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Last week we received some lovely news that 2 of our apprentices have received a Student Achievement Awards from their Training Provider Hull College.
Brooke from Bransholme - was nominated by her Early Years Skills Coach for staying motivated and engaged with her learning & development, despite delays & disruption, along with her positive attitude & attitude and commitment towards her Maths Functional Skills Class.
Beth from Dorchester - was nominated by her Maths Skills Coach for her attitude and commitment to her Functionals Skills Class.
From All at BrightStart we would like to say a massive well done.
Last week at
Brightstart@Dorchester, the children had lots of fun :)
In preschool we looked at the book Allan's Big Scary Teeth and to link with this the children have being talking about looking after our teeth, visits to the dentist, false teeth and how our differences and individuality make us unique.
The children had fun using the resource box brought from the dental nurse and we have being practising brushing our teeth to make them sparkly like Allan's.
And in Babies we have being exploring the book ' Making faces' we have looked at different emotions and pulled faces in the mirrors and let the babies explore looking at themselves. The staff also tried to catch the babies whilst they was pulling some facial expressions of their own :)
We are all looking forward to another exciting week ahead.
Team Dorchester
Brightstart@Thorpes
Week commencing 2nd May 2022
This week at Thorpes, in the baby room we have enjoyed making our own sounds using the musical instruments, pots and pans and the singing spoons. We have become very vocal in the baby room, making our own babbling sounds and we have enjoyed listening to nursery rhymes. We have created our own cosy, sensory den within the room using soft furnishing, lights and different textures, we have enjoyed exploring the den and laying down and listening to stories and songs. we have loved this den!!
Within the Pre-school room we have been busy planting some plants in the outside planting area, we talked about how plants grow and what we need to do to help them grow. We used digging tools, buckets and watering cans to help Sarah plant the plants. We have also enjoyed talking about our feelings whilst looking at the colour monster book and resources. This extended to outside around the firepit where we sang songs, talked about what makes us happy and then we did a bit of calming yoga before dinner.
Within the construction area, we have used the large roads to create our own structures which led on to us learning about road safety and how we can be safe when walking, going in a car or on public transport. Also, within this area we have enjoyed exploring the houses, we have built our own houses using large scale loose parts, talked about our families and looked at some family photos we have brought in from home.
Within the home corner we have played with real food and pretended we was cooking food for our friends, using the scales to measure out the ingredients, looking at the numbers on the scales and talking about where different foods come from. Following on from this we made our own potato people, we explored different ways we could make arms, legs and other body parts.
Brightstart@Parks
What a fantastic start of the Summer Term, we welcomed back returning children and met some new friends who are really starting to settle in well into Parks.
We have been making some fantastic memories and following the children interest’s in exploring a wide range of ways to make marks using fruit printing, vehicles tracks and animal prints.
We made our own bakery at the playdough station and this extended to the children decorating their own biscuits for snack.
We have been exploring both wet and dry sand looking at the different impressions that we can make using different tools and our body which has been so much fun and made us giggle.
We have been enjoying time outside in the garden, developing our gross and fine motor skills and enhancing our hand eye coordination and balance.
We have started looking at how things grow and linked this to the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The children enjoyed retelling the story and trying a range of different fruits encouraged the children to talk about their favourite fruits and vegetables this was supported by the staff and they introduced the story ‘Oliver's Vegetables’. The children explored the smells, textures and size of the vegetables with some children extending this to make funny faces.
We continued looking at growing in the garden planting our own sunflower seeds. We really hope that they grow big and tall.
Can’t wait to see what fun we have next week.
This maybe helpful to support some
of our older siblings or Out of Schoolers ♥️
Brightstart@Thorpes
What a fantastic start to the Term at Thorpes we had last week.
We have been welcoming back the term time children and met some new friends who will be joining us this week and we have had so much fun.
The babies had so much fun exploring colour in a wide range of ways including building, mark-making and exploring coloured foam.
In the Preschool room went on a treasure hunt following the children’s interest which lead to us to looking under the sea and exploring what lives within the sea. We even tried a little bit of fishing.
We enjoyed our new resources of the wooden roads and this developed this into road safety and how we cross the road and who helps us.
We talked about our families and have tried really hard to write them letters and draw pictures of our family.
We have enjoyed the sunshine in the garden developing our gross motor skills, turn taking and had so much fun counting when playing ‘What time is it Mr Wolf’.
We continued developing our tooth brushing skills to support our independence.
We can’t wait to see what this week brings.
Last Week - Children from Compass went out into our community to help tidy up the planet by picking up the litter.
The Children were very skilled at using the litter pickers when they were shown how to use them, we were able to take it in turns to gather up the rubbish in the bag and to put it in the bin!!
Well done everyone!!
STAFF APPRECTION DAY -DORCHESTER
In order to thank the staff from Dorchester for all their hard work, commitment and for supporting each other through over 2 years of Covid restrictions we sent them all for a day out to Alton Towers. Everyone had a blast!!!!
Thank you Team Dorchester for everything you do to support your children and families x
Brightstart@Thorpes
We have had a lovely Easter @ Thorpes, We have done many activities which support the celebration of Easter.
The children loved going on a Easter egg hunt around the garden, the children worked with their peers and used their investigation skills to find the eggs. We got very excited when we found the eggs! We then took it in turns for each child to hide the eggs around the garden.
Within the creative area we used our imaginations to make our own buns, we talked about textures, size, measure and how we stay safe when cooking. The children loved to mix the ingredients together and then poured the mixture into the cases. Following on from this we made chocolate cornflake buns, which we loved having for our snack!!
Within the 0-2 room we explored different sized tubes to post our eggs down, we enjoyed the sensory experience of feeling the sand through our fingers and toes, then finding our eggs within the tubes. We also had a "Thats not my bunny" tuff tray, we used our senses to explore this tuff tray, then snuggled up for a cuddle and enjoyed reading the short story.
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