Flying Start @ Duchy Hold Charity Pyjama-rama Day!

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Flying Start @ Duchy Hold Charity Pyjama-rama Day!

Well done to Flying Start @ Duchy who celebrated the Pyjamarama Day in aid of the Book Trust!

 

 

The whole nursery wore pyjamas into nursery for a day, and spent the whole day reading lots of different books – some children even bought in their favourite story book to share with everyone!

 

 

The pre-school children also made up their own story, and each child had a go at adding their own part into the story
and then drawing it onto a story line…

 

 

 

 

The nursery also had a cake sale to raise more funds for the book trust, which aims to allow all children to have a storybook!

Flying Start @ Saltash Do Under The Sea Artwork!

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Flying Start @ Saltash Do Under The Sea Artwork!

The toddlers at Flying Start @ Saltash have been exploring their new learning theme ‘Under The Sea’!

 

 

This week, the children explored a range of materials to decorate some fish shapes… they used lots of lovely colours, and did some finger painting for a scales effect!

 

 

The toddlers have been reading the book Rainbow Fish altogether, and also looking through it independently too…

 

…and they have been looking carefully at the different sized fish in the story and then drawing different sized fish too!

 

      

Flying Start @ Saltash Make Mud Potions!

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Flying Start @ Saltash Make Mud Potions!
The pre-school children at Flying Start @ Saltash have been exploring their new mud kitchen equipment and have been making potions!
 
They popped on their sunhats and had great fun out in the nursery garden!
They have been collecting different items from around the garden and at forest to use, and mix up, into magical garden potions!
Great work Saltash pre-schoolers!

Flying Start Nurseries Win Top 20 Nursery Group Award!

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Flying Start Nurseries Win Top 20 Nursery Group Award!
Flying Start Nurseries have won a prestigious TOP 20 NURSERY GROUP AWARD from daynurseries.co.uk! 🎉🎉
 
We are absolutely delighted to be recognised as a top 20 nursery group for 2019!
 
A huge well done to all our staff teams and managers in each of our nurseries, for their commitment to giving every child a FLYING START to lifelong learning!! 🎈🎈🎈
 
Here is to another great year of childcare across Cornwall & Devon, by Flying Start Nurseries!

Flying Start @ Duchy Host An Amazing Craft Week!

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Flying Start @ Duchy Host An Amazing Craft Week!
The whole nursery at Flying Start @ Duchy have had a ‘Craft Week’, where they focused all their activities on creativity all week, and rounded off with a big natural craft event on Friday!
 
The children have been having a go at using natural resources such as pine-cones, leaves, sticks and flowers to create their very own environmental art pictures based on the work of Andy Goldsworthy, – which is also known as ‘transient art’!
 
They also set up a full ‘Hapa Zome’ station, which is the Japanese art style where you use hammers with natural objects to beat out the colour pigments! The children had so much fun exploring this very interactive art style!
 
They used leaves, berries, and flower petals between 2 pieces of cloth, then they put on their safety goggles, and got to work with their hammers to bash the cloth… there was so much excitement as the colours began to release into patterns!
 
Next up, the children used willow branches to weave – they used their imagination to twist the branches into shapes, creating bracelets, magic wands, an aeroplane, and one child even made their own race track!! Wow!
 
Finally, they created some colourful weaving boards using ribbons and jute string. And even made their very own giant 3D Flying Start FLORA logo!!
     
 
What amazing creativity, and so many exciting unusual art activities for the children to explore!
Thank you to the parents who came along to join in at Duchy nursery, and look out for the amazing artwork which will be displayed in the nursery!

Flying Start @ Saltash Explore & Make Animal Habitats!

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Flying Start @ Saltash Explore & Make Animal Habitats!
The pre-school children at Flying Start @ Saltash have been enjoying using clay and sticks and leaves to make animal houses!
 
They have talked about the kind of houses needed for different insects and birds, and have each had a turn exploring and creating their own little home!
Just look at the concentration and the creativity in the photos – as they craft their amazing animal home masterpieces!

Flying Start @ Helston Do Some Planting & Growing!

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Flying Start @ Helston Do Some Planting & Growing!
This week, the toddlers at Flying Start @ Helston have been learning about planting and growing, and about what plants need to grow!
 
The children have had lots of fun out in the nursery garden, where they have been using their gardening tools…
…planting some seeds…
…and watching them grow!
The children are really excited to see the progress of their plants as they grow!

Flying Start @ Helston Pre-Schoolers Grow Seeds!

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Flying Start @ Helston Pre-Schoolers Grow Seeds!
The pre-schoolers at Flying Start @ Helston have been planting seeds, and learning all about how to grow plants!
   
They all carefully prepared their own plant pot with cotton wool, and sprinkled in their seeds, and carefully poured in some water.
Meanwhile talking and learning about the different things the seeds need to grow!
Half of the pre-schoolers planted cress seeds and the other half planted beans, and they have been excitedly watching the changes to the seeds over the past week!

Flying Start @ Duchy Climb Trees In The Forest!

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Flying Start @ Duchy Climb Trees In The Forest!
Flying Start @ Duchy have been heading to the forest to explore some risky play… exploring the trees and seeing which ones they can climb!
 
First, the children walked round to find a good tree for climbing, then they assessed the risk for themselves with the help of the staff members, and looked at which parts of the tree are safe to climb….
They all did an amazing job at climbing the trees, and watching where they are putting their feet the whole time!
 
They also looked for trees which had sturdy branches for swinging on – such good fun!

Flying Start @ Saltash Do Large Outdoor Art!

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Flying Start @ Saltash Do Large Outdoor Art!
Flying Start @ Saltash have been doing some large-scale garden art out in their nursery garden!
 
The staff team lay out a big white paper ‘canvas’ and provided some brightly coloured paints!
The children have been getting stuck in using different tools including large sticks they found in the garden, to make patterns and designs with the paint!
There has been a lot of brilliant teamwork, to create a large colourful art masterpiece together!