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14 March 2025

Nursery Painting and Dancing to Music

This week the children have been exploring painting whilst listening to music. Today they asked to listen to the music again so they could dance together. We talked about the music saying if it was fast, slow, high, low, calming or energetic. 

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10 March 2025

Counting in Nursery B

The children have been practising counting up to 3 objects. We have used dots on plates to help the children to subitise up to 3 and show matching fingers. They have also used their counting skills to count objects around them. “Look, I have 3 daisies!”

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10 March 2025

Perfect Pancakes

Last Tuesday was a hive of activity in Nursery A as we celebrated Shorve Tuesday.  Children had a chance to make and eat pancakes with some traditional toppings. We even made one for Mr Dinsdale!  We talked about the reason why we have Shove Tuesday in preparation for…

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7 March 2025

Nursery B Make Lenten Promises

This week the children have been learning about Lent and how during this time we prepare for Easter. We talked about people who we love and how we can help others during Lent. We drew a picture of our promises to hang on the tree on our RE table. We then said a special prayer to God asking Him to…

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7 March 2025

Telephones and Messages in Bottles.

This week, linking to our English text ‘The Priates are Coning’ we have been writing messages in bottles and floating them on the water in nursery!  We have also talked about other ways we can give or receive messages, realising that we communicate in many different ways.  We also made our own…

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7 March 2025

World Book Day in Nursery A

As part of our World Book Day activities, we took part in a book swap.  In nursery we spread all the books out in our circle and each had chance to choose a new book to read and take home.  We love books in our nursery!

 

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4 March 2025

Nursery B’s Shrove Tuesday

Today the children have been learning about Shrove Tuesday and Lent.  Together we made pancakes and all had a turn at mixing, whisking, pouring and eating!

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3 March 2025

Nursery B Exploring Finger Painting

This half term the children are exploring finger painting. They are talking about the different colours and describing textures and shapes. Some children are creating their own images such as "my mummy", "a rainbow" and "hearts". 

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28 February 2025

Using our Bodies in the Spring Sunshine

We have enjoyed using our gross motor skills on the climbing frame today.  We have seen some brilliant climbing and balancing.

 

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28 February 2025

“I love you and I want you to love one another”

Today we talked about God loving us and Jesus’ teaching to love one another.  We made a list of all the people we love in our lives.  Each of the children and staff members in nursery contributed by passing a wooden heart to each other so that we could say who we loved. We then thought about how…

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27 February 2025

‘X’ Marks the Spot!

Our pirate adventure in nursery began on Monday afternoon when we went on a treasure hunt outside and followed clues to find hidden treasure.  We used a treasure map of our outdoor area and listened to clues using positional and directional language and following a route.  On our journey we found…

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27 February 2025

Magic Moments!

Not content with simply building a wall for Humpty Dumpty, two of our creative learners in nursery decided to work together to make a bed for him, using some blocks as a blanket to keep him warm.  Look at those smiles! 

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