Beenham Preschool

Our children have been very interested in exotic animals this week so we have been looking at globes and habitats, learning makaton signs for animals, and exploring different animal prints and patterns and sharing some of our favourite books including "Dear Zoo", "Never Tickle a Tiger" and "This Zoo is not for You".
We finished the week with an Attention Bucket on the theme of exotic animals which included a rude frog and a rude lizard, some very colourful feathers and a fan !

A wonderful end to the week in our garden with the sun and shade and shadows ... here are some of the explorations and activities we shared just today.
We have also been doing lots of percussion this week with our percussion sticks and our bodies and using one handed tools like pipettes, tweezers, basters, and scissors.

Lots of foodie and number challenges today with some “finger gym” activities to develop our fine motor strength… big thanks to Waitrose Thatcham for the magazines for our collages !

Happy Bank Holiday weekend everyone ! For those of you planing to enjoy a sunny walk around the village on the 2026 Bear Hunt here is a sneaky peak of our Bear ❤️

A huge thank you to Pop Up Play Village - Thatcham and Newbury for helping us to run Well-being Sessions for our Leavers who are moving on to primary school in July. Really important to work to support their transitions x

A great visit to a local preschool today with our Wellbeing Planning which focuses purely on supporting children's mental health using our role play areas combined with play therapy techniques.

We have 7 core areas that our Wellbeing Planning covers. These are:

- Safe Expression and Emotion Regulation
- Developing Self Esteem
- Developing Problem Solving Skills
- Building on Relationships with others
- Developing Communication Skills
- Developing Coping Strategies
- Developing a Sense of Control

In this visit, the children were supported individually using our Wellbeing Planning based on what the children needed support with.

If you would like any further information about our Wellbeing Planning, do let us know. We would love to tell you more!

What a very special visit. Thank you Vicky Hempell Knight for bringing your oh-so-clean tractor for us today and teaching us just a little bit about what it means to be a farmer. Please (please!) come back again and see us soon x

Thank you so much Baby College West Berks and North Reading for a busy afternoon thinking about postal workers, 'posting' letters to our friends, learning about the phonics sound "w", listening to music and making our own with instruments, having fun with parachutes and hoops and bean bags, and of course ... bubbles ! How did we fit all that in ??
See you again soon x

Today Beenham Preschool celebrated our 40th birthday with our very own mini festival ! There was music and dancing, bubbles and craft, festival-style food and (of course) birthday cake !

It was the best of days !

A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of our journey …. Lots more fun to come !