June 14, 2025
What a FANTASTIC Saturday Special we have just had! Our families came to enjoy a wonderful Clay Workshop provided by our fantastic parent - Evelyn. Thank you so much for providing such a fun activity for all to enjoy. The children made insects with the clay and decorated them with lentils and foliage. The children worked together to create a large "Hungry Caterpillar" out of paint and paper plates - see if you can find him in the building! Other activities included threading pasta on to pipe cleaners, play dough, fishing for insects and inspecting them with magnifying glasses. We told the story of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and then created fruit kebabs using food from the story. The children were great at chopping the fruit and threading it onto the sticks. Some even made repeating patterns! Thank ou to everyone involved, we had a great turn out! Looking forward to our next one!
March 14, 2025
It is that time of year again when our garden begins to spring back to life and our families came to help get it ready! The children planted herbs and flowers that smelt delicious and looked beautiful. We worked as a team to fill the tyres with soil and water the plants. The children planted peas and beans to take home as well as cress and sunflower seeds. The children took part in observational drawings of flowers and made their own tissue paper bouquets. We practised filling and pouring in the water tray and enjoyed the sunshine. After the children made their own sandwiches to enjoy as a picnic.
January 31, 2025
Happy Lunar New Year to all our families! It is the Year of the Snake this year and all our children have really enjoyed making snakes. The children explored the colour red and enjoyed the sensory toys on the red blankets. The children enjoyed making marks in the sand and using the black paint to try and create Chinese Symbols of the Zodiac. After our families had made their own animal masks we held our very own "Great Race" and created the Grace Owen Zodiac. Suzi told all the families a wonderful story using props and puppets whilst our hidden helpers prepared a delicious 'deconstructed' stir fry for the children to enjoy. Once our bellies were full we performed a lion dance and Lunar New Year parade in the garden. The children blew bubbles and banged drums. It was lot's of fun!
November 5, 2024
We had so much fun at our Bonfire Night 'Saturday' Special. So many families came to join in the fun - thank you so much for all your help! The children adored playing in the illuminations and sensory lights including the famous light-up bonfire that is made by the Classroom children. All the children enjoyed painting fireworks and going on a treasure hunt in the garden using their torches. The children made marks in sand, exploring the patterns fire works create. Everyone loved the Jacket Potatoes and beans and cheese! We then chopped apples and dipped them in chocolate and sprinkles! Delicious! Everyone is excited for our next get together!
October 18, 2024
Our first Saturday Special this year was "All About Autumn". Our families enjoyed activities including sponge printing, painting, sticking, and playdough. The children loved conker rolling and creating rubbings of different shaped leaves. This children all helped to carve pumpkins - we loved the smell and taste! We even had a treasure hunt in the garden to find lots of signs of Autumn. We also got to enjoy a tasty lunch and made our own sandwiches. Yum!
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December 21, 2023
We had lots of fun at our Bonfire Night 'Saturday Special.' Thank you to all the families who joined us. We enjoyed the illuminations including the light-up bonfire, which the Classroom children had made, as well as exploring the colourful sensory lights and scarfs. We had fun with mark-making by painting, printing and drawing our own colourful fireworks. We also got creative making our own sparklers with lollipop sticks and sparkly strands. There was some sparkly playdough to explore and we made our own edible sparklers by dipping chocolate fingers into hundreds and thousands. We filled up on delicious baked potatoes. Yum!
October 7, 2023
We had lots of fun at our first 'Saturday Special' of the year. Lots of families came to share the fun. The theme was all about Autumn. We enjoyed lots of brilliant activities including sponge printing, painting, sticking, and playdough. There were some beautiful autumn treasures to explore including shiny conkers, colourful leaves and bumpy pine cones. We also got to enjoy a tasty lunch and made our own sandwiches. Yum!
January 28, 2023
We had a lovely time at our Chinese New Year Saturday Special. There were lots of activities to choose from. We made some fantastic dragons and lanterns. Check the photographs to see our wonderful creations! There were some sensory activities to explore such as the rice tray and some lovely mark-making activities including painting and drawing. We enjoyed dressing up for the dragon dance parade and finished the session with some tasty Chinese style snacks.
September 17, 2022
We had lots of fun at our first Saturday special of the academic year. There were lots of fun activities for our families to enjoy together including sensory play such as sand and playdough activities and a creative collaging table. The big event was the treasure hunt where families were challenged to find the location of the images on the page. Everyone did a fantastic job. For lunch we made our own sandwiches and helped ourselves to some tasty snacks.
November 4, 2022
We had lots of fun at our Bonfire Night 'Saturday Special.' Lots of families came to share the fun. We enjoyed the illuminations including the light-up bonfire, which the Classroom children had made, as well as exploring the dark den with twinkling lights and torches. We had fun with mark-making by painting and drawing our own colourful fireworks. We also got creative making our own sparklers with lollipop sticks and sparkly strands. There were some sensory play activities including spooning the colourful rice and making faces with the playdough. We had great fun hunting for rhyming words in the garden and everyone won a tasty treat. We filled up on some homemade chocolate apples and then it was time for some delicious baked potatoes. Yum!
June 1, 2022
See the activities our children do to play and learn together
