There will be Den Building and Adventure Play in our fantastic garden with a different Bushcraft Activity each week.

Places are limited to ten children per session. Contact us now to book your space!

Phone: 07754 793644 or Email: ilkleypreschoolplaygroup@hotmail.co.uk

Friday 10th June – Bughouses

Friday 17th June – Stick People or Creatures

Friday 24th June – Mini Gardens

Friday 1st July – Wormeries

Friday 8th July – Crazy Face Plant Pots

Friday 15th July – Flower Petal or Leaf Sun Catchers

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Our theme for this last half-term has been ‘Celebrations’ and we have been learning about the many different celebrations there are at this time of the year. We drew firework pictures with chalk for Bonfire Night, made coconut sweets and handprint elephants for Diwali and clay Loch Ness monsters for St Andrew’s Day.

Our walk this half-term was to the Memorial Gardens, at the end of The Grove in Ilkley, for Remembrance Day. We took a look at the Poppy Wreaths and even managed to observe a minutes silence!

We’re sure your shelves and walls are jam packed after this half-term! The children have enjoyed making a large amount of varied crafts including: tissue paper poppies, ‘Thank-you’ cards and clay tea-light pots.

We have also participated in this year’s Bradford Libraries Rhyme Challenge. The children have learnt a new song each week and we hope you enjoyed listening to their performance at the Nativity!

And, of course, the children have enjoyed their usual free-play activities including getting some fresh air in the garden each day and learning to take turns at the computer!

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Last year we had a record turnout of pre-school children together with their parents, grandparents and siblings. It was a lovely occasion as we were all able to play indoors and outdoors and it gave the parents the opportunity to really explore the setting and to see what the children get up to.

As last year, we will have face painting, cake decorating, indoor and outdoor games. It’ll be fun for the family and a great opportunity for the parents to get to know each other better.

Tickets will be available to buy shortly at the pre-school. The ticket price is just to cover the costs of the refreshments that will be available to buy on the day.

We hope to see you there.

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