Gillingham Early Years

It’s been a ‘very’ glittery week! 🌟 We have been bauble making, stocking making, snowflake making, paper chain making, Christmas tree making, bell making, and so much more. We have also been exploring Christmas gloop. The children set up their own bus ride, and having been enjoying playing in the gingerbread house, yesterday it played the part of a holiday home in north Norfolk! 😊 We have been using the Ipads to look up the reindeer name, which led onto looking up Lego chara...cter names. The children have been showing their hearts of gold towards their friends this week, it’s been so lovely to see. We have also been practicing our song and actions ready to perform to you all 🎤 The library bus came to visit us, and we have been enjoying lots of Christmas books 📚 Happy weekend everyone See you next week 🎅🏻🎁🎄😊
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🎤 It’s a most wonderful time of the year! 🎤 🎅🏻🎁🎄 We have started to get very Christmassy this week, making lots of decorations for are our gingerbread house,it is coming along so nicely, the door will appear on the 1st of December. Thank you to everyone so far who have taken time to make creations with their children to add to it, we are super impressed,please keep them coming we need it completely covered!🍬🍭🍬🍭 Along with all the busy work going on creating, we have been look...ing at maths development. We have been taking part in shape hunts around the setting, fishing for shapes and numbers, counting and grouping our favourite toys, adding shape and number fun into our play and tidying, playing in the snowy gloop, making snowmen advent calendars, creating fruit kebabs, counting and sorting as they sat and enjoyed lots of fruit, also looking at healthy foods too. Looking at quantities in the mud kitchen. Along with all this the children have had lots of fun with their friends.😊 Happy weekend to you all. See you next week
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🎄🎅🏻🍭🍬🎁 🌟💖💙 😁Look what’s starting to appear........... we are soooooooo excited 😊

This week it’s been literacy week. We have been having fun with activities based around books and rhyming fun. The children have been playing rhyming dip in the well, and looking through the rhyming string basket, exploring song sack props, singing their favourite songs, drawing their houses, families, rainbows and much more and we have been hearing about what they are drawing and what marks they are making, practising writing their names, and one of our little stars wrote, c...at sat on the mat, through sounding and blending letter sounds.Lots of penguins have been created too. We had a fab yoga session during the week too. Today we were lucky to have good timing of finding policemen in the carpark after they helped a broken down car with a tow truck. We went out to say hello and they put their sirens on for us and had a chat. Happy weekend 😊see you all next week
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“ Were going on a den build, we’re going to build a big one.......

The week began with lots of physical activities, Obstacle courses, self care, writing, pen control, building and threading Cheerios on pipe cleaners to make bird feeders. We finished on Friday, having fun and raising awareness and funds for Children in Need. Thank you to everyone that donated, we raised just over £14, added to the money we raised from the bag to school, we were able to make a donation of £20. Have a great weekend everyone.

Our Pudsey bears 😊

Friday children can come in on Friday (16th) with crazy hair for 50p to raise money for children in need, if they wish!!Please bring any loose change to cover Pudsey’s face. Thank youFriday children can come in on Friday (16th) with crazy hair for 50p to raise money for children in need, if they wish!!Please bring any loose change to cover Pudsey’s face. Thank you

This week we have been looking at communication and language and the children have been telling us all all about fireworks and bonfires as they created artwork including mandala patterns. Puzzles, towers and den building has taken place - thank you for our den building donations and also to those who have uploaded on photographs of your outdoor dens - they look fab and like a lot of learning took place. The library bus came on Wednesday and the children selected the next supply of books for storytime. Today we made 3D poppies and talked about Remembrance Day.

A lovely first week back after half term looking at the children’s personal, social and emotional development. We have worked on sharing, self confidence and feelings. 😀☺️😔The children have worked together beautifully to make dens and try to get into the big hall through the bolted door!! We have had a spooky week with Halloween face painting, pumpkins, apple bobbing and lots more. One little girl was even brave enough to be mummified. 🍏👻We’ve also enjoyed listening to the children’s trick or treat stories. We also had a a visit from one child’s pumpkin, Bob!🎃 Have a great fireworks weekend, looking forward to seeing all your pics on Tapestry. Stay safe everyone.🔥💥🎉

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Our Ofsted report is up. Thanks to my ladies for all you do.xx https://files.api.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5 0032866

Continuation of our weeks fun and learning in pictures.....

It’s been another busy and fun week, leading into half term. We have been looking at understanding of the world and expressive arts and design. We have been busy planning activities for the children to cover both areas this week and it’s been great enjoyment for all. The pumpkins have continued to be explored using all senses, cutting them, feeling them smelling and tasting!! They then got changed into a tunnel for the brio trains and even a minion! The children have been lo...oking at their families holidays and various transports, which led into a traffic watch in the carpark, this was so lovely. They have created their own treasure maps and then went on a treasure hunt, looking at their surroundings and exploring objects, wildlife, etc as they went. We created the ‘old paper’ using teabags and water at the beginning of the week and when dry we went on to the designs. While on our adventures a very large tractor tyre was spied in the woodland, we tried to get it for the children to help us role up into our main woodland area but we couldn’t budge it, so we are going to get more muscles and spades to help us get it where we know it will be fab for us. We also found the much loved chicken from the car park on our trail, the children were so excited, they have named him now, bless them. We have been enjoying some yoga and breathing exercises. Also musical bumps outside in the garden provide us with nearly a whole afternoon of entertainment. Next week is half term, we hope you all have a lovely week, don’t forget to think about den building! We look forward to seeing all your half term fun on tapestry and hearing about it when we get back. See you all on the week commencing 29th.
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If parents would like to contact us on Facebook regarding their children please feel free to do so via the GEY page rather than individual messenger. Thankyou all for co-operation with this.😁

A ladies ring has been handed in to us that a Grandad found in the carpark so if any of our lovely ladies are missing one just let us know

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My son absolutely loves it here, Staff are so caring and brilliant with the children would totally recommend!

Lovely, fun and caring staff. Brilliant selection of toys, games, books and play areas something for everyone.

Jake has loved every day he is at nursery since he started, it helps to know he is in a happy loving environment when we leave him. Thank you for helping to prepare my son for big school. Can't recommend Gillingham Early Years enough x

Great place and great people, both my children love coming here.its a shame they don't also run a first, middle and high school. In fact if they ran a college I would go! Keep up the great work guys.

Can't recommend highly enough it's like sending your child to their second home very caring and patient staff who have over a few weeks helped ease my daughter in to her new environment she has come so far in the short time she has been here looking forward to watching her grow in confidence and enjoy her learning journey over the next two years xx