Girlguiding news

May 26^th was a very special meeting for Skye when she made her promise as a Brownie. Skye had been a Rainbow Guide and moved up to Brownies when she was seven. At the present one in four 7-9 year old girls are Brownies so you see the movement is thriving. Some of you will remember the Promise you made as a Brownie but the wording has changed slightly over the years:

I Promise that I will do my best,
to love my God,
to serve the Queen and my country,
to help other people,
and to keep the Brownie Guide Law.

Brownies still earn badges although the syllabus has been brought up to date. The Brownies themselves requested designer, computer, science investigator and number fun badges, although the traditional hostess, house orderly, swimmer and craft badges are still there.

The photo at the top shows the Brownies with the origami cats they made as part of the craft badge.

The uniform has changed over the years but the ethos of Guiding is still the same. Thanks to all the adult volunteers who enable Guiding to take place in Wellesbourne. For more information contact District Commissioner Kate Skinner 01789 842148.

St. Peter’s Tiddlers

This is our final half term before the summer break and we have been learning about people who help us. We began by celebrating the great job our Dads do by making Fathers’ Day cards and gifts. We then went on to meet our hard working refuse collectors as we learnt about recycling and composting. We made a worm world and made our pre-school more efficient at recycling by sorting different materials. Following visits from the fire service and the traffic police we themed our role play accordingly and had lots of fun playing firemen and policemen.

The second part of the half term has seen us team up with Ra Ra, the noisy lion from Cbeebies; the children have all had a DVD to take home to watch and we have been doing lots of great activities based around the four R’s, repetition, rhythm, rhyme and retelling. This is a continuation of the work we have been doing this year highlighting 2011 as the Year of communication. The children have also been learning to sign. Following staff Makaton training the children have been doing ‘singing hands’ since February. We have all enjoyed learning fun new songs.

Finally good luck to all the children who will be leaving for primary school at the end of July. We will miss you all tremendously.

Tiddlers Pre-school is based at the church rooms from 9.15-12.15 weekdays term time only. We are registered to care for children from 2 years 6 months. From the term after your child’s third birthday provision is free for up to 15 hours per week. However there are now very limited spaces for 2011/2012. If you would like a prospectus or would like to visit the pre-school, please call Karen on 07876 764160 or Claire on 01789 841091. In 2009/2010 we received an outstanding OFSTED inspection.

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