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31 January 2025

Nursery A Visit to Kingsley and Co. 31.01.25

The last of the nursery visits to Kingsley and Co. took place today.  The children were amazing and loved the hands on experiences.   We took part in the Red Riding Hood story, explored the shop and even chose our own books to keep.   The trip was completed with an extra long rendition of ‘The…

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29 January 2025

Nursery A Visit to Kingsley and Co. Bookshop 29.01.25

The second nursery trip of the week to Kingsley and Co. Bookshop has taken place today.  The children listened carefully to the Red Riding Hood Story before exploring the different areas.   We were even able to choose our own book to keep!  

 

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24 January 2025

Let’s have some time together

“Let’s have some time together” is a phrase you will often hear adults in our early years setting saying to children.  For example, “Let’s have some time together to play, read, tidy, build, talk, think about, focus on”.  It is an effective way of connecting and bringing learning on through…

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20 January 2025

Let’s Build in Nursery A

Using a mixture of wooden blocks and natural resources, the children decided to make a fort today.  The children worked together and side by side to create their masterpiece. There was lots of discussion and negotiating taking place too.   We didn’t want to tidy it away at the end of the day!…

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17 January 2025

Nursery Pen Pals

In Nursery we are learning about using different media and this week we have been exploring the marks made by felt tip pens.  So many children have been encouraged to pick up pens use them for a variety of purposes.  We have had pictures created of families, friends, a rainbow cake, a unicorn,…

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17 January 2025

We’re going on a cat hunt!

In RE we have been been continuing to learn about the visit of the three wise men and adapting the well known story “We’re going on a Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen for “We’re going on a star hunt”.  Today in Nursery A we adapted it further when, with much excitement, we spotted a cat up in our…

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17 January 2025

Pitta Pizzas

This week we made pitta bread pizzas in nursery.  We took turns, talked about our ingredients which included, tomato purée, pitta bread, cheese and sweetcorn.  We really enjoyed eating them when they were ready.  George commented “I really really really liked the sauce and the sweetcorn too!”…

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10 January 2025

Winter themed sensory play.

The children have been interested in the theme of winter this week with all the cold weather we have been experiencing.  We created ‘snow’ for our cold weather animals using shaving foam.  Playing with shaving foam provides children with a different sensory experience and opportunities to make…

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19 December 2024

Nursery Christmas Party Day.

Nursery children have had a fun filled party day today.  Both nurseries joined together in the hall for pass the parcel, musical statues and disco dancing.  Children also enjoyed games and party food in their own nursery settings. 

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11 December 2024

Nursery A & B CAFOD World Gifts

Cheerful children's stocking

As a school, each year group is fundraising for CAFOD this Advent.  Nursery have chosen the World Gift of a Cheerful Children’s Stocking this year to raise money for.  We have had the idea of asking our nursery children to bring in a small treat for themselves to…

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10 December 2024

Nursery Christmas Assembly

Our nursery children made a wonderful start to our Christmas assemblies today.  In our special act of worship the children sang beautifully and reminded us all of the true meaning of Christmas.  We are so proud of how amazing they all were.   Well done children!  

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6 December 2024

Who will you be today in Nursery A?

In Nursery we love taking on different roles.  Throughout the year we use hats, bags, shoes, clothes to be whoever we want to be.  In the run up to Christmas we have introduced a variety of more recognisable costumes into nursery and the children have had so much fun.  One area of our classroom…

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