Nursery activities

The children's artwork at St Oswald's Pre-school Learning Centre so impressed a visiting member of the local council staff that it has been reproduced for the Co Durham town's residents to enjoy The children at St Oswald's have recently been creating their own ladybirds as part of a topic on minibeasts. They were highly motivated by their ladybird activities and, as they worked, they were able to cover many of the stepping stones towards the early leaning goals. As well as demonstrating their individual creative skills they counted spots, compared sizes and shapes, investigated ladybird features, read ladybird stories, sang...