Preschool

Unfortunately due to covid-19 once again the country has been placed in lockdown. The preschool remains open but many of our families have decided to keep the children home if they are able to do so. We have set up "pre school at home" for our pre school children who are remote learning, this will provide them with activities that will help them continue to work towards their early learning goals through fun, exploration and play. Please scroll to the bottom of the page "Spring Term 1" to access the preschool timetable for each week. Ms Eldridge and Myself (Mrs Gregory) will be available on the class dojo to answer any questions.  

Welcome to the preschool page 

For further information about our preschool, and details on how to register a child or arrange a visit please follow the link below:

http://www.holyinnocents.bromley.sch.uk/pre-school/

Welcome to Holy Innocents Preschool, our names are Ms Eldridge (Preschool Manager) and Mrs Gregory (Preschool Assistant Manager) and Mrs Vimal (Preschool Assistant). This is just a small part of all of the exciting things we do, we think you will enjoy sharing the journey with us and the children.

Week 1: The children have all really settled in well, especially the children that have joined us this September. To continue to help the children settle in our topic this term is "All about me" to help us and the children to get to know each other.

Week 2: This week we have talked about emotions, the children used circle faces and foam faces to express the emotions they were feeling.

Week 4: The children used mirrors to look at their reflections and make pictures of their faces. They talked with their friends about all of the similarities and differences they could see. The children will be making hand prints and self portraits that can be seen on our lovely welcome board in the preschool. 

This term our topic is "Festivals and Celebrations". The children will be talking about Diwali, Fireworks and how to stay safe, Remembrance Day, Hannuka The Jewish festival of light, Thanksgiving and of course the exciting start of Avent and lead up to Christmas we have lots of fun things to look forward to with the Nativity, Christmas jumper day and the Christmas party, but we will also be talking about the true meaning of Christmas and why we celebrate it. 

Week 1: This week the children talked about fireworks and how we can keep safe. They made their own rocket pictures using triangles and rectangle shapes and they made firework pictures using chalks.We made firework pictures with splatter paints which was great fun.

Week 3: This week the children have explored Diwali The Hindu Festival of Light, we have talked about the Hindu culture and what the celebration means. The children made Diwali lamps, Rangoli Patterns and garlands.

This week the children also explored physical movement, they used spacial awareness, balance, and over and under movements. They enjoyed their PE lesson where they completed the assault course that was set up for them. 

Week 6: This week marked the start of Advent, we have been talking with the children about the true meaning of Christmas and how we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

You may have noticed over the last few weeks the children have been singing Christmas songs at home, this is because they have been practising their songs for our very own preschool nativity.

We are all  starting to feel very excited about Christmas and we have been enjoying doing lots of Christmas activities. On Friday it was Christmas jumper day for the whole school and preschool all came in looking amazing.

Week 7: Well this week all the practising paid off and the children performed their story of the birth of Jesus to all of the parents and the rest of the school via Zoom and they was absolutely amazing....WELL DONE PRESCHOOL WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU! 

We hope you all managed to log on and watch them.

Myself, Ms Eldridge and Mrs Vimal would like to say how proud we are of our preschool children, due to COVID it has been far from normal, however with the children's resilience and enthusiasm and the fact they greet us with big smiles each morning it has felt as close to normal as we could get.

The children have worked really hard especially practising their nativity, the performance they gave on the day was outstanding, we received so many messages of praise from the teachers, children and our parents.

We would like to say a huge thank you for your kindness and generosity this Christmas, we appreciate all of your cards and gifts.

We hope you and your families stay safe and well this Christmas and we look forward to welcoming you all back in January.

Pre - School At Home

We hope you are all keeping safe and well and have enjoyed the Christmas break. Each week we will be putting a timetable of different activities for our pre school children, please don't feel these are compulsory, they are offered so you as parents/carers have resources available to keep your children's little minds busy each day whilst having to stay home and unable to attend pre-school.

There will be different activities each day that cover the areas of the Early Years Foundation stage framework, this will provide the children with the opportunity to continue to work towards their early years milestones through play and exploring, using all of their senses to understand their world. 

Some of the phonic activities are focused towards our older children that are leaving in July to move up to Reception class, but please feel free to explore them with the younger children too.

Please send us your pictures of the children participating in any the activities they have been doing at home via the dojo or by email, we will post them on here, we hope this will allow you to get ideas from each other and give the opportunity  for your children see their friends  and see that they too are staying home and keeping safe.

Week Commencing:  04 January - 08 January 2021

Books of the week:  Back to Earth with a Bump, The Owl that was afraid of the dark, On the moon, A Tale of two feathers and Good day, Good night.

Understanding the world: Space - Night and day

* Attachment for the activity in the folders below

Week Commencing:  11 January - 15 January 2021

Books of the week: If I was and Astronaut, Hey ho to Mars we go, Peppa in Space, Solar System, Space Rocket Ride.

Understanding the world: Space - Solar system, Planets and Stars

* Attachment for the activity in the folders below

Week Commencing:  18 January - 22 January 2021

Books of the week: Cool Cars, Little Blue Truck, Tremendous Tractor, The Noisy London Bus and Mimi and Moto The Motorcycle Monkeys.

Understanding the world: Transport - Cars, Trucks, Lorries, Buses and Bikes.

* Attachment for the activity in the folders below

Week Commencing:  25 January - 29 January 2021

Books of the week: The Goodnight Train, Magic Train Ride, Whoosh and Chug - A Tiny Train on a Mighty Mission, Brilliant Boats by Tony Mitton & Ant Parker and Super Submarines by Tony Mitton & Ant Parker

Understanding the world: Transport - Trains, Trams and Boats.

* Attachment for the activity in the folders below