Freedom and fun outside. Running, jumping, balancing. Playing in the sand or water, digging, using large bricks to construct and enjoying the climbing frame. This is all part of everyday learning and fun at Hutton Pre-school.
Weekly Football
The children enjoy football sessions each week as they develop movement skills and good team work. Both boys and girls find this activity challenging as it is different from all other activities offered at the pre-school. A child is rewarded each week for their hard work during the session.
Sitting under the Climbing Frame
Children enjoy watching the friends above them and use new language to describe what is happening. The climbing frame is an indoor piece of equipment, the children can climb round the frame, climb over the bars and go down the slide. Children are developing dexterity, muscle control and building their muscles plus taking small risks whilst at play which boosts their confidence..
Craft
Children take part in a variety of craft activities. Here they have freedom to create using paper plates, pens, glue and will stick a variety of craft materials to their plate.
Home Corner
The children are hard at work making dinner. Very young children play alongside each other until their speech and development have progressed which will enable them to make friends and chatter. This is when the noise level increases!
Reading Time
Children are able to choose a story book to enjoy and imagine the story for themselves. This gives them skills to enable them to make up their own stories and expands their own imagination.
Quiet Reading Time
Enjoying quiet time with a book. It may look quiet but a lot is going on in a child’s brain whilst ‘reading’ and this helps to develop social skills, communication and imagination.
Home Corner with staff
The Home Corner and using playdough is the perfect place for children to build up their vocabulary as they explain what they are doing and join in conversations with others. The Staff support this and take time to let the children chat and listen to each child’s story.
Sandpit
Children develop their fine motor skills whilst at play with sand. Their hand/eye coordination is developed together with creativity and imagination. Sand is an open-ended activity, so you can’t do anything wrong and it encourages children to experiment as well as have fun.
Playdough
An invaluable resource in an Early Years setting. Children socialise whilst playing with dough, they communicate, use their fine motor skills and gross motor skills to manipulate. They can also let their imagination run and make anything they want.
Story Time
The Group come together to enjoy a story and the children love to get involved! This fuels their imagination and gives them plenty to make a noise about.
