Patterns!

You might have noticed that your child came home with their nails painted last week - here's why!

We had been talking about patterns, and had coloured some pictures of winter scarves using repeating patterns of different colours.

Mrs Walker thought it would be fun to paint our nails using repeating patterns of different colours too!

Snow Day!

Here are some pictures of the children enjoying a walk in the snow. We got wrapped up in our warm clothes and went out to the front of Pre-School to see the snow. We looked at the snowy roofs and paths.

We also went into the school playground to look at the ice on the ground, and very carefully felt how slippery it was.

Afterwards, we went inside for hot chocolate and biscuits!

More winter activities

Well, we got our snow as requested - we could have done with a bit more though!

We have been talking about winter clothing and how we keep warm outside in the cold weather. We have also been doing some work on numbers this week. We linked the two together by doing colour by number pictures of winter clothes - matching up the correct colour to the numbers.

Winter

Our Majors children have started their new topic, which is Winter.

Some of our children went out for a walk to look at the trees. We talked about how the trees look in winter with no leaves, and the changes that happen in spring.

We made wintry tree pictures by blowing paint with a straw.

We also had lots of fun with shaving foam, pretending it was snow, making snowman and snowflake shapes in the foam.

Now all we need is some real snow! Fingers crossed!!

Happy New Year!

We would like to wish all our children and their families a very Happy New Year. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and that Santa was generous!

Over the Christmas holidays, Georgie got married and is now Mrs Georgina Packer. We are all delighted for her and wish her and her new husband well in their future together.

Here are some pictures of her on her special day:

Exciting Christmas times!

What a wonderful night we had at the Christmas Concert last Friday! The children were fantastic and we are so proud of all of them. For children aged only 2 and a half to just 4 years old, they did amazingly.

  

The concert was also a successful fundraising event for us, and we raised around £1,100. All the money we raise through fundraising goes directly towards improving the facilities we can offer to the children, and we are so grateful for the support of all our parents and other family members who make this possible.

Some more exciting news - we applied for a grant from Oberthur, a company who have a base in Tewkesbury, and our application was successful. We received a cheque for £2500 this week, which will be used for the next phase of development of the inside of the building, and also to purchase a touch screen computer.

And lastly, we entered a Christmas e-card competition run by PATA (a Gloucestershire-based pre-school alliance), using a card made by our children, and we won! Jenny Miles from PATA has been to visit us to deliver our winners certificate and some new books. Here is the winning card:

Wishing all our children and their families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to seeing you all again in 2015!

Feeling Festive!

We have been getting into the Christmas spirit at Pre-School, and have started trying on costumes and practicing songs ready for our Christmas Concert on 12th December.

We have also been doing some Christmas crafts.

We'll be bringing them home to show you at the end of term!