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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…

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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…

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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…

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Healthy Eating and No Nuts Zone

We encourage healthy eating at Panda. We have a fruit breaks in the morning session and children bring in their own healthy packed lunch. Due to allergies within our setting – we are a NO NUTS zone we also discourage chocolate in lunch boxes. Visit the Change for Life website or take a look at…

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