The children at Gingham Pre-School have been celebrating the Queen’s 90th birthday. The children have painted their own portraits of the Queen and have been discussing what she might do for her birthday such as ‘having a party with her friends’ or ‘going for some nice food’.

Just a reminder to parents of children at Gingham Pre School that Tempest Photography will be coming in tomorrow (Wednesday).

If your child does not attend tomorrow but you would like them to have their photo taken, please come to Gingham between 9.30 and 11.30 and we will try our best to get you seen as soon as possible.

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of staff.

We had lots of fun at our swimming lesson yesterday!

It was a very special lesson for Scarlett who achieved her 10 metre swimming badge and for Aaron who achieved his 5 metre swimming badge. To gain their badges, they had to swim on their front, kick their legs, blow bubbles and pull with their arms – all without stopping!!

Well done Scarlett and Aaron!!

On Friday, Gingham helped raise money for the Jeans for Genes Charity by wearing their own jeans to Pre School. They also decorated biscuits and collaged a pair of jeans. The children thought it was very funny when Christina wore the collaged jeans!

“Today at Gingham Pre School we have been learning about the Queen on her special day (Longest Reign). We have listened to and discussed stories about the Queen and creatively made our own crowns – making them very sparkly and pretty! We have also enjoyed dressing up in Princess and Knight costumes.” Lucy Stanley – Pre School Manager

“We had a lovely time exploring the world during our parent and family afternoon. We explored Chinese cuisine by tasting Chinese wontons and prawn crackers. We talked about India and tried Samosas, poppadoms and onion bhaji’s – they were yummy! We also made our own pizza’s using a selection of ingredients to focus on Italy.
Sophie taught the children all about French colours and facial features to create monster faces and read us the story ‘Va-t’en Grand Monstre Vert’.
Grace showed the children how to create “Indigenous Australian Dot Pictures”, looking at colour representation. White for clouds, yellow for sun, blue for sea and green for trees. We also got creative with noodle painting!” –  Lucy Stanley – Nursery Manager

We invite Gingham parents to pop in and join us tomorrow from 4pm onwards.

We have an ‘All around the World’ theme taking place, with food tasting and lots of fun, creative activities for everyone to get involved in!

We hope to see you there!

Last Friday we took the children to ‘All Things Wild‘ in Honeybourne and they had a fantastic day playing in the park, digging in the sand, meeting lots of different animals (even dinosaurs!) and much, much more!!

Please see our photo album below….

Petting a Skunk!

Feeding time!

Learning about the Tortoises

Digging for Dinosaur bones!

Time for take off!

Getting up close to the Dinosaurs!

Playing in the sand

They all loved the Dinosaur Train!

Say Cheeeeese 🙂

A step through time – The Dinosaur Experience

Enjoying ice lollies in the sunshine!

Meeting the Lemurs!

‘Look how big it’s tongue is!!’

Learning about what Guinea Pigs eat

Look out behind you!!

The children really enjoyed the Lemur Walk

Beep Beep!

The Meerkats kept hiding in their tunnel, but they appeared in the end!

Exploring the Ice Age Museum

Our very own little Meerkats!

Go Kart fun!

Gingham children had another lovely sunny afternoon spent at Bunting Pre School. The children took turns on the climbing equipment and aeroplane before heading to the forest school to hide mini beasts! We had lots of fun and loved playing football !!!