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City of London School Highlights - 7th July, 2025
- 10 mins
Baby Room Newsletter
Language, Culture & Playful Discovery
This week, our Hatchlings explored African culture and language through Mandarin animal names, sensory play, and a fun safari experience. We built confidence, curiosity, and creativity through rich, hands-on learning.
Come see how our Hatchlings grow through language, discovery, and creativity
Modern Languages
Hatchlings practiced Mandarin words for body parts and animals like zebra (Bānmǎ), elephant (Dà xiàng), and giraffe (chángjǐnglù). Using toys and movement, they connected vocabulary to their bodies and the animals they were exploring.
Regional Education
We wrapped up our Eastern Europe theme with a sensory sand activity on Russia’s Eurasian brown bear, then shifted to Africa with a hands-on fufu-making experience and an exciting mini safari. The children loved stretching like giraffes and making animal sounds!
Literacy & Sensory Learning
Children explored animal words and matching games using a sensory tray. These literacy activities supported story recall, fine motor skills, and vocabulary development in a fun, tactile way.
Specialist Teachers
Miss Molly led a musical session with bubble fun and bee songs that helped with counting and rhythm.
Regional Activity
As part of our Eastern European focus, babies explored Russian Matryoshka dolls—enhancing cultural understanding and motor skills.
Sporty Minis
Sporty Minis included traffic light games and ladder walks to improve coordination, listening, and gross motor skills
Blue Dragons Newsletter
Exploring Africa, Mindfulness & Energetic Play!
This week, our Blue Dragons continued their exploration of African culture, created vibrant jewelry, and had an amazing time with Sporty Minis and mindfulness activities. Full of creativity, energy, and focus, the week was filled with exciting moments!Regional Education: Exploring Africa
As part of our African theme, the children learned about traditional African jewellery and created their own colourful necklaces using paper plates and dot markers. This hands-on art activity nurtured creativity while introducing them to the meaning and beauty of African cultural traditions.
Sporty Minis
We warmed up with high-energy jumping and stretching, then practiced balance and coordination with floor ladder walks. The traffic light game helped children build listening skills and respond to instructions—all while having a blast!
Specialist Teachers
We warmed up with high-energy jumping and stretching, then practiced balance and coordination with floor ladder walks. The traffic light game helped children build listening skills and respond to instructions—all while having a blast!
Dragon Flights Newsletter
Exploring Africa, Sensory Play & Early Coding Fun!
This week, our preschoolers launched into a vibrant exploration of Africa! From African rain drums and Elmer elephants to coding robots, ice cream role play in Mandarin, and mindfulness stretches, it’s been a week full of creativity, culture, and confident learning.
Regional Education
We began our African adventure with African rain drums, where children painted swirling and dotted patterns inspired by traditional art. Storytime brought Handa’s Surprise to life, followed by a sensory tray where children matched animals to fruits—building language and story recall. We located Africa on the globe, sang the Continents Song, and celebrated diversity by creating colourful Elmer elephants after reading Elmer the Elephant.
STEM Focus
In STEAM, children worked in teams to guide Bee-Bot across themed playmats using directional commands. This activity built early coding logic, spatial awareness, and collaborative problem-solving—all essential skills for future learning.
Mandarin Club: Summer Ice Cream Fun 🍦
Our Mandarin lesson turned into a playful ice cream shop! Children practiced the word for ice cream (冰激凌 – bīng jī líng) and used it in fun sentences like “我喜欢吃冰激凌” (“I like to eat ice cream”). They explored flavours, colours, and numbers while building confidence through role play.
Sporty Minis
From energetic warm-ups to traffic light games and ladder challenges, this week’s session helped children improve coordination, listening skills, and balance.
Specialist Teachers
Miss Molly introduced gentle yoga poses, stretches, and breathing exercises set to calming music helped children relax and become more aware of their emotions and bodies.
Thank you for another exciting week of learning and growth—see you next time!
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Hatching Dragons is proud to support our founder Cenn John, running the Cardiff Marathon this October to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital. Inspired by the loss of a sibling to congenital heart disease and Down’s syndrome, this fundraiser aims to help children facing life-threatening illnesses.
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