We held a special Easter Eggstravaganza and Crafternoon event open to the whole community. It was a fantastic afternoon filled with crafts, scavenger hunts, games, face painting and of course a special appearance from the Easter Bunny! A huge thank you to our staff team and parent volunteers that gave up their time to help raise funds for the pre school and put on such a fun event!

The children had great fun hopping their way around the obstacle course, testing their balance skills, going through, up, over, under and down various tricky obstacles whilst dressed as bunnies! The children raised an impressive £308 for our charity pre school. Thank you for all who sponsored our little bunnies and for cheering them on around the course! A special thank you to the Easter Bunny who also hopped in for a special visit!

We had a lovely afternoon inviting our Mummies, Nannies and Grandmas in to Pre School to take part in a variety of activities with us. We decorated biscuits, made heart and flower decorations, made a mini Mummy puppet, planted a plant and enjoyed some cake ! We loved spending time with our loved ones and letting them know how special they are to us!

We had so much fun being scientists for Science week and taking part in lots of experiments including making raisins dance, making it rain inside and making slime! We did lots of research too finding out fun facts about space in particular!

Lots of squashing, squeezing, pinching, twisting, turning, snipping, wrapping and mark making! We provide a variety of activities to develop fine motor skills because they help children gain independence and prepare for key life skills - all whilst having fun! Strengthening the small muscles in the hands and fingers enables children to manage everyday tasks such as dressing, using tools, and feeding themselves and of course prepare them for writing!

We celebrated Valentine's day by creating cards for those we love, cooking up a storm in the role play café and mud kitchen at Forest School and holding a special Valentine's themed cake sale. We even made some jam tarts to sell! Who do you love?

We have been learning all about Lunar New Year, looking at traditions and activities associated with this special festival celebrated world wide. We had a go at writing Chinese numbers, drawing dragons, more mark making with scratch art horses for the year of the horse, making lanterns, filling lucky red envelopes with coins, making delicious pretend noodle dishes in the play kitchen, trying out chopsticks and of course trying some egg fried rice and prawn crackers with our s

We do not mind the wet weather here at TVPS as it means we have plenty of mud to explore! We love seeing all the new flora and fauna the wet weather helps to thrive too!

We marked 'National Penguin awareness day' with lots of fun learning themed around these wonderful birds. We looked up lots of facts, crafted them both small and large scale, danced like a penguin and explored their habitat through arctic themed tuff trays and freeing penguins trapped in ice.

The children were so excited to see snow, we made tracks and marks in the snow, crafted snowballs and mini snowmen and tried to catch snowflakes on our tongues! Snow makes the best blank page!

We have been enthusiastically spotting and identifying birds this week as we took part in the big school garden bird watch. We enjoyed finding out different facts about birds, crafting birds and role playing in our very own bird hide! Next week our Forest School children will be making bird feeders to help keep the birds thriving through the winter!

We enjoyed sharing our Christmas performance with our families, visited Church, decorated the Pre School, created penguin biscuits and taken part in lots of festive activities! Merry Christmas everyone! Singing our Christmas songs!

December brings lots of Christmas themed fun! We have played with 'snow', decorated our tree, written letters to Father Christmas, sewed some Christmas stockings, danced to Christmas music, listened to Christmas stories and of course practised our Christmas show ready for our families to watch next week!

Every week we have a letter focus, this week the letter was 'T/t'. Lots of fun learning and playing opportunities linked to our letter of the week. T is for...train, t-rex, tree, teeth and many more! The Tiger who came to tea!

We have been learning about road safety week and included it in lots of our activities. From driving cars, mark making with vehicles and spotting tyre tracks, scooping and pouring with diggers and even a special traffic light themed snack!

This week we have celebrated 'World Nursery Rhyme week'. Of course we have been singing lots of songs but also used nursery rhymes to help us learn new vocabulary, practise counting forwards and backwards, build and construct and practise mark making and crafting skills, Can you spot the Nursery rhymes we learned about this week?

Each week Claire comes to teach French and we really love her sessions. This week we have been practising how to introduce ourselves and say how we are feeling in French. We also counted to 5 and listened to a story in French too!

Children created a large poster filled with printed poppies which we proudly displayed in the window to show our respect for all the members of the armed forces who fought in the past and those serving now. We ensure we talk to the children in an age appropriate way and help them understand significant events and think about why we see poppies at this time of the year.

Lots of fun learning about Bonfire Night including making firework printed pictures, using our shape knowledge to create rocket shapes and even making our own edible sparklers! Sensory mark making!

This week we have been learning all about Diwali. A fantastic opportunity to celebrate cultural diversity and encourage the core values of tolerance and respect. We have enjoyed making special rainbow toast to add to our snack bar, created Diya lamps, had a go at henna style hand decorating, danced to Diwali music with colourful scarves and used books and puppets to learn more about this amazing festival! A colourful Diya lamp!