School Highlights
More Space to Play in Nature
After much anticipation, our nature place extension is open!
Our children learn and play best in nature – and the students at PPN absolutely love it. This week we were excited to welcome students into the new extension to our nature play space.
The extension includes new climbing feature and opportunities to create and explore, including tumble bars, a net and log scramble and a meeting circle.
By the look of the photos below the kids have been enjoying themselves.
Little Giggles Storytime
On Monday morning lots of excited children from Littles Giggles Playgroup came across from the church hall to enjoy a special Storytime in our library. Mrs Blyde read a story about a dog called Arthur who lived in a pet shop and desperately wanted a loving home of his own. The children enjoyed interacting with the story, making animal noises and guessing what would happen next.
After Storytime the children had an opportunity to explore the library and read some more books with their parents and grandparents. Miss B dropped by with a very special visitor who got lots of attention, pats and cuddles! At the end of their visit the children took a special dog-themed craft activity back to playgroup to complete.
Our Playgroup Storytime was a great opportunity to strengthen our connection with our local community and share one of the many wonderful spaces that we have here at PPN. We look forward to having another Storytime with Little Giggles Playgroup again in Term 2.
Nature Play
It has been an exciting week in the Nature Play Space. Our brand new section of the Nature Playground has been opened, and the students have been very excited to test it out. It is a beautifully designed, natural space, that ties in with our existing playground. There are climbing bars, nets and an interactive climbing space where students can change how they want to ropes to interlock.
This week, our theme was Summer, to match the beautiful sunny weather. We have a beautiful new bamboo water trail that can be open ended and used in many different ways. The students had fun making little rivers, and then connecting all of the bamboo pieces together to make one big water trail. A water table with containers was also introduced to our space. Students mixed, poured and played all lunch time. Water is such an important source of life for us as humans, and a beautiful tool to use in play.
How can you use water play in your house this week?
