SNOW 30 November

Snow news......all centres OPEN - brilliant effort by al the staff....WELL DONE !! As St.Meriadoc School in Camborne opened late, we were unable to run our normal Breakfast Club there but were able to accommodate the children at our centres in Redruth, Cornwall College and Camborne.

Our Snow Policy is available in all centres so assume we are open unless the website and the radio updates tell you different!

Pictured right are some of the children in

Flying Start @ Camborne having fun in the snow!

29 Nov 2010 SNOW NEWS

08:30

Flying Start @ Cornwall College has had to close today as the College campus is closed, however, our nurseries in Camborne and Redruth are open and so parents can take their children there.

All other centres are open - well done everyone!

The Parents' Evening planned for tonight in Helston has been postponed until further notice and the Staff Meeting in Flying Start@ Penryn has been cancelled until further notice.

Parents Evening for Flying Start @ Redruth

At our recent Parents' Evening in Flying Start @ Redruth we focussed on communication and ran Makaton signing workshops with parents to show them how to sign like their children!

We also set out different activities so that parents and children could play together to improve their children's communication.

A fire in a brazier meant we all enjoyed toasted marshmallows, which was enjoyed together with carrot and lentil soup specially made by the children.

Sales of soup and hot chocolate as well as teas, coffees and special firework biscuits raised over £80 for the RNLI as part of our ongoing appeal. Well done everybody...now whats the Makaton for well done.......

RNLI and Flying Start @ Saltash

As part of our fund raising effort with the RNLI, the children from Flying Start @ Saltash were invited to visit the lifeboat station.

As you can see, we were even allowed inside one of the boats......great fun !

In total we have raised over £2,500 now across all Flying Start nurseries.

Well done everybody.

Flying Start @Cornwall College visit Rosewarne

Oh my word, can you see what are in the background.........COWS!

A group from Flying Start @ Cornwall College recently visited Cornwall College's Rosewarne campus where Flying Start are planning a new After School and Holiday Club for 2011.

Its a wonderful place to visit and will be a wonderful place to be based, so that all the other nurseries can visit.

Playing in the sand in Flying Start @ Marjon

Can you see the wonderful patterns that are being made in the sand in Flying Start @ Marjon

Environmental Club at Flying Start @ Marjon

The children from Flying Start @ Marjon have set up their very own Environmental Club to link in with our Green initiatives and healthy eating.

Here you can see a group in their wellingtons with their gardening tools planting vegetables which they will grow and then eat!

Flying Start @ Helston make a shelter

Look at this wonderful shelter the children from Flying Start @ Helston made.

They used the outdoor construction kit and then put the blue tarpaulin over the top - what a good idea!

How many are underneath?

Apple Pie for Flying Start @ Duchy

Verity , at Flying Start @ Duchy, brought in some cooking apples from the tree in her garden and asked if we could make something with them. We decided to make a yummy apple crumble and so each had a mat to cut on, a knife and a piece of apple.

All the bits of apple were put into a saucepan before they were heated up and stewed. Oh, and we put some sugar in too!

We then made our own crumble topping and put it on top of the apple - all in a cooking pot beore it went in the oven.

When it was done, we all had a taste and it was really yummy. Thank you Verity, or bringing in the apples and having such a good idea !