Flying Start @ Redruth Celebrate St Pirans Day With Pasties!

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Flying Start @ Redruth have home made their own pasties to celebrate St Piran’s Day and all things Cornish!

The Preschool children started by making their own pastry, rubbing butter into flour and then letting it rest in the fridge.

Once the pastry was ready the children cut off chunks and rolled it our, making big empty spaces ready for their fillings!

The children then layered in their meat, potatoes, turnip and onions to create their pasties.

Then came the tricky fold and crimp to create a lovely fresh crust, the preschoolers all did a fantastic job using tools to help them and then their trusty fingers to ensure the pasties were crimped and sealed ready to bake!

What a lovely treat to take home for a Cornish Supper!

Flying Start Nurseries Host A Stay And Bake For Families And Friends!

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Flying Start Nurseries have been hosting Stay and Bake Actvities in February, for parents, grandparents, friends and relatives of the children to come in to the settings and get hands on in a baking activity with the cooks and children!

Some of the recipes created can be found on our Facebook Page, just search Flying Start Nurseries and make sure you ‘like’ the page so that you can keep up to date with lots of exciting information and notices from all of the Flying Start Nurseries!

We would like to say a big thankyou to all of the baking helpers that came into our nurseries, and we hope they got some exciting recipe ideas and helpful techniques for baking with children!

We would love to know about any baking you do at home with your child, why not send us a photo or comment on our facebook or blog to let us know! And if you have a recipe or photo to share please email it to penrynfs@hotmail.co.uk!

Flying Start @ Redruth Get Adventurous Outdoors…

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Flying Start @ Redruth have been getting adventurous in the garden and creating exciting construction adventures for each other to explore and experiment with!

The after school children have been using nets, tubes, planks, hoops, tyres and lots of normal garden equipment to make assault courses and tracks to compete with each other!

The children here are crawling through the nets in a commando position! They also explored balancing, bending, crawling, running, jumping and lots of other physical movements to complete the routes they made.

Flying Start @ Redruth Preschool Pizza Making!

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Flying Start @ Redruth have been making pizzas in their cooking club!

The preschool department have used knives to cut toppings, such as peppers, mushrooms and ham. And have used their knives to spread the tomato puree and then add the toppings to their pizzas before putting them in the oven to bake!

The pizzas looked, smelt and even tasted delicious! Well done preschool, we hope you enjoyed the tastes of your hard work!

Flying Start Nurseries are Reminding All Parents About School Admissions Deadline

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Flying Start Nurseries are reminding all parents that the deadline for school admissions is January 15th 2014.

This is the deadline that the admissions at Cornwall County Council need to have recieved your online or paper application, please visit: http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=35035 for more information.

We would also like to kindly remind you that Flying Start Nurseries offer free high quality (good or outstanding) places for 3,4, and 5 year olds (with some 2 year olds also being eligible). These nursery places work the same as school funding and using the same curriculum reception class teachers use, therefore ensuring school readiness and learning and planning appropriate to their age and ability in a friendly learning through play environment. The advantage of staying at nursery is that your child is on a 1 adult to 8 children maximum, and therefore recieves high levels of attention and support in their learning and development!

Please speak to your manager for further information.

Flying Start Nurseries Wishes a Very Merry Christmas!

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To all children, parents, relatives, staff and friends of Flying Start Nurseries.. we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Please remember nurseries are open on 30th/31st and then reopen on the 2nd January, term time starts back on the 6th January 2014.

Flying Start @ Redruth Make Potions!

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Flying Start @ Redruth have been making potions!

The children have been out in the garden mixing anything they can find to make interesting lotions and potions!

The concotions and cocktails created have included the very important base ingredient of mud, soil and compost, and then these natural aromas have been enhanced with leaves, flowers and even herbs! In this picture you can see some scenty mint leaves crushed on top for added smells!

As appetising as these potions may seem the children have only been pretending to try! Using their sense to mix, smell and pretend taste as they go! Some true chefs in the making at Redruth!