FUN TIMES

East Worlington Preschool Photographs

2019

Spring Term - February

The preschool children have been enjoying our current topic this half term gardening.

They have been observing the daffodils and snowdrops growing in the garden and we have planted some pretty flowers in the growing garden.

The children have also been running a busy garden centre in their roleplay area, selling flowers, plant pots and serving drinks and cakes!

We have also created our own little fairy garden which the children look after the plants and leave water for the fairies.

We enjoyed tasting noodles, sauces and prawn crackers for Chinese New Year which they found delicious!

We are excited for our next topic being around recycling and caring for our planet.

                                

 

Spring Term - January

Happy new year from everyone here at East Worlington preschool.

After a lovely Christmas break the children at East Worlington preschool have come back to a new topic to explore gardening and plants.

We have transformed the roleplay shed into a gardening centre, lots of seeds compost and plant pots to fill.

We will also be creating our own little veggie garden where we're hoping to grow our own food for the snails.

We will be looking at the seasons and the changes they bring this term.

 

Autumn Term  - December 2018

This half term we started off with talking about autumn and autumn colours, we created our own autumn collages and pictures using fallen leaves, conkers and sticks and enjoying lots of lovely autumn walks. The children also helped make pumpkins fizz and made our own potions using pumpkin seeds, glitter and water.

We joined the school to visit the war memorial laying down our wreath where we also took part in 2 minutes silence.

We are now enjoying lots of Christmas activities, making our own reindeer food, getting ready for our Christmas nativity and carol service and we have our very own Santa’s workshop where the children can help to wrap presents and build their own toys.

We have been joined by a cheeky Elf until Christmas who is causing mischief in the school!

Some of our children will also be joining the school for the panto- peter pan this year so we have been reading the story and creating our own Neverland!

Preschool also took part in the school’s nativity play where they sang ‘twinkle twinkle little star’ so beautifully.

    

        

             

   

 

Autumn Term - September 2018

East Worlington Preschool was rated GOOD in ALL areas during our July Ofsted inspection. Everyone involved is incredibly happy and proud of this result and the inspection report can be found on the Ofsted website.

We were very excited to welcome back the preschool children this September with a freshly painted book corner and some classroom pets- African land snails. 

We have been learning all about what they like to eat and preparing their fresh food every day.

This half term we have transformed the role play into goldilocks and the three bears where the children can make porridge and go on many bear hunts in the garden.

      

      

 

Last half term preschool had great fun reading the different versions of Goldilocks and the three bears, our roleplay was the bear’s cottage where lots of porridge was made! We also went on a teddy bears picnic to East Worlington’s house where the children took their favourite teddy with them.

This half term we started off with talking about autumn and autumn colours, we created our own autumn collages and pictures using fallen leaves, conkers and sticks and enjoying lots of lovely autumn walks. The PFSU was full of lots of autumnal activities with chalkboard pumpkins for practising our letters and a farm busy with the harvesting.

We have also been busy creating our own poppy wreaths and pictures where we will join the school in a walk to the war memorial here at East Worlington.

                  

               

     

 

Summer 2018

This term at East Worlington preschool we are learning all about the seaside and the underwater world.

The first half term we read ‘The lighthouse keeper’ series. The children have been busy cooking up lunches in Mrs Grinling’s kitchen and building their own lighthouses.

We have also had an ice cream playdough roleplay where the children explored many smells and colours, mint, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and lemon flavours!

After half term we will be exploring sea creatures and reading ‘Commotion in the ocean’. The children will be able to serve food from the seaside café and build lots of sandcastles!

This topic has enabled the children to explore lots of messy play which they have thoroughly enjoyed.

     

    

                                                         

Our seaside topic came to an end at half term, the children enjoyed making plenty of playdough ice cream’s at the ice cream parlour and exploring the many different underwater creatures.

This half term we are very excited to be exploring mini beasts starting off with ‘The hungry caterpillar’. We have our very own butterfly garden which allows the children to watch the tiny little caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies, then we will set them free in the our garden.

We have also planted some sunflowers where the children are measuring them to see how tall they are.

We have also been so lucky to enjoy the beautiful weather and exploring the garden doing many different games with the parachutes.

    

    

       

This half term at East Worlington preschool we have been learning about mini beasts, reading ‘The hungry caterpillar, What the ladybird heard and Spinderella’. The children have been on many bug hunts, we built our own bug hotel and even had our own caterpillars to watch transform into big beautiful butterflies.

We also have a busy café and enjoying lots of water play in this weather.

   

     

  

   

Spring 2018

This half term at East Worlington preschool we have been learning about fire, fire fighters and fire engines. We were very lucky to visit Witheridge fire station and sit in a fire engine and listen to the siren!

We have also been learning about the three little pigs, dressing up as the pigs and big bad wolf and building ourselves some strong houses using bricks.

Currently we are learning about Dinosaurs, It’s been great fun exploring our room which has a dinosaur museum full of fossils made by the children, our sand pit has some dinosaur teeth to be found and we have been learning all about the different dinosaur names!

We have also been enjoying music and literacy with dinosaur poems and dancing to the dino rap. We are looking forward to going on some Dinosaur egg hunts in the school grounds and lots of Easter crafts before Easter holiday.