Flying Start’s Annual Training Day 2024

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Flying Start’s annual Staff Training Day was a huge success 🌟

Our day started with a company wide catch up with our 90 staff focusing in on the success of the past year and our focus as a company to be keeping healthy, always learning and more sustainable in the year ahead!

Then we had lots of hands on learning, focused on the age groups the practitioners work with and developing certain parts of our curriculum. It was a very creative day!
Even the Managing Director got stuck in to large outdoor squiggle art!

We enjoyed an amazing lunch from The Spitting Pig, the food was delicious!

Followed by some more afternoon workshops where our teams had time to make resources to take back and use with their key children.

Finishing with our awards ceremony, where we celebrated so many efforts of our incredible Flying Start teams, who we know do such a fab job day in day out!

Flying Start @ Marjon Make Pumpkin Soup

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The floras mini explorers have been exploring how to make pumpkin soup.

The children have cut open a pumpkin to see what’s inside. Then they scooped out the insides, peeled and chopped up the pumpkin with other different vegetables and placed them inside the soup maker and waited for it to cook. The children had a great time tasting it once it has cooked.

Flying Start @ Marjon Outside Painting

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The Toddlers at Flying Start Marjon have been having fun by exploring what will happen when powder paint and water are mixed. What made it even more fun was that it was raining, and the children just loved pouring and sprinkling it on the floor to make different patterns. We even filled a tray up with water and placed a slide in the tray and the children had great fun going down and splashing into the water.

Flying Start @ Marjon Painting

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This week in the baby room we did some painting. We used the cars to make lots of different marks on our paper. We dipped the cars into the paint and let them go down the slide. It was great fun.

Flying Start @ Marjon Forest Trip

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Out in the forest the Toddlers have been exploring under stones and logs to see what bugs they can find and just look who came up to say hello to the children – a slug and a spider. The children had a great time talking about what marks they can see on the slug and how fast the spider is.

Flying Start @ Marjon Make Salsa!

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This week the toddler room have been peeling and cutting up different vegetables to make salsa. The Toddler room children learnt how to hold the peeler correctly and how to use the cutting equipment safely so they could have fun making same yummy salsa for their snack time.

Flying Start @ Cornwall College Tiger Who Came to Tea

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The Toddlers @ Flying Start Marjon have been listening to and exploring the Tiger who came to tea. The children have been gluing and sticking tissue paper to create their own Tiger picture. They have even had their very own tea party just like in the story.

Flying Start @ Marjon Explore Construction

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This week the toddler children have been exploring construction, they have been wearing hard hats and exploring the construction role play. They have also been building with a variety of resources including using Weetabix, large building blocks and adding playdough and gloop as cement. They have had a fantastic time exploring using their imagination.

Flying Start @ Marjon Valentine’s Cards

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The babies @ Flying Start Marjon have had a great time celebrating valentine’s day this week! We have been painting cards for or loved ones and even played with red playdough and red rose petals to keep in touch with the love theme.

Flying Start Reading Challenge

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If your child is a Toddler or Pre-schooler at one of our Flying Start settings, they will be coming home with their new challenge for the term! Please get involved, when completed there will be a certificate ceremony and a small prize!