We wanted to share Janet Lansbury’s article with you about supporting creativity and give you a little insight as to why children are not coming home with ‘perfect’ pieces of art pre-planned every session by the staff. Sometimes we support and guide their creations, but we realise the real learning takes place in the process…
Why are our children so bored at school, cannot wait, get easily frustrated and have no real friends? Victoria Prooday an occupational therapist has written an interesting article about how children come to school emotionally unavailable for learning because of our modern lifestyle. View full article: http://yourot.com/parenting-club/2016/5/16/why-our-children-are-so-bored-at-school-cant-wait-and-get-so-easily-frustrated
A big thank you to Ann Fraser who ran a Mindfulness session for our team at our September staff meeting. It was really interesting to learn how with very simple, short exercises we could introduce mindfulness into our lives and help to manage stress and improve our well being. We are looking forward to working with…
I’m so proud of the Panda Team – they are more than Early Years Practitioners they are super heroes! Dedicated to achieving our aim of supporting all children to aim high and achieve great things. Ali x
This term we have been growing our own fruit and veg in our allotment patch. We have also been cooking and enjoying eating it at snack time. We’ve grown strawberries, green beans, potatoes and garlic (which we’ve made into garlic bread!). The children have loved being involved in the whole process from planting, watering, watching them…