Welcome to Explorers Class
Children start their learning journey at Sleights in Explorers Class. Our hardworking and dedicated team is made up of Mrs Kipling, Mrs Wharrick and Mrs Harrison, our Pre-School leader. Explorers children enjoy activities that stimulate and engage children’s interests and lead to spontaneous play.
Practitioners know the children and their strengths and areas for development. It is this excellent knowledge that enables children to establish excellent foundations for their time at Sleights.
Explorers Class is open from 8.50am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday during term time. We are very flexible at accommodating sessions to suit all families. This can include mornings, afternoons, or all day. Lunch is also offered for children.
In September 2022, we excitedly opened our brand new, purpose built, Early Years unit.
Clothes
We hope that children in Explorers Class will enjoy a variety of play – some of it messy! With this in mind, we ask families to consider the clothes that children in Explorers wear during sessions.
Key Worker
Each child in Explorers is allocated a key worker. The aim of this role is to oversee your child’s learning and development journey throughout their time in Explorers. This key worker will share key learning activities with children and report strengths and target areas to parents and families.
What’s the time Mr Wolf?
This week we are looking at time and routines. Our story book is called What's the time Mr Wolf? The wolf has a very busy day doing lots of different things. Listen to the story as Miss Idle reads it and we will begin today by making a clock. Do you have one around...
The Gingerbread Man
This week in Explorers we are reading 'The gingerbread man'.We are looking at 'dry' and 'wet' this week so this morning with the children that have been in, we have looked at all the different ingredients used to make gingerbread. The children had a feel of the dry...
Trying new food
This morning we read Handa's Surprise and looked at all of the fruits in our basket. Just before snack we took the basket of fruits to the table. Miss Idle took each one out and we looked at them to see if we could remember what they were called. We then had a guess...
People who help us
In Explorers Class we are talking about people who help us. Our week began talking about how Mummy and daddy help us at home. We then spoke about different jobs and people who help us. We have added some dressing up of different occupations to our role play area, such...
A special poem. Good bye Explorers!
Hello Explorers, I've found a very special poem that I wanted to share with you. We will miss you all and are very proud of you. Have a lovely summer. Miss Idle.
Can you feed the frog?
Miss Idle has made a frog using an old box and painted a frog on the front. She cut a hole out and added a flap for it's mouth. Can you roll a dice, count the dots and look at the numeral, then post that amount of bugs into the frogs mouth? Can you count out loud as...