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Our last visit of the year saw the children collecting fallen leaves to make a wreath, decorating pine cones with elastic bands, playing Christmas bingo, and completing a Christmas hunt. All week the children were excited to roll the tombola drum and pick out the winners of the raffle. Besides playing on the ‘sleigh’ and […]

Lots of Christmas activities were available for the children to join in with this week. Loading up the sleigh, and delivering the presents was acted out over and over again. Making goodies for their Christmas box children decorated their Christmas cake and planted the bulbs into their painted pot. We played games of hiding jingle

After a lovely walk around the village we popped into the church to see the Candle for St Catherine bags. The children enjoyed searching for their bags. Christmas arrived this week at the Pre-school as children decorated the Christmas tree and painted pots for their hyacinths. Turning the role play area into a jungle some

After listening to the story ‘Owl babies’ Abbotsbury Explorers collected feathers, made a nest, chose eggs, and fed their babies worms. A walk around Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens involved waving at themselves in the giant mirror ball, climbing, playing pooh sticks, weaving in and out of bamboo, feeding the fish and making leaf angels. After lunch

Each year the children design lantern bags to celebrate the Name day of St Catherine of Alexandria. On Sunday 24th November the lantern bags are placed onto St Catherine’s Hill. It is a wonderful sight to see. For more details here is the link: https://www.abbotsbury.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/COST-2024-LR.pdf Enjoying the dry weather the children fed the birds at

It was an action packed week for the children at Pre-school. We started off cutting up pumpkins and marrows left over from Halloween to make soup. Quickly moving on to Guy Fawkes night children glued sticks onto paper for bonfires, and added tissue and cellophane to make flames. We finished the week colouring and cutting

Lots of Halloween activities this week for the children to take part in. Trying to release spiders and bats from a web with tongs proved quite tricky. Exploring the tuff tray with lit up ghosts, lanterns, cauldrons and sparkly Halloween shapes was irresistible. Using clipboards and pens the children ticked the box on their Halloween

Using a skewer the children made a rainbow kebab by collecting fallen leaves. It soon became quite competitive between the adults to collect all the colours. We also collected sticks to make a ‘bonfire’ and used our gross and fine motor skills playing with large and small balls. In the afternoon children pressed leaves into

Some children have been challenging themselves to push and roll tyres. Utilising their upper and lower body strength and core muscles to push, roll and lift the tyres, the children’s gross motor skills are tested. Trying different strategies to push the tyre and keep it upright, some pushed it from behind while others pushed it

Collecting feathers as we walked around Abbotsbury Swannery, the children then used them to push into the holes they had made in cardboard boxes. There was a lot of banging going on as they used hammers to tap in golf tees. Going on a conker hunt the children wore our new high visibility vests. Thanks