The Reddings Playgroup

What a fun packed week back at playgroup. ☺️

We have had sand with pirates , we had our very own gold coin treasure hunt, we practised positional language whilst we were on our treasure hunt following clues on our map. 💰

We made bugs with playdough using a range of arts and craft materials to make, eyes, mouth, and antennas. 🐞🐜

There’s nothing like ‘ a Reddings playgroup holiday’ we made our very own aircraft. We had pilots and air crew, luggage transporters. We followed the interests of some of our children who have been abroad during half term. We have loved hearing all about your adventures. ✈️

We have had butterflies our cocoons hatched and turned into butterflies, we feel the children visually learning about the life cycle of a butterfly has helped them to understand the process in what happens during their life cycle. 🐛🦋

Have a lovely weekend ☺️

Team Reddings. ☺️☺️☺️☺️

We are looking forward to welcoming back everyone tomorrow.

We hope you have all had a lovely half term.

Team Reddings ☺️☺️☺️☺️

We have been practicing some of our sports day activities this week, the children have been, running , jumping, catching and crawling. The children have been using their gross motor skills really well within their physical activities, well done everyone.⚽️🎾🏏🥅

Our caterpillars are beginning to cocoon and they will spend half term with a staff member, who will take good care of them. We are hoping the children will get to see some butterflies after half term.🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

UPDATE- we are beginning our transition to our new location at Greatfeild Park Primary School. On our inset we will make a start on moving some of our belongings over. As a team we are really excited to start a new chapter. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Please stay safe in the hot weather commencing. Staying hydrated and plenty of sun cream, especially on your little ones. UV rays will be extremely high and sunburn can be very dangerous.☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

REMINDER- we are CLOSED MONDAY 1st JUNE - inset day we will reopen on Wednesday 3rd June. ❌

We hope you all have a lovely half term. 😃

We hope our staff member has a wonderful birthday thankyou for all you do for us at playgroup you are EPIC!🎂🎁🎈

Team Reddings 🤩

We have been learning about different bugs🐜🐛🐝🐞🪲🪰🪳🦟🦗🕷
We have been painting bugs, tracing bugs, building bugs and finding bugs.

Our caterpillars are growing and the children haven been really interested in watching them wriggle around and watching them get bigger and bigger every day. 🐛

REMINDER- we have our bug ball on Wednesday 20th May, children can come dressed as a bug and join in with our fun games and activities. Remember to bring your donations please ☺️

Have a lovely weekend everyone 😃

Team Reddings 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Thanks so much to our committee for helping to source a suitable printer for us! We have been without a printer for a couple of weeks and are so pleased and grateful to the generous person who has gifted our charity this printer! 🤩

Would you like to help out on our committee? We currently have spaces and whilst welcoming parents of children who attend playgroup, we also have some spaces for local community members who would like to help support us. Please get in touch if you would like to know more!

Wow look at how much our caterpillars have grown! Maybe they will have a home for themselves before our next playgroup session. Our playgroup children have been learning new vocabulary around the lifecycle of the butterfly and have been learning a new song 😃👏🦋

We have been busy this week planting cress 🌱 and watering our plants in the garden. 🌸🌹🌷🌾The plants have been very thirsty in this weather, we have been spending lots of time in the garden. The sheep in the field at the back of us have their baby lambs it’s been lovely for the children to see the lambs running around in the fields. There have been lots of “baaa‘ baaa sounds from the the sheep and the children!

We had been bug sorting and matching, the children have been really engaged with the different types of bugs showing curiosity to the different names of the bugs.

We have been counting out compare bears and creating sequences with different colours.

REMINDER- we are CLOSED for BANK HOLIDAY Monday 4th May.
REMINDER- we are CLOSED as the centre is being used as a polling station- Thursday 7th May.

Have a lovely weekend.

Team Reddings 😃😃😃😃

We have had numbers hidden around playgroup, in the sand, water, behind the plants. We wrote numbers on the chalk boards the children went on number hunts to find the matching numbers. What a fun way to engage children in number recognition! ☺️
We have had a bug hotel and our real caterpillars have arrived, we are so excited for the children to watch and learn the life cycle of a butterfly 🦋
PLEASE remember to pack water bottles for your children this week and sun cream as the weather is forecasting lovely and sunny this week. ☀️
CHECK your inboxes on emails please as newsletters have now been sent. IMPORTANT dates for the diary are listed on the newsletter.

Thank you for your continued support!

Team Reddings 🎉

WE ARE MOVING!! We are hoping for a September 2026 move we will keep our parents posted.

A new exciting opportunity has come our way and we are thrilled to announce, The Reddings Playgroup is RELOCATING! 🏡
Our new premises is going to be at Greatfield park primary school in Cheltenham.

We are going to be able to offer a fantastic range of activities for children including forest school 🌲 , use of the library 📚 trips to Morrisons. Use of school facilities, the field, the play equipment and much more!

We will no longer be a pack away setting , which means we will have more time to plan purposeful learning for children and be able to help children thrive to achieve their very best during their early years. 🎉

We will be open Monday-Fridays term time only.🎉🎉

We have worked immensely hard as a team and would like to thank everyone involved during this transition for us. 👏👏

We will keep you updated!

Thankyou ☺️☺️☺️☺️

Welcome back to playgroup everyone, we have been settling children back in playgroup after our Easter break.

This week we have been reading the hungry caterpillar story. Pre schoolers have been practicing their number recognition and using fingers in paint to practice counting creating caterpillars bodies.

We have been using our fine motor skills with mark making and using tap tap boards to encourage carefully placing the nails into cork boards and tapping the little wooden pictures onto the boards.

We have had lots of outdoor play with water trays washing cars, following the childrens interests and scooping sand with spoons to make their chosen outcomes providing opportunities for imaginative play. We have had sand cakes, porridge sand and pasta sand.

What a fun week back everyone!

We hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Team Reddings 👏👏