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Messy play is scheduled into every day of our preschool timetable. It is an important activity to include in a child’s d...
17/12/2024

Messy play is scheduled into every day of our preschool timetable. It is an important activity to include in a child’s day to day exploration to help them develop as well rounded individuals.
Messy play is also known as sensory play that can involve your child's 5 senses (touch, taste, smell, sound and sight). Messy play lets your child explore lots of different materials, textures and objects. It will also help develop your child's creative and cognitive skills.

According to the official NHS website;
Messy play helps with your child’s development in lots of different ways and therefore is important to include in their early years education.

Physical skills 🎨 Messy play encourages your child to play with smaller objects. They will be able to to feel, hold and mold objects and materials. This builds their coordination and hand skills, also known as fine motor skills.

Cognitive skills 🎨 It helps the development of important cognitive skills such as how your child thinks, learns, explores and solves problems.

Understanding their senses 🎨 As your child plays, they will be using a lot of their senses. The most used sense during messy play will be touch and sight. They can explore new textures and sensory experiences.

Social skills 🎨 Messy play can be a social group activity. They can also learn important skills like sharing and turn taking by playing with other children during messy play.

Imagination 🎨 It gives your child an opportunity to try new things and experiment in a safe environment.

Self-esteem and self-expression 🎨 It can help your child feel safe to experiment more as they play as they know there is no right or wrong way to play.

10/12/2024

If only putting up decorations really was that fast! 🎄

We’re getting in the Christmas spirit here at Paddock Wood Preschool ready for the final 2 weeks of super fun classes before the new year 🌟

Last weeks theme in our Preschool classes was Numbers! Our teachers know that learning about numbers is so important for...
06/12/2024

Last weeks theme in our Preschool classes was Numbers! Our teachers know that learning about numbers is so important for our children to start to do from an early age.

Understanding numbers is essential so that children can start to quantify and make sense of the world. Once we have a grasp on numbers and basic mathematics we can measure, count, track, analyse and solve the problems that we will face in every day life. Without that basic understanding it would be very difficult to navigate through the world around us.

At The Paddock Wood Preschool we focus on fun ways of growing your child’s knowledge of counting and numbers through physical challenges like hanging on the bar in the shape of a number 1. As well as creative activities where they are encouraged to do the problem solving for themselves and introduced to writing numbers through play.

Last week we were using nursery rhymes to help our preschoolers learn their gymnastics skills. But did you know that the...
01/10/2024

Last week we were using nursery rhymes to help our preschoolers learn their gymnastics skills. But did you know that they were so important for a child’s development…

✨Communication & Language Development✨
Rhymes are fantastic vocabulary boosters. They often feature a pleasing rhythmic pattern and simple repetitive phrases that young children find easy to remember and repeat. In order to develop their phonological awareness, children need to be repeatedly exposed to spoken language and nursery rhymes provide the perfect way to do this!

✨Physical Development✨
Physical participation in action songs encourage children to develop their fine and gross motor control skills as well as balance, coordination and the skills needed to follow simple instructions. That’s why we love to use them to learn gymnastics skills like backward rolls!

✨Numeracy✨
Nursery rhymes that count help to develop a familiarity with number sounds and words in a way that is fun and interesting to a young child. Some songs even introduce the concept of scale, size and order. These rhymes provide the foundation for crucial numeracy skills and awareness.

✨Creativity✨
The act of singing a rhyme or engaging with it physically, encourages children to express themselves in a creative way and to find their own personal ‘voice’. Role play opportunities present themselves with different characters and events within the rhyme that children can respond to.

Last week we brought the Alphabet into the gym. Did you know that gymnastics helps children learn how to write? Activiti...
01/10/2024

Last week we brought the Alphabet into the gym.

Did you know that gymnastics helps children learn how to write?
Activities that encourage crossing their midlines such as cartwheels and rolls are important to develop fine motor and directional skills.

✏️ Crossing the midline strengthens the neural connections between both hemispheres of the brain making cognitive functions like reading, writing and problem-solving easier. This is because the communication and coordination between the two sides of the brain has become easier.

✏️Crossing the midline helps establish a child’s dominant hand.

Last week was all about shapes! Did you know children learn quicker through play? Scientists have found that it only tak...
01/10/2024

Last week was all about shapes!

Did you know children learn quicker through play? Scientists have found that it only takes 10-20 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain through play compared to around 400 repetitions without play 🖍️

⚡️Here at Paddock Wood Preschool we understand that movement is fundamental to young children’s cognitive functioning an...
01/10/2024

⚡️Here at Paddock Wood Preschool we understand that movement is fundamental to young children’s cognitive functioning and their forming of emotional connections.

⚡️Physical development is a prime area in the EYFS, because there is research that demonstrates that children’s bodies and brains work together to build motorways of the mind.

⚡️According to the NHS, “Pre-schoolers should spend at least 180 minutes (3 hours) a day doing a variety of physical activities spread throughout the day, including active and outdoor play. The more the better.
The 180 minutes should include at least 60 minutes (1 hour) of moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity.”

⚡️Gymnastics is the only sport in the world that encourages your body to use every plane of movement and weight bare on every limb. Therefore, allowing children to develop into well rounded individuals that are ready to learn and flourish at school.

⚡️Our preschool programme although gymnastics based, will be child development focused.

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