Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Water play

We are making the most of this beautiful weather and have had the water in the garden this morning. 

Spare clothes

Please send spare clothes for your child that still fit them in case they do have to change into them.  :-)

Walk to the prom

We had a walk to the promenade this morning to have a look at the illuminations.  The children had a good run/walk alongside them, stopping to get a better look every now and then!

Safeguarding - next steps

Siobhan is on a 6 hour training course over 2 evenings this week - Tuesday and Thursday.  It will cover aspects of safeguarding children and detail what happens once social services become involved. 

This week is week 1 of our menu

Fairhaven Lake

We visited Fairhaven Lake today.  We took some bread to feed the ducks and we visited the RSPB centre, where we listened to different bird songs and saw lots of different sorts of birds.  We had a lovely walk around the lake before going out for lunch.

After lunch, we visited Pets at Home to look at all the animals.  We saw rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters and lots of fish.  We bought some wild bird food and came home to feed the birds in our garden. 

Stammering awareness training

I am attending a course on Monday evening at the City Learning Centre which will provide information about stammering.  If anyone has any questions about this subject please don't hesitate to speak to me.

Week beginning 19th September is week 3

Sunflowers

The children painted some beautiful pictures of the sunflowers on our table.  We talked about the colours we would need and how to make the yellow darker and lighter. 

:-)

Elmer at our zoo!

The children made Elmers today, using coloured paper squares.  All of the Elmers are now on our zoo wall and look fantastic! 

After we'd finished, we read 'Elmer' together and all agreed that Elmer is a very colourful elephant!

~Don't they look great?

New play area

Over the bank holiday weekend we redesigned the play area, laying some more artificial grass and rearranging the play equipment. 

New sandpit area, with blackboards and mirrors

A more inviting surface on which to play



Chalking



The bark was getting very muddy even at this time of year (we're not even into autumn!) and it seemed to make the bottom of the garden really dank and dark.  We cut back some of the trees to let in more light (when I say 'we' I actually mean Chris ;) ) and covered most of the area with the fake grass.  The children seem to love the new surface and keep rolling on it!