Flying Start @ Camborne Celebrate Their Pre-School Graduation!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Celebrate Their Pre-School Graduation!

Flying Start @ Camborne celebrated the graduation of their oldest pre-school children, who leave the nursery to join big school this September! They held a fun day in their garden, with a huge turnout from their children and parents…

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…and one very special guest!

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All of the pre-school leavers wore their cap and gown, and were presented with a special certificate by Shelley, and had their photo taken!

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There was lots of fun to be had by all the family… including a treasure hunt, lucky dip, face painting, an obstacle course, and some delicious refreshments – including some special graduation cupcakes!

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The nursery also held a raffle with prizes kindly donated by local businesses and holiday attractions, with all the proceeds going to The Invictus Trust – a charity close to the hearts of the staff at Flying Start Camborne.

Flying Start @ Camborne would like to say a huge thank you to all the parents who came along to this special day, and for their continued support to the nursery – it was a very successful, special event!

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Flying Start Nurseries wish all these children the very best as they continue their journeys of life-long learning!

Important: Car Seats & The Law

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Important: Car Seats & The Law 

Flying Start Nurseries want to draw the attention of all parents to this informative article, which summarises how the law has changed on car seats, and how you can do the right thing for your child’s safety in the car.

Please take a moment to click through and read the following article – it also gives some helpful recommendations of suitable booster seats!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Are Visited By The RNLI!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Learn About Beach Safety With A Visit From The RNLI!
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As part of their ‘People Who Help Us’ theme, the children and staff at Flying Start @ Camborne have had more exiting visitors… The RNLI lifeguards!
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Georgina and Rachel arrived at nursery in their shiny big beach vehicle, which caused a lot of excitement! They explained to the children all about how important it is to keep safe when we are on the beach, and ways to do this.
The lifeguards were very impressed that the children had already learned what the different coloured flags meant – and then they showed the children the huge flags that are actually used on the beach!
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The children also learned that if they get separated  from their Mummy or Daddy, that they should look for the lifeguards who will be dressed in red and yellow – the same colour as the safe flag.
Thank you to Georgina and Rachel from the RNLI, for coming and speaking to the children at Flying Start @ Camborne – they learned lots about beach safety!

Flying Start @ Camborne Meet The Ambulance Service!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Enjoy A Visit From The Ambulance Service!

Flying Start @ Camborne were visited by Gavin the paramedic…

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Gavin came to talk to the children and brought along lots of exciting medical equipment for the children to play with including bandages, stethoscopes, face breathing masks and huge syringes!

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He also let the staff and children explore the ambulance – it had a lift that they stood on to get in, and they saw lots of equipment that would help make the patients better on the way to the hospital!

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Gavin told the children about how he and other paramedics are there to help, and that the children shouldn’t be scared if they ever have to go in an ambulance.

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Flying Start at Camborne want to give a huge thank you to Gavin for coming all the way down from Wells in Somerset to see them – the children were so excited about the visit, and learned so much from him!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Celebrate A Birthday!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Celebrate Cynthia’s 67th!

The children and staff came together to celebrate Cynthia’s 67th Birthday…

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The children baked a cake and then sang a big Happy Birthday to Cynthia!

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Before tucking in for snack time and chatting about the big age gap in the nursery!

Flying Start @ Camborne Are Visited By The Police!

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 Flying Start @ Camborne Meet PC Harvey!

The children had a visit this week from PC Shaun Harvey…

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He came to speak to the children about the jobs the police do and that they are kind and approachable police officers who help and look after people.

We want our children to know that Police Officers are helpful and kind and will help to keep them safe… not just catch bad people!

Thankyou to PC Harvey for answering the children’s questions and showing them the car and uniform!

 

Flying Start @ Camborne’s Show and Share Evening!

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Flying Start @ Camborne Share Heuristic Play With Their Families…

The families of the Babies and Toddlers were invited into nursery last week to observe and engage in heuristic play with their children.

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The staff set up some open plan opportunities for the families, showing how objects could be grouped together for free exploration and investigation…

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Then everyone got really stuck in! Exploring the objects… seeing how they felt, looked, sounded, banged together, shook and even balanced them on their head!

Staff talked to parents and families about how letting the children freely explore it without a specific purpose or reason can help to develop problem solving and creative skills.

Thankyou to all families who joined in!

Flying Start @ Camborne’s Garden Project Progresses!

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Flying Start @ Camborne’s Garden is OPEN!

As lots of parents and friends of the nursery will know the big garden has been receiving some much needed TLC recently! The grass seed finally grew, the shed was replaced with a beautiful play house for the children and lots of new equipment was added to the garden!

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Then the SUN came out! And so did the Children!

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Shelley attended training about developing literacy and numeracy in the garden and this is evident now in lots of places! And all of the staff team are working hard on providing rich and exciting learning opportunities in the garden – this is only going to get better with the lovely weather that we should be getting!

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Flying Start @ Camborne’s Toddler Picnic!

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Flying Start @ Camborne’s Toddlers Build A Train Track to Take Them To Their Picnic Destination!

The children in the toddler room at Flying Start @ Camborne combined their small world play and their role play with their snack time!

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The children built a very large train track stretching its way around their play room and then spent time ‘on their journey’ working their way round the track all the way to their picnic mat…

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Ready for a play picnic and then a real snack picnic!

It is great to see holistic learning taking place and children being imaginative, problem solving and thinking of their own ideas in their play!

Flying Start Nurseries Birthday Kite Competition!

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Flying Start Nurseries Held A Competition Last Week For Their 23rd Birthday Across All Of The Nurseries!

It was Flora’s (the little girl in the logo!) birthday last week and she turned 23 years old! To celebrate the nurseries had parties, dressing up, picnics, birthday cakes and dancing and then were tasked with creating a ‘kite’.

It could be any format or style but was to represent Flora flying her kite and giving so many children across Cornwall and Plymouth a Flying Start to lifelong learning!

Flying Start @ Camborne, Cornwall College, Redruth and Helston all entered with these entries…

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Flying Start @ Camborne thought outside the box and created a big kite out of lots of little people!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College had children across all departments decorating their own little kites which the pre-schoolers then joined all together to make one very large kite to hang on the wall!

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Flying Start @ Redruth made individual kites, where the children freely explored different textures, medias and practiced some excellent writing too!

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Flying Start @ Helston made their own individual kites and got to play in the sunshine with them at their tea party!

There are some amazing entries… watch this space to hear from the Directors the winning entrant!