Today the preschool children at rocking horse nursery were very excited and lucky to see the solar eclipse. The children enjoyed wearing their solar eclipse glasses and watching the moon pass in front of the sun. There were lots of screams of excitement as their was a large build up, learning about space this month.
To mark ‘World Book Week’ the preschoolers were encouraged to bring along their favourite books from home to share with us. This has been, to say the least, an interesting time for us all! Have you heard of ‘No-Bot, The Robot who lost his bottom?’ … Nor had I but this hilarious story, brought in […]
As the Toddlers have taken an interest in dogs, cats and pets we arranged for Bobbi the Cockapoo to come and visit! The children were very good with Bobbi, clapping her, throwing the ball for her and feeding her some doggy biscuits!
As the Toddlers at Rocking Horse have taken an interest in Pets we took a trip to our local pet shop at Fort Kinnaird, Pets at home. We were able to see a variety of different pets such as Fish, Rabbits, Gerbils and Rats, Hamsters, Snakes and Reptiles, Guinea Pigs and Dogs. The children enjoyed […]
The children at Rocking Horse have been very interested in the Fire Brigade and Fire Engines. We arranged a visit from the local Fire Station which enabled the children to see a fire engine close up, meet some fire fighters, hear the sirens and see the lights. The Pre-School children were lucky […]
Seabeach had a visit from the super cool Jo Jingles this week. This was a sample session to see how we felt it went and if it would work in our setting. The children really engaged with the leader and enjoyed singing, dancing and playing their instruments in time to the music as well as […]
Tony Macaroni and Scotty Watty are back!… this has been a highly anticipated moment since our last session ended and boy was it worth the wait! We Welcomed the progressive sports duo back at the end of February and as per last time, these Tuesday morning sessions are going down a storm with the children […]
The toddlers had fun at their first session of Enjoy a ball today with Claire. They enjoyed playing a range of games, practising their listening and following instruction skills. We all worked as team helping each other!
The Early Years room recently enjoyed a trip to Dynamic Earth as part of our ‘Winter’ focus within the room. Firstly we were lead into a special room where one of the ladies who worked there told us a story of a little Polar Bear. The Story was told with the use of visual aids […]
Down at Seabeach we got right into the Chinese festive spirit. As well as dressing up in Chinese inspired clothes from our role play area we explored the story of ‘Nian’. He was a fearsome new year beast who would try and eat the townspeople of China if they did not hide. The only way he could be […]