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. Our Early Years Social Worker visits and carries out an annual inspection. We are 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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🐢 Look at our very special visitor who is coming to see us tomorrow at playgroup. Archie is a lucky boy getting all his pampering tonight. We know there are lots of excited little faces in anticipation of his visit 🐾 We hope you are ready for all the excitement Archie, Daisy & Karen ❀️🦴
✨️With our fantastic movement toward standardisation, we are now expanding our team, with the opportunity of two new and permanent roles: ⭐️ Playgroup Assistant - 30 hours per week ⭐️ Catering Assistant - 10 hours per week If you are collaborative, nurturing and passionate we would love to have you on our team. πŸ“§ For more information please contact: rainbowstopcommittee@yahoo.com Please specify the job role which you require more information for. We look forward to hearing from you. πŸ“… Closing date 30th March. ➑️Please share to help us find the perfect people for these wonderful roles.
Perfect little white smiles 😁😁 Continuing our topic, this week we have been learning about dental hygiene. After grouping and identifying healthy and unhealthy foods, we explored the amounts of sugar that some food and drinks contain. We weighed the sugar, exploring the concepts of more and less, and discussed the reasoning and effects to support the children's understanding around the importance of tooth brushing πŸͺ₯ We then explored this through a fun project; using paints and recyclable materials, each child made their own teeth. We used black playdough to represent the sugar and plaque on our teeth, and visualised how brushing removes this and keeps teeth healthy. Each child took home a new tooth brush and toothpaste, and their fab projects to show off their learning at home this weekend πŸ¦·πŸ‘
Pancake Day πŸ₯ž Flour, eggs, milk, chocolate spread, & jam... For breakfast, lunch and dinner, our little bunch loved every bite πŸ₯žπŸ‹πŸ«πŸ―
✨️ World Book Day Fundraiser ✨️ We know you've all been waiting for this one πŸŽ₯ For current pre-school children and their siblings, get your pyjamas on and come for a Move Night in playgroup with us! We cant wait to see you all there πŸΏπŸŽ‰
Happy mid-term break. We had a lovely morning making our heart shaped chocolate strawberries πŸ“ enjoying our red themed snack, squeezed in some dance offs, and musical chairs in partners 🫢 Finished of with some sweet treats, thanks to Daisy for bringing all her friends Valentines chocolates 🍫 ❀️ We think your little Valentines will be spoiling you all this weekend πŸ˜‰πŸŽ
Continuing our February topic around Health, today at small group time we made smoothies πŸ‰πŸ₯πŸ“πŸ« The children explored some unfamiliar fruits and vegetables through taste, touch and smell. With all of the children excited to try flavours which were new to them πŸ‘πŸ‘ Joanna's group loved their red pepper πŸ«‘ Gillian's group used lots of pineapple 🍍 & Stephanie's group were very inquizitive about the stone in the middle of their mango πŸ₯­ ❀️ Red Day - Non uniform day tomorrow & lots of Valentines fun❀️
Party time πŸ•ΊπŸ’ƒ Valentines Disco over & out πŸ™Œ Thank you for saving all your dances for us, very spoilt teachers, with our beautiful roses as well 🌹 Keep your eyes peeled for our next night at playgroup, we have a feeling you are all going to love this one as well πŸŽ₯ Permission given for all photos shared πŸ“Έ & aren't they just the cutest! ❀️✨️
🎨Our very artistic pre-schoolers πŸ‘πŸ‘ During small group time this week, the children have been designing and crafting their own picture frames to take home. They all expressed wonderful effort and imagination, as they discussed together what they envisioned theirs to look like and what colours or shapes they used πŸ–Ό We have also been exploring pre-writing skills and experimenting with pencil grasps; using a variety of materials ✏️ Please remember to bring your bottles for our new learning project, starting next week βœ‚οΈπŸ–Œ