St Columb Minor Preschool LTD & Holiday Club

🌿 A Week in the Life of Our Toddlers 🌿
From water play and balancing challenges to nature walks and outdoor adventures, our toddlers have had a busy week exploring, discovering, and learning through play. 💧☀️🌳
We love seeing their curiosity, confidence, and friendships grow each day! 💚

🐸🌿 Our babies had a wonderful time exploring our frog pond tuff tray!🌿🐸
The children loved scooping, splashing and investigating the bubbly “pond water” while discovering frogs, lily pads, flowers and natural resources. 🪷💚🥄
Sensory play like this helps to support:
✨ Fine motor development
✨ Hand-eye coordination
✨ Curiosity and exploration
✨ Communication and language
✨ Social interaction and turn taking
The babies especially enjoyed using the spoons to catch the frogs and moving the flowers around the pond while chatting and playing together.

🌿 Outdoor Exploration 🌿
Our babies loved spending time outdoors exploring the natural environment around them. From discovering different textures and sounds to enjoying fresh air and open space, the children were encouraged to explore freely and follow their curiosity. ☀️🍃
Outdoor play supports sensory development, physical skills, confidence, and early communication while creating wonderful opportunities for learning through play. 💛

✨ Light Up Drawing Board ✨
Last week our toddlers loved exploring the glowing drawing board today, using light pens to create marks, shapes, and pictures together. 🌟
This activity supported fine motor skills, creativity, early writing, and sensory exploration in a fun and engaging way! 💡🖍️

🌿 Herb Tuff Tray Fun 🌿
In this activity the children in toddlers & Preschool room explored fresh herbs, playdough, and real kitchen tools through two sensory tuff tray activities today! They enjoyed cutting, crushing, rolling, mixing, and creating while discovering different smells, textures, and colours. 🍃💜🍊
These activities supported:
✨ Fine motor skills
✨ Sensory exploration
✨ Creativity and imagination
✨ Language development
✨ Hand-eye coordination
✨ Understanding of the natural world
Learning through play at its best! 💚

We’re excited to announce that our Holiday Club for children aged 5–10 years will be running from 26th May to 29th May! 🌿

During the Easter holidays, we had an amazing time taking part in a wide range of fun and hands-on activities. One highlight was when the children did a fantastic job of creating our very own bug hotel 🐞 — a brilliant example of teamwork and creativity!

While exploring, the children also discovered something rather special 🦎, sparking lots of curiosity and excitement about the natural world 🔍

At our Holiday Club, we love encouraging a connection with nature, building teamwork skills, and giving children the opportunity to make new friends in a fun and supportive environment.
We can’t wait for more adventures this May! 🌱

It’s so important for children to have plenty of opportunities for outdoor play, where they can explore, discover, and learn through hands-on experiences 🌿

Here are our toddlers enjoying time at the water wall—pouring, splashing, and working together. Activities like these help to build teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills, all while having lots of fun!

We love seeing the children so engaged, curious, and confident in their outdoor environment 💧

Last week was a fantastic one for our preschoolers! We enjoyed a lovely morning walk along the goat track, followed by an afternoon of weeding, planting, and sowing seeds in our vegetable patch 🌱
The children also had a special treat when Farmer John invited us to safely meet his horses as he let them out into the field. We got to say hello to Arnie, Belle, and Jake — such a memorable experience! 🐴

Last week our preschoolers dived into the beautiful story “The Snail and the Whale” 🐌🐋

The children worked together to create their very own giant whale & tiny sea snail collage, carefully placing pieces of paper to bring the story to life. It was wonderful to see their teamwork, creativity, and excitement as they explored the journey of the tiny snail and the enormous whale.

Through this story, we talked about friendship, adventure, and how even the smallest voices can make a big difference 💙

We are so proud of their amazing work!

Sunshine, teamwork and outdoor adventures ☀️🌿

Our 3's & 4's have been busy out on the land, working and playing together, enjoying the sand pit and even going on a little worm hunt! 🪱

So many opportunities to explore, build friendships and learn through play 💛