The Old Station Nursery Canterbury

The Tiger Came for Tea? 🐅🫖
This week in the Toddler room, stories have been a favourite! The children have been engaging well listening to detail and learning all about 'The Tiger who came to Tea'.🐯 We spoke about healthy and unhealthy foods from the book and made our own tea as our book bugs followed the book using props to act out the story.📚 We made yummy soup using water play!🥣 The children also explored messy play by looking closely at patterns and identifying the tiger's colours. We spoke about colour mixing as our super scientists mixed the colours up using sponges and rollers! What great fun we had! 🎨

Have a look what our clever creators have been doing in babies! We have been exploring marks and patterns using different objects, painting with our hands and feet! They made special friendships and explored new vocabulary as they babbled! It was lots of fun!

In the Toddler room, we have been making pizza following children's interest in recipes, cooking pizza and imaginary play. The children have been using natural resources as a base for their pizza and then adding all of their favourite toppings engaging in imaginative play as they used different objects to represent another object. We spoke about healthy and unhealthy foods and discussed our favourite foods with one another! The children counted the toppings and named the different colours they saw. This activity supported fine motor skills, imaginative skills, social skills and mathematical skills.

Take a look at our latest project!
The children in the Pre-School room have been making their very own fairy garden using different materials. We will continue developing our newest addition to the garden which will support our imaginative play, communication skills and social skills! More pictures to come!

Take a look at what our Toddler's have been up to this week! Lots of in the moment teaching, learning experiences and messy play! We have made flower potions, explored water play by painting iced hands, made a zoo, explored books in different languages and got extremely messy!

Thank you for all our families who attended our Preschool graduation! We had a lovely time celebrating together as we sadly see our children go to school.
We wish you all the best and thank you all for all your support!

Congratulations to Nat for completing her Level 3 qualification!
Nat you are hard working, always smiling and are a pleasure to have a part of our team. Huge Congratulations you deserve it!! :)

This week the babies have been particularly interested in construction! They have been using tools to try and 'fix' different items around the room. We then created our own construction tuff tray linked to In The Moment Teaching, building with blocks, dressing up as they built relationships and learnt new single words, such as "brick", "bang", "crash".

If you're planning to use funded childcare from September for the autumn term, this is a quick reminder that you'll need to submit your valid funding code to us by Friday 31st July.

* New parents to The Old Station Nursery Group and existing parents claiming funding for the first time should:
1. Apply to receive your funding code: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x6X5Z0
2. Submit your code to us by 31st July: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x6V_Z0

* Parents currently receiving nursery funding for a child already in attendance at The Old Station Nursery Group need to reconfirm their eligibility status by logging in to your GOV account at UK Childcare Service: https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0x6VcC0