Rainbow Stop Playgroup, Markethill, Co. Armagh

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Welcome to Rainbow Stop Playgroup.


We are based in Markethill, Co. Armagh, a small village with a wonderful community. Our Playgroup has a number of funded, full-time places available for children in their immediate pre-school year, and we are part of the preschool standardisation programme, offering each child 4.5 hours of preschool provision per day. We endeavour to provide every child with a high-quality play-based learning experiences to support and progress development within all six areas of the preschool curriculum, which we follow within our setting.
We are registered with Armagh & Dungannon Health & Social Services Trust and we are also a member of Early Years - The Organisation for Young Children and Young People.


All our staff are highly skilled and qualified in Childcare and Education and we have an Early Years Specialist who supports our work. The playgroup provides a nurturing and caring environment where our dedicated staff support each child to learn through their curiosities, inquisitiveness and early childhood experiences. Our environment reflects structure to stimulate learning skills and imagination through teaching, creative play and physical activities, encouraging all children to achieve their full potential educationally, physically, socially and emotionally.

 

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🌟 2 days left to book 🌟 Thank you to everyone who has already booked places on our Easter Egg Hunt. We are delighted with the response. We have some places remaining, if any additional friends, family, childminders or prospective families would like to join us on the morning please book your place through the link below. https://www.paypal.me/RainbowPlaygroup Remember to add a name and how many participants you are booking for. See you all on Wednesday 1st April 🐣🌸
🌿 Let's go outdoorsπŸƒ This week we have been busy in the garden. We completed a Spring check on our compost bin, and found we had plenty of compost ready to use. The children enjoyed lots of messy fun ensuring the roots of our plants had deep layers around them to protect new growth. Little giggles soon turned into squeals as the children followed their curiosities to discovery our compost was full of spiders, beetles, woodlouse and worms πŸͺ²πŸ•·πŸͺ± A great ecosystem 🌎 The children have also loved using our rain water butt in the Mud Kitchen to freely access their own water as they play and have also been using our pruned shrubs imaginatively, as they've explored the smell and touch of natural living organisms to make soups and teas for each other 🌱
πŸ’« Two fantastic job opportunities πŸ‘ Please see below for further details
We hope you can all join us for our fantastic 🐣 Easter Egg Hunt 🐰 in Gosford Forest Park. This event is open to all friends and family of Rainbow Stop, please see our poster for the finer details. Places must be pre booked to aid the organisation of this event. Booking can be completed through our PayPal link: https://www.paypal.me/RainbowPlaygroup Please ensure to add a name and how many participants the booking is for, this will be used for registration on the day. Last bookings for the event can be made up until Friday 27th March. We want to say a massive thank you to Heather Gray for kindly organising our clue sheets for the hunt, and also to our wonderful committee who will be providing the refreshments on the morning.πŸ‘ We would love to see you all there ✨️ πŸ“§ For any further enquiries about this event please email us at: rainbowstopplaygroup@hotmail.co.uk
A very cute little Friday visitor πŸ‘ Special thanks to the McCombe family for organising such a lovely visit this morning with their 4 day old lamb. This was the perfect introduction to our Spring learning around baby animals and everyone was delighted with their lamb cuddles πŸ‘¨β€πŸŒΎ
πŸ’«World Book Day - Catch up.. Last week we celebrated World Book Day with a week of child led activities. πŸ“š We explored baking through the 'Little Red Hen' story, making wheaten loaves for snack πŸ˜‹ We made our own porridge after exploring how Goldilocks ate all baby bears porridge 🐻 and finished off on Friday by decorating some tasty Gingerbread men, who were ate by some pre-schoolers, not the fox 🀭 Practicing lots of listening and reciting skills within our learning we also developed the physical abilities to pour, squeeze, stir, and weigh as we worked with ingredients. Our movie night on Thursday raised a fantastic Β£100. Thank you to everyone who supported us to raise these very worthy funds for developing our new extension to our outdoor provision πŸ‘πŸ‘
Julia Donaldson animated Movie Night at playgroup to celebrate World Book Day, and raise wonderful funds for our little school. Thank you to everyone who came along, popcorn cones and sweeties always make for great fun πŸΏπŸŽ‰ Thank you to our imaginative committee for helping organise and run this event tonight, all these smiles tell us it was a huge success πŸ‘πŸ˜
Rainbow Stop Pizzeria was open on Friday morning πŸ• A wonderfully interactive small group time for everyone, and pizza toppings galore. These pre schoolers sure know how to rustle up a Friday night tea πŸ‘©β€πŸ³πŸ‘¨β€πŸ³ Thank you to everyone who sent us your photos from home to share, we love seeing your cooked result πŸ‘πŸ’«