Look Closely! Change is Happening!
Have you seen the amazing butterflies?
Have you seen the video on our Instagram of how the caterpillars slowly but spectacularly transformed?
Our children have been observing this incredible metamorphosis up close, using magnifiers to explore and examine each stage of the development.
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I use all my senses to engage in scientific enquiry” guides how we nurture children’s natural curiosity about the world around them. Through hands-on observation, drawing, and learning about life-cycles, we have witnessed firsthand one of nature’s most remarkable transformations!
And there are some different kind of changes for the children too aren’t there.
Some children are moving from Early Years Two to Nursery School in September.
We have been building new relationships with Nursery School – new spaces, new keyperson, new experiences.
Children have been slowly “moving in” to Nursery School.
And we have been sharing experiences – like looking closely at the butterflies – to support the change the children are going through.
We have a Gentle, Loving Approach to transitions across the Centre, offering children lots of opportunities to become familiar and confident in their new classrooms.
Over summer we will be spending more and more time in Nursery School, getting to know the spaces claiming them as our own (by putting up peg pictures and family pictures) playing and exploring together (such as building and constructing in the Block Room Studio) and doing more and more of the Nursery Routine (such as Planning and Review Time).
Rain is Falling Down! Pitter-patter, Pitter-patter. Rain is Falling Down!
We love the rain!
The splashy kind
Slosh it out of buckets
Spray it all around
After the HOT weather there was rain… and lots of it!
We have a saying
“There is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing!”
And we like to be out-and-about in our garden in all weathers.
Here we are measuring the rain!
We are curious…
Will it fill our bucket?
Can I capture it more thoroughly using a funnel?
What happens with a sieve?
What sounds is it making through the metal?
We are scientists… we can
Explore
Examine
Wonder
Research
We use all our senses for scientific enquiry… we can
Observe
Question
Experiment
Test
Hypothesise
Communicate
Interpret
Predict
Speculate
We love to talk about our learning… we are great learners!
We love to talk… we engage in curious and sustained conversations!
We…
Listen
Talk
Words
Think
Understand
We…
Name
Question
Describe
Explain
What do you notice about the rain?
What do you think and understand?
We do love the rain!
Boxes are the Best!
We have new furniture in Early Years Two.
(And soon some new resources and rugs and plants!)
The furniture arrived in HUGE cardboard boxes.
Boxes are the best aren’t they!
We have been learning in a group to design and make, build and construct, imagine and create.
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I can belong and contribute to a group” helps us
share and explore together
collaborate, negotiate and compromise
belong and connect to the group
be independent and interdependent
choosing when and how to work together
Our St. Paul’s Promise “I know I am a great learner” helps us
Know, do and remember more
Think, learn, try and practise
Challenge ourselves and achieve
Be researchers and experts
Be resilient, resourceful, reciprocal, reflective
Build Learning Power!
Research tells us “complex imaginative play” is an essential ingredient of learning for young children.
Cardboard boxes are great for complex imaginative play… they can be turned into anything.
And we do like to be wrapped up, enveloped, contained and boxed-up inside them!
Here we make cars for our road-trip to the park… Brmmm! Brrmmm! All aboard!
Boxes really are the best!
Green Fingers and Red Ripe Strawberries
Yum! Yum!
We have been picking and eating our allotment strawberries.
We wonder if the wormery worms – with all their lovely soil and worm poo! – have helped grow the strawberries so sweet?
We have also grown rhubarb and kale, herbs and beans.
Our St. Paul’s Curriculum
Have you been to our allotment?
Do you have Green Fingers?
Or a love of weeding!?
Would you like to come to our Friday Garden Club?
