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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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31 January 2025

Chinese New Year in Nursery

The children have been learning about Chinese New Year and how 2025 is the Year of the Snake. This week they have made dragons and lanterns, enjoyed noodles and prawn crackers for snack and learned how to say 'Happy New Year' in Chinese. 

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27 January 2025

Nursery Visit Kingsley's & Co

Today the children in Nursery B visited Kingsley's & Co in Bootle Strand. They had a wonderful morning listening to stories, dressing up, playing with puppets and exploring the different themes inside the book shop. They sat in the cafe area for a drink and snack and chose a book to take home too.…

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24 January 2025

Exploring Colours in Nursery

This week the children have been exploring colour mixing with paints. We have been learning about the primary colours red, yellow and blue and seeing what happens when we mix them together. We have also painted our own crocodile as we continue to read ‘Let’s All Creep Through Crocodile Creek’.…

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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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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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15 January 2025

Making Pizzas in Nursery

Today the children made their own pizzas to eat at snack time. They listened carefully and followed the instructions to make delicious pitta bread pizzas. We used our senses to feel, taste and smell the ingredients and focused on the words first, next, finally. 

Well done children!

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14 January 2025

Nursery's Going on a Journey

The children in nursery are reading 'Let's All Creep Through Crocodile Creek' and other stories about animals going on a journey. The children wanted to go on their own adventure through a forest or a jungle so we created our own jungle in the classroom. The children are enjoying reading stories…

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6 January 2025

Nursery Exploring the Cold Weather

Today the children wrapped up warm and put on their wellies to explore the cold outdoors. We listened to the noise of our footprints and described what the ice and snow felt like using words such as freezing, frosty, crunchy and squelchy.

The children then collected some ice to bring into class…

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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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18 December 2024

Nursery's Santa Dash

Today the children wore their Christmas jumpers and took part in the School Games Santa Dash event. They had lots of fun walking and running with their friends followed by a surprise visit to see Father Christmas. How exciting!

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