MVC EDUCATION
Little Hands Karen
U3A
PLAY SCHOOL NOTRE ECOLE PLAYGROUP
Education SCHOOL LITTLE HANDS PRIMARY
VILLAGE COLLEGE
Melbourn Playgroup 01763 260964
Melbourn Playgroup Claire Armstrong and Jennie Riggs 01763 223459 07842 151512 Notre Ecole Janet Whitton 261231 Primary School Headteacher Stephanie Wilcox
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U3A (Univ. of Third Age) Chairman Tony Garrick 01223 510201 Village College Principal Simon Holmes
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We were very excited to be able to offer our families the opportunity to come to playgroup with their child for two ‘Wild Together’ sessions. The sessions ran on two Saturdays in January and we were really pleased that 13 families attended. Wild Together is all about supporting families in taking pre-school children out into their natural environment to be able to enhance their understanding of the wider world around them and develop the vocabulary they need to be able to talk about their experiences. The first session took place on a chilly, foggy morning. The first activity was collecting natural treasures to fill an egg box museum. Next the children collected different leaves and had a go at identifying them using a simple chart. The children then used the leaves to make leaf lanterns which involved sticking leaves onto the outside of a glass jam jar which can then be hung up in the garden. The final activity was collecting sticks and putting them into a tin can to make bug hotels. For the second session when the families arrived they were greeted by a camp fire, which was lovely as it was a very frosty morning. The first activity was making seed bombs, this was a little messy but great fun. To make a seed bomb the children mixed together half a cup of flour and one cup of soil then we added some seeds. Once it was all mixed up they made them into balls and put them in an egg box to keep until we are ready to put them out onto the ground, this will be after all the frosty mornings have stopped. The children then made kites out of a sheet of paper, string and a stick. Sadly it wasn’t very windy but with lots of running about we did get the kites to fly! The session finished by roasting a marshmallow over the camp fire and then making up our own stories using story cubes. Thank you to Heidi from PECT for running these session for us. We are really looking forward to developing our outside at playgroup too
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