On Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th March from 10.00 am until 12 noon, we are opening our doors and welcoming members of the local community into our garden, as a part of national ‘Food for Life Grandparent Gardening Week’. All gardeners – especially grandparents – are invited to come along and help the children with the […]
We really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day last Thursday. Everyone enjoyed dressing up and showing us their favourite books. We had a fabulous Singing Mermaid (Author: Julia Donaldson) and Hermione Granger (from the Harry Potter books. Author: J K Rowling) here to play. Can anyone guess who our manager Tracy came as? (See answer below.) The children also had some […]
Here’s a fun activity to do with your children that’s very quick, simple and satisfying! We’re calling it ‘Sensory Slime’ and it needs only 2 ingredients: PVA glue and Almat Non-Bio Gel (from Aldi). Simply mix double the amount of glue to gel in your preferred quantity. Here’s what the children thought of our slime this […]
We have made a healthy snack today of Carrot and Sultana Dropped Scones from the Change4Life website. The children really enjoyed them and will be taking home the rest to share with their families. If you would like to try them at home for a healthy alternative to crisps or biscuits, please click on the link. https://www.nhs.uk/change4life-beta/recipes/carrot-and-sultana-drop-scone
At Ilkley Pre-school we love to go out on Explorer Walks around Ilkley and out and about in the local community, as often as possible. Last week, we made one of our regular trips to Ilkley Library. This year we have been on numerous Explorer Walks to: Ilkley Tarn – to feed the ducks some frozen […]
To celebrate the RSPB’s Big Garden Watch last weekend, we have been learning all about birds this week. The children had fun making a pine cone bird feeder – but they didn’t like the smell of the lard at all! Click on the link below for instructions of how to make this easy birdy treat […]
Our lovely Karley left us last week for pastures new. She has been a great asset to our team and will be sorely missed. Here and some of her best bits!
OUR BANNER IS BACK! It’s a bit bruised and battered and will have had a very interesting journey, if only it could tell us! With a bit of TLC it will be back to it’s usual bright self and proudly displayed again outside. Thank-you very much to Anne-Marie from “just up the hill” for dropping […]
We have been looking forward to this trip for months and it did not disappoint! The production was full of lots of catchy tunes and great live music, that the children all enjoyed singing along to. They were all very brave and not scared at all of the great, big bear! “We were not not […]
Has anyone seen our big, yellow banner? It usually hangs outside our pre-school to let everyone know where we are but appears to have flown off in the very windy night, on Tuesday 10th January, and we haven’t seen it since. If it landed in your garden or a patch of land near you, please could you contact us and […]