The Longbarn Residents Association have kindly donated us a planter on the Longbarn estate as they strive for Britain in bloom once again next year. We have been given the responsibility to look after the planter outside nursery next to the shop. Today our pre-school children went out to plant bulbs
The children from Longbarn went on a shopping trip to Asda to buy some food items for Gez to use to cook our meals. It was very exciting as they got to ride on the bus to Asda making sure they thought about road safety and remained close to a practitioner during their trip out. […]
The children at Longbarn have been exploring the Autumn leaves in the garden helping to clear the garden brushing all the leaves into one area before having lots of fun playing in them, listening to the sounds they make when we stand, jump and walk through them. We also had lots of fun throwing them
Longbarn had created a Scooping Station with a range of materials and scoops to help promote ma thematic skills and language. They looked at counting scoops, filling and emptying containers independently and with practitioner support. In addition this activity helped to encourage and promote physica
Our pre school children are getting school ready and have been practising writing their names. They are attempting to hold the pencil correctly using the tripod grip and their preferred hand. We have been practising our letters in our name and those that are familiar to us to produce the correct let
At Longbarn our Nature Garden has recently had a little make over and the children have been exploring this. We have added a new feeding station for the birds, re planting of flowers and various plants and the dens have been recreated. The children have enjoyed exploring the Nature Garden this month
The children explored with a range of textures and shapes when playing with different cooked and uncooked pasta, threading penne pasta onto spaghetti and twirling pipe cleaners around the pasta twirls, we used lots of different words to talk about shapes, patterns and the texture of our creations. T
At Longbarn our children went out into our nature garden to help fill up all our bird feeders and put out fresh water for the birds. The children showed a keen interest in the birds and were happy to help feed them, they showed they could listen and follow instructions and also developed their knowl
At Longbarn we had a Christmas stay and play. Thank you to the parents who came along to our Christmas stay and play we are really pleased that you were able to share this experience with us. We had lots of different activities for everyone to explore including making our own reindeer food, playing
Longbarn’s Diwali celebrations we made Diva Lamps from clay and painted our finished pots , placed a candle in them and took them home, we also created firework Diwali pictures using straws and paint and made large Rangoli patterns with chalks and used our fingertips as paintbrushes and coloured i