Weekly roundup 6 March 2026

📚 We’ve had a busy week at Springfield Bees. The children have really enjoyed our story of the week, Jack and the Beanstalk, taking part in interactive story sessions and helping to sequence the events on the whiteboard for example drawing the beanstalk.

🌷 To celebrate International Women’s Day, we created beautiful flowers and talked about how the day honours all women. The children also painted daffodils using real-life inspiration, which sparked some lovely conversations.

🐯 World Book Day on Thursday was a real highlight. It was lovely to see all the children dressed up and so excited to come and show us their outfits! Our Tiger Who Came to Tea themed tuff tray was a big hit with the children.

Reading and sharing stories is proven to bring children profound and wide-ranging benefits that can affect their health, wellbeing, progress at school and their creativity. It has a lifelong positive impact. Shared reading brings immediate benefits to families too. It supports bonding between children and their parents, carers or other family members, boosts parental positivity and improves children’s sleep.

Children’s brains experience the most growth in their first five years. In these early years, stimulation from books, and using books, stories and rhymes as a focus for playing, talking, and singing enhances the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth and development of children that extends far beyond childhood.

We know that if children experience early shared reading they are more likely to continue to read as they grow up. Reading for pleasure in the early years has four times more powerful impact on a child’s progress across the curriculum at age 16. Please visit https://www.booktrust.org.uk/ for recommendations and resources. Feel free to take books from our libary in the foyer and swap them for new ones when needed.

🌱We have also been carefully placing their beans into bags and will be bringing home a pinto bean to plant and watch grow, please share the childrens progress throughout the next few weeks.

🥪 Next week, our focus will be Fantastic Food and Shopping. We’ll be reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea, making sandwiches for snack time, and setting up our very own tea party for the children to enjoy.

We would love to welcome a parent or family member into preschool to talk to the children about Ramadan and Eid. Sharing experiences and traditions helps the children learn about different cultures and celebrations. If you would be happy to come in and speak to the children about how you celebrate, please let us know. We would really appreciate it.

Honeys parents - If you would like to take up any additional sessions next year, please do let us know by emailing us at springfieldbees@hotmail.co.uk. We will be happy to check availability and discuss this with you.

Bumbles parents - Please note and save the date our graduation this year will be on Thursday 16th July - time TBC.