News

STEWARTBY PRESCHOOL COMING SOON 

Easter was quite late this year so we celebrated Easter before the end of term.  

They have participated in many different activities that were set out by the wonderful staff at Growing Stars which benefit the children, and help develop the children further. From getting messy with the paints or various sensory activities to number recognition, improving fine motor skills with threading, scooping and pouring.

We also celebrated Mothers Day, we invited the mummies into the setting over a couple of sessions so they could enjoy some time with their children seeing what they get up first hand whilst at preschool.  The weather was glorious and we have lots of mummies come along to enjoy the sessions.  

Master piece aliens

The children had shown a great interest in aliens and learning all about outer space.

We set up a table of arts and crafts for the children to create an alien (or whatever they wanted)

We had many eyes, arms and legs, some had just one eye, many legs and no arms.  Some were kind and some were a little cheeky, some were daring and some were shy.  

We made up stories, learnt about our emotions and how the aliens were making us feel. 

The creations were fabulous, well done everyone.  

Care Home visit

This month we visited a lovely lday in the local care home who was celebrating her 102nd birthday.  Firstly, what an achievement and secondly thank you to the lovely staff at Blakelands Lodge Care Home for welcoming us with open arms.  

The children walked beautifully down to the care home, along the way we stopped to buy some flowers at the local shop.  

We went into the care home and the staff welcomed the children with a drink and a biscuit.  

All the children were super stars and we are super proud of the hard work they put into making lots of cards too.  

Well done everyone

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL 

Great teamwork children !

The children enjoyed doing some Christmas colouring sheets in the garden.
After realising there wasn’t enough space in the literacy shed for all of them, we asked what we could do so everyone has space to colour? They suggested the pallet and helped move it over, popped tyres underneath so it was like a table and logs around it so they had something to sit on. Great team work and initiative!!!

Another busy month at Growing Stars Preschool.  We spent time looking at the colour yellow, learning about children in need day, dressed up in yellow, our PJ's or whatever we fancied that. day. 

We made bears, had lots of puddly activities set up and played with the yellow play dough too.  

Autumn had started and there is nothing more the children enjoy than a hunt around the garden and fields on a scavenger hunt.  

We made pumpkin pie, acorn soup and slug surprise in the mud kitchen. 

We practised our potion making and even had a go at using the hammers to knock in golf tees into the pumpkins.  

We love autumn at Growing Stars Preschool.  

Welcome back to Preschool. 

We welcomes lots of new children to the setting in September and all of them have settled in fantastically well. 

We have been spending time outside, walking to the forest centre and enjoying the beautiful surroundings we are so lucky to have around us.  Learning about looking after our surrounds, water safety and how we can help in everything in do to protect the  environment we live in.  

  WOW what can we say! 

2024 Cohort of children have been amazing and we wish them all the best for their new journey at big school. 

As a treat for doing so well we went for walk to the local cafe, many of the children visit the cafe regularly with their parents and they wanted to visit with us at Preschool. We  enjoyed a baby chino and a piece of cake.

  Afterwards to went for walk to the local park before returning to Pre-School.  

We had a fantastic morning learning about different places in the world. One  of our families kindly came in to teach the children about their culture. The children learnt about Belize and Colombia. We looked on a map to see where the Countries are and spoke about how you would get there. The children looked at the flags for both countries and were shown traditional clothing before learning a new dance. We then got to try some delicious foods, it was lovely to see the children trying new foods. We then finished off with a piñata. 

The children all listened well and had a great time. Thank you very much for coming to visit today. 

  The children have been discussing and looking at the Earth. We have spoken about blue Representing the water and green represents the land on the globe. We looked at how recycling helps the Earth. We had lots of lovely conversations about the Earth. 

With the nicer weather around the corner, the children have been busy planting seeds. We can't wait to see them grow.

We has the pleasure of lots of mummies join us for a stay and play session early in the month. It was such an exciting day for the children.

We celebrated world book day with lots of costumes and stories.

At the end of Animal Edge visited Growing Stars Pre-School. The children learnt how to handle different animals, what they eat, where they sleep and the needs of the individual animal. 
​
​We also had small interactive games and activities suited to the group to really engage them in the importance of caring for our animals and how nature works.