Flying Start @ Marjon Bake Bread For Harvest Festival!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Bake Bread For Harvest Festival!

The children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been celebrating Harvest Festival, by baking some special breads!

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They have been busy carefully creating the shapes of leaves, pumpkins and hedgehogs out of their bread dough, using their fingers and some tools to add detail with the help of their keyworkers..

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… And the bread creations were then baked in the oven by the staff… Look at these amazing creations!

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The children have also been creating wonderful leaves with lots of colourful squares on them!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn With Forest School!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn With Forest School! 
The children at Flying Start @ Marjon have been enjoying visiting the forest with Forest School this week… They went on a big autumn walk, looking at all the colours they could find!
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The staff have been planning lots of activities around talking about feelings, and so the children began to explore how the different colours make them feel. They also looked closely around at their environment, peeking into tree trunks, and looking high and low, looking at the changes that are happening!
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They then took this further, by making beautiful autumn pictures during forest school, using all natural resources!
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Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Emotions For ‘World Mental Health Day’!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Emotions For ‘World Mental Health Day’!

Flying Start @ Marjon have been doing lots of activities exploring their feelings, in aid of World Mental Health Day…

The children have been expressing themselves through painting with mood-related colours… they have been thinking and chatting about which colours remind them of which moods, and then adding them to their group paintings!

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They’ve also been singing ‘if you’re happy and you know it’, and they’ve been colouring in expressive pictures on face templates!

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…And finally, they brought lots of their fantastic artwork together and created a special display all about feelings – look how wonderful it looks!

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Well done Marjon for all these great activities exploring emotions today on World Mental Health Day!

Flying Start @ Marjon Learn Spanish!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Learn Spanish!

Flying Start @ Marjon have been saying Hola to Spain, with special visits from a parent who has agreed to come in and teach the children some words in Spanish!

They have been learning the days of the week and their colours, and have been enjoying trying out the sounds which are sometimes very different to our sounds in English…

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The children have been really enjoying the sessions, and getting very excited, trying out their new words and trying to remember them all at their morning circle time!

A huge ‘gracias’ to the very kind Spanish-speaking parent for donating their time to give the children this opportunity!

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn At Forest School!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Autumn At Forest School!

Flying Start @ Marjon have been welcoming the new season, and using harvest and Autumn as their focuses for forest school recently!

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The children got dressed up in their waterproof suits and welly boots with help from the staff, and then went off on an adventure… They walked all around the forest and were excited to find treasure such as pine cones, acorns and conkers!

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They then discussed all the different colours of the leaves, and looked at how they were falling from the trees now that summer is over.

They also made clay hedgehogs together, and looked for different sized animal holes and imagined what might live in them in the forest!

The children are excited to do forest school again this week to explore even more of Autumn!!

Review your Flying Start Nursery on our website!

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Flying Start Nurseries are kindly requesting that you leave a review for your nursery… We have brand new review ‘widgets’ on every nursery’s page here on our website!

Just head to our homepage, and then click to your nursery’s location… You will find a ‘review widget’ like the one shown above on the page. We want to hear what you think!

At Flying Start, we are committed to celebrating our members of staff who go above and beyond for your child’s journey to lifelong learning… So if there is a special member of staff, or anything in particular about the nursery that you want to share or celebrate, then let us know!

Flying Start @ Marjon’s Babies Explore New Theme of ‘Home’!

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Flying Start @ Marjon’s Babies Explore New Theme of ‘Home’ With Water Play!

Flying Start @ Marjon have been exploring their theme of ‘home’ with lots of themed activities and fun…

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The baby department decided to incorporate the idea of bathing, and the babies have been using their flannels to wash their dolls and look after them…

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Look how caring they are being, carefully washing their babies!

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They’ve also been having lots of fun splashing in the water!

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Important: Car Seats & The Law

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Important: Car Seats & The Law 

Flying Start Nurseries want to draw the attention of all parents to this informative article, which summarises how the law has changed on car seats, and how you can do the right thing for your child’s safety in the car.

Please take a moment to click through and read the following article – it also gives some helpful recommendations of suitable booster seats!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Team Up With Plymouth Argyle!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Team Up With Plymouth Argyle!

Flying Start @ Marjon enjoyed a day out in the forest, as they teamed up with Plymouth Argyle to help with forest school! Plymouth Argyle has an apprenticeship scheme which encourages their students to get involved with their local community, and to give back. This week, the young footballers have been training at Marjons University, and the team at Marjon thought it was the perfect opportunity to invite them to come and join in with Flying Start forest school!

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They began their forest expedition by sharing their golden rules with their helpers from Plymouth Argyle, and discussing the health and safety requirements.

Then, it was time to walk into the forest so they put on their wellies and their big elephant ears and listened to the environment around them as they walked…

In the forest, the children made photo frames from sticks, string and pine cones!

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Then they whipped up some mud cocktails, and made clay faces, and finished off in a big circle listening to some stories!

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The boys from Plymouth Argyle were fantastic helpers, and got stuck straight in with the muddy activities – having nearly as much fun as the children!!

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Thank you to all at Plymouth Argyle who helped organise this partnership, and Flying Start @ Marjon hope to team up again soon!

Flying Start @ Marjon Hold Their Summer Fair!

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Flying Start @ Marjon Raise Money For Charity At Their Annual Summer Fair!
With delicious cakes galore, lots of fabulous stalls, ‘pony rides’, and a bouncy castle… The annual Summer Fair at Flying Start @ Marjon was a HUGE SUCCESS!
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The nursery raised a fantastic amount for two local mental health charities, which they had chosen to support this year: they raised £159 for The Invictus Trust, and £155.67 for MIND Plymouth. Both of these charities do vital work to raise awareness and provide support to young people suffering with mental health issues.
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The parent Bake-Off turned into a huge competition, with 18 cakes entered, and the stakes were extremely high!! Just take a look at these mouth-watering cakes, and you will see why…
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The winners of the Bake-Off were:
Lucy Jordan – best overall cake with her chocolate creation!
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Jane Sherrard – best looking cake with her Invictus Trust themed cake!
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Nicola McDonald – best tasting cake with her strawberries and cream cake!
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Jules Kingston Bray – best effort with her dairy-free and gluten-free lemon cake!
Runners up: Julie Williams, Cody Knapman, Kate Brimacombe, and Itasha Honeyghan!
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WELL DONE TO ALL!!!
Thank you to all of the Marjon parents who came along, competed, and had a great time at the Marjon annual fair – and a huge thank you to the amazing staff team at Marjon for organising such a fantastic event, and raising such a great total for local charities!