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Surrey Dance School comes to Panda

Surrey Dance School and the brilliant Miss Tarryn runs Ballet classes at Panda every Thursday 12:30 – 1pm. This term our amazing little Pandas have been princesses, pirates and dancing to swan lake. We have a watching class the last week of every term to let our Mums and Dads see how well our little…

Gymnacity runs fitness fun at Panda

We are so excited that George from Gymnacity is now coming into our nursery every Monday to run 15 mins of fitness fun for us. This week the children jumped as high as they could like Kangaroo’s and frogs, they slithered like snakes,  danced around to ring a ring of roses, and played a team ball game moving between…

I know 8 Nursery Rhymes!

Supporting pre-reading skills:  Research by Bradley and Bryant has demonstrated that the better children are at detecting rhymes, the quicker and more successful they will be at learning to read (Bradley, 1988c, Bradley & Bryant, 1983, Ellis & Large, 1987). In fact according to Fox in studies of literacy and child development, if children know 8…

Panda introduces Write Dance

Developing Pre-Handwriting Skills. We are so excited to be introducing Write Dance into our Nursery. In Write Dance we use movement to music in a variety of ways so that children can develop the physical skills needed to support their handwriting skills. It is also an excellent way of building confidence in all children – whatever their…

People who help us

We are very grateful to all parents for the support we have had this term for our theme ‘ People who help us’. We have been delighted to welcome a nurse, a fitness instructor (Gymnacity), a Lollipop man and we are going to visit Limpsfield Post Office to find out all about the important job of…