Flying Start @ Helston have made smelly, colourful, glittery, festive playdough with the Toddlers!
The children mixed the flour, salt, oil and water, choosing the colour green and matching the green glitter to it also…
They stirred and mixed lots to ensure it was spread throughout the whole mixture!
Then adding festive smells like cinnamon and adding some more flour to bind it together the children got to get their hands involved!
Flying Start @ Duchy explore shapes…
The children use octagons to connect together and create new shapes!
This child made a flower, using octagons as petals!
Flying Start @ Helston Celebrate The Festival of Light with the children!
The children have been learning about Diwali, and learning about a different culture and the traditions associated with this religious festival.
The children explored rice sensory to make rangoli patterns and made their own diva lamps to bring light!
The children learnt that different people have different beliefs and it is interesting and exciting to know more about this!
Flying Start @ Saltash have been using their fingers… in lots of messy play!
The children of all ages have been experiencing and exploring lots of different sensory textures, to really get their fingers and hands active!
Exploring oats with glitter in the baby room, and in Preschool having timed challenges to stack cheerios onto skewers… really great sensory play for improving pincer grasps and control!
Using vegetables and pumpkins to explore textures…and getting slimy!
And of course lots of paint and glitter!
Getting the children doing finger gym and using their hands with lots of different textures provides them with interesting play opportunities, time to explore and express themselves freely and also promotes the strength and control the children have with their fingers and hands… ad of course is all in all a lot of fun!
Flying Start @ Helston have fun for Children In Need!
All of the children in the nursery and the staff had a dressing up day on Friday 13th November, they also baked tasty treats to sell in a cake sale to raise money!
Of course lots of spots for Pudsey Bear were evident!
Thankyou to all Parents, Carers and Friends of the Nursery who kindly donated!
Congratulations to the staff and children from Flying Start@Marjon who won the Rugby World Cup!!!
Well, they drew New Zealand in the quarter final sweepstake and of course the All Blacks went on to win. The team did a project on New Zealand and were delighted that their team won !
You can see the children with the Cup !!
We are delighted to have improved the signage for Flying Start@ Cornwall College in Pool. This is to emphasise that we support the general public as well as the children of students and staff.
For nearly 20 years we have had a long and fruitful partnership with Cornwall College, and support the College at Trevenson, Duchy College at Stoke Climsland and at Saltash.
Steve currently sits on the College Council and Sharon has in the past and the children in the College nurseries benefit from the amazing facilities available on the different campuses.
Flying Start @ Cornwall College’s Preschool Department are supporting the CPR Food Bank!
The preschool children talked about what the food is for and what types of food last long enough for people to eat when they need it without going off…
One child decided that the Food Bank was ‘grown up recycling, we let other people use it who need it more’!! (How very clever!)
They organised a dressing up day and raised some money, which meant as well as donating from home the children then went on a trip to the supermarket to find the right foods to buy for the Food Bank!
The children settled on tinned foods and dried foods as these would keep a long time, one child even chose 2 packets of biscuits to give to the Food Bank telling us…
‘Everyone likes to have a biscuit!’
The children added the food they had bought with the money they raised to the FoodBank box in the nursery.
It is now full and over flowing so the children are going to be visiting the FoodBank to deliver it, and to learn a little more about who it helps in the community.
We think this is a fantastic project to be a part of, helping people who need it in our local community!
Thankyou to all parents for kind donations already!
Flying Start @ Redruth have made their own Mini-Beasts!
The children went out into the garden and collected lots of natural materials…
There were lots of twigs and sticks blown off the trees which made perfect little legs on their Mini-Beasts…
The children used photographs of mini-beasts to see how they could recreate them, using clay to shape the body they then made legs, wings and shells!
What a lovely use of a natural materials!
Flying Start @ Cornwall College decide Treats not Tricks!
The children enjoyed lots of cooking club fun for Halloween, making biscuits, pizza’s and cupcakes!
They were thrilled they were allowed so many TREATS! (But we decided this was better than lots of tricks!)
The children measured, mixed, stirred, whisked, kneaded, rolled and decorated!
Using icing pens as an edible mark making opportunity.. drawing spider web lines, faces on pumpkin biscuits and even some ventured for an eye ball! Making marks for real purpose!
