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Flying Start @ Helston have had a Dad’s day Stay and Play!

On this day they invited the children’s special male role models into nursery, this included Dad’s, Grandads and Uncles, who all came to get very messy!

The Dad’s explored Oats with their children, scooping and filling containers and using descriptive words to describe the texture of them dry and damp… or should I say very sticky!

 Then of course the painting table had to be visited! The only problem was we didn’t have Dad sized aprons!

Finally everyone enjoyed some story time together. Thankyou to all visitors to the nursery, the children are always so excited by their family and friends joining them to play, and your input helps evolve the children’s next steps learning and development, Thankyou!

Flying Start @ Duchy have recently attended Stoke Climsland Fair!

At the Fair Day, it was beautiful sunshine for everyone to enjoy. There were lots of stalls and Flying Start’s stall was really one to visit, as not only did it have all of the information about their lovely nursery and Forest School, but also play activities to occupy all of the children!

A black and white area for babies was provided, with a shaded soft and comfortable space on the day! The staff discussed how this is what is offered at nursery for babies, especially under 1’s, therefore providing the parents with the real life play example and their child able to use it!

For toddlers and preschoolers craft activities, singing and role play opportunities were provided all outside in the glorious weather!

It was a fantastic day, and new prospective parents who met us there… we hope to see you at nursery very soon!

Flying Start @ Penryn have been continuing their healthy living topic, with weekly gym clubs and physical exercise sessions and now developing an awareness of healthy food.

The preschool children have been experimenting with making their own bread for snack and lunch times. The children have learnt how to make bread from scratch, learning about healthy ingredients and home baking. This cooking club activity also linked in perfectly to the children’s growing theme at nursery, where they are growing lots of plants and flowers…. in baking bread they watched yeast in action and saw their bread grow grow and grow a lot bigger!

Once the bread had grown and doubled in size the children baked it and then enjoyed tasting their produce!

The children have also been enjoying all of the sunshine and getting very hot so decided to use our organic milk to create smoothies and milkshakes.

The children chose fruit to whizz up into a puree and then combine with fresh milk, learning that the fresh milk is healthy and helps our bones go strong and the fruit gives lots of important vitamins. The children enjoyed their icy cool drinks out in the sunshine at snack time!

The children this half term have now explored, growing and how we care for plants to help keep them healthy, exercise and how it helps keep us healthy, now food and drinks and how to make healthy choices and finally will be moving on to sun safety and how to be healthy and safe in this glorious weather! What a lot of fun learning!

Flying Start @ Penryn have been exploring all aspects of a healthy lifestyle!

The toddlers and preschool have been doing a weekly gym club, where they warm up, explore activities such as balance or coordination, do some singing and dancing and then cool down at the end.

As you can see the movements do get quite physical!

The toddlers here are learning how to stretch up high, side to side, crouch down low and even balance on their hands, feet and experimenting with one foot!

The children always have lots of fun during gym club and the time is also used to practice keeping safe – the children risk assess the room before starting and try to minimise any hazards, keeping healthy – lots of discussions about why exercise is good for us, and also exploring the effects exercise has and needing drinks of water afterwards!

Flying Start @ Helston visit their local library every week with their babies!

The weekly outing provides and opportunity for the babies to get out in the buggy or on reins, get some fresh air on the walk too and from the nursery in their local environment where they can spot different people, shops, vehicles and of course weathers!

The children then do a session in the local Helston library with the librarian using singing and signs and also have some time to explore the library and lots more books than we have at nursery!