Nursery: Blog items
Date: 2nd May 2025 @ 5:29pm
We started back last week planting sunflowers and finished this week creating our own representations of them. We have been chosing from a variety of diferent media which included cellophane, tissue paper, felt-tips and wax crayons. We're sure you'll agree that we are amazing artists and have our own creative ideas. The children took their sunflowers home today too. We hope they grow well. Have a lovely, sunny weekend.
Date: 25th Apr 2025 @ 5:02pm
The children returned, ready to learn and we've all been enjoying the lovely weather in our outdoor environment. Our new learning question is, 'What grows in the world around me?'. We have been really busy, planting, exploring, learning and playing. Here are a few photos of some of the exciting things that have happneed in Nursery this week.
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:03pm
Today nursery and reception all watched a performance of the Easter story in the hall. The children loved joining in and helping the performers with the story telling. They especially enjoyed the bubbles and the amazing magic tricks turning the water into wine and making 1 fish into hundreds!
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 11:54am
Last week on Tuesday a farmer arrived with an incubator brooder, heat lamp, food and a water dispencer. He also had 5 eggs!!
We had lots of different suggestions on what could be inside. We have since enjoyed watching some ducklings hatch.
We have learned all about the life cycle of a duck and made our own zigzag books showing the correct order of their cycle.
Date: 21st Mar 2025 @ 4:35pm
Nursery had a fun filled challenge Friday!
We created a face with a red nose, played musical statues and the 'keepy uppy' game with red balloons.
Enjoy looking at some of our Red Nose Day photos🔴☺️
Date: 14th Mar 2025 @ 4:08pm
We had a very special delivery come into nursery on Monday!
Our very own Hungry caterpillars!
We have enjoyed watching them grow over the week. We discussed how they hached from an egg and what we predict to happen next from learning all about the life cycle of a butterfly.
We are all very excited to see them turn into beautfiful butterflys!
We even thought of some names for them so please enjoy looking at some pictures of Keith, Chris, Cookie, Wriggle and Grey!
Y3 visits Nursery for World Book Day
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 4:28pm
During our world book day celebrations, year 3 visited Nursery to share some stories.
The year 3 children created their own picture books, which they brought with them to Nursery. They then showed these to the children, and talked through the story. The children loved hearing all of the different stories shared with them.
World book day! Get comfy and read!
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 4:21pm
Today we spent time with our grown ups in an extended Morning Job reading some of our favourite stories.
We wore comfy clothes or came dressed up as our favourite book characters.
We decorated a wooden spoon of our favourite character from some of our key text we have done across the year! They now live in our reading area!
We also had a visit from year 3 and shared stories with them.
Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 6:30pm
Today we spent time with the people we love in an extended Morning Job.
The children sang along to 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' by The Mamas and The Papas and the adults were so impressed with them. A huge round of applause and then on to a craft activiity. Together, they created collage hearts before the adults wrote beautiful messages of love to the children. After a photo in the love booth, the adults waved good bye.
It was such a special time to share with our families. All of the staff had a tear in their eyes as they reflected about how supportive our parents and carers are. Thank you for coming
Date: 31st Jan 2025 @ 8:19am
Over the last 3 weeks we have been learning about Little Penguin and how much he wanted to fly. This week we innovated a new page for the text during group time. The children love to draw in Nursery and our learning gives them lots of ideas. Here are a few examples of what the children drew using their knowledge of Antartica and the story 'ICan Fly'.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 7:34am
This week in Nursery we have been rehearsing the story, I Can Fly, and retelling it with words and actions. To help us remember what happens in a story we think of the words, and say them using finger sentences, then we draw pictures and use symbols. Can you retell the story using just pictures and symbols?
We've had lots of penguin activities this week. We love penguins!
Date: 21st Jan 2025 @ 3:01pm
We received a letter from some penguins who were trapped in ice! We worked in keyworker groups to think of ideas to help free the penguins. Some of the children said the ice needed to melt. Some of the children throught we should crack the ice open to free them. We thought about what he had learned after completing our experiments.
Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 12:20pm
Today we created a Christmas tree deocoration. We're so angelic, don't you agree?
Date: 29th Nov 2024 @ 2:28pm
This morning the children made their Nativity headbands. We're not going to tell you who we are going to be, but maybe you can guess by looking at the pictures.
Date: 18th Nov 2024 @ 12:51pm
On Friday we celebrated Children in Need in Nursery.
We came dressed in Pudsey clothes, or something spotty.
We enjoyed lots of different Pudsey activities such as making headbands with Pudsey ears, playing a listening game -'Pudsey says...', adding spots to Pudsey using pompoms and tweezers and adding a spotty pattern to Pudsey.
Date: 8th Nov 2024 @ 6:54pm
Today in Nursery our learning centred around Remembrance. We watched a video that helps younger children understand this important time of year.
Here it is for you to look at again over the weekend, with your children at home - Poppies by the BBC
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
We talked about how the animals felt at different points in the animation and lots of the children showed a good understanding of the changing emotions. One child stated, "It's the soldier's light' at the point in which the poppies began to grow again after war. This was a beautful moment of insight to share with his class.
Everybody used either their scissor skills to snip or their talking fingers to tear grass for the poppies to grow in. Later on the children chose if they wanted to create a poppy. They followed Steps 2 Success to make tissue paper or painted poppies. Here is the picture from the end of the animation that inspired us and then our very own field of Remembrance Day Poppies. We hope you love it as much as we do.
Date: 7th Nov 2024 @ 3:40pm
Yesterday and today, during story time, Nursery had a special visitor. One of the junior children came to read one of her favourite stories to us. The Nursery children were an excellent audience, looking and listening and joining in with words and actions. Our visitor told the story with such good intonation and expression. Maybe she will become a Nursery teacher when she grows up?
Date: 1st Nov 2024 @ 1:46pm
This week in Nursery we have been learning about an Autumn Celebration - Bonfire Night. We've joined in with a poem. We've made our own craft rockets and we listened to Katy Perry's 'Firework Song'. We collaborated to make a huge fireworks display too!
Fireworks Poem please click
Katy Perry's song with fireworks display please click
Date: 30th Oct 2024 @ 7:18am
Just before the half term holidays, Year 6 joined Nursery for a Harvest Celebration. The Nursery children had been learning about how farmers harvest the food during Autumn. They also found out why farmers use scarecrows. Nursery loved the scarecrows so much that they learned and then performed a song and dance about them to the older children.
Click on the link to sing along to Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
Knowing how much Year 6 like to dance, the Nursery children then paired up and danced a Samba! Harvest Samba
The younger children loved sharing their learning with Year 6 and we hope to do it again very soon. Thank you Year 6 for being an amaxing audience and for looking after us.
Coach Kane comes to school again!
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 2:05pm
Coach Kane visited us today in Nursery. We learned about people who need to use wheelchairs to move around. We took turns to sit in a chair and tried to move it by pushing the wheels around. It was very interesting learning about Inclusion.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 2:00pm
Did you know you can create a pattern by repeating the same object over and over again? We have made lots of repeating patterns this week. Can you make one?
Physical Development Sports Day
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 3:47pm
Today we had an amazing time when we invited our grownups in to Nursery to take part in our Sports Day. We completed our Friday Challenges with them:
- We used fine motor skills to make skin tone handprints.
- We danced and moved to the beat. ( Would you like to dance along too? https://youtu.be/Y9LLfv7yauM?si=Klx6c-dNLohIl9ZP )
- We listened to instructions to play a stop/go game.
- We travelled around the obstacle course in different ways.
Thank you so much to all of the adults who stayed and played with us. It was fabulous spending time with you all.
Physical Development Sports Day, Friday 4th October, 2024
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 8:07am
Here's a reminder of what is happening on Friday. We're so excited to welcome our parents and carers in to share our learning and some of the fun activities we like.
We've had a fabulous time with you
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 6:17pm
We've spent the past three days welcoming new children into Nursery with 3 days of Stay and Play sessions. All of the children have enjoyed playing and listening to stories in their new classes, with their adults. We'll post lots of phtos of our learning soon but for now, here's a reminder of the times of the sessions next week.
The children will come in to class by themselves next week for the morning OR afternoon session. Please remember to bring a bag with a spare change of clothes in it to leave at school. We're so excited to see you all again on Monday!
Date: 19th Jul 2024 @ 2:47pm
This morning Nursery shared their learning with their grown-ups. Parents were invited into class to review their child's Guided Draw books and Connected-Curriculum books and look at what their child has learned and achieved this year. The children also sang the song 'Try Everything' to their audience and danced to the rhythm.
When I asked the children why their grown-ups came to school they said:
"To watch our performance" "They came to look at our red books" "They looked at our Guided-Draw pictures"
Well done Nursery!
