For World Book Day Flying Start at Cornwall College held a stay and play and invited parents in to read a story with their children. Children came in wearing their pyjamas with their favourite book. Across the nursery, story themed activities were set up for everybody to enjoy. Then everyone sat down for a story and enjoyed a cup of warm milk.
If your child is a Toddler or Pre-schooler at one of our Flying Start settings, they will be coming home with their new challenge for the term! Please get involved, when completed there will be a certificate ceremony and a small prize!
The children @ Flying Start Cornwall College have been learning about the recent rocket launch from Newquay airport. They used various materials to create their own rockets, including junk modelling and shapes of card, practising their scissor skills!
The children at Flying Start Cornwall College have been having lots of festive fun! We’ve baked biscuits and decorated them, had a delicious Christmas lunch, taken part in lots of Christmas crafts and had a visit from Santa himself!
This week the pre-schoolers went on a trip to the forest. We took our morning snack down with us to eat and collected lots of different leaves, looking at the shapes, sizes and colours. We discussed why some leaves were green, some were orange, and some were brown. On the way back to nursery, we spotted some blackberries. We collected these and later on in the afternoon used them to paint with.
For World Mental Health Day, we have been talking about our emotions. Some of us drew emotion houses to show what makes us happy, sad, excited, and angry. The preschool children have also been making paper plate masks with different emotions on them and emotion flowers using our hands and paint, talking about all the kind things we do to make people happy.
This week we’ve had fun exploring the construction tuff tray. We used the diggers to transport the different sensory and used the stones and pieces of wood to do some natural building. We spoke about what each of the sensory items were and how they felt in our hands.
This week we had an exploratory hedgehog tuff spot. We used spaghetti and a colander to make our own hedgehog! We carefully threaded the spaghetti through the holes in the colander, this took a lot of concentration. We then read the story ‘That’s not my hedgehog’. We liked feeling the different textures of the hedgehog in the story book. We then played with the soft hedgehog toy and moved him around his little garden. We spoke about where hedgehogs live and what they like to eat.
The preschool children have been remembering our dearly departed Queen this week. 
We are so proud to have received a letter from the Queen after we sent her some of the children’s artwork to celebrate her Platinum Jubilee. We have been making pictures of the Queen, using various technqiues such as finger painting and using fly swatters. In addition to this, the children have been busy making Union Jack flags and bread rolls.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College have received Royal Mail!
We are delighted to have received a letter from Her Majesty the Queen in response to our Jubilee letter written by our Preschool children!
