Questionnaire Results 2014 Marjon
Click the link above to view the wonderful Questionnaire results received by our Marjon nursery from their parents!
These will be used in the cycle of continual improvement within the nursery – Thankyou for your time in filling out questionnaires they are really very useful for moving the nursery forward with your involvement.
Flying Start @ Marjon have completed the full growth cycle all the way back into their tummies!
The children have had some helpful green fingers from their Cook Emma, planting the seeds and lots of helpful reminders to water and care for the plants!
And then the lettuce and salad vegetables were harvested ready to be used for cooking club, creating fresh summer salads for snack in the sunshine!
Flying Start @ Marjon have weekly visits from Clare and Jo Jingle!
The exciting visitors bring lots of fun musical activities with them, which the Holiday Club at Marjon have been enjoying.
The younger children explore musical instruments, banging, shaking and experimenting with sounds, puppets and singing!
The older children make rhythms and explore rhyme, creating their own as well as using old favourites.
Flying Start are delighted to offer to Parents a 4 hour course on First Aid that will give you lots of valuable information on what to do if your little one hurts themselves.
Would you know what to do?
The course will be delivered on a Saturday at one of our nurseries and will be delivered by Sophia, who is a fully qualified First Aid trainer, County Council approved, a childcare graduate, Early Years Professional and our manager at Penryn !
It will cover :
You will receive a certificate from Flying Start and a free First Aid handbook, and all for only £15.
We will schedule courses dependent on interest, so please email to enquiries@flyingstart.uk.com if you are interested.
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Flying Start Managers joined together last week at Porthpean Education Centre!
The managers were there for an unusual start to the morning where they had an icebreaker activity with WackaTubes… Making beautiful music of course!
The two teams were rated on their performances, and of course ‘constructive’ feedback was provided!!
Then the managers explored some different management techniques and styles, identifying strengths and weaknesses in staff and exploring ways to strengthen and support their teams and nurseries. Performance grading and the differences between managing and leading were all topics of the morning, and a lot was taken from it by all to further develop their managing style and continue to strive within their individual nurseries!
After the morning’s meeting the managers were put up to a challenge! In teams they had to build a raft, follow a map, kayak to specific points to find different objects hidden in the water, at heights up cliffs, through natural rock archways and attached to buoys! Of course all of this was being observed by Sharon and Steve with questions being floated like… ‘is there a clear leader? does their need to be a leader? are you able to promote each others skills?’ Whilst of course it was also an occasion to have lots of fun and enjoy a challenge of a different kind!
Then the two teams were in a race against time to use all of the objects they had collected during their kayaking adventures to build a flag pole the highest flag flying would win whilst the team enjoyed a freshly made brew and a cake!
With this specification the teams got to work….
One team split their team with half making the device to heat, boiling the water and creating several cups of tea whilst the other half built their flag pole!
While the other team got their water boiling then all starting building together…. This team got the highest flag! However the winners were the team above! Dani, Shelley, Gemma and Lucy who were enjoying their nice warm cup of tea before the others!
Welldone All!
Flying Start nurseries all came together last week with every centre’s team leaders joining together for a day away from their normal nursery routines!
The team leaders were taken on a day out, to engage initially in training tasks promoting effective team leading and management techniques and then developing to an action packed afternoon to encourage team building skills and reflection!
Have a look below to see what they got up to….
Building trust, providing direct instruction and working through a challenge!
Facing fears, having motivation and some active positive thinking and supporting each other when they most needed it!
What a brilliant day for all team leaders, a training event to further develop their skills and abilities in leading our Flying Start teams but also a day away from the setting as a well done for all of their hard work and time for reflection but also forward thinking for the next academic year!
Thankyou to all team leaders who really did throw themselves into it and use the opportunities to challenge themselves!
Flying Start @ Marjon’s staff have recently attended some special educational needs training along with other Flying Start staff.
This training explored children’s different sensory needs and how as practitioners we can better facilitate children’s learning by helping to make them feel comfortable and supported.
The training was very informative and the staff at Marjon have used it to create sensory learning experiences for all children!
The children initially explored the sensory box in a circle time, using their hands to touch the different textures and exploring which made them feel comfortable and which they did not like touching. The older children could use descriptive words to explain and voice their opinions, likes and dislikes as well as describing what they could feel.
The children then explored their senses, using their eyes to see, hands to touch, noses to smell and ears to hear.
The objects for exploration included soft furry toys, scented candles, light up toys, coloured objects, hard rubber, soft rubber toys and lots more!
The children learnt that some objects might make a child feel safer to play, they might like to hold on to it and make it flash or smell it or stroke it when they felt uncertain.
Have a go at making a sensory box at home! A shoe box and some interesting items are all you need.. it can be a great talking point with the children, you can even play blindfolded games to guess the usual house hold objects and encourage your child’s verbal descriptions! Send us a photo!
Flying Start @ Marjon have had their first ever summer fair day, organised by Savina and Naomi from the nursery… Welldone Girls on a fantastic event had by all!
With over 50 children, parents, friends and relatives attending it really was great fun in the sun!
The children enjoyed bouncing on a bouncy castle, having sparkly glitter tattoos, music, dancing, browsing the stalls and even having a paddle in the paddling pool!
Over £250.00 was raised on the day a staggering amount! Thankyou and Welldone to all!
This money is going to charitable causes including The Children’s Hospice South West.
Flying Start @ Marjon have set up a hair dressing role play in their preschool department!
The children brush each other’s hair, measure the length comparing who has long and who has shorter hair.
The children have pretend play opportunities with washing hair, roleplaying a hair cut and of course practicing polite customer service that you would receive in a hair dressers!
Last week the children were measuring Rosie’s hair and they needed lots of pairs of hands and two rulers! It was that long!
When they had measured Rosie’s hair they had a special visitor Daren from Elite Hair and Beauty in Plymouth, who sprayed Rosie’s hair to make it wet, combed it out long and straight and then used special hair dresser scissors to cut it. He gave Rosie’s hair a trim and then the children measured it again to see what had been chopped off!
Thankyou Daren for helping our role play come to life!
