General Archives - Page 77 of 90 - Flying Start childcare nurseries for babies, toddlers and children in Cornwall and Plymouth

Flying Start @ Duchy’s Round The World Week!

August 4, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Duchy have been exploring their ‘Round The World’ theme!

This meant the preschool children and holiday club learnt about places, cultures, foods and traditions from all over the world.

The children took part in cooking club activities such as making pizzas from Italy …

They learnt about different languages and traditions, and made flags from different countries…

The children learnt a lot and are going to continue practicing their language!

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Climbing, Swinging and Balancing!

August 3, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Cornwall College visit Heartlands Park…

The children practice their climbing, balancing, seining, crawling, sliding and running!

Flying Start’s Outdoor Staff Training!

August 3, 2015/in General

Flying Start Staff have been training in the woods!

Outside in Tehidy Woods the staff have been focusing their continued professional development on outdoor play and learning opportunities with nature.

They used Andy Goldsworthy inspiration to find natural objects and create art work in his style…

The staff discovered how to engage children and develop nature walks and treasure hunts into artistic and expressive play opportunities.

The children can use natural objects to represent and express their imagination!

Then they really got expressive creating forest faces and friends!

The staff suggested activities for the children to represent their emotions, to take mirrors into the forest for expression guidance or to create faces to make up stories about their forest friends… so many ideas!

Finally the staff developed a simple den building idea on a smaller scale to house their animals! The children love to find forest breakfast for furry friends and now can also build animal dens using natural objects!

What ideas do your children like to do in the woods?

Look out for more Forest blog posts with the staff putting their inspiration into children’s activities!

Flying Start @ Penryn’s 2015 Graduation At Their Summer Fete!

July 29, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Penryn held their annual Summer Fete and Graduation Celebration!

The event was open to the general public as well as parents, relatives and friends of the nursery being invited along, there was lots going on for everybody to enjoy…

The preschool children received their certificate for their Flying Start to Life Long Learning and all of their beautiful creative works from their time at Flying Start in their own little graduation ceremony.

All children, staff and even some eager Mums and Dads joined in on the Sports Day races and activities!

And there was a Summer Fete with stalls, food, raffles and face painting!

WOW! What a busy day for all! A big thank you to all parents who helped to organise and of course to all of the local businesses who kindly donated for the rather large raffle!

Good Bye and Good Luck to the Preschool Leavers of 2015!

Flying Start @ Duchy’s 2015 Graduates!

July 28, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Duchy’s Preschool Children Graduate!

The staff, parents, relatives, children and friends of Flying Start @ Duchy gathered on a Saturday for their Graduation Ceremony!

A fond farewell and a big good luck was wished to those children collecting their certificate for their Flying Start into Life Long Learning!

They then held a sports day and picnic for everyone to enjoy!

Thankyou to all parents that helped to supplied some lovely food and celebration cakes.

Good Bye and Good Luck to our Preschool Children!

Flying Start @ Penryn Celebrate the Carnival!

July 25, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Penryn, joined in the Annual Town Carnival!

With music, dancing, face paints, whistles, bubbles and dressing up it was a fun evening in the town!

The children all dressed up and walked through the town in the procession, with a big Flying Start banner to let everyone know who they were representing!

Well Done children, staff and parents involved!

Flying Start@ Duchy in the Reptile House !

July 23, 2015/in General

Look at these amazing photos of our trip to the reptile house at Duchy College.

The whole nursery went to visit the reptile house in small groups where they saw lizards, snails, tarantulas, snakes, tortoises, fish just to name a few!

The lady explained information about the various creatures and then got some out for the children to touch and hold, some children were very brave!

The children had a fabulous time and cannot wait until they can visit again!

Flying Start @ Penryn’s Seaside Fun Gym Club!

June 17, 2015/in General

Flying Start @ Penryn have started a new Gym Club Topic of Seaside Fun!

The children take part in a weekly gym club learning about their bodies, the importance of excerise and the changes that happen in their bodies during and after exercise… they do all of this whilst enjoying lots of fun movement, climbing and coordination games based around the beach and the seaside!

These fit and fun activities tie into the holistic healthy living theme the nursery has running throughout all learning.

Recently receiving their sun safe award, having visits from the local greengrocers to be fruit tasters, regularly trips to the beach to explore the natural environment and weekly gym clubs are a great recipe for healthy children!