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Join us on Sunday 25th March 2018 2pm - 4pm for some Easter fun! Activities will include: East Egg Hunt Bake Sale Easter Crafts Chocolate Tombola Balance Bike Course We hope to see you there!! Younger and older siblings are very welcome! 
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We are delighted to welcome our new starters who are all settling in nicely!
During January we have been making some transport collages and circular biscuits representing wheels. We have also learnt about the planets and the Solar System. We made "moon rocks" to take home and eat with our families (we hope the children let you try just a little bit!) and painted some planets for our display. We welcomed Pete and Frankie from Mambo Jambo who came in for an afternoon of singing and dancing. The children made shakers from yoghurt pots filled with lentils, rice or pasta. Thank you once again to all of the parents and carers who supported our Christmas Show. The raffle raised £131, thank you for your support! We've been making our own shortbread version of gingerbread houses and some chains of snowmen - Just a couple of the many activities we've done this week alongside lots of acting and singing and dancing practice for our Christmas Show.
We mixed glitter with our play dough and the following day one of the children decided they weren't so keen on the glitter so could I "brush it off please" 😕 They can be hard task masters! Walkington Charity Pre-school won an award for £2,000 in our Bags of Help customer vote for July/August. School Manager Anne Marris said: ‘‘We are really grateful to those customers who voted for us and for the opportunity to receive funding from 'Bags of Help'. The funding has enabled us to access the 'Balanceability' programme - an initiative specially designed to teach children the importance of keeping active and healthy from a young age. The activities in the programme encourage children to keep moving, build confidence, spatial awareness, balance and control.’’ Thank you to everyone who came and supported our little super stars on the morning of our Christmas show. We hope you all enjoyed it and we are so proud of the children. It's been a fun packed last week of term and we just want to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Most of the children loved the fireworks so we recreated them with splatter paint and glitter...decorated the walls a little too but not intentionally.
We learnt about why people are buying and wearing poppies at the moment. We had a sunny walk to All Hallow's Church to look at the Cenotaph in remembrance. We used potato stampers and fingers in paint to represent the poppy fields. Lots of the children have been interested in clocks and watches recently so we have been making our own clocks with moving hands and made a 'Hickory Dickory Dock' clock with a mouse on a pulley. With Harvest in mind we have been learning songs about fruits and vegetables and had fun playing shops. We enjoyed our visit to the church, taking contributions of food and singing our Harvest songs
We put animal masks on to act out the story of 'The Little Red Hen' and made some bread of our own. The room smelt delicious, We've been mixing blue, red and yellow paint to discover what other colours we can make. We've been playing hide and seek in the woods and some children decided to lie on their backs, 'sky gazing' watching the clouds move through the leaves so we joined them 🙂. We are very grateful to the villagers, often early dog walkers, who collect bags full of rubbish on a daily basis including harmful rubbish from our story circle, making it safe for the children to enjoy. Please note that our Christmas Show will be on Wednesday 20th Dec at 09:30 for approximately 1 hour and the Pre-School Christmas Party will take place on Friday 22nd Dec from 1:30 - 3:15pm. All children are invited to both events. What a great start to the term! Whilst we miss our friends who have moved up to 'Big school', our previously 'younger' children have become our 'older' ones and have helped our new starters to settle in.
We've done lots of chatting, singing, puzzles and games, playdough and painting and playing out on the field and in the woods. Happy days. Whilst the rain was falling outside the children have been busy making pizza bases and choosing what toppings they would like...some of the toppings made it to their mouths before the pizza :-) We listened to the story of 'Stickman' and have been selecting sticks from the woods to make one of our own. We may be closed for the summer but we still need your support! During July and August when you buy an item from Tesco Beverley you will be given a token which allows you to vote for one of three local community projects in the Tesco 'Bags of Help' programme. Walkington Pre-School have applied for a balance bike scheme. The project with the most votes will receive a grant of up to £4,000, second place receiving up to £2,000 and third place up to £1,000. Please vote for us and drop your token into the Walkington Pre-School voting box. Please ask for a token every time you shop in Tesco during July and August and ask all your family and friends to support us. Thank you so much 😊.
What a fantastic sports morning we had! Thank you to all the parents, siblings, grandparents & friends who came along to cheer on the children. We are so proud of them all and we hope you all really enjoyed watching them. Judging by the smiles we think they really enjoyed sports day and our entertainment provided by Puzzling Paul.
Julia from Nature Safari came to visit with all her animal friends. We had the chance to stroke and hold them if we wanted to. Some of us were brave enough to hold a snake and Tarantula and Bearded Dragon amongst other creatures whilst some preferred the soft and cute rabbits, guinea pigs and Chinchilla. A few of the children pretended to be a mountain, staying very still whilst the Chinchilla sat still on top of their head! The Skunk was very cuddly and sleepy and really didn't smell too bad. Julia keeps all her animals at home so knows them all very well and helped us to be comfortable with them 😊 It's been an emotional as we've said goodbye to our children who are moving up to Primary School in September. It's been an absolute pleasure getting to know all our children and watching them learn and grow in confidence. For those leaving us, we hope you enjoy looking through your child's memory books and we wish all the children lots of success in their next journey. Lastly thank you to all the parents who have supported us this year and we hope you all have a wonderful summer. For those returning in September, we look forward to seeing you all then 😊. We've had lots of fun, taking advantage of this sunny weather to practice our sports day races. Some very competitive and some very casual. Our sports day will take place on Wednesday 5th July at 10:30 and all Pre-School children are invited to join in - families and friends welcome to support! Races will start at 10:30am and last around an hour. Please make sure children have suitable clothing for the weather and shoes for running. If it's hot and sunny please remember to apply sunscreen to your children. The races will be followed (at approximately 11:30am) by a family picnic - please bring your own refreshments and picnic rug. There will be entertainment by Puzzling Paul indoors for the children from 12 noon. As you can appreciate, space indoors will be limited so we will give priority to the Pre-School children.
What a fun packed May it's been! We have been thinking about how things grow. We covered pots with tissue and pva then filled them with soil and sprinkled grass seed on top. We hope that some water and sunshine will help them to grow. We have also been talking about how food helps us grow. The children had lots of fun making pizzas and we hope our Pre-school families enjoyed them at home.
Some of the children helped to make table decorations for the grown ups play by Walkington Pantomime Players. This year's play was 'The Reunion' and they created centre pieces with the number '25' which the children enjoyed decorating. The 25 represents the 25 years since the friends were united. |
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