Posted 30/06/2024
by Helen Fitzsimmons
Hello Everyone,
It will be our outdoor learning day on Monday 1st July. The theme will be British Birds.
We have some lovely learning opportunities planned. Please can children wear weather appropriate outdoor learning clothes on Monday. If the weather is warm, then a hat and sun cream will be needed. We may get a little painty and messy.
Thank you.
Posted 30/06/2024
by Joanna Rickard
This week our story of Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson has led the children to discover the many wonderous sea life that have shells as their homes, and what they do when they outgrow their home. The book has also been a great story to talk about friendship and sharing.
We have watched clips of real-life sea creatures that live on the seabed or against the rocks who use their shells for protection and to help them move around. We are lucky to have a lovely collection of seashells in Pre-School and the children have enjoyed discussing their shape, size, colour and even what sea creature may have once lived inside!
Taking inspiration from the vibrant illustrations in the book we have recreated our own sparkly hermit crabs, sequined scallop shells and also some salt dough handprints decorated with shells. A lovely variety of artwork the children have all enjoyed.
This week the children have also discovered environmental sounds we may hear at the seaside, using their listening skills to correctly match the sounds with their corresponding image.
We have also used shells in our number work to recognise numbers and then count the correct number of shells.
Plenty of sunshine has allowed outside play and discovery to be enjoyed, with more planting, car washing, mud kitchen baking and watering of all our wonderful plants.
Next week we will enjoy the story of ‘What the ladybird heard at the seaside?’
Lastly, a polite reminder to please send your child in with suncream, a hat, and a refillable water bottle when the weather is warm.
We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
The Pre-School Team.
Posted 28/06/2024
by Rebecca Horn
Happy weekend everyone!
Thank you to those of you who joined us at the church on Friday afternoon for our Trelawny Day service, it was great to see you there.
We have enjoyed lots of different learning experiences in class this week and have tried to get outside as much as possible to enjoy the wonderful weather we have had. Please ensure your child has a refillable water bottle and a hat in school with them each day, thank you.
The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that is special to you. See if you can find out who gave the item to you and be ready to explain why the item is special to you. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.
Well done to those children who have been reading at home, we do enjoy giving out reading karate bands and certificates during celebration assembly. Keep up the great work!
Have a lovely weekend
Class 1 Team
Posted 25/06/2024
by Zoe Thompson
Thank you to all the children and families for a great sports day and family picnic, here are some photos of the day.
Posted 23/06/2024
by Rebecca Gravener
What a wonderful ending to the week....sports day. We had lots of fun in the run up to Friday practising all of our races on the field. Thank you to all of you for coming to our sports day on Friday, all the children ran really well and we enjoyed watching them take part. We thoroughly enjoyed having our families as an audience and we enjoyed our first sports day!
We have been enjoying another week of being pirates in our pirate ship and using our treasure maps to find the treasure.
Our book this week was Ten Little pirates -
The Ten Little Pirates are sailing out to sea, but what will the Ten Little Pirates do when they meet a singing mermaid? And a whooshing hurricane? And a HUNGRY shark? A traditional counting rhyme, part fun-filled story. Count from ten to one and back again, as the Little Pirates disappear then reappear.
Spot and count the details on each page.
And join in with all the great sound words!
We have also been learning some more "Pirate Songs", and been walking the plank in shark infested waters!!!
We are continuing our summer topic next week looking at the seaside and will be making pictures with shells.
As the weather is getting a little bit better, please may we ask that sun hats and sun cream are brought into Pre-School for each session, we do spend a lot of time in our super outdoor area and venture out onto the school field as much as we can.
The end of term is getting closer with only 4 weeks to go, these next few weeks will fly by and there is always so much still to fit in!
Dates for your diary:
Monday 1st July - 1.30pm - 3pm New Reception children induction afternoon.
** Please could you let us know if your child will be attending if it is not their normal Pre-School day, and drop them off at Pre-School in time for us to all go over to school together.
Thursday 11th July - 1.30pm - 3pm New Reception children induction afternoon.
** Please could you let us know if your child will be attending if it is not their normal Pre-School day, and drop them off at Pre-School in time for us to all go over to school together.
Tuesday 23rd July - Pre-School Graduation and Picnic.
** Invitations will be sent out next week.
Tuesday 23rd July - Last day of the Summer Term.
** School finishes at 1pm.
We are also putting together the last few details for our September hours, letters will be coming home to you soon.
If you have any questions, please pop in to see us or email us at preschool@pelyntprimary.co.uk
With Best Wishes,
Mrs G, Mrs Rickard, Mrs Rowe and Miss Carr.
Posted 21/06/2024
by Rebecca Horn
What a wonderful ending to the week....sports day and a family picnic. You will see some of our class with their stickers in the main photo. We thoroughly enjoyed having our families as an audience and we enjoyed our first sports day! Thank you for coming to support us, your cheering really encouraged us!
It has been great to see the progress the children are making with their tricky words, I was so impressed yesterday! Well done to all of those children who have been practicing at home.
The theme for Show and Tell next week is: An item that begins with the first letter of your name. Please bring the item in on Thursday morning or if emailing a photo please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.
We hope to see you at our Trelawny Day service at the church on Friday 28th June at 2:30pm.
Have a lovely weekend.
Class 1 Team
Posted 16/06/2024
by Joanna Rickard
Ahoy, Me Hearties!
What a jolly good pirate week of fun we have had here in Pre-School.
This week’s book has been the funny story of ‘Pirates Love Underpants’, with plenty of giggles from the children.
Our pirate ship and beach role play areas have been hugely popular with the children – using the dressing up props, gold coins and maps to sail stormy seas and seek pirate adventures.
This week we learned the names of famous pirates before finding out our own pirate names using the pirate's name generator. The children found it hugely entertaining to hear their own and their friends' pirate names, such as – Seadog Stinkalot, One Eyed Squid Legs, Swashbuckler Custard Pie!
We then perfected our pirate skills by learning to say some pirate phrases such as ‘shiver me timbers, ‘yo ho ho’ and ‘walk the plank!’
Also, this week the children enjoyed making some treasure maps to help find the golden coins, they used tea bags to make the maps look old.
We will continue our pirate themed fun into next week with our book ‘Ten Pirates’ so plenty more adventures aboard ‘The Jolly Rodger’ buckos!
A reminder that it is our whole school sports day on Friday 21st June starting at 9.30am. Please check your emails for the letter from school. All children are welcome to attend but please note that if it is not your child’s normal session day, they are welcome to join in with the races but will return to their adult when the Pre-School races have finished.
If you have any questions, then please come and speak to us.
We hope you all have a lovely weekend,
The Pre-School Team.
Posted 15/06/2024
by Suzanne Porter
This week was our much-anticipated class residential. I am sure the children will agree- it did not disappoint!
The children were absolute stars throughout and a credit to the school and their families. Hopefully they have told you all about the fun we had.
More photos to follow soon.
Posted 14/06/2024
by Rebecca Horn
We have had another wonderful week together in Class 1!
Here's a brief overview of just some of our learning...
In maths this week we have been exploring grouping and sharing. We were grouping for a purpose and dividing a set of objects by placing a certain number in each group. We ended the week with odd and even sharing, we were each given different a different amount of buttons and had to say whether we had an odd or even number, we investigated this by sharing the buttons out.
In art we started to paper mache a balloon which we hope to turn into a piece of art linked to artist Jane Tomlinson over the coming weeks... watch this space!
We have also been practicing for sports day, we look forward to welcoming you to our sports day and family picnic next Friday 21st from 9:30-1pm.
The theme for Show and Tell next week is: A photograph of you at the beach. Please bring the photograph in on Thursday morning or if emailing photos please send to rhorn@pelyntprimary.co.uk by 8:40am on Thursday.
Class 1 Team
Posted 09/06/2024
by Rebecca Gravener
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