Issue September 2013

We learn by doing

We simply PLAY !

Message from Mrs. Sorela Neamtu Head T eacher

Dear parents, It is with joy that I am greeting everyone here at Little London Pipera, now that our community is weaving tighter relationships and is becoming more adjusted to school routine - we have been going through a month of inductions for the youngest ones, and not only!

The Little London Pipera staff has also taken this time to learn about new routines and settle in alongside children. This year, we are welcoming more than 72 children enrolled in all the age groups - their nationalities include Greek, Israeli, Spanish, Italian, Peruvian, Columbian, Guatemalan, American, Turkish, Irish, Lebanese, French, Portuguese, Brazilian, Lithuanian - all of them celebrating multiculturalism and contributing their priceless heritages to the school community.
Starting September, we set off to explore plenty of new initiatives for staff to work on with children to provide high quality education here at Little London Pipera. These plans include offering more training opportunities for staff, as well as taking learning outdoors to make the most of the new playground area and surrounding open areas. Teachers have taken the initiative to set up new opportunities for children's talents to shine and learn making them part of our extracurricular clubs scheme. Finally, I would like to wish everyone a wonderful year, full of learning opportunities and personal growth.

T he 5-6s

T he 4-5s

Our colour-coded classrooms!

T he 2-3s

T he 3-4s

PARENTS AS PARTNERS

Practice them

Our Home Corner looks fantastic!

Yummy food! Can we cook some for you?

We cut the fruit by ourselves

We learn by doing

COOKING TIME

Crunchy leaves are falling down to the ground

Paint and print

AUTUMN TIME

OUR CONSTRUCTION CORNER

Here we have investigated ways of putting parts together

T hinking skills and problem-solving

DISPLAYS are areas of experience. F rom them, children learn about CONCEPTS, SKILLS, ATTITUDES

SAND and WATER

T he READING CORNER

WATER PLAY

SING & SIGN (Mrs SOrela) 2-4s Wednesdays 13.15-13.45

LEARN WITH MUSIC 2-4s and 4-6s T uesdays & T hursdays 14.00-14.50

Singing fosters the development of your child's most important instrument, the voice, through vocal exploration, songs and chants. Moving develops body awareness, coordination and spatial relationships, through synchronized movement, creative movement, and simple dances. Playing instruments introduces a variety of musical timbres with percussive instruments such as rhythm sticks, jingle bells, resonator bars and more. Creating stimulates your child's imagination and encourages selfexpression with sound and movement. Patterning boosts your child's ability to think musically through the integration of basic rhythmic and tonal language. Listening cultivates your child's heightened attentiveness to sound discrimination. Exploring timbre, dynamics, tempo and pitch lays the foundation for conceptualization of elements of music.

Interpersonal skills

Expressing through MUSIC Imagination

Coordination, motor control and interpersonal skills

SPORTS T eam games and competitions

MUSIC encourages listening and coordination skills

Rhythm, pitch and melody Creative expression

A way of observing changes in materials and developing manipulative skills

Creative expression

Language skills

Cultural awareness

Expressing through ART

Role play Small world

NOW we have computers, back THEN we had typewriters

T he BLUE 3-4s and the GREEN 4-5s have celebrated F riendship Week

T hey sang and played together, they laughed and had a good time. T hey got to know one another, they talked about their friends and made new ones.

T he 5-6s

On our friendship chain, we wrote the names of our dear ones and of our friends.

T he Internationalization Consultant Helle Villekold and Ms. Mia Cidlik Christiansen from the F aculty of Education and Social Studies, Denmark visited our nursery for an exchange of good practice.

Vacation/Legal Holidays
Legal days Special events

Educational events

Training days