Nursery

This week the children in nursery received a letter from Mr and Mrs Baker asking them to enter the ‘Award Winning Cake Competition’. The children are thinking carefully and talking to one another about the shape and size of their cakes as well as toppings and flavours. 

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

This half term we are reading The Gingerbread Man and this week we focused on him crossing the river. We placed a gingerbread man in water and watched what happened. The children could see how he floated at first but then began to crumble and break. They also noticed how the water changed colour…

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.  

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…

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…

The children have been learning about musical instruments and exploring the sounds that the different instruments make. We sang a variety of nursery rhymes and chose the instruments to match the rhyme. 

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…

Last week we read the first story in the Bible about God creating our beautiful world. Today we decided to go for a walk around our school grounds to look for some of the beautiful things God has given us. The children identified flowers, plants, trees, leaves and grass as…

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…

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…

This week the children baked cookies together. We talked about the different ingredients and followed the instructions to make delicious chocolate chip cookies. We used scales to measure the ingredients and mixed and stirred using wooden spoons and whisks. The children then used their hands to…