Welcome to Kingsbury Episcopi Pre School

Our team are Lis Black, Sue Male, Michelle Wyatt, Makayla Cook and Kanjapak Sylvester.

W/C 2.12.24

Decorating our Christmas tree. Exciting time decorating and talking about Christmas trees, decorations, texture, shapes, quantities, height and Santa.

Shopping game, practising numeral recognition, accurate counting and solving problems of too few or too many items.

Sparkly red playdough! Manipulating playdough aids fine muscle development supporting future writing. 

W/C 25.11.24

This week we've been dancing and using instruments to make music. 

Dancing with scarves to enhance movements and make shapes in the air.

Some children made collages and pictures with shapes whilst others played outside. 

W/C 18.11.24

Listening and recognising sounds supports phonic skills development. At preschool we do this through games, stories, songs, rhymes and play in and outside. We heard the horses and rushed to see them pass and wave hello!

Sensory activity. 

Exploring a variety of ingredients such as flour, seeds, lentils, herbs and spices the children used spoons to decant for mixing. Promoting discussion about their actions and experiences. Also exploring capacity. 

W/C 11.11.24

We explored the Gruffalo story, recalling the story sequence, characters and the rhyme and rhythm of this beautiful story.

"I'm going to make a castle" and it was fantastic and a perfect way to learn about shapes and size and how they fit together. 

Towing a 'broken down' tractor by tying rope is a favourite activity and a brush at the back can sweep up the leaves.

Welcome back to preschool and our theme of Autumn. 

Exploring leaves, wooden blocks, dinosaurs and other resources to make a dinosaur jungle. Naming dinosaurs, always a challenge, counting blocks, talking about forests and jungles. 

A road sweeping tractor, set up by a keen tractor rider to sweep a path through the leaves. Learning about seasons, cause and effect, movement with wind and sweeping, listening to sounds in the environment. 

A fine motor skills challenge for the children to copy these shapes, design their own and thread small beads onto the pipe cleaners. 

W/C 21.10.24

A drawing of a track for whizzing around with cars and vehicles. Promoting drawing and discussion as children add features. 

The autumn leaves have provided a resource for a variety of play, making tea, sweeping up and filling cars and trailers to transport the leaves.

Painting with rollers and using tools to make marks are activities that promote early writing skills. 

W/C 14.10.24

Apple week. 

We made Apple crumble. Looking at the recipe book, discussing ingredients,  measuring ingredients and mixing them. Chopping fruit carefully. Star bakers at preschool!

W/C 7.10.24

This week has seen lots of creative construction. Making a house or wands with the straws. Making paw patrol transformers and car transporters with the mobile.

4.10.24

BIG painting! Using rollers, sponges and toy cars to paint tracks, create patterns and mix paints.

Making dens involved selecting materials, using pegs, adapting plans in case of den collapsing and sharing space. An engaging and active morning.

W/C 30.9.24

This week we made 'mud' to play with the farm animals,  messy play is fun to explore, is a calming sensory experience and promotes communication. 

Outside using rope to tow the other vehicles provided opportunity to persevere to achieve the goal and working together to move the vehicles. 

Learning how to peg up the baby clothes builds fine motor skills and was much enjoyed by the group.

W/C 23.9.24

Lots of role play this week - fire and rescue service and flight crew of a helicopter.

We've been building with various resources and outside to ride the balance bikes and seeking new challenges! Dressing up is always lots of fun as well as allowing practice of self care skills.

16.9.24

Walk through local apple orchards. Climbing styles, over footbridge and along the path. We listened to sounds in the environment and watched the farmer in his tractor collecting the apples.

Welcome back to preschool! 

Exploring materials and objects allows for language development, sharing ideas, asking questions, selecting objects, listening and explaining and just spending time exploring. 

WC 14/07/2024

This week we made an obstacle course with balance beam, had the challenge of working as a team to drag the tyres along the playground. With water play we've had ice and oranges pieces and rosemary in the water as a sensory experience.