Hopscotch Preschool Westergate

Westergate Graduation - Friday 17th July 🎓

This day will be for our school leavers ONLY. If your child is staying with us in September your last day of term will be Thursday 16th.

All school leavers are invited to arrive at 10am for a play session before the presentation & parents are invited to join us from 11am ✨

We can’t wait to celebrate all our wonderful little leavers, bring your tissues! 🥹🎓✨

We’re already fully in the swing of the second half of our Summer term! 🌞

One of our recent highlights was Dinosaur Day 🦖 where the children enjoyed a variety of dinosaur themed activities throughout the day, including using shapes to create different species of dinosaurs, pointing out which ones had horns, which ones had long necks & which ones were the biggest!

We’ve also been busy building our maths skills through fishing games focused on number and colour recognition, whilst also exploring positional language through car play, learning concepts such as round, up, down, under and over 🚗

Imaginative play has been a big focus too, with the children enjoying our knights and dragons set up, protecting the castle from dragons! As well as spending time creating stories together in the dolls house.

We also started the week with a shoe shop and school uniform role play area, helping to promote independence skills as the children practised putting on shoes and dressing themselves, these are great ideas you can also do at home to help the transition to big school!

🌞 We hope you’ve all had a fantastic half term and enjoyed the sunshine. We can’t wait to see everyone back at preschool this week, ready for a fun and busy last half of the summer term!

Here are a few photos from all the fun we had before the half term break 🐝✨

🩺 Our focus this week was International Nurses Day and to celebrate, we had a very special visitor.. Claire’s sister, Mel! Mel is a paediatric A&E nurse and she came to talk to the children about the important ways she helps care for people. She even brought along some of her special equipment, which the children loved exploring and having a turn trying out themselves. Thank you so much to Mel for coming to visit us! 💙

Following the children’s interest, we extended this learning into our play by transforming our role play area into a doctor’s surgery. The children enjoyed taking turns being doctors and patients, as well as caring for their dolls and talking about how we can help others feel better.

We also recently welcomed some new Hopscotch pets - our stick insects! On Thursday, the children took turns carefully holding them before creating their very own stick insects using pipe cleaners and beads, which looked fantastic 🪲

Outdoors, we’ve enjoyed lots of sand play following the delivery of our brand new sand. The children loved getting involved and were very excited to take turns sitting in the driving seat of the huge delivery truck 🚛

🌍 What a busy week we’ve had! 🌻

The children loved spending time outside in the sunshine, taking turns to plant their very own sunflower seeds, we can’t wait to watch them grow 🌞

We also celebrated Earth Day! We created wonderful handprint Earths and got messy using our fingers and hands to make a beautiful group wildflower display, complete with bumblebees & butterflies! 🦋

To support our fine motor skills, the children used tweezers to pick out bugs from the tuff tray and we also got creative painting a “wall of recycling” to explore how we can look after our planet ♻️

We hope you’ve all had a lovely Easter break!

We can’t wait to see you all back at preschool this week, ready for a busy and fun-filled new term 🌞

Don’t forget if your child is starting school in September, this Thursday the 16th is offer day & you should receive your email with your child’s school place, exciting!

Here’s some photos from the end of last term 🐣

🏴‍☠️ This week has been full of pirate adventures! Our climbing frame was transformed into a pirate ship and the children loved role-playing with all their props. The children loved getting messy, using the muddy puddles as their very own “pirate swamp” with toy figures!

We also celebrated St Patrick’s Day, painting beautiful shamrocks in the art area, listening to Irish music and even having a go at some Irish dancing with JoJo! ☘️

With signs of Spring appearing, the children spent lots of time outdoors. We made some fantastic potions by mixing coloured water and exploring different tools to scoop and pour.

We’ve also started our Easter activities by creating colourful collage Easter eggs with Julia, we can’t wait to continue these next week!

Pirate week! 🏴‍☠️ week beginning 16th March

Following the children’s current interest in all things pirates, Charlotte has been busy creating lots of exciting props and next week we’ll be turning our outdoor climbing frame into our very own pirate ship!

We’ll also be taking part in lots of fun pirate themed activities! 🏴‍☠️

If your child has any pirate dress-up at home, we’d love them to bring it in and join our pirate adventure! Don’t worry if not as we’ll be busy making lots of fun pirate props with the children throughout the week!

Just a few of the fun activities we’ve enjoyed this week ✨

This week we celebrated World Book Day and we loved seeing all of the children’s fantastic costumes, we hope you loved ours too! 📚

Thank you for helping make the day so special. The children enjoyed taking part in lots of lovely book-themed activities throughout the week.

We also made the most of the sunshine while it lasted and spent plenty of time outside enjoying the garden 🌞