We’ve had a lovely and engaging time across all rooms, with the children showing curiosity, creativity, and growing independence. Here’s a snapshot of what everyone has been up to...

Jelly Beans

The children have been busy exploring playdough, cornflour, and paints. They especially enjoyed experimenting with colour mixing, discovering that yellow and blue make green!

Some children explored painting in a sensory way, using their hands to dab paint onto large paper for free creative expression.

At the playdough table, a group worked together to create a train using different tools, showing great teamwork and imagination. Staff supported this by encouraging key vocabulary such as poke, pull, push, and roll, while also helping develop fine motor skills as the children rolled playdough into balls.

We are also encouraging independence. Children have been washing their hands before snack, choosing their own food, and pouring their own drinks. It’s been wonderful to see such high levels of engagement, involvement, and wellbeing across the group.

Jelly Tots

Staff and children have really embraced a slower, more thoughtful approach to play, in line with our setting’s ethos. The children have enjoyed spending quality time together exploring different resources, sharing ideas, and following their interests.

Out in the garden, they explored nature, based sensory activities, and they developed fine motor skills using pincers to pick up small pieces of orange peel within the outdoor messy tray.

In the mud kitchen, the children have loved practicing skills like tipping, pouring, and filling containers with water and flower petals, great for both coordination and imaginative play.

Babies

It’s been a calm and peaceful time in the baby room, allowing lots of focused exploration.

The babies have enjoyed investigating different resources on the light boxes, noticing how objects respond in different ways. They have also been exploring new materials such as coloured tubes, experimenting with how to fit them into spaces and discovering new ways to use them, supporting early problem-solving skills.

We’ve also shared lots of quiet, meaningful moments reading books together. This has supported early language development, with staff asking simple open-ended questions and encouraging interaction in a relaxed environment.