St Clements Pre School

Thank you so much for all your lovely gifts and kind words over the past week. It has been a privilege to take care of your children, to teach them and see them grow over this past academic year. Good luck to all those starting reception- we will miss you all, but you are all so ready and will no doubt flourish in this next step as you did with us. To those returning to pre-school we will look forward to welcoming you all back in September. Have a wonderful summer!

love the Pre-school Team xx

Our preschool has availability for 2-3 year olds please contact us.

Some great tips here from Worcestershire Speech and Language Therapy of simple things to do at home to support your child’s early literacy skills 📚❤️

5 ❌🖊 ways to develop literacy skills 💙🌈

What a fantastic first week we have had back at Pre-School! This half term we will be thinking about people who help us, starting with fire fighters. The children have enjoyed a range of activities, songs and games thinking about how fire fighters help us

The biggest hit has been our role play area fire engine! 🚒

We enjoyed decorating our Christmas tree together earlier this week. 🎄 we spoke about our Christmas trees and home and the children all shared what they put on the top of their tree, and Angel or a star.

Our home corner became the stable in Bethlehem recently, ahead of our nativity play. The children in Pre-school learnt about the birth of Jesus and enjoyed role playing in this area as well as small world play in the tuff tray.

Last week Pre-School celebrated National Nursery Rhyme week.

Nursery Rhymes are a fantastic way to support young children’s language and communication skills. This is why we use nursery rhymes and songs daily at pre school and so it was brilliant to spend a whole week celebrating them!

This week pre-school have enjoyed learning about and celebrating Diwali with some lovely activities.

At the beginning of this week Pre-School have explored bonfire night. They enjoyed lots of small world opportunities using bonfires and fire engines and fire fighters. They explored the sounds fireworks make using cereal- snap, crackle pop! We also talked about keeping safe around bonfires and fireworks.

Come and take a stroll through the deep dark wood…. Roasted fox, owl ice cream, scrambled snake or gruffalo crumble…what will you order in the gruffalo cafe?

In Pre-School we strive to create a love of reading from an early age. Taking our children’s favourite stories and making them even more fun and imaginative is just one way we do this.

This week, alongside Autumn and Harvest Festival we have been thinking about Farms. The children loved this tuff tray which gave small world play opportunities incorporating different textures. We talked about growing and harvesting crops and we will be continuing this into next week.