Stepping Stones SW Ltd

The children have really enjoyed our festival week.
A few of our activities included dancing, making festival headbands, making ribbons, and experimenting with musical instruments.

They have all been very creative, allowing them to access a range of resources and use their own thoughts and ideas.

Second hand school uniform from FOSS will be available until next Friday, the 5th of July.
A great way to support the school by giving some funds back, as well as saving some money 🙂.

We are seeing some extremely hot weather this week.
Please can your child come to playgroup with the following:

● Named sun hat ( bucket style if possible).
● Named water bottle.
● Suncream already applied.

Many thanks 🙂

This week, our theme is travel.
The children have been given a checklist to tick off when they see any form of transport.
The children are welcome to bring the list back in towards the end of the week so we can all share what we have seen.

We are hopeful to see some sunshine this week ☀️.

This is just a polite reminder to please ensure your child arrives with suncream applied. We will reapply during the day.

Please make sure they also have a named water bottle and sun hat.

Thank you 🙂

Our beautiful coral under the sea scene made by the children.
Today, we added fish, sharks, whales and mermaids all drawn by the children themselves.

Dates for your diary

School leavers parents evening:

Monday/Tuesday 1st/2nd of July.
3:30pm-5:30pm.

Sports day 🏅

Wednesday 24th of July (morning)

School leavers celebration 🥳

Wednesday 24th of July ( afternoon)

Details to follow nearer the time.

We politely ask that siblings do not attend these events.

To go with our under the sea theme, the children have all made beautiful jelly fish 🪼.

Today, we also made an under the sea scene ready to add fish,sharks,octopuses, and starfish tomorrow at the children's request!

Welcome back 🙂
We hope you have all had a lovely half term.

We will have the school uniform from FOSS on sale again this term for any school leavers that would like to buy.
Cash only, please

Dates for diary.

🏅 Sports day Wednesday 24th of July ( morning)
🥳 School leavers celebration Wednesday 24th of July ( afternoon)
No siblings to attend please so that the celebration is all about our school leavers 🙂.

Parents evening for school leavers only.

Monday 1st of July 3:30-5:30
Tuesday 2nd of July 3:30-5:30
Times will be allocated nearer the time.

Another busy day at playgroup planting vegetables in our planting area.
We now have carrots, cucumber, runner beans, and tomatoes.
The children are very excited for them to grow.

Join us today in celebrating pjamarama by wearing your pj's to playgroup.

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www.booktrust.org.uk is a fantastic website with lots of resources to use with your children at home.

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Just a polite reminder to please label all of your children's belongings. We do try our best but have a lot of children and can't remember every item that belongs to them.

Sticker labels are really good but a pen is just as good 🙂

Thank you.

The children love our new stepping stones, helping with number recognition and counting.

Today we did a experiment and made our own lava lamp.
The children were great at measuring out and pouring the ingredients we needed.
They expressed great explanations when we saw reactions taking place.

Some important dates to remember.

Monday 6th of May Bank Holiday
Friday 24th of May last day of term.
Monday 3rd of June playgroup reopens.

Today the children have helped to make a car park for our cars.
Carefully drawing around the numbers and telling us which order they go in.

Another way to develop counting and number recognition.

The sun has made a small appearance, and we know it probably won't be for long.
Please can all children bring a named sun hat in their bag and suncream ready for those sunny days ☀️.

If possible, please can hats be brimmed as this ensures both neck and ears are also fully protected.

Thank you

PCSO visit 👮‍♂️👮‍♀️🚔

The children enjoyed asking a lot of questions when the local PCSO visited today. They even got to sit in the car!

World Earth Day 🌍

Today, we talked about how we can save the planet by doing certain things like recycling ♻️ and using less water or electricity.

We also planted some tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots. 🍅🥒🥕.

Now our school leavers have found out which school they will attend, our focus will be school readiness with them.

Please read the attached information, which gives some interesting points about school readiness and what it actually entails.

It's not about being able to write their names or read. The biggest focus is on independent skills and allowing them to grow and develop at their own pace.

Today is the day for primary school offers.

We hope you all get the school you chose and don't forget to tell us 🙂.

What a great first day back we have all had.

We have welcomed some new faces and enjoyed hearing all about you adventures over half term.

The sun shone and we have spent most of our day exploring the grass which had some exciting new additions for us to investigate 🔎.

Thank you to everyone who attended our Easter celebrations this afteroon, fun was had by all.

We are now closed until Monday 15th of April and wish you all a lovely time off.

See you soon 🙂

Everyone welcome to come and join us on Thursday the 28th of March 2-3pm for our Easter celebration.
A lovely chance to join your child and have some fun with our art and craft activities.

We are on the lookout for the following items. If you have any and would like to donate them, we would be very grateful. Thank you 🙂

empty spice jars
plastic tubs with lids ( take away size)
bamboo sticks
bark
old cd's/ dvds
pallets
house bricks

Just a reminder of some important dates coming up:

Thursday 28th of March - Easter celebration 2-3pm.

Thursday 28th of March - Last day of term.

Monday 15th of April - Re-open 9am.

Saltdough eggs are being made by every child this week, ready to decorate next week 🐣🐰🥚