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Review - July 2007

The summer term has gone so fast. It hasn’t really seemed like summer with all the rain but we have tried to have a summer feel with the role play area being travel agents. Outside there is a beach hut and a seaside café and shop – selling ice creams!

Thankfully the weather was kind on us for our trip to Mary Arden’s house. The coach ride was very exciting on the way there and cosy enough for children to fall asleep on the way back. Once there we tried to find as many different farm animals as we could and then went on a really long walk. We were ready for our lunch after the walk –some of us were ready before. The missing gypsy caravans made room for us to have our lunch under cover – how convenient. After lunch we discovered how people lived a long time ago. The children loved the adventure playground. The highlight of the trip was being led by Lizzie Pearce in the dancing while we waited for our bus. The best moments are often the unplanned ones.

This term we have been looking at lots of different ways of moving. We started by looking at going on holiday and making sure we were safe in the sun. We thought about what we might take with us, how we would get there and where we might stay. We moved on to look at different types of transport. Jane conducted a transport survey with the children outside Playgroup. It was quite surprising how busy the road is on a Monday afternoon. Unfortunately the weather was against us for our trip to Compton Verney but we still made the biscuits and ate them at Playgroup.

 The children have enjoyed the moving ourselves topic especially the disco on Friday morning. The children were excellent at their keep fit exercises. We also talked about eating healthily and made the bread we were unfortunately not able to make on the trip.

We didn’t let the weather spoil our sports day and held the event in the church hall. The children were fantastic with everyone taking part, finding the right place to sit on the bench during the relay race proved a bit tricky. Thanks to our work placement student Laura for taking part. Playgroup staff tried really hard with the relay race much to the amusement of the playgroup children. Thank you to the mums and dads that were coerced by Marie to join in. The children love to see their parents taking part.

A big thank you to all who helped out as staff succumbed to the tummy bug. The staff would also like to thank everyone for their help, support and encouragement over what has been a very difficult year.

We would like to wish all the school starters all the best in their new schools. For those that will be returning to Playgroup in September we look forward to being in our new building – Helen’s Place. We hope you all have a happy summer break.