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Hello Autumn!

We are having so much fun learning all about the season of autumn! As part of our learning, we enjoyed a lovely autumnal walk around…

Space Themed Day!

Following our children’s interests is one of the biggest parts of our teaching at preschool! Recently, some of our children have shown a keen interest…

Our Autumn Walk

We explored our local area, collected natural treasures and enjoyed spotting the signs of Autumn!

Pumpkin Cafe

The children have been loving our autumn themed pumpkin cafe outside.

Hello Yellow

We celebrated Hello Yellow Mental Health Day, learning about feelings, being kind and looking after ourselves.

Library Visit

We enjoyed our first Read and Rhyme session at the library.

Road Safety with Ted

We had a special visit from Elaine and Ted from the Road Safety Team.

Exploring Nature

We have been investigating leaves, mini beasts and changes in our environment.

Recycling Week at St Marks Preschool!

Last week we spent time promoting Recycling Week in preschool!Recycling is a really important part of what we do at St Marks Preschool and forms…

Our space-themed day

Following the children interests, we made rockets and explored the planets.

Recycling Week

Sorting food waste and recycling is part of our everyday routines.

Victoria Park garden plot

We have revamped our community garden plot.

National Fitness Week!

This week we’ve been promoting National Fitness Week with lots of fun ways to get our bodies moving! We’ve enjoyed obstacle courses, yoga and even…

Our First Stay & Play of the Year!

Last week we enjoyed our very first Stay & Play session of the year! As we do every year, our September Stay & Play is…

Intergenerational Visits!

This week we had the absolute pleasure of visiting the lovely residents at Age UK for one of our intergenerational visits!We were so excited for…

Democracy Day!

Today we have been celebrating Democracy day in preschool! Every day in preschool, we encourage the children to share their ideas, make choices, listen to…

World First Aid Day!

We’ve been celebrating World First Aid Day at St Marks Preschool! We’ve been helping the children learn all about first aid — what it is…

JO JINGLES IS BACK!

This week we have been so happy to welcome back Fran and, of course, her red and yellow mascot, Jo Jingles! For anyone who doesn’t…

Our First Week Back!

Our first week back of a brand new preschool year! We can’t believe we haven’t even been back open for a full week yet …

Graduation 2026! (Part 2)

As so many of our children are absolutely loving K-Pop right now, our Graduation Party simply had to be K-Pop themed! 💜🎤✨ And if you…

Graduation 2026!

As if we hadn’t already had enough fun, as soon as lunch had finished, a double-decker party bus pulled up outside ready for even more…

Graduation 2026! (Part 1)

We started the day with our Graduation Ceremony! This was a very special celebration where we invited our families into preschool to look back on…

Jo Jingles Graduation!

What a fantastic way to end the term with our final Jo Jingles session yesterday! The children absolutely adore these sessions each week, and we're…

England Theme Day!

Today we have had an England theme day in preparation for tonight’s semi-final. We enjoyed some football theme activities and even made our very own…

Special Visit!

Last week we was very lucky to have a visit from our Community Police Officers, Cat and Jack. They gave the children an insight into…

Jo Jingles Stay and Play!

Our last Stay and Play session of the term was a Jo Jingle session! It was a wonderful opportunity for our families to experience a…

Trip to Our Local Park!

What a wonderful afternoon we had on our trip to our local park! We started by visiting our community garden, where we enjoyed chatting with…

Litter Picking Challenge!

To celebrate Earth Day last month, we took part in a litter-picking challenge! We headed to the park and searched high and low for rubbish.…

Mansion House Visit!

Last term, we visited the residents at Mansion House for the final time that term. During our last session, we spent time saying goodbye to…

Nature Walk!

This week we went on a nature walk to the park. We explored the outdoors by making bark rubbings, using crayons to reveal the different…

Food Tasting!

Following our recent learning about healthy foods and what they do to our bodies, we enjoyed taking part in some food tasting sessions. We used…

Welcome Back! (April 2026)

It’s been so lovely to welcome everyone back after the Easter break! We’ve enjoyed hearing all about what the children have been up to. Some…

Sponsored Walk! (March 2026)

We are absolutely blown away to share that our sponsored walk that taken place on Tuesday for Violet’s Grace’s Gift has raised an incredible £1,485!!!…

Preschool Pantry!

Our pantry has been an amazing success for all our families at St Mark’s Preschool! 🥕🍎 We have loved providing a healthy meal idea along…

Holi!

We had a wonderful time learning about the festival of Holi last week! We began by watching a short clip to help us understand what…

World Book Day!

Last week we celebrated world book day! All the children look absolutely amazing, we loved all the costumes and the creativity! A big thank you…

Library Visits!

This afternoon, we enjoyed our weekly visit to the library. Each week, we have lots of fun catching the bus to our local library, where…

Sports Session!

This morning, we had a fantastic sports session learning all about rugby! We began by developing our hand–eye coordination and colour recognition through fun cone…

Snack Helper!

As part of our drive to promote independence and our caring and giving aim we have introduced snack helpers! Each day, selected children take on…

Kindness Jar!

To promote caring and nurturing in the setting we have recently introduced ‘The Kindness Jar’ at preschool. This is a special way for us to…

Our Preschool Clothes Bank Success!

This month, we launched our very own Clothes Bank as part of our commitment to sustainability — and it’s been a fantastic success! Thank you…

Mental Health Day!

This week, we have been promoting mental health awareness and have had a very busy week! We started the week with this as our focus…

Macmillian Coffee Morning!

Today we have enjoyed our first stay and play session of the year and not only was it our stay and play session but it…

Last Day Celebrations! (July 2025)

What a way to end the year! We had the BEST day at Farmer Teds to celebrate our school leavers! We had so much fun…

Graduation 2024!

Last week we said goodbye to our school leavers as we celebrated their graduation! It was such an emotional morning… seeing the children in their…

Election Day

In preschool we promote British Values on a daily basis. One of the British Values is “Democracy.” As part of promoting this British value we…

Pride

We have loved celebrating pride in preschool! We have encouraged everyone to think about the things that make us unique and celebrate each other! We…

Come on England!

Come on England! St Marks preschool have been getting into the football spirit and cheering England on ready for the match! We know you can…

Eid!

This week we have enjoyed celebrating Eid in preschool!

Safety Week - Road Safety!

To extend on from our road safety session in preschool we were visited by the road safety team at St Helens council who delivered a…

Safety Week - Fire Fighters!

We were privileged enough to experience a visit from the fire brigade as part of our Child Safety workshops! The firefighters came to preschool and…

Safety Week Continued!

This week we have had so much fun whilst learning valuable life lessons we hope our children will keep with them as they continue to…

Safety Week!

Today as part of our activities and experiences we have been providing to promote child safety week we have been fortunate enough to be visited…

First Aid!

Some of the St Marks team have been busy today, renewing their first aid training and refreshing their knowledge!

Happy St George’s Day!

We’ve had so much fun learning about and celebrating St George’s Day in preschool!

World Book Day 2024!

We’ve had the best day celebrating world book day 2024! We’ve spent the day bringing lots of our most loved stories to life! We enjoyed…

Celebrations! (February 2024)

What fun we’ve been having in preschool! We’ve been learning about and celebrating a few events this week! From pancake day, to Valentine’s Day to…

Rainbow Fish

Today, we have been learning about different emotions, talking about what we can feel and what makes us feel that way. We decided to focus…

Grinch Themed Day!

Today was our Grinch day St Marks Preschool! We enjoyed a Grinch themed snack, before exploring all our Grinch themed activities. We couldn’t believe it…

Santa Claus is Coming to St Marks Preschool!

This afternoon we had our Christmas stay & play and what a turn out we had!! A massive thank you to all of the families…

Happy Diwali!

We had so much fun celebrating the Hindu festival of lights yesterday! We came to preschool dressed in bright colours and enjoyed a variety of…

Remembrance Day! (November 2023)

Today we visited the cenotaph in the town centre to lay some of the children’s art work to show our respects for our fallen soldiers.…

We are back!

We have had the most amazing couple of weeks welcoming everyone back after the summer holidays! We have also loved getting to know all of…

Leavers Fest!

On Friday we said goodbye to our graduates 2023. Wow what an emotional day it was 🥹💜 We started off the day by inviting all…

Busy Term!

We can’t believe we’re approaching the end of another half term already! They say “time flies when you’re having fun” and that’s definitely true for…

Easter Fun! (March 2023)

We have had such fun over the last few days getting ready to celebrate Easter! We have been thinking about why we celebrate Easter and…

World Book Day 2023!

What fun we have had celebrating World Book Day! We LOVE stories at St Marks Preschool and so World Book Day is one of our…

Pancake Day! (February 2023)

We had a great time celebrating pancake day earlier this week! The children enjoyed playing and exploring pretending to make their own pancakes and then…

British Heart Foundation

This months stay and play had a “hearty” theme! We loved sharing some Valentine and heart themed activities and experiences with all of our families….…

Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year! “Gong hey fat choy!” What fun we’ve had today starting the Chinese New Year celebrations! We have loved enhancing our areas…

Christmas has arrived!

Christmas 2022 has arrived at St Marks Preschool and our elves are busy busy busy as they help prepare for the big day! The children…

Halloween Party!

We had a lovely day on Monday celebrating Halloween! Thank you to all our families who came to our stay and play session! We enjoyed…

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II

Today we are remembering and celebrating the life of Queen Elizabeth ll.

Start of term!

We had the most amazing week last week as we started a brand new term! We welcomed all our families back who we missed lots…

Graduation 2023

We are thinking of and sending lots of love, hugs and good luck to all our children who left us in July to start their…

First Aid

This week we have been so lucky to run a first aid session for our parents and carers. The session was ran by Amy and…

Sponsored Walk!

Today our St Mark’s family completed our sponsored walk! What a turn out we had…. Thank you so much to each and every person who…

Lunar New Year Celebrations!

Today we extended our Chinese New Year celebrations to the Mongolian Lunar New year! We want to so say a massive thank you to one…

Chinese New Year! (January 2022)

"Gong hei fat choy' or 'Happy Chinese New year!'. Today we began our Chinese New Year celebrations. As this is the year of the tiger…

Starting 2022 with lots of fun!

We love looking back on the photographs we have taken through the week! We never fail to suprise even ourselves at just much fun and…

First Activate Fun Session of 2022!

We have loved our first activate fun session of 2022! Today we learnt how to play rugby! We enjoyed warming up our bodies then on…

Nativity!

This week we had the privilege of preforming our Christmas sing song in St Marks Church! It was a truly magical morning and we are…

Frozen Day!

What a way to finish for the Christmas half term! We have has the most wonderful day enjoying our 'Frozen' theme! As you can see…

Breakfast with Santa!

Breakfast with Santa and Christmas party 2021 at St Marks Preschool today! It was such a lovely morning and every one has so much fun!…

Christmas has begun!

Christmas has officially arrives at St Mark's Preschool and it is definitely the most wonderful time of the year! The children have loved putting up…

Diwali!

This week we have been celebrating Diwali and bonfire night! We have enjoyed reading stories and using the internet to find out more information about…

We remember - Remembrance Day!

This week we have been learning about Remembrance day and supporting the children to understand what we were doing and why. We enhanced our play…

Outstanding Party!

This months stay and play session wasn't an ordinary stay and play session.. it was our OUTSTANDING stay and play party for all our families…

Food Bank Donations!

Our amazing families have been donating food items for the past few weeks since we started our Harvest celebrations. During these few weeks, we have…

Stay and Play!

This morning enjoyed our first stay and play session in over 18 months! A massive thank you to all our families who came this morning…

Halloween Party! (October 2021)

We had the best time at our halloween party this week! We was amazed with how fantastic everyone looked and really had the most fun!…

Autumn hunt

We have been continuing with our Autumn topic and had endless fun! WE had so much fun when we enjoyed a trip to the park…

Autumn leaves are falling down!

The children have loved learning all about all thing Autumn! Autumn leaves began to fall into preschool today. We used the parachute to represent the…

Activate Fun Session!

We love our activate fun sessions! We learn new skills and most importantly - have so much fun!

Class of 2021

Well that is it! Our graduates of 2021 have now officially graduated and what a day it has been! We have had the most amazing…

England Celebrations!

We have had a day full of England celebrations today! The children came into preschool wearing sporty clothes ready for a football themed day. The…

The Tiger That Came to Tea!

Today we practiced one of our important procedures. We we practice this procedure least once a term to ensure all the staff and children are…

Paediatric First Aid

The St Mark's Preschool team have been busy today taking part in paediatric first aid training. After a day of learning we are pleased to…

Garden Plot Visit!

This afternoon we finally got to visit our garden plot over in Victoria Park! It's been so long since we've been able to go over…

St.George's Day Celebrations!

Happy St.George's day! Today we have had lots of fun celebrating St.Georges day. To find out what is it and why we celebrate we used…

A world without words!

This morning we shared a very special book in preschool called 'can you image a world without words?'. It's a book about a little boy…

Celebrating Holi!

Today we have celebrated the Hindu festival of colour "Holi", as you can see, we had so much fun! We watched a video explaining what…

St Patricks Day!

We have had a great day celebrating St. Patrick's Day in preschool! We started the day by using a book and the computer to find…

Growing of our Chicks!

Its been such a lovely experience that we have been able to share with the children this week. As of today, we have seen 5…

Chick's Arrival

Today was a very egg-citing day in preschool! It saw the arrival of some very special chick eggs! We are very excited to be able…

World Book Day - 2021

Welcome Back! (February 2021)

We have had a fun filled first week back at preschool! This morning, we have had lots of fun making our very own bird feeders…

Valentines Day Celebrations

Today we have shared some lovely stories which have talked about the meaning of love, and who and why you might love someone. We have…

Pancake Day! (February 2021)

Pancake day falling in the half term was never going to stop us celebrating .. so today pancake day came early to St Marks Preschool!…

Online Safety Awareness!

Today we have celebrated 'safer internet day'. At story time this morning we shared a new story in preschool. The children really enjoyed the story…

Chinese New Year Celebrations!

Today we have started our Chinese New Year celebrations! We have had so much fun! We started the day off by reading a story and…

Mental Health Awareness Week

This week we have been busy promoting Mental Health. We have been so busy taking part in a variety of activities that has gave us…

Last Day of Term - Snow Man Theme Day!

The children loved our snow man themed day all based on the Christmas film 'Snowman and the snow dog'. We have had the most magical…

Christmas Party!

What a wonderful Christmas party we have had! There was festive fun and laughter throughout the day. We enjoyed singing, dancing, and good old fashion…

Tinsel the Elf!

Tinsel the elf brought all the children a special Christmas treat! We all come to preschool wearing our pyjamas ready to watch a virtual pantomime.…

Christmas Nativity

This week we have been busy recording our nativity for 2020! As with everything this year - our nativity is very different to how we…

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in preschool! The children have absolutely LOVED our 'Festive fun Factory'. We know Santa's mail room will…

Bonfire Night Celebrations

We hope all our families have a lovely night celebrating bonfire night whatever you are doing! The week in preschool we have had so much…

Remembrance Day!

Lest we forget! This week we have talked about Remembrance Sunday and how it marks the end of the war. We have watched a video…

St Helen's Scarecrow festival!

Along with the St Helen's community, St Mark's preschool have been working hard to create our very own scarecrows in aid of Willowbrook hospice. The…

Home Learning – Autumn Hunt!

Following our Autumn topic in preschool, we have LOVED seeing our children and families enjoying their autumn walks and finding lots of things to fill…

Autumn

This term we have also been very busy learning all about the season 'Autumn.' We just love this season and love learning / talking about…

Occupations!

This week we have been extending the children's interest of different occupations.We firstly, looked close at the role of a police officer. We read information…

The Gingerbread Man story!

This term, our story focus is 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children are loving reading this story book at story and register and independently during free…

All about me!

It has been so lovely to see old friendships reunite as well as seeing new friendships form. We have took part in a variety of…

Welcome back! (September 2020)

We have had an amazing start back to the term! We have welcomed back many familiar faces and have welcomed lots of new children children…

Graduates 2020!

On Friday 24th of July was a very emotional day for everyone at St.Mark's preschool! We had an amazing day celebrating our school leavers achievements…

A special visit to our garden plot!

Today we visited our garden plot so all the children could show off their hard work. We was amazed when arrived at how beautiful it…

Garden plot visits!

We are loving seeing and hearing about some of our families visiting our garden plot in their own time and helping to look after our…

Welcome back! (June 2020)

This we have opened our doors for the first time in 11 weeks! We have really had the best week and we would like to…

Happy Holi !

Today we have had an absolute ball celebrating holi festival of colour!. Thank you to all our families for providing old clothes for your children…

Happy Holi! (March 2020)

Today we have had an absolute ball celebrating holi festival of colour!. Thank you to all our families for providing old clothes for your children…

Happy World Book Day! (March 2020)

We have had a wonderful day celebrating how much we love books and bringing some of our stories to life. We do our very best…

Happy World Book Day!

We have had a wonderful day celebrating how much we love books and bringing some of our stories to life. We do our very best…

Visit to the Polish Shop!

Today we visited a polish shop! Kasia taught us some Polish words before we went and told us the Polish names for each item in…

Stay and Play

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our stay and play session today! We love having our families come in and spend some…

Makaton!

The children are loving learning Makaton during our 'its time to sign'. Each day the children have been learning how to sign a whole sentence…

Happy Pancake Day!

We have had so much fun celebrating Pancake Day today! The children loved making their own pancakes and eating them for snack! They chose their…

Happy Valentines Day!

Today we have had such a lovely day, sharing compliments, telling each other what we love about each other and also talking about who we…

Age UK - Mansion House

Thursday 13th February, we thoroughly enjoyed another one of our regular visits to the elderly people over at the Mansion house! The children get so…

Jiggy Wrigglers

As always we loves our Jiggy Wriggler session with Lorna today! We had so much fun listening to music, jiggling away and even having a…

Early Years Curriculum Roadshow

Sarah attended the Early Years Curriculum Roadshow with Ofsted on Tuesday 11th of Febuary.

Spanish Lesson!

Today we enjoyed our regular Spanish lesson. We started our valentines's Day celebrations in our lesson today with Sarah from Kidlingo! We enjoyed sharing a…

Our trip to Asda!

This morning some of our children visited the recycling bins at Asda to drop off some of the things from our recycling area which we…

Our litter picking challenge!

We are SO proud of our children and would like to say a massive thank you to all of our families who supported us aw…

Chinese New Year celebrations

This week the children have loved taking part in Chinese New Year celebrations! We tasted a variety of Chinese food for snack. We even attempted…

Making home made bread!

We have been encouraging the children to think about where their food comes from and they asked us where bread comes from. Instead of just…

Library visit! (January 2020)

Today we have loved visiting the library! It was so exciting.. we even got to go on a bus! We had an amazing time. We…

Spanish Lessons!

Today we LOVED our first Spanish lesson with Sarah from Kidslingo! We had so much fun and didn't even realise we were learning another language.…

Another busy week!

We have been very busy this week taking part activities. We have been exploring different vegetables finding out what they feel like, what they smell…

Welcome back!

We are back and couldn't be happier! Seeing our little ones faces as we opened the door was just what we needed after a lovely…

Last day of term - Polar Express Day!

What a great way to spend our last day in Pre-school before the Christmas break. Today we all enjoyed our Polar Express day. We got…

Our Christmas Party

We have all enjoyed the build up to the Christmas events. The children have enjoyed taking part in Christmas activities and crafts.Today was our Christmas…

Our Christmas Nativity

So today was the day of our magical nativity! We are the proudest nursery teachers in the world right now... each and every child did…

The Pre-school election

In Pre-school we enjoyed having votes for lots of different things. Today, we have discussed that a very important vote is happening today! We talked…

Last day of the term!

What a busy last day we have had today! This morning some of the children visited the elderly residents at the Mansion House for another…

Pumpkin Fun!

The pumpkins haven given us some great learning opportunities this week! We have enjoyed pumpkin picking in our outdoor area, we used mathematical language to…

Vegetable/Fruit printing

We have lots of real food in the home corner and in vegetables our market, we feel like it will be such a waste just…

World Mental Health Day

What a truly relaxing day we have had today! We have loved celebrating world mental health day! We have done our best to show all…

Macmillan Coffee morning

Thank you, thank you , thank you to each and every one of our families who have donated food, drink and cash donations to male…

The three little pigs

The children haven took a real interest into the story 'the three little pigs' so we decided to bring the story to life outside to!…

Food Tasting

Today we enjoyed tasting a variety of food while talking about what nutrients each food has. A said "Potatoes has carbohydrates in". We tasted some…

The life cycle of a caterpillar!

Today was the day we said farewell to our butterflies as we released them! After watching and learning all about the life cycle of our…

Welcome back! (September 2019)

We was some happy to welcome back all our families and children after a great summer break. We also welcomed some new children and their…

Parents Evening

On 18th of July we held parents evening. We would like to thank you to all our parents for attending. We love sharing your child's…

Makaton

We have introduced makaton into preschool in the past couple of weeks.We have been learning a sign of the week, where the children choose a…

Race for life!

Today we completed our 'race for life'! A huge thank you to all our children and families who took part! It was a lovely experience…

Visit from the road safety team

Today we was visited by Mel and Elaine from the road safety team! They told us some stories and talked to us about the importance…

Age concern visit

Today we had the pleasure of another visit to Age UK at the mansion house! Today the children enjoyed playing with play dough and showing…

Easter Fun!

This week we have been talking about Easter! We was very lucky to receive a visit from Harry and Sue from St.Mark's church. They shared…

Healthy Early Years Award

Over the past couple of months all the children, staff and families have been working hard to receive the 'Healthy Early Years Status'. Thank you…

Mother's Day Afternoon Tea Stay and Play

A huge thank you to all our families that came to our 'Mother's Day Afternoon Tea' Stay and Play. We love spending time chatting with…

Occupations

This week we have been learning all about different occupations. We have been learning about the role of a dentist, we shared our experiences from…

World Book Day

We had a super World Book Day! A huge thank you to all our parents for sending in brilliant costumes, even Carla, Sarah and Meghan…

Pancake day!

We had a great pancake day! The children loved making their own pancakes today, they helped prepare all the ingredients and even had a go…

Visit to the Age UK

Today we were fortunate enough to visit the elderly residents of Age UK at the Mansion house. We had an amazing time sharing stories, songs…

This Week's Activities

This week the children have loved junk modelling. The children used different size boxes to make their own types of transport and structures they even…

Welcome Back! (January 2019)

We welcomed all our children and families back after a lovely Christmas break as well as welcoming some new friends and families into St Marks.…

Christmas time!

When we turned our role play area into a Christmas grotto it really began to feel like Christmas! The children loved making their own Christmas…

Parents evening (December 2018)

What a great parents evening we had celebrating our children's progress and achievements! Well done to our children and thank you to all our parents…

Talking Teeth

On the 6th of December we were visited by Helen from Talking Teeth who carried out an amazing workshop with the children all about promoting…

Celebrations!

We have been taking part in celebrating lots of traditions and events over the past couple of months. Firstly we celebrated Diwali, we enjoyed talking…

Our Stay and Play Sessions!

On Friday the 28th of September we invited all our parents/families into our setting for our first stay and play session and it was a…

Autumn Walk

Here at St.Marks Pre-school, we have been talking about the changes we have noticed in the weather and we have been exploring the changes in…

'We're Going On A Bear Hunt' topic!

Our first topic in Pre-school is focused on the story, 'We're Going On A Bear Hunt'.We introduced the story to our children and they loved…

Settling in Visits

On Tuesday the 4th of September. we opened our doors and welcomed all the wonderful children and families in to our settings. The children enjoyed…

Ride for Violet-Grace 2018!

On Sunday 22nd July, St. Mark's Pre-school was honoured to support the Ride for Violet Grace Event. We held a stall and offered fun games…