Tithe Barn Preschool

Today we celebrate our wonderful Preschool class of 2026. What a wonderful year we have had. All at Tithe Barn Preschool Barn wish you well as you start your school journey. We were also so excited to see our Early Learners celebrating their fantastic year and we can’t wait welcome all our new children to our Tithe Barn Preschool Family. 🩵

Behind the scenes our staff work tirelessly on gaining new qualifications and no more so this year than Mrs Barlow and Mrs Bull. They have both recently qualified as Early Years Educators and we are all so proud of their DISTINCTIONS!!! Well done girls, what a fantastic achievement. 🏅🤩

🩵 Early Learners:

Hello everyone 👋👋👋

“Tiddler: The Story-Telling Fish” is another popular children’s book by Julia Donaldson. We use this book to teach early literacy, storytelling, and social-emotional skills. The book’s repetitive and rhyming text makes it ideal for young learners, while the engaging narrative encourages children to develop their own storytelling abilities and imagination 🐠🦞🪼
The children have enjoyed playing and exploring in the pirates 🏴‍☠️ and sea tuff tray🐳🐙🦀, blue playdough with shells 🐚 and fish cutters 🐠. Outside we enjoyed water play, mud kitchen and building sandcastles 🏝️

🩵 Preschool:
Our final topic of this term has been ‘Down on the farm’ and what a fantastic week we have had.🚜 🐄 🌾 🐑 🐷
The children have enjoyed exploring our milking station, sensory farm tray and tractor mark making 🚜 We were so lucky to invite some special visitors who really brought our learning to life and turned our outside area in to our very own farmyard. 🚜 🐑

🩵 Early Learners:

We have thoroughly enjoyed reading Zog by Julia Donaldson this week as an introduction to our topic. 🐲 👸
Zog is an ideal Early Years text because its rhyming, rhythmic structure aids language development, while themes of learning, resilience, and challenging stereotypes (Princess Pearl as a doctor) resonate with young children. The story supports curriculum areas like PSED, communication, and Understanding the World. The story explores themes of caring for others through Princess Pearl, friendship, and finding your own path, which aligns with our personal, social, and emotional development 💕

The children have enjoyed playing and exploring in the doctor’s surgery 🥼 in the home corner, Fireman Sam 🚒 and play tent, wooden Hospital o and Fire Station 🔥 , fairyland themed tuff tray 🧚‍♀️ , orange scented Zog playdough and fairy themed play area including the castle 🏰 and mud kitchen potions 🧪

🩵 Preschool:
This week our topic was Emergency Services. 🚒 🚑 🚔
Teaching young children about emergency services (police, fire, ambulance) is crucial for safety and survival, as it empowers them to act calmly in crises, such as calling 999, providing their address, and identifying safe, trusted community helpers. 🚒 🚑 🚔
We have enjoyed exploring our Hospital role play area, investigated our fingerprints on the police sensory tray and played with our emergency vehicles outside.
We have enjoyed learning with lots of special visitors this week who have helped bring our learning to life, including a Paramedic and ambulance 🚑, fire officers and engine 🚒🔥and a police officer. 🚓🚨

This week the children and their families in the Early Learners also enjoyed their Sports day and family picnic and the Preschoolers visited St Michael’s Court residential home to sing their summer songs and have a chat with the residents. 🥰

🩵 Early Learners:
This week we have been learning about Summer and what a week its been.☀️ 😎 This is a great season to enjoy the outdoors and enjoy the health benefits of being within nature and keeping active. We have enjoyed exploring all the fun and sporty activities including golf ball rolling, obstacle courses, bean bags in buckets and much more. ⛳️🏌‍♂️

🩵 Preschool: Our topic this week was Speedy sports. The Preschool room enjoyed an early sports day and picnic before the heatwave started and enjoyed some traditional races including the egg and spoon race. 🥚🥄🏃‍♂️

The main aim this week has been keeping cool, so we all thoroughly enjoyed lots of water play too, to keep us cool....even the teachers. 💦😎

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Last week we invited Daddies into our preschool environments to create a “father-inclusive” culture that directly improves a child’s academic, social, and emotional outcomes. While early years settings have traditionally been mother-centric, research shows that children with highly involved fathers are more likely to succeed academically and demonstrate better emotional stability💚🩵💙
The children in the Early Learners room and their important men enjoyed exploring the workman tuff trays with cereals, diggers 🚜, the messy tray with boats, train tracks, happy land, space and safari role play. While the Preschool room held a sporty activity afternoon where they were able to share some fun with the special men in their lives. It was so lovely to see so many Dads and Grandads joining in the fun. 🏈🎣⚽️

Fussy eating is a stage that many children go through, and it can take time for children to accept new foods. Eating as a family and being a positive role model can help to encourage our children to eat a healthy and varied diet.

Fussy eating is one of the topics that we cover in our HENRY group.
The HENRY website also has lots of useful information.
https://www.henry.org.uk/
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/leeds-community-healthcare-0-19-phins-73400088013
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Last week we were so lucky to have a visit from our friends Chloe and Puddle from . We learnt lots of important water safety messages ahead of the summer months. The children were all so engaged and learnt in a fun way how to stay safe near water. 🌊🏖️

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