The last day of term was our Pre-School Manager Rachel's last day in pre-school, Rachel has taken early retirement. We are so sad she is leaving us and staff, children and families will really miss her. Rachel transformed pre-school in her 12 years as Manager, going...

We've been so busy this term learning through play. Our children are always learning new skills and having new exciting experiences, always through the medium of play.

The Story Fairy sent us Oi Dog! to read together. We loved this hilarious rhyming story and had a lots of fun pretending to be dogs with our home made dog ears. We found time to play in our fantastic mud kitchen, making soups and potions. We did some gardening,...

We had a brilliant time in pre-school last week. The Story Fairy sent us I Really Want the Cake to read together so we decided to make chocolate cup cakes. We measured the ingredients, cracked the eggs, mixed and put the batter into cake cases. It was a bit messy but...

We have had a brilliant World Book Day. It was lots of fun coming into pre-school in our PJs. We sat under blankets and read bedtime stories that The Story Fairy 🧚‍♀️ had sent us for this special day. We believe bedtime stories are such an important part of children's...

Yesterday we played in our mud kitchen. The children had a great time using lots of natural ingredients such as pine cones, flowers, leaves and conkers to make cakes, soups and hot chocolate. We enjoyed getting a little bit messy and being very imaginative.

We have been lucky enough to be gifted a new builders workbench by Mrs Millward in big school - Thank you so much! The children have been exploring our new builders workshop. Fixing and building, dressing up in hard hats and hi-vis and working together. It has been...

We have been so busy in pre-school this term. We welcomed some new children and their families to pre-school. They have all settled in really well and are enjoying pre-school life. The Story Fairy has been visiting us and we have enjoyed reading The Tiger Who Came to...

What a fun few weeks we've had in the run up to Christmas.  Our children have been making lots of Christmas crafts, we've been covered in glitter for weeks!  Santa sent us lots of Christmas books to read together and then came to visit us on party day.  It was so...

The Story Fairy has sent us The Gruffalo to read together.  It's been lots of fun, we have made Gruffalo paper bag hand puppets and houses for the Gruffalo out of Lego.  

This week we've had lots of snowy fun outside.  When it got too cold to play outside we made snow with flour!

The Story Fairy has been to visit us again.  Last week she sent us Shark in the Park to read, we loved this story.  We made our own telescopes, put our wellies on and went to the forest to hunt for sharks.  We had lots of fun lying on our tummies to draw sharks on a...

We spend lots of time outside with our children in our lovely Early Years garden and playground.  These are just a few of the activities they have enjoyed over the last few weeks.

We've had a very busy few weeks in pre-school.  The Story Fairy has visited us and sent us Aaaarrgghh, Spider! by Lydia Monks to read together.  We loved this story and spent the week making lots of spiders with goggly eyes and 8 pipe cleaner legs.  We also made...

We were visited by swimmer and Paralympic gold medallist Rebecca Redfern MBE.  Rebecca showed pre-school her medals and we showed her the ones we made with a lot of gold glitter.  Thank you for visiting us Rebecca.

We are delighted to announce that pre-school has been awarded a Dingley's Promise Mark of Achievement for being an inclusion friendly setting.  Dingley's Promise are a charity that supports children with special educational needs and disabilities. Our SENCO Clair was...

We have had a very busy few weeks in pre-school.  Welcoming back some children from last year and all our new children and their families to our setting.  It has been great fun.  We have been visited by the Story Fairy who has sent us some brilliant stories to read...

Last week we held our Perryfields Pre-School Graduation Ceremony.  Our families were invited to join us to celebrate all our children have achieved this year.  The children wore cap and gown and looked amazing.  Each member of staff talked about their key children,...

Another busy week in pre-school. The Story Fairy sent us The Three Horrid Pigs and the Friendly Wolf to read together, a twist on the traditional tale.  We built houses with sticks, built with Lego and made cornflour and cocoa powder 'mud' for the pigs.  It was very...

It has been such a busy week in pre-school.  We have made the most of the sunshine and been playing outside as often as we can.  We have been drawing pictures of ourselves with chalk on the paths and turned our reading shed into a rainbow reading shed.  We've done...