Mickleover Methodist Preschool

We're off on our summer adventures now until September 4th. If you are looking at our page for a September place, please ring 07811 756532 or email [email protected] we will check in occasionally over the summer and get back to you.
We look forward to welcoming our returning families back, and wish our school leavers the most amazing futures, we are going to miss you so much. Thank you for your kind words, gifts and cards. We had the best time sharing Preschool with you 😍🥰❤️

Water play from earlier in the week. This allowed so many learning opportunities. Discovery of water properties as containers were filled and poured, water running in different directions through tubes and guttering. Problem solving. Space and measure. Cooperative play. Language extention. Creative ideas and sharing of knowledge. Joy in 🥰

Good luck England ⚽️

This was one of this morning's invitations to play. Cereal for building and creating. The intent was to make links with our local community building projects, favourite stories, and small world play. The children quickly discovered joy in crumbling the cereal, changing the direction of learning, following their own interests. Our skilled staff team played alongside to introduce and extend the learning to include patterns and shape, mark making and early writing skills, maths concepts such as empty and full, and skills to share and build relationships. All learning through play with an activity the children became deeply engaged in 🥰

What a day of discovery, we just had to share it with you! We had some fabulous hands on opportunities today to explore differences, growth and change. Our farming family brought us some chicks to see, supporting understanding of life cycles from egg to chicken. Then we made banana cakes for our afternoon snack, using tools for purpose and observing changes, plus eating our efforts. Delicious 😋 And remember our strawberry plants? Well, we were able to take our first pickings 🍓 Again learning where our food comes from, how it grows or is produced, sharing knowledge from home and feeling wonder in the world around us 🥰

A little bit of woodwork today, practising hand eye coordination, problem solving, shape and spacial awareness. All at

Today was trip day, and we can definitely recommend Manor Farm. We had a fabulous day. The children said the dinosaur trail was their favourite thing, but there was lots of talk about the animal experiences too.
We are super proud of all the children. They listened well and took in the new experiences of being out for the day with Preschool. Its a huge thing to do and they were superstars 🤩

We didn't win but feel honoured to have been finalists. Apparently there were hundreds of thousands of votes cast during the nomination process, so thank you so much for believing in us. We love what we do, the children's journey with us is the only award we need 🥰

Tonight's the night! Lets celebrate all things Early Years 🥰😁🎉