Flying Start @ Cornwall College Bake Bread
This week Upper Preschool have been doing some baking! We made our own loaf of bread and picked what flavour we wanted it to be. We chose cinnamon flavour, yummy! This activity helped us to work on our gross motor skills as we had to use a big wooden spoon to mix all the mixture together. We used out mathematical knowledge to weigh out how much of each ingredient we needed, and we also ate this bread for our snack. It was delicious! We put it in the bread maker to bake and we were so excited to see what it looked like when it came out.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College Personal, Social and Emotional
This week in Upper Preschool we began looking at our room intention of personal, social and emotional development and the theme of culture and diversity. We began by doing self-portraits whilst practicing our fine motor skills. We had a look at our faces in the mirror and thought about what shapes we needed to draw to construct our face. We then extended our learning and took the activity outside to do large scale art of ourselves. We took it in turn to draw around ourselves on the floor and labelled our body parts and discussed how our body shapes looked different to each other. We then spoke about the different kinds of people that we see in our lives and looked at their similarities and differences. We agreed that everyone is different and that is ok, it is our uniqueness that makes us special. We have also been working on our own personal skills whilst engaging in cooking club this week. We made orange shortbread, and they were delicious!
Flying Start @ Cornwall College Upper Preschool’s start to the new term!
This week in Upper Preschool we have began looking at our room intention of personal, social and emotional development and the theme of culture and diversity.
We began by doing self-portraits whilst practicing our fine motor skills. We had a look at our faces in the mirror and thought about what shapes we needed to draw to construct our face. We then extended our learning and took the activity outside to do large scale art of ourselves. We took it in turn to draw around ourselves on the floor and labelled our body parts and discussed how our body shapes looked different to each other.
We then spoke about the different kinds of people that we see in our lives and looked at their similarities and differences. We agreed that everyone is different and that is ok, it is our uniqueness that makes us special.
We have also been working on our own personal skills whilst engaging in cooking club this week. We made orange shortbread, and they were delicious!
Flying Start’s Annual Training Day 2024
Flying Start’s annual Staff Training Day was a huge success 🌟
Our day started with a company wide catch up with our 90 staff focusing in on the success of the past year and our focus as a company to be keeping healthy, always learning and more sustainable in the year ahead!
Then we had lots of hands on learning, focused on the age groups the practitioners work with and developing certain parts of our curriculum. It was a very creative day!
Even the Managing Director got stuck in to large outdoor squiggle art!
We enjoyed an amazing lunch from The Spitting Pig, the food was delicious!
Followed by some more afternoon workshops where our teams had time to make resources to take back and use with their key children.
Finishing with our awards ceremony, where we celebrated so many efforts of our incredible Flying Start teams, who we know do such a fab job day in day out!
Flying Start @ Cornwall College International Women’s Day
Happy International Woman’s Day!
Today upper preschool have been busy talking about the women who are important in our lives. To celebrate these women, we decorated paper-chain dolls to represent them.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College had a special visitor
During national story telling week we had a lovely Nan came to visit to read us a story! Gloria, is a retired nursery nurse and she was blown away with our Lower Preschool children’s love for reading and kindly bought all the children in the department a lovely book each to enjoy at home! AND she has offered to visit regularly – AMAZING!
A huge THANK YOU to Gloria, a really kind gesture and the children absolutely LOVED their gift.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College Lots of Celebrations in Lower Preschool
This week lower preschool at Cornwall College have had a really busy week! We have been celebrating valentines day, pancake day and Chinese new year. We have done a range of different activities which have supported a lot of different skills, such as our fine motor skills, personal, social and emotional development and our understanding of the world.
We had a stay and play on Valentines Day where we had our families in to show them our room and do all things Valentines. We made love bugs, painted flower hand prints and spoke about who we love and something special about them. It was lovely to have you all in.
For pancake day we decorated our own pancakes and practiced our fine motor cutting skills and we even had them for pudding after lunch!
Chinese new year was a busy week, where we practiced our counting, decorated our own lanterns and played with gloopy pancake mix!!
Flying Start @ Cornwall College Make Potions
Upper preschool we have been focusing on one handed tools to help strengthen our fine and gross motor skills.
In our Potion Station we used a mixture of tweezers and pipettes to make lots of lovely smelling potions. We added a mixture of citrus fruits, flower petals and yummy fruit teabags to create our potions.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College Festive Fun with Parents
Last week Upper Preschool invited parents in to join them for some festive fun. We made yummy melting snowman biscuits, explored the gingerbread snow dough and made candy cane necklaces. Everybody then sat down for a yummy party food snack.
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