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The preschool children from Flying Start @ Penryn are starting to get ready for school…

They are making a display that shows which local primary school each child is going to and what the school looks like, and are visiting the closest school Penryn Primary weekly. These visits are a good start to transitioning the children going to this school but also good for the other children to get a feel for primary school, using the library and ICT suite and playing in the playground with lots of school children!

At nursery the children are creating a role play area focused on going to school, with whiteboards and name writing practice, school words for discussion points and soon to be children’s uniform for dressing up! 

The children have been looking at photographs and books of schools from around the world and noticing the differences in different countries and religions. 

Daily access to child initiated school themed play is the start of their journey into school! 

Flying Start @ Penryn have been exploring healthy eating and healthy living with the toddlers… even to the extent of their paintings!

The children have got a Stokes Fruit and Vegetable Shop as their roleplay, learning where fruit and veg come from and how they are grown, role playing buying different real fruit and vegetables and even exploring soil and planting seeds in their sensory trays!

They then have been cutting up some of the fruit and vegetables from their shop to do some interesting fruit printing…

The children are learning how to be healthy from all angles!

Flying Start @ Saltash have started cooking outside…

With MUD, WATER AND GLITTER SPRINKLES!

They have been creating cakes, pies, lotions and potions in their new Mud Kitchen area!

Using pans, pots, jugs, spoons, whisks, pinecones, glitter, mud, water and anything else that could be found the children really have been cooking up a storm… so if you get asked for mudpies for pudding you know why!

Flying Start @ Saltash are promoting reading with all ages!

The children have access daily to lovely books, some are factual about animals and life cycles or people who help us, some fictional with magical stories of dinosaurs and adventures and some are simply picture books to promote those first important words…. the message through all of the books is, it doesn’t matter what it is about as long as we are encouraging our children to read!

BookStart book bags have been given out recently with some lovely books in them for you to share at home, and Flying Start also run a book bag loan scheme so please speak to your key worker for more information!

Flying Start @ Saltash have been having lots of fun in the park, the garden and on the field!

The children have been getting outside… LOTS!

Have a look and see what they have been getting up to…

Swinging high trying to touch the sky!

Joining in team games with the parachute!

Preparing the soil and the garden for some planting with their little green fingers!