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This week we had the pleasure of welcoming Teagan from The Sir John Colfox Academy to our setting. Teagan chose to complete her work experience placement with us and brought fresh ideas and enthusiasm to the preschool. Using a bottle with the end cut off the children stretched material over the cut end to make […]

A huge thank you to Jason Peach for our new cable reels! These have completely transformed our room into a bustling construction site. Combined with various loose parts, the children have been building towers, bridges, and complex workstations, proving that an open-ended resource is often the best toy in the room. We set out an invitation to

The children enjoyed a Julia Donaldson scavenger hunt, searching around the setting to find printed characters and books. Each time they discovered one, they proudly marked it off on their sheet. There were lots of excited voices as favourite characters were spotted! Outside, creativity flowed as the children painted the wall using lots of bright

We were very pleased to have 10 bags of sand delivered to top up our sandpit. The children were fantastic helpers, eagerly carrying, pouring and patting down the sand to make it just right. We also had an unexpected – but very exciting – visit from Dorset Music. They brought along a wonderful selection of

This week we enjoyed sharing the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes together. The children quickly noticed some familiar fairy-tale neighbours in the story and loved spotting characters they recognised. We talked about why the neighbours wouldn’t help Mr Wolf and how it feels when someone needs support, leading to some lovely conversations about kindness, helping others,

Claire created a magical space scene in the play room this week. The small world space play took the children far beyond the village—right into outer space! They children worked together to build a rocket using stackers and magnetic tiles, crates and cones. They decorated the night sky with planet stickers and drawings, explored ‘moon

Walks to the allotments and the old railway track involved lots of mud and puddles to splash in. Inspired by the floods and puddles they’ve been seeing everywhere the children decided to add water to the sand pit, and worked together to build a bridge. At Forest school, the children embraced the muddy weather and

On Wednesday we had an exciting visit from Dorset Rural Music School. Ellen and Felix introduced the children to music through Latin-American inspired rhythm and song. They are working with seven schools from Chesil to take part in a performance during the ‘Tree of Strings Festival’ in the Tithe Barn on 3rd July. Getting geared

This week at the allotments, the children were very excited to find a digger blocking the entrance! They stood and watched it for a while, completely fascinated, before carefully squeezing past so they could still get in. From the other side of the fence, they continued watching before moving on to make lots of muddy

The first week back at pre-school was notably chilly, providing many opportunities to explore the garden and surrounding village area, searching for signs of winter such as ice and frost. Indoors, a variety of winter-themed and physical play activities were set up to engage the children. A creative activity invited them to build their own