STAY & PLAY
Every Friday 9am to 10.15am Term-Time Only
A planned session for children under 5 who can enjoy a range of learning through play and
fun activities in a safe and stimulating environment.
This is a great opportunity for your child to familiarise themselves with our staff
in preparation for starting nursery.
The group is led by Mrs. Reynolds, one of our experienced Teaching Assistants
If you would like any further information, please call 01909 486374
Our provision includes:
Heuristic Play
Play Themed Weeks
Areas for development for 0-5 years
Songs and Rhyme session
See below some of our sessions that have taken place
The Easter Bunny arrived early at Stay and Play and left lots of egg-citing Easter themed activities. We had a cracking time and enjoyed eggs-ploring with our friends. See you all next week.
Today the children loved exploring animal footprints with sand, play dough and paints, amongst other activities like dressing up, climbing , reading and singing animal songs. It was lovely to see you and we look forward to seeing you all next week.
Happy hearts were everywhere today at Stay and Play. All the children had lots of fun exploring our heart filled activities. We hope you all have a safe and happy half term break. See you soon love Mrs Reynolds & Mrs Foye
This week we had fun playing with noodles, pancakes chopsticks and rice to experience Chinese New Year. The children loved tipping the rice and sharing the utensils and filling the bowls. We also had a new visitor to join us who we have missed so much. Can you guess who it was ?See you all next week
We were sea explorers again today. We made magic under sea pictures using white wax crayons and coloured paint wash and explored with the sea creatures and shells in the tuft spot. We even had Miss Amatt come to join us who brought along her young daughter and her 11 day old baby . Thank you for letting us have cuddles . We all loved seeing you and hope you can visit another day.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024
We had a blast today in Stay and Play. We made New Year firework art, played rockets and space in the turret spot. Some of us pretended to blast off down the shuttle whilst dressed up as astronauts. See you next week everyone.
Merry Christmas everyone. We had lots of fun on our last session of 2023. We played with balloons, alongside making Christmas collages, dressing up as Santa and filling his sack, dancing the ‘Christmas freeze with Danny Go ‘ and climbing up Santas chimney to go down the slide!
Thank you to everybody who has visited our Stay and Play sessions. We have loved seeing you all and have made lots of new friends. We look forward to seeing you all again next year in 2024.
Mrs Reynolds & Mrs Foye
Well what a wonderful wintery morning we had at stay and play today. We experienced touching real snow in the arctic tuft spot and exploring with the animals. Some children chose to make a winter scene picture using leaves, glitter paint, cotton wool and tissue paper whilst others chose to have a Christmas photo opportunity next to our lovely Christmas tree. We finished the session by singing Christmas songs ready for the festive season.
Children in Need
Today we had fun putting spots on Pusey bears eyepatch using paint dobbers and playing teddy bears picnic. Lots of children had fun making pudsey with the yellow play dough and exploring the different areas within the hall.
Twit Twoo
Our Owl handprints were so much fun especially when we got to paint our hands to make the print. The edible farm was very popular; I think it may have been the hot chocolate powder that was used for the muddy pig area.
This week our Stay & Play was Dinosaur themed. We had lots of fun making play dough dinosaurs, hunting for dinosaurs, painting dinosaurs, reading/singing about dinosaurs. We even became Palaeontologist when searching for dinosaur fossils in the Jurassic tuft spot. We hope to see you all next week.
SEPT 2023
A big welcome to everyone who joined us at Stay and Play. We all had a fabulous time with an Autumn themed morning, playing in the edible farm tuft spot, printing autumn leaves exploring the natural objects plus lots more.
We can’t wait to see you all next week . Stay Safe x Mrs Reynolds & Mrs Foye xx
We had a fabulous Mother’s Day Stay and Play. All the cards looked beautiful and were made with such love. Welcome to our new visitors today and we hope you both enjoyed your stay. NEXT WEEK CANCELLED SORRY ! So see you on the 24th all being well. Keep checking the schools calendar for updated information. Stay safe - missing you already !
Today at stay and play was an artic theme. We got to experience real ice and make polar bear pictures with our hands. In the sensory tuft spot we had real ice cubes and sugar lumps to taste which the children loved. Welcome to our new visitors today we hope you had a fabulous time. I had a wonderful time again this morning, especially when I got to paint our babies feet and have big cuddles.
Happy Pancake Day everyone. We all had fun mixing flour with real lemon and lime juice. Some children even chose to have a little taste to tickle their tastebuds :) Welcome to our new starters.We hope you had a lovely session. See you all next week. Be good and stay safe :)
Ahoy there me shipmates! Captain Reynolds ‘ere! Thank you for all visiting our Stay and Play session . You were all very busy playing and exploring the activities today and we had some great singing. Just to remind you there will be NO stay and play session next week but will be on again 11th Feb.
We all played well together this morning during stay and play. We shared the toys, played with our friends and had lots of fun. Great enjoyment was taken by all whilst we printed collaborative handprints on the big piece of paper to support Anti Bullying week. To finish off our session the children sang so well together to all their favourite songs. See you all next week .
We all had a spooky morning dressing up, exploring with a pumpkin and jelly, making sparkly witches hats, dressing up plus lots more.The children; and adults, especially enjoyed our spooky snack of witches fingers, finger nails along with juicy flies! Great singing today children too. Our favourites today were Farmer Ben, Hickerty Pickerty my Red Hen and the train station song. See you all after the October half term x Have fun and stay safe :)
Well the rain didn’t stop our Stay and Play children and grown ups. We all had fun playing with the instruments, making leaf paintings and experiencing warm glittery play dough.
Yet another great Stay and Play session. Thank you to everyone who came along to join me. We all had so much fun!
Thank you to everyone who joined our Stay and Play sessions this year. We’ve all experienced lots of different activities including different texture/senses, created amazing pictures, played with our friends, learnt nursery rhymes/songs with Mrs Reynolds and most importantly had lots of fun. Have a safe summer and we’ll hope to see you in September from Mrs Reynolds & Mrs Simpson
What a wonderful Stay and Play session ! We’ve had children balancing on planks, painting with spaghetti bundles, exploring in the edible construction site, flower arranging, baby footprints , sleeping amongst the calming smell of lavender, eating toast and last of all singing our favourite songs ! Thank you everyone for joining us especially to our newest member who didn’t want to go home as he enjoyed himself so much ( can you see which child didn’t want to go home amongst the pictures?) :)
Even though it was pouring it down with rain, the adults, children and babies still took the time to get ready to join our Stay and Play morning; and what a fabulous time we had ! Thank you everyone for joining us especially to our newest and youngest addition to the group
We all had fun playing with the Zoo themed activities including a special request of ‘baby shark’ during our singing session.
A few themed sessions taken place in Stay and Play
Happy Easter everyone ! We all had lots of fun with the Easter themed activities. After tidy up time we sang Peter Rabbit, sleeping bunnies and listened to the Little Nut Brown Hare story during our singing carpet sessio.
