Blog by Tag: Nursery

As part of our forest skills activities the chidlren have been making badges.  This week we decorated our name badges and added wool to hang them around our necks.  

The children in Nursery A have enjoyed playing with their friends again after the half-term break.  Many of the children are becoming much more confident with their climbing, balancing and riding skills, demonstrating determination and strength during their outdoor play.  They have remembered good…

ADDvanced Solutions Community Network has released their Autumn 2 programme, offering support to parents on a wide variety of subjects eg. Organisational skills, Masking, Theory of Mind, Preparing for Christmas and more.  The courses are held in a variety of locations, at different times of the…

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…

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.

The children had lots of fun as rock stars today dancing and singing together. What a fantastic day raising money for the PTA. 

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.

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. 

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…

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

This week we have enjoyed the mild autumnal weather and spent a lot of time outdoors talking about our environment. As the children collected twigs and leaves for the mud kitchen, they recognised the different colours, textures and shapes. They continue to develop and strengthen their gross motor…

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…