Over the Easter holidays our very first teeny weeny tadpoles hatched!  The children will delight in watching the tadpoles wriggle and jiggle in our makeshift pond in the courtyard.  This real life experience will give us the opportunity to talk to the children about how to care for the tadpoles to make sure they grow into healthy frogs.  Ribbet Ribbet!

This term the children are going to be given plenty of real life activities to explore and investigate.  To get things started, Playgroup will be receiving a visit from the RSPB Rye Mead to give the children an hours interactive play called “It’s A Bug’s Life”, which will include hunting for creepy crawlies in our garden!  We will also have our very own live butterfly house with five feeding caterpillars and our ‘pond’ of frogspawn.  These wonderful real life activities and experiences will provide the opportunity for the children to show curiosity and interest in the features of living things.  We will encourage the children to describe and talk about what they see so they can begin to learn about change and patterns, similarties and differences and question how and why things work.
Links to the EYFS : Knowledge & Understanding of the World (Exploration & Investigation, Time, Place)

Its all change at Bengeo Playgroup – the Summer term will start with a splash of colour and a transformed room following the arrival of new tables, chairs and a wonderful children of the world circle carpet. The new furniture is courtesy of the funds raised at our annual Quiz Night held back in January. Our fantastic Fundraising Committee put on a fun-filled evening for the growns ups as well as raise an incredible £584 for Playgroup.

Sally, our Playgroup Leader, comments…

A makeover is just what the room needed and we can’t thank everyone enough for making it happen. We are thrilled with the new look and we hope you love the transformation as much as we do!