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Embracing everything Christmas... 


Christmas has arrived at Storytellers; the children created their letters to Father Christmas and were lucky to have our wonderful postman collect them! They have been assembling beautiful decorations and enjoying Santa's post office while often dressed in various festive outfits, which always bring a smile to everyone’s faces. 


 


Meeting Father Christmas.. 




 


Christmas Magic .. 



Storytellers had a magical day visiting Father Christmas in his beautiful grotto; the children embraced everything on offer: riding reindeer, making snow angels, decorating gingerbread, and talking to Father Christmas and the elves. We enjoyed a delicious lunch together and even had chocolate cake to take home! 

 


Christmas Tree festival fun .. 

Yesterday morning, a few of our tiniest people were helped by some of our biggest people to decorate the Storytellers Christmas tree as part of the St Petroc Churches Christmas tree festival. Nursery and KS2 have been busy making decorations, which are now adorning the tree! It looks spectacular, and everyone can view their tree along with over 70 other beautiful trees in St. Petroc Church. It really is worth a visit as it looks amazing, or as one of our little ones said, ‘Wow…sparkly!’ 

 


Fantastic fundraisers.. 

 

This tiny fundraising team has smashed it by raising £80 to support Children in Need. They have baked, made posters, decorated cakes and eaten spare sweets to save us from tidying them up! Watching them sell their little cakes was a pleasure as they were so proud, and rightly so! Well done, Storytellers team! 

 


Early learning... 

  While making Poppy paintings for Remembrance Day, the Children can begin to explore British Values. As and Early years settings we are required to promote British Values actively to ensure our young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. British Values are embedded into everyday practice. Remembrance Day will help children make links between their lives, their freedoms, and the values in England. Democracy, Mutual Respect, Tolerance, Rule of Law, and Individual Liberty are the values that settings are expected to incorporate into their practice. They are learning about these values when:

* They make choices and decisions and know that their decisions and choices can make a difference.

* They begin to understand that everyone is entitled to have different opinions or feelings that may be different from someone else, but learning that this is ok.

* They begin to learn about the importance of being kind and respectful of similar and different people.

* When they learn about cause and effect and that actions have consequences

* When thinking about the freedoms that they have in the things that they enjoy doing every day. 

 


Diwali celebrations. 

Storytellers have been learning about Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, and many rituals and traditions during the event include light. Diya lamps are lit around the doorways and windows of people's homes. This symbolises the triumph of light over dark and welcomes Lord Rama home from the story of Rama and Sita. The children listen to a story about family traditions celebrating Diwali. They enjoyed creating their Diya lamps and decorating our entrance with Rangoli, a popular Diwali tradition –beautiful patterns made using colourful powders and flowers. People draw Rangoli on the floor by the entrance of their homes to welcome the gods and bring good luck!  

 


Fizz, pop, bang! 

This week, we continue our season's theme by investigating Halloween. This festival signifies the move from autumn to winter and is always a great favourite for young children.

 

We have enjoyed reading a classic this week, “Room on a Broom” by Julia Donaldson. The story of a witch, a group of animals who help her, good manners, friendship and cooperation was fun to read aloud because of its rhythm and rhyme and opportunities for the children to join in.

The children thoroughly enjoyed the potion Station today. They measured out bicarbonate and various coloured vinegars along with a variety of Halloween-inspired pasta shapes and then watched the results. They were totally immersed in the process, which created some wonderful learning opportunities as we talked about the reactions that happened and the words we could use to describe them.

The children carried on this passion for potions within their role-play area, currently themed as ‘Meg and Mogs’ house. There have been many magic spells and rhymes as the children explored roles together. Having a selection of pumpkins around the room has offered an abundance of learning opportunities, from size ordering and counting to mark-making in various exciting ways.

 We are excited to see what next terms learning adventures bring …

 


Spooktacular end of term.. 

 


Snack time around the fire. 

 


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