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25 April 2025

Daisy, Daisy!

There are so many beautiful daisies on our soon to be cut grass around school that the children in Nursery A decided to learn some facts about them and collect as many as possible.  We then used them to create daisy chains and in our provision throughout nursery from creating transient artwork to…

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25 April 2025

Dinosaur Playdough!

In response to the text Gigantosaurus, the playdough table has been very popular in Nursery A this week.  The children have been using different dinosaur footprints to impress into their dough and predicting what the dinosaurs may have looked like.  

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1 April 2025

Exploring Shape Using Blossom

The children in Nursery A have been showing off their knowledge of shapes this week.  We have been exploring different shapes and today collected blossom that has fallen from our beautiful nursery tree, to fill shapes and create different shapes on our own and in small groups.

 

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28 March 2025

Large scale artwork in Nursery A

The children in Nursery A have been combining their drawing, painting and collage skills over the past few weeks to create amazing joint pieces of artwork. 

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28 March 2025

Parachute Play in Nursery A

Parachute play provides opportunities for cooperation, participation, turn taking and creativity.  We are developing our gross motor skills and our listening skills.  The children loved hiding underneath it too!  

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17 March 2025

Computing

Staying Safe Online

Today in computing, we discussed the pros and cons of being online. We then looked through some scenarios and discussed how this would make us feel. We designed a poster for younger children to help them know what they can do to stay safe online. 

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17 March 2025

Snack and Chat!

Snack time is always popular in nursery but even more so on Mondays as the children are so keen to share with us their weekend news and catch up with their friends.  Here they are developing turn taking, conversation, eye contact, vocabulary, listening skills and much more.   The children choose…

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14 March 2025

Spring Walk in Nursery A

Today we took advantage of a beautiful sunny morning and went on a class walk around the school grounds to look for signs of spring.  We saw many daffodils but some other spring flowers coming up too.  We also observed the buds on the blossom trees.  We finished our time outside with a sensory…

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14 March 2025

Architects of the Future

These girls have spent a good part of their afternoon working together to build a camper van.  They are going to travel around Australia it visiting lots of places! 

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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

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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