What a lovely week building our communication and language skills. I want to start by saying thank you to everyone for bringing in photos of your pets and favourite animals. We have had a lovely time sharing how special they are with each other. Children have shown great confidence and self-esteem, standing up in front of their friends to talk about their pets. “Nala likes long walks” “Frankie likes long walks too” “Tiva is a rescue dog” “Tramp goes outside and inside” “Gili

This week our focus has been Personal social and emotional development and in particular making relationships. We have been playing outside and observing how the children interact with each other. Do they lead play or play a variety of different roles? Do they choose to play with one child or in larger groups? Are they aware of their own feelings and those of others and are they beginning to negotiate and share? We played a game at Circle Time that encouraged the children

Welcome to our blog. This week our focus was on Personal, Social and Emotional Development - Making Relationships. We observed ... *How the children play and link up with other. *Can they initiate play, offering cues for others? *Do they demonstrate friendly behaviour? *Do they show affection and concern for the people who are special to them? We have also focussed on kindness this week - we talked about having kind hands and using kind words - treating people nicely and bein

This week our focus has been Understanding the World. We linked this area of development with World Ocean Day. We have had lots of fun learning about the creatures that live in the sea and how to clean up our oceans, so they are safe places for all the fish and sea creatures to live. We talked about all the rubbish in the sea, and we made our own ocean. Using nets and small tongs to help with fine motor skills, the children removed the rubbish and untangled the sea creatures.