Flying Start @ Camborne have all made a poppy at nursery and created them into a wreath.
On Tuesday 11/11/14 the children and staff walked up to their local War Memorial to lay the wreath alongside all of the other poppy wreaths.
The children stood for a few moment and remembered people that they loved.
Flying Start @ Camborne’s Holiday Club have had a busy half term in the outdoors exploring Rosewarne’s beautiful natural surroundings!
Listening for the crackle of the Autumn leaves under their welly boots and even diving down into the leaves to make Leaf Angels! Feeling the crunch under their coats and swishing and swashing their arms and legs!
Then the children found the trees the leaves had fallen from and got busy climbing!
Finding branches to climb up on, lie on, cling on too and even hang upside down on!
And… get really quite HIGH!!!
Wow! What good climbers we have!
And such a great natural way to explore risk taking, measuring the risk discussing what might happen and how we could help keep safe and keep each other safe… and then a lot of challenging fun!
If you aren’t already on Direct Debit and have forgotten to pay your fees then you can now pay on-line – in your own time.
We accept all debit cards and PayPal – Credit cards cost more so we prefer you use Debit.
Please go to the Shop and select the Pay Fees item or click here
Please don’t forgot to fill in the Special Instruction to Sellers section and tell us which nursery and your child’s name.
Thank you very much – the less time the team spend on chasing payments the more time they are spending with your children.
Flying Start @ Camborne have raised over £250.00 in support of one of their Dad’s (pictured!) who cycled from John O’Groats to Lands End in aid of a Multiple Sclerosis Charity – from a previous blog post you will see their pedal off at nursery and tin can cooking all in aid of this wonderful Dad’s fundraising!
Flying Start @ Camborne take anything and everything outside!
The children enjoy transporting their inside toys to their large garden to use in a different environment.
The children are very aware of which toys belong where and look after them carefully.
In the garden recently (when dry!) cosy comfortable sitting areas and book corners have been created, providing great communication spaces as well as the opportunity to embrace literacy in the garden.
The use of large garden story chairs, logs, tree stumps and picnic blankets have provided comfort in a really natural sense!
Flying Start Nurseries have raised awareness of Mental Health on World Mental Health Day 10/10/14!
The children across all of the nurseries have been learning about their Mental Health and how they can look after it.
Although only in the Early Years the children aged 2-5 years were aware of their emotions, common feelings
remembered were happy sad and cross!
The children were then able to use their emotions to match to photographs of facial expressions, make expressions in
the mirror, identify with flashcards and then use in circle times to discuss.
Listening, asking and responding to questions such as:
‘What makes you happy?’ ‘Does______ make you cross?’ ‘How do I know you are happy?’
‘What happens if you’re sad?’
Activities with arts and crafts helped the children to explore thoughts and feelings…
It is important you talk to your children about their emotions, ensure they are aware what makes them happy or sad or any other emotion they can identify with. With older toddler and preschool children extend this by exploring how they manage their own feelings and that they know where they can get support or praise!
We will continue in the next half term to help children understand their mental health appropriate to their age and development.
Flying Start @ Camborne have been supporting a Dad who is raising money for a Multiple Sclerosis Charity by cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats… the children and staff have also been sponsored to cycle lots at nursery!
With lots of happy smiley faces the weather held off and the children had a great time cycling round and round in laps of the garden!
With bikes of all shapes and sizes the children tried lots of different pedalling!
Even the staff got on their bike!
In the evening the parents came along to support and donate, and also meet their key worker in an evening of even more pedalling and also tin can cooking – where the children and parents cooked up some tasty treats with candle lit heat sources – think campfire fondues on a mini scale!!
Thankyou to all parents, children, staff and families of the nursery who came along, cheered on, donated and supported the MS charity.
Flying Start @ Camborne have been building and balancing and building a bit more!
The children have been using different shapes, different sizes and different blocks to create towers and structures.
As the towers got bigger, the children were using their positional language such as ‘on top’, ‘this way’, ‘that way’ and then mathematical language such as ‘bigger’ and ‘taller’ as they measured it as it grew and grew through their building!
Until BANG! It over toppled! The boys then re thought how they built it and planned again to get it taller than them!
How tall do we think it managed to be built?
Flying Start Nurseries would like to let all Preschool parents know about the school entry guidelines published by the Cornwall Council.
Children starting school in September 2015 can now apply, until the deadline date of January 15th 2015 for their school place at three possible school choices.
Go to this link for all current information and applications: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/education-and-learning/schools-and-colleges/school-admissions/apply-to-start-school-or-transfer-to-junior-secondary-or-ks4-school-in-september-2015/
Please remember Flying Start Nurseries can continue to care for your child in a high quality learning environment, on low 1:8 ratio’s using the same curriculum as primary school until the term after they are 5 years old!
Flying Start @ Camborne and the Flying Start Fun Club have been getting into the spirit of Pirate Week!
With lots of oohs and arrrrh sound effects the children started to find Pirate opportunities everywhere…
The construction materials in the garden became the perfect resources for the giant Pirate Ship needed to sail away into the sunset, fighting the baddies and stealing buckets full of treasure around the garden!
Whilst the tackle and block helped secure found treasure, hoist it up and keep it safe away from any enemy pirates!
And inside the children made pirate ships out of lego, megablocks, junk modelling and anything else they could find…
But where are the eye patches and wooden legs?!
