Footprints Child Care Ltd

01/10/2026

Prechool are continuing their Autumn exploration with a variety of mark making.

Leaf rubbing to see different textures, leaf painting to print the texture and conker rolling to use cause and effect actions.

24/09/2026

This week all the children have made the most of the lovely weather and have spent lots of the time outdoors. Water play is certainly one of their favourite activities.
The benefits of the children playing outdoors, makes a powerful contribution to their wellbeing, development and learning. Children play, not least because it is often fun and offers a joyful opportunity for engaging in different activities. Play is open-ended and flexible, allowing them to explore and experiment with confidence, take risks and challenge themselves.

09/09/2026

It's only half way through our second week back after the summer break and our pre-school children are already soaring ahead with their school readiness programme💪. At this rate we are going to have to make some of our school readiness tasks more challenging👩🏼‍🏫!!

This week we have been discussing 'all about me' which is a great way for us to get to know each other and to help us understand that we all have differences and are unique. We have also been talking about our families👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, our pets 🐶🐈‍⬛🐇and where we live🏠. Describing our family, our house and who lives with us and who looks after us comes naturally to children and speaking about it to their peers helps to improve confidence and communication techniques 🗣such as back and forth questions❓ and answers. All of this magical language development helps children to build on their emotional💟 intelligence and creates a feeling of belonging amongst the friendship group.

We've also started our phonics programme this week focusing on the SATP letters and playing word association games 🔙🔜both inside and outside. These Pre-schoolers will be school ready in no time at all🌟.

08/09/2026

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08/09/2026

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07/09/2026

Whose ready for a brand new week of fun, lots of learning and developing new skills with lots of exciting opportunities and experiences?
WE ARE!!
We hope your week is going to be amazing just like ours.

04/09/2026

This week has been super busy with lots of new children joining us here at nursery and some of our friends moving up to new rooms.

The beginning of September is all about new starts and new adventures, as many of our pre-school children start their next big adventure at school, we sometimes feel a little sad because our friends have moved on, but this also gives us the chance to make new friends and to learn all about each other.

Our topic throughout September will be 'all about me' as we start to find out lots of information and exciting new things about our new friends. Particularly for our pre-school children this time gives us the chance to forge new friendships and gain experience of building relationships with each other.

We focus on helping the children to learn about differences and being unique and how someone can be just like you but like different things than you do. Preferences are a key skill to learn in preparation for school but so too is building their confidence and self esteem so that they can confidently detail their likes and dislikes.

How you can help your child at home to build their confidence: Making choices is important for all children, you can do this when getting dressed or offer food choices so that they can make their own preferences.

04/09/2026

This week our Toddlers have been focusing on our golden rules. The golden rules are important as they set out clear boundaries of what is expected for everyone within the Toddler room enabling us to play in an environment of understanding and mutual respect.

We have also had another busy week learning and exploring! Our courgette friend, Mr Courgette made another appearance this week and we spoke all about dental hygiene while the children took it in turns to brush his teeth!

They have enjoyed being outside is all weathers, we had our stay and play on Wednesday. We have also had lots of playdough play which the children have thoroughly enjoyed, we have been moulding and manipulating it as well as exploring the different shapes that we can make with the play dough.

Next week we will be looking at ‘All about me’, we will be exploring our physical features and exploring all the things that make us similar and different as well as all the things that make us a unique person!

03/09/2026

03/09/2026

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