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24 October 2025

Pumpkin Play in Nursery A

Over the past few weeks the children have been really interested in pumpkins.  They have brought pumpkins in to use in our learning, and told us about visits to pumpkin patches.  We have used pumpkins in our maths counting and comparing activities, created and investigated pumpkin potions, shared…

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24 October 2025

Year 2 Lego Club

The Year 2 Lego club have been very busy this half term, creating and building each Tuesday after school.  Super work!

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24 October 2025

Nursery A Rockstar Day

We loved Rockstar day in Nursery A today which included our first Social Signature Assembly.  We had lots of fun whilst raising money for our school.

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23 October 2025

Nursery A Orienteering

We had a busy time on our orienteering course this week.  We worked in our key groups to find animal pictures located around our school.

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21 October 2025

Harvest Time in Early Years

This morning our Nursery and Reception children came together for a beautiful Harvest Assembly.  It was also a chance to thank God for our wonderful world, God’s creation, linking in with our ‘Creation and Covenant’ branch of learning in RE.  We retold the creation story from Genesis.  The…

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17 October 2025

Spring Bulb Planting

After a big garden clear up in Nursery A this week, we have been busy planting some Spring bulbs.  

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15 October 2025

Hedgehog Bread in Nursery A

The children made hedgehog bread rolls in nursery today.  They used skills of mixing, kneading, rolling and cutting.  They observed the dough rising and baking.  Nursery smelt amazing!  We hope our families enjoy the bread.  

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14 October 2025

Happy birthday little one!

This week in Nursery A we were lucky enough to receive a donation of a new high chair and doll.  The children pulled the high chair up to the table and decided that it was the little one’s birthday.  We found a cake and promptly began singing ‘Happy Birthday’.  The children then decided to write…

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13 October 2025

Technology in action

This is what technology looks like in Early Years - how things work. Today the children loved using a hand drill to make holes in our wood slices.  Thank you to Mr Seddon (Mrs Seddon’s husband) for preparing all these logs for us.  One child told another member of staff, “We used a real-life hand…

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7 October 2025

Creating using Natural Materials

Today the children in Nursery A learned about the soft wood inside an elder branch and using a metal tent peg, they created holes in the wooden pieces.  Next they used threading skills to push a piece of wool through the holes to create bracelets. Finally, they further exercised their fine motor…

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3 October 2025

God’s Beautiful Creation

Building upon our knowledge of the Bible being a special book, we listened to the first story in the Bible and then heard it retold us in our golden box.  The children were mesmerised by the light for light and dark and understood that the cloths represented the sea and land.  We learned that God…

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3 October 2025

Finding out about the flute

After a long, wet lunchtime, Mrs McIntyre shared some flute playing with the children in Nursery A.  They guessed what material the flute was made from and learned about how the sounds are made by blowing across the mouthpiece and different high and low sounds by pressing the keys.  They then sang…

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