Flying start @ Illogan Create Art In the Sunshine!
Flying Start @ Illogan have been creating art in the sunshine!
As we have been working on our colourful pictures, we have also been learning the names of the different parts of the daffodil!
Flying Start @ Illogan Celebrate Earth Day!
Flying start @ Illogan have been learning about recycling and reusing everyday materials to help care for our planet. The children helped to make their own natural paints from coffee grounds and mud and used repurposed bubble wrap to paint on. They explored textures and patterns while getting creative and being eco-friendly!
Flying Start @ Illogan Have Easter Fun!
Flying Start @ Illogan have been having lots of fun this Easter!
Last week, we made Easter Bunny food to leave in the garden for the Easter Bunny to enjoy, while delivering our Easter eggs!
Flying Start @ Illogan Look After The Local Wildlife!
Flying Start @ Illogan are helping to look after the local wildlife! With melted lard, we’ve mixed oats, sultanas, and sunflower seeds together to make a nutritious treat for our garden birds. After we finished making the fat balls and pinecone bird feeders, we used our bird identification sheets to see which birds visited our garden!
Safe Sleep Reassurance
You may have seen the recent news sharing the best advice and updating requirements for safe sleeping for babies and young children, this has always been a priority at Flying Start Nurseries.
To help reassure you we just wanted to remind you that:
- When babies go to bed we remove their outer clothing, jumpers and hoodies, bibs, dummy clips and anything too tight on their necks
- We check the room temperature and make sure it is a comfortable temperature between 16-20 degrees
- We place babies on their backs with their feet at the bottom of the cot
- We allow the use of well fitting sleeping bags if parents want to supply them
- We check their temperature, breathing, and general wellbeing regularly and record these checks
- Older babies or children may sleep on a sleep mat, if so, they are constantly supervised by a qualified staff member
We are making a slight change to our procedure and will be resharing our policy with parents via the app, but to let you know, if babies under a year fall asleep on a walk we will always transfer them from the pram to a cot as it is safer. If children aged over 1 fall asleep in our prams, if possible we will lay the pram flat and remove/open outer clothing on their return to the setting closely supervising them sleeping.
We have made this watertight in our procedure and policy to make sure safe sleeping is always thought about!
If families need any advice or support, talk to baby staff in the nursery and take a look at The Lullaby Trust.
Flying Start @ Illogan have great teamwork!
Flying Start @ Illogan toddlers have been showing some remarkable teamwork this week. They have been working together wonderfully, using some large-scale equipment to build with collaboratively. It’s been impressive to observe how they help and support one another during these activities.
Flying Start Recycle Even More!
Have you noticed that we can now recycle our soft plastics and Tetra Pak cartons at home? Cornwall Council will collect your soft plastics and cartons on your regular recycling day, so there’s no need for trips to the supermarket anymore!
What’s included:
– Plastic carrier bags
– Bread bags
– Frozen food bags
– Cling film
– Bubble wrap
– Fruit and veg nets
– Film lids
– Tetra Pak-style cartons
How to prepare them for collection:
Gather all of your clean soft plastics in a plastic recycling bag and tie it securely at the top to prevent them from flying away.
Collection:
Place your full, tied bag directly into your red recycling bag, ready for collection on your usual recycling day.
Flying Start @ Illogan are environmentally friendly!
At Flying Start Illogan, we have been environmentally friendly and resourceful by incorporating coffee grounds into our mud kitchen!
The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring the different texture and smell that the coffee grounds bring, and it has truly sparked their curiosity and imagination.
To kick start our growing mission and re-inspire us all after so much rain, we have signed up for our children to receive exciting post each month from POT GANG!
Delivered to the nursery door, a box to open with different types of seeds and clear instructions to get growing!
We have started with seedling potatoes, herbs, and strawberries..
The start of the month has become very exciting, because we don’t know what is coming next!
Watch this space for updates… and do share photos with your nursery or on your child’s learning story of anything you have growing at home, we would love to show the children.
A Tiger Came to Tea @ Flying Start Illogan
This week, the Tiger joined the Toddler for Tea @ Flying Start Illogan.
They whipped up some delightful meals to satisfy the very hungry tiger. Through these activities, we practised our social skills and learnt plenty of exciting new language.
The Tiger has also enjoyed exploring the outdoors at Illogan, and what a wonderful meal the toddlers prepared in our mud kitchen this week!
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