This afternoon the children with great enjoyment used our new child safety knifes to prepare afternoon snack. These knifes are great for teaching children cutting. They feature a rounded point and dull serration, but is sharp enough to cut food… Not fingers! This helps to develop the children’s hand eye coordination and also their self […]
Here at Seabeach we have been enjoying the fruits of our labour… Quite literally! At the start of summer (yes, there was a ‘start of summer’ you missed it?, you must’ve blinked!) Anyhoo as I was saying, At the start of summer the biggies planted some (hopefully) fruits and veg. Whilst we are still waiting […]
Today has been a very exciting morning here at Rocking Horse – we have become proud parents! Turbo, our giant African land snail has reproduced! Overnight Turbo has laid round 30 eggs much to our surprise! We have carefully removed these eggs and will be caring for them until they have hatched. As you can […]
At Rocking Horse we like to be involved with our local community. On Friday we took ourselves to the Figgate Park as ‘Friends of the Figgate park’ had organised some fun activities for children so we of course had to check these out! The preschool and toddler children enjoyed pond fishing, badge making and story […]
As we are learning about under the sea and sea creatures, today the preschool children visited North Berwick beach. We set off from nursery and got a bus to Waverly Train Station then set off in a train to North Berwick. It was so EXCITING! At North Berwick we went on the hunt on the […]
The older Beanies have been on their travels today, going on a trip to Dobbies. We visited Dobbies to look at all the lovely fish as our current topic is Under The Sea. The children were very excited looking at all the different colours of the fish and under the water creatures. We even met […]
The Beanies at Rocking Horse paid a little visit to Dynamic Earth to explore the soft play. The Beanies have been very interested in under the sea animals, so this was the perfect opportunity to explore “Ocean Commotion.” There was a big submarine that we could climb into and a sea inspired sensory tube. We made […]
This morning the Toddlers at Rocking Horse took a walk around the Figgy park. Before leaving nursery we all got our wellie boots on as the children were keen to go hunting for muddy puddles to jump in! This has been an interest within the Toddler room over the last few days with our […]
It was that time of year again for Active Kids at Seabeach and Rocking Horse combined to storm East Links Farm for our end of year school leavers trip! As usual it was an action packed affair with lots of fun to be had and although the rain (sporadically) fell, it stood no chance of […]
On Tuesday the 23rd of June, We at Seabeach hosted our annual leavers presentation in which we say goodbye to our school leavers and wish them all the very best of luck in the next stage of the educational journey. As you can imagine this was a very bittersweet event for us. Luckily the sun […]