolve

Wow what a great start to the summer term! Today Pre School #enjoyed creating textured art. They chose different materials such as porridge oats, salt, sand, flour and soil then mixed it with PVA glue to create their textured art work. When they had dried, we discussed what they could feel on…

Pre School have enjoyed their last week having lots of Easter fun! The children retold the story of 'We're going on an egg hunt', investigated within the Easter sensory tray, completed egg repeated patterns, made some some chocolate playdough easter eggs and most importantly made some yummy…

Pre School had a very special visitor over the weekend. We received a letter from the Easter Bunny saying that he had left us a very special present, but we had to solve the mystery before we got our suprise.  We found a picture of the Easter Bunny standing in our sandpit. The children had to use…

Pre School have been reading the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Last week we learnt a new word 'symmetrical' and the children are loving using this word when creating their own unique butterflies. The children were challenged to find their friend with the matching symmetrical wing, they did…

Pre School have been getting creative this week. We have been painting representations of fruit and creating symmetrical butterflies. Mrs Brady was so impressed, the children have been using all the skills taught this week independently whilst playing in each area. The children also found a book…

Pre School have been reading the story of 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. We looked at the food in which the caterpillar ate and decided to help him sort the food into healthy and unhealthy. It sparked a great discussion, as some children thought that some of the foods were ok to have all of the…