Newcroft Pre-School

🍓👩‍🍳 We are excited to share that cooking sessions with The Little Cooks Club take place during our pre-school session every Tuesday!

These fun and engaging sessions give children the opportunity to explore new foods, develop independence, build confidence and learn important skills through hands-on cooking activities.

If you are interested in your child taking part, please email The Little Cooks Club directly or speak to a member of the pre-school team who will be happy to point you in the right direction. 💛

Get help to buy food and milk through the Healthy Start scheme!

NHS Healthy Start could help your child get a great start in life 🤍

You can use your card to buy:
🥦vegetables
🍎fruit
🥫pulses
🥛milk
🍼infant formula
+ free Healthy Start vitamins!

Find out more 👉 www.healthystart.nhs.uk

This week, inspired by our focus story Mixed, the children have been exploring what happens when colours are mixed together using colourful foam! 🌈✨

The children were fascinated as they discovered new colours and eagerly shared and described what they could see happening. So much excitement, curiosity and wonderful language development through play and exploration! 🎨🫧

We had a very special visit from Lion Learners today! 🐾

The children loved meeting a range of amazing animals—from a rabbit and guinea pig to a tortoise, snake, bearded dragon, stick insect, leaf insect and even a tenrec! They were fascinated learning what each animal eats and discovering that tenrecs sleep during the day and are awake at night.

Such a wonderful hands-on experience, full of curiosity, confidence and awe as the children explored the natural world up close 💚

Squeezing, pouring and mixing up a storm in our water kitchen🍋 The children loved creating their own “lemonade” recipes and serving them up to eager customers—such brilliant imaginative play, teamwork and problem solving in action!

Soaking up the sunshine and making the most of our outdoor space ☀️

The children have been busy creating their own cosy dens and comfy corners in the garden—perfect for relaxing, sharing stories and letting their imaginations run wild. From carefully chosen materials to teamwork and problem-solving, it’s been lovely to see their ideas come to life.

There’s nothing quite like learning through play in the fresh air 🌿

The children have been busy exploring textures in our mud kitchen, carefully combining sand and water to see what happens. From dry and crumbly to smooth and squishy, they loved investigating how materials change and finding the perfect mix!

So much rich learning taking place through hands-on exploration, creativity and curiosity 🌿

Our little explorers have been busy setting sail on their very own adventure! 🚤✨

Using their creativity and imagination, the children carefully rolled paper to make their own telescopes before building a boat together. Once aboard, they peered out to sea, spotting all sorts of wonderful things along the way!

It was lovely to see such fantastic teamwork, storytelling and imaginative play as their ideas brought the experience to life. 🌊🔭

Where will their adventures take them next…?

Today is National Primary School Offer Day 🎉

If your child has been offered a place at Newcroft Primary Academy, congratulations! We’re looking forward to welcoming you and your family to our school community.

You can expect to hear from us very soon with more information about next steps 📩

Learning through play at its best ✨

The children have been exploring subitising, counting and numerals in a hands-on, meaningful way.

Using natural resources, dice and number prompts, we’ve been following the children’s interests and gently supporting their developing understanding of number.

It’s wonderful to see such focus, curiosity and enjoyment as mathematical understanding grows through play 💛

Our book of the week is Elmer 🐘🌈

The children have loved exploring this colourful new story together, and have been busy decorating their own beautiful elephants ready for the Elmer Day parade. Such a lovely way to celebrate uniqueness and creativity! ✨