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Flying Start @ Penryn have been using measuring scales outside!

The purpose built set of scales is in the garden ready to measure different quantities of different materials to see which is heavier or lighter.

The children carefully transport their material usually sand, soil or water and then pour it into one end of the scales, as it tips they then guess how much of a different material they need in the other side to balance it out!

This is great hands on active learning with lots of trial and error, opportunities to make predictions and keeping on trying until it balances out! 

Flying Start @ Helston visited St George’s Park to meet with one of their Dad’s who is a Tree Surgeon! 

The children got to try on the safety kit that Tree Surgeons must wear, such as helmets and harnesses,

They learnt about what a Tree Surgeon does and watched this also!

Then after finding Teddy in the park, they got to rescue him! Using ropes, pulleys and working out which bit to hold still and which bit to pull they managed to rescue Teddy from the tree and bring him to safety with the Tree Surgeons kit! 

Thankyou to the Dad for sparing his time to teach the children about his job and  making it fun and exciting too! 

Flying Start @ Duchy’s children have used their initiative in full flow, to build a role play!

The staff have recently been on some training on creating effective role play opportunities for the children and stripped it back to basics in following the children’s lead for a role play that they feel excited about, as it is using their ideas and interests.

First of all the staff and children sat down to make their plan of action …

They planned to go on a trip around their campus to see what they could find, and if this would spark up some interest!

They found lots of different animals that the children could name, they took photographs of what they saw and the people they met along the way.

Then the children were very excited about making a tractor to drive.. so they set to work!

Cutting, painting, sticking and building…

A tractor! Fit for a farmer!

The children’s role play is all about caring for animals and the land, whether that be in the tractor, feeding the ducks or identifying animals through their binoculars!

What else do you think they could add to this to extend the children’s play?

Flying Start @ Saltash have been getting creative…

The children love mark making with chalks, pencils, crayons, paint and with anything else they can experiment with!

The more unusual the more exciting!

The animals had very colourful foot prints today, as they stomped through the paint and onto the paper.

And outside spray bottle with coloured water left interesting marks, the older children started to explore the changes in their marks from holding the bottle close to the paper and further away whilst also watching the colours run and mix together, whilst the younger children concentrated hard on strengthening their hand grip and fine motor skills with lots of careful squeezing and squirting! 

What else do you think the children use in their creative play?