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11 Mar

Pre-School- PD-Fine Motor Skills

Physical Development-Fine Motor Skills - In this skill the children were working those tiny muscles in the hands and fingers that are needed for precise movements. Helping the children to get better at controlling their hand movements and coordinating them with what they see.

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10 Mar

Preschool-Literacy-When I Grow Up

In Literacy we have been Talking about when we grow up and what job roles we would like to do, we have had police officers, firefighters, life guards and teachers. The children drew what they would like to be when they are older.

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4 Mar

Pre-School-R.E-Shrove Tuesday-Making Pancakes

In R.E this week we have looked at Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, we discussed what we would give up for lent and why Christian’s do this. Pre-school have decided to give up the Nursery bikes for 40 days for Lent. Pre-school also enjoyed making and eating pancakes.

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3 Mar

Pre-School-Understanding The world-People Who Help Us

This week we have been looking at people who help us in the Emergency services and PC Pickering Came to visit us! She talked to the children about her role as a police officer and what kind of things she does within her job role. The children were very engaged with PC Pickering and they got to try on some police uniform and look inside her police car! The children were very excited about this and PC Pickering even put on the blue flashing lights.

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27 Feb

Pre-School-R.E- Easter Story

In R.E this week the children have begun to learn the Easter story. We listened to the story from the Bible and talked about what happened on Good Friday. The children discussed how Jesus may have been feeling and why this happened to him. We talked about how we mark this day today. The children then designed their own cross with different materials.

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12 Feb

Pre-School-PSHE-Self Care

Pre-School have been learning how to look after themselves. We independently wash our hands for snack time and select a cup and plate for placing our snack on. The children have also been washing the babies in the wash tray, using the sponges to clean the babies and made lots of bubbles. We talked about why it is important to wash our bodies, to keep the germs away.

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12 Feb

Pre-School-Expressive Arts and Design- Valentine's Craft

The children have been busy using different materials to create Valentine items. The children have used cutting techniques to cut foil and tissue paper to make paper flowers. Making cards for the people we love, writing their names into the card and designing the front cover. We have mixed coloured glue to make different marks and watched what happened to the colours.

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6 Feb

Pre-School- PSHE- The Colour Monster

The children have been developing their understanding of their emotions this week to support Children's Mental Health Week. We listened to The Colour Monster story and worked through all the different feelings and why we might feel this way. The children created their own monster of how they were feeling and added them to a jar.

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3 Feb

Preschool-Literacy-Likes And Dislikes

Our story in Literacy is Handa's surprise, All the children were given the opportunity to try all the different fruits from Handa's basket, The children shared their views by showing a thumbs up for likes and a thumbs down for dislikes of the fruits.

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30 Jan

Pre-School- Expressive Arts And Design- Wheels On The Bus

Out in the garden the children helped create a bus using the different materials we could find. Once the bus was ready the children climbed aboard and off we went to the zoo, park and Blackpool tower. We added some singing along the way, singing wheels on the bus as we went on our adventures.

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27 Jan

Pre-School-Physical Development-P.E-Roll And Control

In our P.E session the children practised finding their own space, moving around safely and making sure that we don't bump into our friends.Then the children were given a ball and asked to roll and control the ball and when they heard Mrs Corbally shout" stop " the children had to pick up their ball without it rolling away.

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22 Jan

Pre-School- Maths- Match, Talk, Push and Pull

In maths this week we have been exploring shapes. We looked at basic 2D shapes and then some 3D shapes looking at what happens if we put them together to make a different shape or could we create a picture or object with them. Children used the 2D shapes to make houses, faces and even dinosaurs while other children used the 3D shapes to make towers or rockets.