Throughout February Kingswood Day Nursery have been up to lots of fun and exciting activities. Utilising our loose-themed topic of ‘People Who Help Us’ we have invited visitors to the nursery and have been on an exciting trip out to the Old Police and Fire Museum. The children loved the coach journey to the museum and they particularly enjoyed exploring the inside of the ambulances and fire engines. Our visitors have been DR Vicky Fletcher a local GP who brought all of her equipment for the children to explore and experiment with. They had great fun finding each other’s heartbeats and checking that their friends and carers didn’t have temperatures by using the thermometers! We also had a visit from local PCSO’s – Adrian Thomson and Samantha Pacey. The Pre-School children particularly enjoyed dressing up in the police uniforms and trying out the hard hats! The PCSO’s shared lots of useful information about what to do if we need help and reminded us of the all important number to call – ‘999’.
We also hosted a charity event at Kingswood last month. ‘Crackerjacks’ is a local children’s charity who we have continually supported throughout the years. This year we raised money by inviting the children of Kingswood to dress up and have a fun princesses and hero’s day! All the children had an amazing day and dressed up as their favourite characters. The toddlers had a great time making masks by gluing and sticking, glittering and being very creative! As you can see from the pictures they did a great job and wore them with pride. At our setting we like to promote diversity and culture and, with this in mind, the toddlers have really embraced learning about Chinese New Year. The children all made their own lanterns which they decorated and took home, as well as all contributing to a group creative activity of making an enormous Chinese Dragon. We have recently introduced our lending library where we are further promoting literacy. Children and parents/carers can select and borrow books from the nursery library to share together at home. There is opportunity for even more parental involvement as we always welcome additions to the lending library from books that are no longer favourites in your household. This lending library links in beautifully with the promotion of ‘World Book Day’ and we have been able to provide all parents with a token which entitles them to receive a discount on many books from lots of high street shops. Our upcoming events in the near future will include a ‘Mother’s Day Workshop’ for our Pre-School children, it’s a great opportunity for parental involvement. We have invited mothers, grandmothers and aunties along with any other influential female role models to attend our workshop on Tuesday 6th March 2018, where we will be baking tiffin, threading love heart cards, making flowers, making and moulding salt dough models and much, much more. We will all be celebrating and supporting ‘Sport’s Relief’ by taking part in running races and other physical games. The babies will be toddling around our soft surfaced play area, throwing, catching and rolling balls to each other. Whilst our toddlers and pre-school children will be taking part in running races, obstacle courses and trying out their throwing skills with target practice games. We are expecting a visit from Zoolab on 19th April with their exotic animals. The children will have the opportunity to look at & hold snakes, spiders & lots of other creepy crawlies! The expected learning outcomes are that children will discover, explore, investigate and ask questions about the different characteristics of the mini beasts and other animals from all around the world. We look forward to another exciting term of events and will be back to update you further with other exciting activities! |
Emma
Christmas time at Kingswood Day Nursery
Christmas party day at Kingswood was a great success with music, games, dancing, prizes and party food. Father Christmas even paid us a surprise visit to give all the children at Kingswood present, thank you Father Christmas. We all really enjoyed our party day.
Autumn Bonfire Workshop at Kingswood Day Nursery
A massive thank you to the mums and dads who came along to today’s Autumn/Bonfire workshop at Kingswood. The children had a great time as did you according the the excellent feedback given! Look out for your comments quoted on the blog later today. I am sure children will enjoy eating the edible sparklers that they made for their afternoon snack.
As promised, here are some of the comments made by our parent helpers about today’s workshop…..
“Really enjoyable activities and very inclusive for all the children”.
“A wide range of different activities. All well prepared for and interesting for the children”.
“All staff clear on the activity steps and provided good guidance and control over the children”.
“Very relaxed and nice to just fall in with the session”.
“Good fun, nice to see how my child interacts with other children”.
“Staff as always were friendly and fun”.
I enjoy playing with toys
“I enjoy coming to nursery to play with toys.”
Luke
Halloween at Kingswood Day Nursery
We had such a fun day at nursery yesterday exploring all things Halloween!
We had a great time, dancing and playing musical games. The children took part in some amazing pumpkin carving, the babies also enjoyed the sensory experience of scooping out the insides.
All the children feasted on a picnic style party lunch, where we ate the biscuits that the children had baked earlier in the day.
What a wonderful day of fun and leaning!
I have fun learning numbers with my teachers.
“I have fun learning numbers with my teachers.”
Nicola
I like the ladies at nursery, they play with me
“I like the ladies at nursery, they play with me.”
Nancy
My favourite food is pitta
“My favourite food at nursery is Pitta bread”
William
Dinner is yummy in my tummy
“I like dinner at nursery it is yummy in my tummy.”
Freya
I like to learn how to build
“I like to learn how to build.”
Francesca