Dream Catchers Play School- North End

🔴⚠️ A Red Heat-Health Alert has been issued across the Midlands and southern England until 25 June. This is the highest level of alert and indicates a risk to everyone's health, not just vulnerable groups. Northern England is under an Amber alert.
For further information, visit the data dashboard:
🔗 https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/weather-health-alerts/heat?type=heat

📢 School Closure Notice – Thursday 25th June

Following the issue of a Red Weather Warning and the forecast of exceptionally high temperatures, both our Infant and Junior Schools will be closed on Thursday 25th June.

The safety and wellbeing of our pupils, staff and families is our highest priority. Due to the extreme heat and the potential risks it presents, we have made the decision to close the schools for one day to help keep everyone safe.

We understand this may cause inconvenience and thank you for your understanding and support. We will continue to monitor the situation and share any further updates if needed.

Please stay safe, keep cool and take appropriate precautions during this period of extreme weather. ☀️🌡️

WC 15-06-26
Friday wows ✨🌟

This week our topic has been occupation!

Bakery - dressing up as bakers and creating different baked good using mixed spice scented playdough! This activity promotes fine motor development aswell as developing our understanding of the world by taking about what we might find in the bakery! 🧁 🧑‍🍳

Dreamcatchers Restaurant in the garden, as Chefs, Servers and Musicians whilst promoting our imaginative play!

We had a lovely visit from our local lollipop man and he spoke about road safety!
Following our visit from the lollipop man we decorated our own lollipop sticks! We also worked on our pencil grip and motor control!

construction day 🚧
We played some construction role play where we practiced dressing ourselves and built lots of walls, we’ve used construction vehicles to dig in the sand and we’re building bridges for our cars. This helps the children to understand who helps us in the world and what the builders have to do to keep safe

Fire fire Using our fine motor skills to put out the fire🔥using pots of water 💦

We still have tables available! Please share our post!🎈

WC 08-06-26
Friday wows ✨🌟

This week our topic has been colour!

Powder paint, sprinkling the powder paint to create marks on the paper we used yellow, blue and red and talk about colour mixing!

Exploring colour using frozen paint! Using the ice lollies to make marks on the paper, mix the colours and talking about the changes we notice and differences we observe as the ice melt!

Practicing our colours using Layered patterns for sensory play using cotton balls and paint in between clingfilm. Doing different movements like splitting poking and pinching 🤏

Making colourful colour monster and rainbows while working on pencil control 🌈

We used tweezers to promote our fine motor skills, squeezing the tweezers and placing the Pom Poms into the wooden board naming our different colours!

Our sensory colour tuff tray including coloured pasta, coloured shaving foam to get extra messy!

WC 01-06-26
Friday wows ✨🌟

This week our topic has been mini beast 🐛🐞

Let’s make a bug treasure map! 🗺️ We are working on our lines and squiggles, practicing different art styles and learning about patterns!

Ladybird Apple Stamp Prints, using the Apple to make the lady bird body, we added black spots and made a beautiful ladybug 🐞

Using the pipe cleans to make colourful legs on our centipede 🐛

Being creative using fine motor skills to decorate a butterfly!🦋

Superworm is super long, and today we are making super long worms and using our measuring tapes to see how many numbers we can fit in our worms whilst linking to literacy and promoting our interest of reading!

Using strips of paper to count and stick legs on the spider 🕷️

Using the playdough to create different minibeasts!

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🎉📚 New to Year R starters, please see the key dates below! 🗓️✨
We can’t wait to welcome you to our school and begin this exciting journey together! 💙🏫

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