With the weather starting to improve the children have enjoyed a lot more outdoor play.  They have been building with giant Jenga blocks, painting outdoors as well as playing with trikes, pushchairs, balls and hoops.  One form of painting the children seem to love is water painting outdoors.  If you have your children asking you [...]

Our annual Spring Fair was held last month and we would like to give our thanks to all who helped support the event, including the teachers, parents, stall holders and those who donated raffle prizes.  A big thank you to everyone that was able to attend the afternoon all whom helped make it such a [...]

 After the Easter break the children will be looking at the general theme of Spring.  This will be broken down into topic threads of Plants and Birds in April; and in May they will be looking at the topic threads of Pond life and mini beasts.  The children will be able to plant seeds when [...]

The Preschool would like to thank Tracey and Neil at the Post Office for allowing the children on Friday afternoon to go and visit behind the scenes.  The children were able to put stamps on some of the post and put the envelopes into the correct postal bags ready for collection from the Newark sorting [...]

Preschool will be holding their annual Spring Fair in the Memorial Hall, Collingham on Saturday 17th April between 2-4pm.  Further details to follow.

 2010 started with children and staff returning back from the Christmas holidays full of energy from their break and the children bringing news of what they received for Christmas.  The Christmas party and Sing-along which were both enjoyed the previous term, had obviously not worn the children out too much!! There have already been some [...]

The Preschool Christmas Party was well attended on Thursday afternoon.  The children enjoyed listening to stories, helping to feed The Hungry Caterpillar,  playing pass the parcel and watching an enactment of Goldilocks and The Three Bears by the staff. Father Christmas even had time to pop in to see the children.

As part of the continual learning through play at Preschool, the children have been able to look at larger numbers this month, with the arrival of a new 1-100 number rug.  Thank you to the Collingham Canter and Crawl who gave funding for this. 
 The children will be focusing on Christmas at Preschool in December and [...]

The children have been busy helping to make one of the interactive wall displays.  They have been collecting conkers, pinecones, beech nuts and acorns, to put into the boxes, no hibernating hedgehog though!
The Harvest Time wall display encourages the children to count how many apples are on the tree.
They have also been creating their own [...]

Here’s our new-look website all ready for the new term. Please take a moment to look at our reference information on the pages to the right.