Crestway Pre-School

16/10/2026

This week, we have been developing and supporting the children's sensory awareness through a variety of engaging activities and sensory rich experiences.
The children have been exploring their five senses and discovering how we use these to explore our bodies and understand the world around us.
Our learning opportunities have encouraged the children to be curios and explore new experiences. These have included, sitting in the dark den using torches and light up toys, exploring our sensory treasure basket, taking part in our calming breathing buddy relaxation techniques, cooking muffins and making our own sandwiches full of flavoured filling, going on a listening community walk, playing listening CD games, exploring fruit and jelly, ice and water play, moving our bodies to pop and dance music while using the colourful scarves, listening to classical music, using fragrance play dough, chasing bubbles and learning new sensory songs.

14/10/2026

This term we have been revisiting Dental Hygiene, practising teeth brushing skills, good hygiene practises, reading The Tooth Fair Book and singing our Brush Your Teeth Song. We sent our children home with a Dental Hygiene pack too. Happy Brushing 🦷

08/10/2026

05/10/2026

Last week our children showed wondeful curiosity and engagement throughout our autumn themed learning. On our walks, they pointed out red, orange, yellow, green and brown leaves, noticing how trees are changing and leaves are falling. They had autumn bags to take home, excited to share with families to gather leaves, conkers, twigs and acorns, many brought treasure back to show and talk about their finds. We talked about days getting shorter, hibernation of some animals, cooler weather, made squirrels and autumn trees from natural materials, baked cinnamon swirls and sang autumn songs together, joining in with actions. What a fantastic week!

30/09/2026

Our learning theme this term has been ‘All About Me’, a wonderful journey where the children have been exploring their unique identities. We have spent time celebrating what makes each child special, from their names to their eye and hair colours! Our little artists have also been busy painting beautiful self-portraits and family portraits. Thank you so much for your help in creating our classroom photo board! This has given the children a fantastic platform to practice their Speech and Language skills as they proudly share stories about who lives at home and the people special to them. It has been a beautiful opportunity to build communication skills while learning that families come in many wonderful, diverse forms.

29/09/2026

Say hello to our new team member 'Eco Ted'

‘ Eco Ted ' is here to help make an impact by teaching his ‘Mini Eco Warriors’ to reduce, reuse and recycle and become sustainability superheroes!

16/09/2026

We had a visit today from Marie who came to speak to our children about road safety. The children practiced crossing the road, firstly inside in a pretend road and then outside.
Remember to STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN before you cross the road.

01/09/2026

Looking forward to welcoming back our lovely children and their families tomorrow.
Staff have returned today to have a sort and tidy.😀