Flying Start @ Cornwall College Are Creepy Crawly Explorers!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College Put On Their Wellies And Search For Creepy Crawlies!
The Pre-School children at Flying Start @ Cornwall College have been focusing on “The World” as their theme during half term.
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To finish off a fantastic week of activities all about the world around them, the children put on their wellies and went to search for creepy crawlies in the pond at Heartlands!!
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The children had a fantastic time being explorers and using their magnifying glasses to find creepy crawlies!
They loved learning all about the different creatures – as well as wading around in the water in their wellies!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Partner With Tesco!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College Learn How Their Food Goes From

“Farm to Fork”

The Preschool children visited Tesco to learn about their food’s adventures…

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The children learnt about fruit and vegetables, fish and meat… meeting some fresh fish on their journey and looking at the different sizes, colours and talking about the fish they had eaten!

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Then because the children have a ‘bakery’ role play at nursery they went to Tesco’s BIG bakery! They met the bakers, looked at a huge variety of what they bake and had a go themselves with some dough.

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Finally Tesco’s VERY kindly gave the children some new toys to take back to nursery!

Not only had the children learnt so much from the lovely Tesco Staff they were thrilled with their unexpected gifts!

Thankyou Tesco Extra @ Pool for being so kind, generous and knowledgeable!

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!

Flying Start Nurseries Celebrate Their 23rd Birthday!

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Flying Start Nurseries Turn 23 Years Old!

Children across all 8 of our Flying Start Nurseries in Cornwall and Plymouth celebrated Flora’s birthday!

Flora is our little girl (now 23!) in the Flying Start logo who was born all those years ago when Flying Start first started… 23 years on the business has grown to over 700 children and 120 staff!

Here is how some of our nurseries celebrates such a special day….

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Making birthday cards and paintings… of course in our trade mark blue!

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Lots of kite themed activities to really get off to a Flying Start!

And of course… making and eating birthday cake!

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What amazing cakes! (Thankyou to our cooks!)

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We even caught Steve our Financial Director celebrating!

And finally….

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Seeds Are Growing!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College Have Plant Heads!

The children planted their seeds and check them every day, watering them and making sure they are in the sun light, and finally there is some progress…

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And the heads have hair!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Toddler Yoga!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Toddlers Yoga Skills Are Progressing!

The toddlers are continuing their yoga practice and are gradually developing more control, flexibility, balance, listening and concentration skills…

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The children lie on their yoga mat and respond to the instructions that are related to things they know for example: lying on their backs and riding a bike with their feet, stretching out like a snake, curling up like a cat… etc!

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The children are going to continue regular Yoga, it is calming but physical and encourages some really good movement and coordination!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Youngest Babies!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College Care for Lots of Under 1’s!

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The babies explore and experience lots of different activities tailored to them!

From daily tummy time, wet and dry sensory play (including messy painting!), exploring musical instruments, lights and torches and of course lots of daily singing!

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And of course with so much stimulation from the other children, keyworkers, activities and interesting sounds and sights around them their individual routines are promoted, which believe it or not also includes some quieter times!

We think our youngest babies have lots of fun, care and attention all day long!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Get Cooking!

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Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Weekly Cooking Club!

Toddlers and Preschool have been doing a regular cooking club to develop their fine motor skills and their understanding of the world…

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Mixing and feeling with their fingers, using spoons and safe knives, rolling pins and cutters to start to mix their ingredients and see the end results! 

Recently the children have made ham and cheese pastry wheels, angel delight, fruit cocktails and biscuits… watch this space to see some more cooking creations!

Trainee of the Year 2015

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We are delighted to announce that the Flying Start Trainee of the Year for 2015 was……

Sarah Williams

and she was commended for  :

“for demonstrating a fantastic commitment to life-long learning

and being a great asset to Flying Start nurseries”

The presentation was made in front of the whole staff team at the recent Flying Start Training Day on Thursday 24th March 2016.

Well done and thank you.

Employee of the Year 2015

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We are delighted to announce that the Flying Start Employee of the Year for 2015 was……

Naomi Gibson

and she was commended for the fact that she :

  • Demonstrates phenomenal commitment, both at work & at home
  • Is a great ambassador for Flying Start Nurseries with customers & the wider community, and
  • Continues her life-long learning with specialised qualifications in SEND

The presentation was made in front of the whole staff team at the recent Flying Start Training Day on Thursday 24th March 2016.

Well done and thank you.