The Learning Station Preschool

📚 Story Time & Colouring Sesh 🖍️

We have our lovely friend A Little Bit of Hope joining us for a very special, free event!

🗓️ Thursday 10th August… this Thursday!

⏰ 11.30am

📍 Pinks Parlour, 18 Waterloo Square

No need to book just turn up at 11.30am sharp for an hour of fun, stories and creativity! 💕

Our summer open day is back. 29th July between 10am and 4pm

As part of our EPIC summer lineup of farm based fun, we have HAF Clubs!

A four hour session on the farm, completely free of charge to any child entitled to free school meals!

Activities include egg collecting, hands-on time with all of our animals, forest school AND lunch, picked, prepared, and cooked all fresh from the farm!

Bookings are live now via WSCC. You can also find the link on our website.

Sessions are 1 per day and a maximum of 4 per week and will be running the first 4 weeks of the summer holidays, complementing our huge lineup of paid clubs!

You MUST leave a HAF ID for your place to be reserved!!

This is for children 5 years and over.

https://haf.bookinglab.co.uk/westsussex/37147/login

It can be tricky knowing what healthy options to put in your child's lunchbox, but we're here to help!

For excellent tips from nutrition experts and other parents, budget-friendly recipes and lots more, sign up to Healthy Steps: https://healthysteps.betterhealth-healthierfamilies.co.uk/signup/orgfb

💚Remember if you would like to send money for raffle tickets in with your child in a named envelope, we will send tickets home.💛

💗We will keep a record in preschool of who has what ticket too 💜

💟Here is a list of prizes you could win.... 🩵

We hope your weekend is full of cuddles with your little one 🥰❤️

Young children love it when you chat, play and read with them, even if you think they're too young to understand. You can turn almost anything into a game. Every little thing you do together helps set them up nicely for when they start school.

Learn more: nhs.uk/start4life/baby/learning-to-talk

Just a reminder that Monday 5th June
is an INSET day.
☀️🧴👒

🖐️Five current buns was our song of the week 🎶 where children enjoyed taking part in group singing, and some older ones who enjoyed taking the lead to show our younger children how the song goes.

The children understood the concept of ‘one less’ when working out how many current buns they had left. ☝️

Children were 🎶 singing and acting 🎭 the rhyme out together, thinking carefully about how many buns are left at the end. The children also had a coin to pay for their current bun 💰

The children really enjoyed the Car wash 🚗!
Bubbly water and water sprays were provided for children to role play a car wash experience, some even turning the car upside down to wash it! This was amazing for their gross and fine motor skills 💦🫧🚘

We’re going on a bug hunt 🪱🐌🐜
Children were engrossed in looking for bugs but wanted to make sure they were safe too. After making a little bug garden we explored different mini-beast’s and what is different about them, things they like to eat and where they like to live.

We have had a range of conversations around our ocean animals, the children have shown great knowledge of what they already know “did you know this bit on the narwhale is actually a tooth” 🌊🐠🐬🐡

As the sun is now joining us 🌞
Please can I remind parents/carers to send your child in with a sun hat and apply sun cream before preschool 🧢🧴

Thank you 🤍

🇬🇧👑KING’S CORONATION👑🇬🇧

This week we have been learning all about the King’s coronation.

🇬🇧We have had lots of fun exploring in the Union Jack coloured rice tuff tray

👑 Children have decorated their own crowns.

🇬🇧 Children also had the opportunity to decorate a biscuit fit for a king, queen, prince or princess!

👑 Coming up this weekend 👑

👑 Dress up like Royalty 🫅 Kings, queens, princes and princesses will be treated to a complimentary Pinks Coronation Certificate 👀

👑 The Royal Ripple will be in the cabinet. A creamy Raspberry & Lotus Flower Ripple. Our gelato interpretation of the Union Jack 🇬🇧

👑 A very regal Storytime will be held on Sunday at 11.30am with Queen Whippy reading Paddington at the Palace. Dressing up encouraged but not essential 📚

We can’t wait to celebrate this moment in history with all of you over the coming days 💕🍧

🐣 The Learning Station Preschool ended off the term with a variety of Easter activities and a little Easter treat from the Easter Bunny.🐰🪺🌸 To all our families celebrating have a special Easter time with your loved ones.🥕🐰🍫

We have had a busy fun filled term and look forward to welcoming you all back for the summer term ☀️

Copied from The Child Accident Prevention Trust

What do whole grapes and mini eggs have in common? They’re both the perfect size and shape to completely block a child’s airway. And, due to their texture they can be difficult to dislodge with standard first aid techniques.

With whole grapes we advise cutting them in half lengthways and ideally into quarters to create thin strips. But chopping up mini eggs isn’t as easy. So, what can you do?

1. Hide them from the children and eat them yourself – good luck with that!
2. Put the mini eggs into a sealable plastic bag and smash them into small pieces with a rolling pin. Or, crush them in a pestle and mortar.
3. Opt for a different treat. Larger, hollow eggs are much safer for little ones.

Visit our choking hub to learn more about common choking hazards and what you should do in an emergency: https://capt.org.uk/choking-prevention/

❤️💙💜 This coming week we will have activities out celebrating the Holi festival, this is a Hindu festival that marks the arrival of spring. 💛💚🧡

📚 What a lovely week we had last week sharing your children's favourite books with them! 📚

Reading from a young age helps
-develop speech and language,
-promote brain development and imagination,
-develops language and emotions, also
-strengthens relationships by giving children something to talk about with you and their peers.

As well as reading to your child, you can let them talk you through the book and what happens (if it’s a familiar book to them). Another great way to get your child involved with reading and gain an interest in books is for your child to tell you a story by telling you what’s happening in the pictures.

Here are some of the amazing books we shared together! 📖

Easter is on its way, and we are jumpin' for joy! Aldingbourne Trust

We're HOPPY to announce that our Easter EGGcitement events are coming to the Aldingbourne Country Centre! 🐰

Join us this April for a FULL EASTER OF FUN! 🐣 With your favourite events returning, such as:
- Bounce About Day 😆
- First Class Falconry 🦅
- Easter Egg Hunt! 🥚
- AND MORE!

📅 April 1st - April 16th
🕙 10:00am - 16:00pm

✅ We’ve got even more events planned you won’t want to miss it! Keep your 👁 peeled on our social media and events page for more details VERY soon!
📲 www.aldingbournetrust.org/events

🐑 reposted if anyone is looking for something to do in the Easter holidays 🐣

Dell Quay PYO

Have YOU booked your tickets for our Easter Eggstravaganza yet?

🪺Easter Trail
🐑 Lambs
🎨 Face Painting by
🍕Pizza by
👩‍🎨 Arts and Crafts Table
👒 Decorate a bonnet
🎟️

TRAIL PRICES
Children £8
Adults £5
Family (2+2) £25
Under 2’s go free

Ticket details and link in bio. Can’t wait to see you at the farm!

📚 To help celebrate world book day on March 2nd, we are asking if children would like to bring in their favourite storybook on one of the days leading up to and including the 2nd to share with all of their friends and us!
(Due to the difference in ages and managing their toileting needs) we ask the children to not worry about dressing up 😊 and come as they are xx 📗📒📘📕📙