Framfield Pre-School

28/06/2024

All welcome!

Please come by tomorrow from 11am to enjoy Framfield Primary Schools Summer Fair!

Come visit us and say hello at our Teddy Tombola where every-one is a winner!

We look forward to seeing you there!

09/06/2024

21/02/2024

We have had a wonderful start to the New Year! We have had some new friends join Framfield Pre-School and the children have really enjoyed sharing their Christmas experiences with the staff and their peers. We have started off the year settling back into Pre-School routines. The children have had great fun playing with familiar toys and activities, some which have become firm favourites as well as exploring newer activities too!

January greeted us with some cold icy weather. The children have been learning to put on their coats and their winter weather accessories to explore the ice in our Pre-School garden. We have experimented with turning water into ice over night as well as pouring hot water into our water trays to create steam on the colder days. Also, this term we have explored sounds in the environment, creating rain makers and singing in our big band exploring loud and quiet singing and musical instrument playing.
Dinosaur week encouraged the children to become palaeontologists and learn about different species of Dinosaurs and how to dig out fossils. We became story tellers in National Storytelling Week, using our imagination to create our own narrative play as well as enjoying much loved familiar stories. The children had great fun becoming wolves for our Three Little Pigs tuft tray and Trip trapping over our wobbly bridge.
We also celebrated Hector, our wonderful Pre-School pet on the 2nd of February for Hedgehog Appreciation Day.
This week we have been exploring patterns, we have been looking at different textures and patterns in Pre-School and learning new describing words. We have also extended the children’s learning of patterns by exploring comparison of big and small and differences of colour.
We enjoyed a variety of celebrations such as Lunar New Year, Valentines Day, and Pancake Day!

14/12/2023

The children have been engaging in some amazing conversations with the adults as well as their peers expressing their excitement for Christmas. We have spoken about who has their trees and decorations up, what their Elves on the shelves have been up to and what Santa could be bringing them on Christmas Day.

Our little elves in Pre-School have been having great fun playing hide and seek with the children, hiding in different spots every day, we have incorporated the story 'We're going on an Elf chase' with our Elves hiding and some of the children got to go in the school playground as the Elves ventured off a little too far !

We have had Santa's workshop with a variety of creative Christmas activities available and the felt tree has been back out for the children to enjoy tree decorating. We also enjoyed decorating a tree on the white board.

Our tuft trays have enjoyed some fake snow with animals exploring their footprints and using our hands to mould the snow into snowballs or sprinkling it between our hands, our bigger tuft tray has had a winter wonderland theme where the children have enjoyed small world role play.

There has been lots of Christmas stories during circle time and the big elf has been giving out special chocolate coins to all of the Pre-School children, they have done really well waiting for their turn.

Christmas songs have been sung throughout the weeks, we have had 'Singing Hands' on our white board and we have introduced a "What's in the Christmas box?" (The snowman) which has really benefitted the children learning new Christmas songs. We have also enjoyed lots of Christmas dancing.

We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and we look forward to seeing you in the New Year 🎄

27/04/2023

A few weeks ago all the children got the chance to plant a giant (titan) sunflower seed and take them home to grow. The seeds, compost and pots were very kindly donated to us from Staverton Nursery. We are excited to see how tall they all grow as they could exceed 3 metres! From what we have seen, they all seem to be growing really well and they’re doing better than mine which doesn’t seem to be growing very fast at all! 🌻

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03/03/2023

It was World Book Day on the 2nd, and we all had great fun being able to dress up as our favourite characters! We had princesses, superheroes, and lots more!
We even had a couple of dinosaurs visit!

24/02/2023

We have started to look at phonics this week starting with the letter S. We have seen some real snakes, and played some games with objects beginning with S. We will be focussing on a different letter each week, with activities themed around this.

It was also pancake day on Tuesday and the children were very lucky to have pancakes at snack time! We have also had pancake themed playdough in the tough tray this week

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10/02/2023

This week has been Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week and so we have been doing some activities based around this to try and help the children better understand their emotions.

The Colour Monster has been incorporated into some of these activities, using the colours as way to express certain emotions. Some of the children helped to make stress balloons using some of these specific colours.

Children also made faces at the craft table and then explained why their face was happy or sad.

Children have also been praised if they have been especially kind at Pre-School, for example good sharing or helping a friend with something. They have been receiving special stickers as a reward for this.

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03/02/2023

It has been National Storytelling week this week, and so we have been looking at some of our favourite stories. The children have all made a caterpillar with their names, and we have also been reading lots of different stories throughout the week.

January 31st was international Zebra day and so we had some zebra related craft activites for the children to enjoy.

February 2nd was national hedgehog day, and so some of the children have been busy making saltdough hedgehogs. I think Hector, our resident hedgehog, approved of these!

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20/01/2023

Our new website is now live!

We will updating the blog on here regularly to highlight what we have been up to each week.

Welcome to Framfield Pre-School Rated Outstanding by Ofsted May 2017 We’d like to extend a warm welcome to Framfield Pre-School, which opened in November 2010. We are located in a lovely rural setting, adjacent to Framfield CE Primary School. Our purpose built premises are spacious, well appointed...

20/01/2023

If anyone has any newspaper, instead of binning it, please could it be donated to use as bedding for the guinea pigs. Thank you!

02/12/2022

Christmas has arrived! We will be selling some hand made Christmas decorations as of Monday, suggested donation is £1 per item. Please feel free to come and have a look at what we have on offer!
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