Cliffe Preschool

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SAND TOYS SHOUT OUT -

We would be grateful if any of our families have any sand toys they are no longer using that we could give a new home here in our preschool sandpit? 🏖️

Thankyou x

🍅 🍏 🥔 The Cliffe Preschool Garden shop is out - we have lots of bits!
We just ask for donations, this money is used to buy soil and seeds for new plants and veggies!

Thankyou for any kind donations 🥰

We hope you are all enjoying the summer holidays, and having lots of fun, we can't wait to hear all about the fun things you have done.

The preschool staff have been in and had re fresh ready for our return on Monday 2nd September.

We look forward to welcoming back our returning children and families and welcoming lots of new children and families starting their cliffe preschol journey with us.... its going to be a super fun and busy autumn term.

Danielle, steph, Sarah and laura 😊

Thank you so much to everyone that attended our Cliffe preschool leavers 2024 graduation, we are really lucky to have such incredible families.

The children were incredible and you should, all be very proud of the fantastic people, they have become.... we have loved getting to know each and everyone one and they all hold a special part of our hearts.

Without a doubt we have helped nurture, the future leaders of the world. Each and everyone has their own unique quality, which makes them fantastic. The determination and bubbly personalities, shine through each of them. We have made so many incredible memories we will cherish.

We are going to miss each and everyone one of you and your families and we can’t wait to hear all about your new adventure, when we come and visit you in the spring term... you can always pop and say hello on your way to school or after.

A huge thank you to everyone’s kind words, gifts, support and most of all being such fantastic role models for your children.

A special shout out to Magical Experiences for another incredible preschool leavers party 🥳 with special guests from Ariel and Chase ...we had lots of excited children.

Have an amazing summer and if you need anything please let us know.

Love from Danni, Steph, Sarah and laura # #

Our Shop is our and ready for you 🪴
✨Raspberries
✨Courgettes
✨Mint 🌿
✨Selection of seeds 🌱
✨Tomato Plants 🍅

The Ladies are doing their Pretty Mudder Race, if anyone would like to donate we would really appreciate it please find the link below - Let’s Do This!

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/preschool-ladies

The dinosaurs have moved into the preschool garden.... we thought we could hear the stamping of feet 🦕 👣

The children have loved exploring this wonderful area, it's created lots of discussion, developing their imaginative skills, extending on ideas from story books 📚, counting and sequencing the dinosdaurs, discussing differences and similarities, ordering by shape and size .... the learning opportunities have been endless.

We hope everyone enjoyed the fathers day stay and play session today ... thank you to everyone who attended. Lots of fun activities and yummy food 😋

🦋 We have eyes!!! We will keep you posted on our butterfly progress over half term 🦋

Continuing with our theme of emotions and self regulation, we have been using the talking stick ✨ at Preschool this last two weeks.
This gives the children an opportunity to speak freely uninterrupted while the ladies and friends listen.
🪴 We usually start by discussing how we are feeling 😁☹️😡 and what colour we feel, then we talk about something of interest, maybe a holiday, our favourite foods or our favourite game.
✨ The rules of the circle are if you have the stick you can talk, if you don’t we have to use listening ears.

🪴We have been so busy in our Garden Planting area at Preschool! The children have loved caring and watching their plants grow! 🍓
We are so excited for the fruits and vegetables to grow! 🍅

This week at Preschool we have focused on the book The Colour Monster - this beautiful story 📖helped the children visualise 👀 through colours 🌈 how they are feeling.
We have encouraged the children to tell us what colour 🌈 they are feeling and then used words to vocalise these feelings.

✨ It’s okay to feel these emotions, it’s how we deal with them that makes us the people we are.

The ladies have been very busy at preschool! We have a brand new construction area 🔨🔧. We are so excited to build, dig, learn and explore in this new area!

Why is Constructive Play so important for our children? 🪨🪵🔧
Constructive play helps our children make sense of the world, developing their problem solving and social skills. Through this form of play Children learn to manipulate materials to achieve a desired outcome 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️

A big Thankyou to Classroom Clothing who donated some new helmets, high vis jackets and cones to our area ❤️

🦋 Our Butterfly Journey 🦋

The children were introduced to our new exciting visitors at preschool on Friday.... we love the process of caring and watching the caterpillars turn into beautiful butterflies , we do this every year and each year is so special and a great learning opportunity 🦋

Its an unforgettable opportunity to watch caterpillars change into chrysalides and then emerge as beautiful Painted Lady Butterflies.

The entire transformation from caterpillar to adult butterfly takes about three to five weeks... the children are really excited by the whole process and we can't wait to learn more about life cycles.

This week our story of the week was the Tiger who Came for Tea 🐅☕️
On Tuesday we celebrated St George’s Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

The Cliffe Preschool Hospital 🏥 officially opened, all patients have been made very welcome and are back to full health with some interesting one of a kind treatments🙈😂

This week we have been doing lots of exploration 👀within our play feeling different textures, mixing colours, using flowers 🌻 to create pictures, planting and investigating roots and soil!

✨ We know that our children need these play experiences to enrich their learning, as Einstein said, Play is the Highest form of Research 💡

What a fabulous week we have had at preschool!

🏡This week our book if the week was the Three Little Pigs 🐷 - We read the story and helped the ladies with the words. We built houses for the little pigs using the materials the pigs used, straw, sticks and bricks. The children are very good at telling us the different parts of a book.
🔴 We practiced making our own patterns, developing our fine manipulative skills and pincer grasps.
⚖️ We’ve done lots of maths activities this week, we did weighing, making the scales heavier and lighter.
▪️🔺🔸We used different shapes to make pictures, this is a good activity which encourages the children to talk about different shapes.

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What a wonderful week 🥳 we have had here at Cliffe Preschool.
This week we have become mini Picasso’s 🎨🖌️and painted some beautiful daffodils 🌼 for our brand new art wall!
This week was Word Book Day 📖 we loved building the little pigs 🐷 houses and exploring under the sea 🐠 we love using our imaginations to help our learning through play!
What a fab week 🤩

A huge well done to the preschool team for achieving the silver award, as part of the healthy early years award 👏

Their silver submission was on Personal, social and emotional development(PSED). Alongside emotionall health and well-being of staff (EHWB)

North Yorkshire accredited the setting the silver award and were happy with the support and learning the children recieve at preschool around their PSED and how well staff are supported with their EHWB.

We are so incredibly proud and We are always striving for excellence and continously reflecting on our practice and how we can continue to grow and develop, ensuring the best for the children in our care.

Gold next 🏅

A huge thank you to all our wonderful special ladies that attended our mothers day afternoon tea today.

We hope you had a lovely afternoon, we can't wait to do more of these special events for our families in the future 😀

Your kind words and smiles made it all worth while ..so thank you for choosing cliffe preschool for your children and letting us be part of these special memories ❤️

We have an exciting opportunity that has arisen at preschool, we are looking for an Early Years Practitioner to join our well established team 😀

Please contact preschool if you are interested and we would appreciate anyone who shares our post.

Thank you 😊

Today is NSPCC Number Day 🔢

We have lots of little activities ready today! We can’t wait to learn numbers 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ and count together 👫

Cliffe Preschool Raffle Winners.

Hamper 1 - Felix H Grandad. 0561
Hamper 2 - Nana P. 0449.
Hamper 3 - Gill M. 0507.

Sundown Adventure - Clark Nannie. 0535.
Piglets Adventure Park - Emma Brook. 0478.
York Archiological Family Ticket. - Tom Dad, Immy Grandad. 0554.
Busy Vs - Sophie Tate. 0443.
Northern Oak Dog groom - Sarah. 0471.
Downstairs @ rivermills ballroom - Tom Dad, Immy Grandad. 0557.
Classroom Clothing Voucher - Sophie Tate. 0427.

Well done and Thankyou so much for your support.
We hope you have the best Christmas. Merry Christmas from all of us at Cliffe Preschool ❤️

Santa's grotto is all ready for Santa's arrival at Cliffe Preschool christmas concert 🎅🎄

RAFFLE TICKETS FOR SALE!!! FINAL CALL 📣

We are holding our Christmas Raffle, all proceeds will go to new educational supplies for Cliffe Preschool.

🔴 If you would like some tickets please send us a message or ring 01757 630930 or text 07732253033.

We have some FANTASTIC prizes available;
✨Christmas Hampers
✨Dog Grooming Voucher
✨Uniform Voucher
✨Piglets Adventure Voucher
✨Sundown Adventure Voucher
✨Rivermills Ballroom Voucher
✨Busy Vs Voucher
✨York Archeological Family Ticket

Please share far and Wide 🥰

It’s beginning to looo a lot like Christmas 🎄 Christmas is arriving at Preschool!

Lest we Forget.
At preschool we all worked together to make a Poppy Wreath. We spoke about how Poppies help us remember.

This week we have focused on our fine motor skills.

Fine Motor Skills refers to the coordination between the small muscles, like those in the hands 👋🏼wrists, and fingers ☝️in coordination with their eyes 👀.

We drew fireworks 🎆 with our fingers ☝️in the tuff tray, we used our hands 🖐️ and different types of grasps to pick stones 🪨up and fill the shapes, this also helps us develop an understanding of empty and full.
We used the beads and threads, this is great for helping our brain learning to carefully place the beads on the string.

We practiced our cutting skills ✂️using the scissors, this helps our hand eye coordination and our finger muscles.

So much fun and so much learning! See you next week xx ❤️

🥳...ACCREDITED SETTING...🥳

Preschool attended training in the summer around the healthy early years award programme, that North Yorkshire deliver to early years settings. The award enables Early Years settings to share their effective practice in supporting a whole setting approach to health and wellbeing by working through the criteria for each of the key themes.

We completed our first theme at the beginning of the term and submitted our evidence and action plan for the bronze award toward a 'Healthy Early Years Setting', focusing on healthy food.

We are so pleased to say that they were happy with the support and learning the children recieve at preschool around healthy food and that they have award us the accreditation for bronze 🥳

We are so incredibly proud of the setting and our outstanding practice we provide. The support and dedication of all those at preschool, makes preschool the amazing setting it is. We are always striving for excellence and continously reflecting on our practice and how we can continue to grow and develop, ensuring the best for the children in our care.

Next step silver and gold ✨️

Happy Halloween 👻🎃
This week we have had some super fun spooky 👻activities!
Messy play is so important for a little ones development, it harnesses children's spontaneous exploration to help them learn 🤔.
Children develop curiosity 🧐, initiative, focus and persistence.
We have painted pumpkins 🎃 we mixed colours 🟠🟡🔴 and made new colours!
We’ve made witches 🧙‍♀️potions using herbs 🌿from our garden, we practiced our pouring skills!
We printed pumpkins using apples!
So much fun! 💕