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Upon enrolment children are placed in a room that meets their developmental and social needs. They will remain in that room for the year (as per the school calendar).
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In September of each year the children transition to Preschool. Children are typically aged between 3 and 5 years.
The Willows Outdoor Preschool
In September 2018 we opened our Outdoor Preschool where children spend the preschool session outdoors all year round.
Children spend 3 hours of their preschool session entirely outdoors even in wet or cold weather. We provide each child with weather suitable outer gear so they are wrapped up and continue to play, explore and crucially, develop outside.
The benefits of outdoor play are multi-faceted and support the whole of the child’s development, that is, physical, mental, sensory, emotional and social. As they grow the outdoors provides ever changing opportunities for new experiences as their environment changes with the seasons and weather. They build up resilience through falling over or not achieving their goal right then and there.
Children in the outdoor preschool have a great deal of choice of what they do and how they play. They interact with the adults, each other and the materials to create different play. Often this can look very risky to the adults, but we have come to trust the children in that they will only attempt what they are able for. This risky play is what supports the child’s well-being and perseverance.
Balancing, falling and getting back up across different types of surfaces builds children’s motor skills. Outdoors, children’s senses are naturally stimulated through the changing environment where sights, sounds, smells, taste and touch all move and shift throughout the session. Anecdotally, Parents are reporting lower incidences of illness and staff are reporting lower incidences of illness spreading from child to child.
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We offer full and part-time places.
A full- time place is available Monday to Friday 8.00 am until 6.00 pm
A part-time morning place runs from 8.
55 am until 12.30 pm
An afternoon part time place is from 1.30 pm until 5.05pm
A bit about our staff
All our staff are qualified in childcare and many have advanced qualifications. Staff regularly attend training to keep their skills up-to-date.
To support quality in the service we engage with a range of support programmes for childcare for example:
Incredible Years Dina Programme
The purpose of the Incredible Years Curriculum is to support children’s learning through the use of puppets and positive relationship building. The following skills are deliberately targeted through Incredible Years:
- Positive social skills
- Conflict and anger management skills
- Emotional literacy
- Behaviours that will support the children’s transition to school
- Reading, writing and communication skills
The purpose is to promote children’s positive self-esteem and general social, emotional, and academic competence.
Sessions, using puppets, are provided in the preschool rooms each week by staff trained in the programme.
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Edward Lear Limerick
Edward Lear’s life was as amazing as his work. He was born on May 12, 1812 in the London suburb of Highgate as the twenty-first child in a middle-class family. When the boy was four years old, the financial situation in the family deteriorated so much that his parents could barely make ends meet, and then his sister Anna, who was twenty years older than her brother, took the boy from the family, and they began to live separately.
Anna replaced the child’s mother and tenderly took care of him until her death, and she died when Lear was already fifty years old. Since childhood, he had terrible health problems: asthma, constant bronchitis, and at a later age – partial loss of vision. But all this was nothing compared to epilepsy. Like all epileptics, Lear was ashamed of his seizures and always listened to the “bells” in his ears – tinnitus to hide from prying eyes in time. His situation was aggravated by the fact that in those years the source of epilepsy was considered demonic influence – demonic possession . This increased the patient’s feelings of guilt and shame and caused bouts of depression. Lear called such periods the Morbids . But in the memory of his friends, he remained invariably a cheerful and benevolent person.
Lear had an early talent as a draftsman, and at the age of nineteen he published his first book, Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots, 1830.
The Earl of Derby literally fell in love with this book and invited Lear to his family estate Knowsley ( Knowsley Hall ), where he kept a private zoo. It was there, drawing birds from nature (namely, Lear was the first to draw not from stuffed animals, but from nature) and at the same time entertaining the children of the count, Lear began to compose poems and make illustrations for them, which were later included in his first “Book of Nonsense” (” A Book of Nonsense”). And then there were comic stories, and a funny alphabet, and absurd recipes, and humorous botany.
In search of a more favorable climate for his weak health, Lear went to the southern countries and spent most of his life in Italy, in San Remo. But where has he not been in his entire long life! Traveled in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Malta, India and Ceylon, but most of all in Italy. These places inspired his landscapes in oils and watercolors, and they are the ones he is most famous for. Lear illustrated the poems of Romantic and Victorian poets, and above all of his beloved Tennyson.
He composed music to their poems and to his own. He played the piano, accordion, flute and guitar.
Lear had a special relationship with Tennyson, full of mutual admiration. Lear named one of his two villas in Sanremo: Villa Tennyson. Tennyson wrote a poem to Lear:
To E.L. [Edward Lear], On His Travels in Greece
… all things fair.
With such a pencil, such a pen.
You shadow’d forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there.
This poem can be read on the tombstone at Lear’s grave in San Remo.
If at one time Lear was best known as an artist, today he is famous for the fact that, turning to folk verse, which is called limerick, he transformed it, brought it to perfection and inspired numerous followers.
It is not known when the folk limerick originated, but there is an assumption that it owes its name to a refrain from the song of Irish soldiers of the 18th century: 03 come up , come up to Limerick .
Limerick is a city in Ireland. The strict form of the verse prescribes the indispensable five lines with rhymes aabba with a predominance of anapaest. The third and fourth lines should have two stops, and the other five.
Here is a perfect limerick, composed by Professor Maurice Bishop, which at the same time explains the original feature of the limerick, which is rather indecent.
The limerick is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene.
Limericks are already found in the collection of folk poetry Mother Goose . Here is one of them, not childishly satirical:
There was an old lady of Leeds
Who spent all her time in good deeds;
She worked for the poor
Till her fingers were sore,
This pious old lady of Leeds.
One of the oldest limericks is this textbook rhyme:
Hickory, dickory, dock!
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one—
The mouse ran down.
Hickory , dickory , dock !
At the beginning of the 19th century, collections of humorous poems began to appear, most often anonymous. Until now, a limerick is constantly quoted with a characteristic punning rhyme:
There was a sick man of Tobago
Lived long on rice-gruel and sago;
But at last, to his bliss,
The physician said this:
“To a roast leg of mutton you may go.”
But the super-popular limerick about a girl on a tigress has an author, although few people remember him. It was the witty Englishman William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840-1901).
There was a young lady of Niger,
Who went for a ride on a tiger,
They returned from the ride
With a lady inside
And a smile on the face of the tiger .
But Edward Lear made his limericks (and he composed over two hundred of them) absolute masterpieces. His inexhaustible imagination gave rise to inimitable plot twists; soft humor muffles the inevitable horror stories in limericks, and the unexpected characteristics of his characters became Lear’s main innovation.
There was an old man of Cape Horn
Who wished he had never been born;
So he sat on a chair
Till he died of despair
That dolorous man of Cape Horn.
Instead of a new rhyme, Lear often simply repeats the last words of the first in the last line, but he adds some expressive adjective to characterize the character. Here it is dolorous – sad.
The following verse gives a strange characterization of an extravagant young maiden: courageous courageous.
There was a young lady of Norway,
Who casually sat in the doorway.
When the door squeezed her flat,
She exclaimed, “What of that!”
This courageous young lady of Norway.
Here is another unusual characteristic of another eccentric – futile : useless? nonsensical? headless?
There was an old man who supposed
That the street door was partially closed;
But some very large rats
Ate his coats and his hats,
While that futile old gentleman dozed .
But this gentleman can actually be called concise: , Chickabaw, »
And he said nothing more,
This laconic old person of Wick .
Here is another eccentric, which is characterized as imprudent is unreasonable, and for some reason its behavior is not only silly , but also painful .
There was an Old Person of Chili,
Whose conduct was painful and silly;
He sat on the stairs
Eating apples and pears,
That imprudent Old Person of Chili .
And this eccentric is even too cautious – cautious :
There was an old person of Dean
Who dined on one pea and one bean.
For he said, “More than that,
Would make me too fat.”
That cautious old person of Dean .
Limerick about a man with an immense beard immediately became, as it were, Lear’s calling card. It is no coincidence that Lear placed it on the first page of his book A Book of Nonsense.
There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I felt.
Two owls and a hen,
Four larks and a wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!”
Another novelty in Lear’s limericks is the presence of some curious onlookers: unnamed “they”.
There was an old man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a bee.
When they said, “Does it buzz?”
He replied, “Yes, it does!
It’s a regular brute of a bee.”
Often such observers are very critical:
There was an Old Man of Melrose,
Who walked on the tips of his toes;
But they said, “It ain’t pleasant
To see you at present,
You stupid Old Man of Melrose.
”
And in the next rhyme, the audience is indignant and insults the unfortunate owner of the cow, who does not see that she just ran up a tree, and not lost, find this case outrageous and call the old man invidious .
There was an Old Man of Aôsta
Who possessed a large Cow, but he lost her;
But they said, “Don’t you see
She has run up a tree,
You invidious Old Man of Aôsta?”
And sometimes such spectators are indignant at eccentricities and even cruelly suppress them:
There was an Old Man of Whitehaven,
But they said, “It’s absurd
To encourage this bird!”
So they smashed that Old man of Whitehaven .
Russian readers will be pleased to find Lear mentioning his native country:
There was a young Lady of Russia,
Who screamed so that no one could hush her;
Her screams were extreme,
No one heard such a scream
As was screamed by that Lady of Russia.
There is also a mention of Kamchatka with a punning rhyme fat cur which means “fat mongrel”:
There was an Old Man of Kamchatka,
Who possessed a remarkably fat cur;
His gait and his waddle
Were held as a model,
To all the fat dogs in Kamchatka.
When we introduce students to limericks, we are not limited to Lear. Here’s a great opportunity to crack your tongue with a limerick written by the American writer Carolyn Wells (1862−1942):
A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot;
Said the two to the tutor,
« Is it harder to toot, or «
And these limericks give us an example of the ambiguity of English words. The author of the first is unknown, and the other was invented by the same Carolyn Wells.
A fly and a flea in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us fleet!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue .
A canner, exceedingly canny, One morning remarked to his granny: A canner can can But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”
Limericks are always a success with children, they are instantly remembered and immediately encourage them either to translate or to their own creativity, and right there, in the lesson. True, young authors do not always cope with the strict requirements of the form.
We feel the charm of Edward Lear in his poem about himself, as always full of charming self-irony and inimitable humor:
“How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!”
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.
His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig.
He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,
Leastways if you reckon two thumbs;
Long ago he was one of the singers,
But now he is one of the dumbs.
He sits in a beautiful parlour,
With hundreds of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.
He has many friends, lay men and clerical,
Old Foss is the name of his cat;
His body is perfectly spherical,
He weareth a runcible hat.
When he walks in waterproof white,
The children run after him so!
Calling out, “He’s gone out in his night-
Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!”
He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.
He reads, but he can not speak, Spanish,
He can not abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!
The word runcible was coined by Lear. He first used it in combination runcible spoons , denoting something like forks for removing pickles from a jar.
The word entered the dictionaries.
Lear’s wanderings around the world – his pilgrimage – ended in 1888, when he was 75 years old. Friends could not come to see him in San Remo, so only the doctor and his wife came to the funeral. Lear did not have a family, and the Albanian Souliot cook Giorgis and the extraordinary cat Foss, who lived a long life, but died two years before the departure of his master, became faithful long-term companions.
10 limericks that cheer you up even on the coldest day
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01/29/2014 09:43
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Maria Volkova
126 years ago in the Italian city of San Remo, one of the biggest jokers in the history of literature died – almost the main author of the English “nonsense poetry” Edward Lear. “RG” chose ten of his limericks, able to cheer up even on the coldest day.
The life of the “nonsense poet” did not indulge: it would seem that there is nothing to be happy about.
A large family, where he was the youngest son of twenty-one (!) Children. A father who ended up in prison because of excessive gambling on the stock exchange, which led to debt. Battles against diseases were added to the fight against poverty: Lear suffered from asthma, heart ailments, nervous disorders … In general, in such a situation it was possible either to suffer and feel sorry for yourself, or laugh at all the troubles in the face. Edward Lear chose the latter.
He is considered the founder of limericks, but this is not entirely true. Limericks existed long before him: these short songs are associated with the Irish city, after which they may have been named. Joking table five lines with purely British humor ridiculed the absurdity of life, talked about funny events, or teased one of the mutual acquaintances.
Lear took folk poetry as a basis, creating his own unique world in which anything can happen. A whole flock of birds lives in the beard of a gloomy old man, another grandpa for some reason lives in the crater of a volcano and at the same time does not complain about the heat at all, and the third suddenly ate too many rabbits and burst from colic.
For his limericks, Lear, being a talented and accomplished artist, drew humorous pictures. Compare Lear’s illustrated limericks with the now popular “postcards” on the Internet – pictures with short jokes. Live Edward Lear today, he would become a real meme of the Web.
1. An old woman from Loch
She entertained herself not badly:
Sitting all morning
And playing a tune
On a thistle bush.
2. Once upon a time there was a pleasant lady,
It looks completely square.
Whoever met her,
Admired from the bottom of his heart:
“What a square lady she is!”
3. There lived a reasonable husband,
Locking his wife in a chest.
To her objections
Gently, without objection
He answered: “Have a chest!”
4. There lived an old man named Pliski,
With a head no larger than a radish.
But, putting on a wig,
An old man became
A judge, by the name of Pliska!
5.