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Friday 28th March - Animal Park
Today we visited our Forest School Animal Park. The children were amazing and listened really carefully to the rules and followed them without any help.
The children loved meeting the animals and were brave enough to touch some of them and feed some of them too!
We were really lucky to meet some two-day old chicks! They were so soft and fluffy!
Shaggy, the goat enjoyed having his hair brushed!
There were lots of different types of ducks and hens on the park and the children loved learning about them all.
All of the children loved having the opportunity to explore the different areas independently.
A huge thank you to Miss Thompson (Forest school leader) for allowing us to visit and supporting us to learn about the animals.
We had a fantastic time learning about animals and Spring!
Friday 21st March - Red Nose Day!
The children all looked fantastic dressed in red for Red Nose Day!
We joined in with the rest of the school to help raise money for the fantastic charity.
Thank you to all parents who supported this event and donated money.
Friday 14th March - Planting Beans
This week we have all had a go at planting a bean. We have been learning about growing and how we can grow a plant healthily!
The children learned that a plant needs soil, water and light to grow.
We can't wait to watch our beans grow over the next few weeks! We will share their progress with you!
Take a look at our photos of how we planted them below.
We have also been reading stories about growing. If you would like to hear our stories and talk about them with your child at home, you can find the link to the stories below.
Have fun!
Tuesday 11th March - Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle
The children are making amazing progress and having lots of fun joining in with our pre-writing program - Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle.
This week we have been working on the circle shape. This movement helps us to form letters which have a round movement, such as - a, b, c, d, e, g, o, p, q.
Take a look at our Squiggles below.
Thursday 6th March - World Book Day
We had lots of fun today dressing up to celebrate World Book Day. We all chose our favourite character to dress as.
We have been reading We're Going on a Bear Hunt and went on a hunt around school to see if we could find any bears!
We even had a very special visit from Mrs. Sweeney, who came to read a story to our nursery children. She read Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson and the children loved hearing the story.
Take a look at our photos from World Book Day below.
Tuesday 4th March - Pancake Day
The children had fun learning about Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day!
We made some delicious pancakes in nursery and fried them in the pan. We learned which ingredients we needed to use to make the pancakes.
We sang a Pancake Day song as we baked! Please click on the link below to hear our song.
We chose different toppings for our pancakes and ate them all up!
Take a look at our photos below.
Friday 7th February - The Gingerbread Man
We have loved learning about the story The Gingerbread Man.
We can all join in with the chant as the Gingerbread Man runs away.
To finish off our learning this week we made our very own Gingerbread Men and baked them in the oven.
We waited for our biscuits to cool and then decorated them using little chocolate buttons and edible eyes!
We made sure our Gingerbread men didn't run away!
Please take a look at our baking photos below!
If you would like to listen to the story of the Gingerbread Man, please click on the link.
Friday 31st January - Goldilocks and The Three Bears
The children have loved trying the Three Bears porridge this morning!
Mrs Bird made the porridge just right! It wasn’t too hot or too sweet like in our story this week.
The majority of the children loved how the porridge tasted and came back for seconds!
Take a look at our photos below - Don’t forget to ask your child if they liked the porridge!
Friday 17th January - Maths Rocks Day
The children dressed as Rock Stars to celebrate TT Rocks Stars and Maths across the school.
All of the children looked amazing.
A big thank you to all children and parents for their fantastic outfits!
Tuesday 7th January
This week we have started to introduce the children to an early writing programme called Squiggle whilst you Wiggle.
Squiggle Whilst You Wiggle incorporates dance, music and large movements to help children develop the fine muscle control they need for writing.
Take a look at our photos below.
The children were amazing - you would never have known this was their first time doing Squiggle!
Week commencing 6th January 2025 - Cold Weather Exploration
The children were welcomed back to school with a drop in temperature and some snowy weather!
The children have loved exploring the ice and snow outside and we had lots of discussions about what had happened to the water!
The children loved breaking the ice and observed waht happened to it as it started to warm up.
We used lots of fantastic vocabulary such as ice, cold, melt, freeze, water, hard.
Take a look at our frosty photos!
Thursday 19th December 2024 - Christmas Party
We had a fantastic day celebrating Christmas.
The children enjoyed a visit from a magician.
Magic Stewart did some fantastic magic tricks and brought along his magicians’ assistant - Snowy the rabbit!
The children loved meting Snowy and were able to stroke him!
We also had fun playing party games and loved pass the parcel. Whilst we were playing games we had a very special, unexpected visitor! Father Christmas came to bring every child a present!
We all had a fantastic time!
Take a look at our photos below to see some of the things we did during our party.
17th & 18th December - Christmas Nativity
All of the children have worked really hard to learn their lines and words to the songs in our EYFS Nativity.
Please take a look at our amazing photos below.
A big thank you to all of our children and to all of our parents for coming to watch.
29th November 2024
We are very excited to share with you our Christmas Film!! The children worked with Mr. Pepper to produce a Christmas adventure.
We had lots of fun making the film and practised lots of our speaking and listening skills!
We hope you enjoy the film as much as we enjoyed making it!
Please click on the video below to view our film!
Monday 4th November - Diwali and Bonfire Night
This week we have been learning about the festival of light, Diwali, and how it is celebrated around the World.
We learned that fireworks are used to light up the dark, night sky.
We made connections to the celebration of Bonfire Night.
Some of our children were able to talk about their own experiences of fireworks.
We made firework pictures using lots of different colours. Take a look at our pictures below.
If you want to find out more about Diwali click on the link in the picture.
Thursday 24th October - Halloween Fun and Spooky Sponsored Walk
We have had a fantastic spooky day in Nursery!
Thank you to all of our wonderful parents for helping their children with their costumes and with their sponsorship!
We are very proud of how super sensible all of our children were on their sponsored walk! They definitely have more energy then me!
A big thank you to our FOS and all of the adult helpers who helped to keep us safe today.
Please bring any sponsor money into school by 8th November.
Please take a look below at some of our photos from today.
Friday 11th October - Wiggle Me Into Squiggle
The children have been enjoying joining in with Wiggle Me Into Squiggle!
Wiggle Me Into Squiggle is a scheme we follow to help support Early Writing skills. It is a gross motor activity, using flipper flappers (flags) to make different movements.
Movement is key to development - It is how the brain learns to control the body from birth.
It will help our children to develop strong core strength and muscles, which will be used later on when they begin to hold a pencil and start to write.
Take a look at our Wiggling below!
Friday 4th October - My Family
This week all of the children in nursery have made a house using lollypop sticks!
They have each talked confidently about their family who lives in their house with them.
The children have then drawn their family inside their house! They even named and drew their pets!
The children showed excellent fine motor skills as they drew their picture and named different features of the face and body as they drew.
We think their work is fantastic and have displayed it on the wall in nursery for everyone to see!
The children have enjoyed looking for their work on the wall!
We hope you like them as much as we do!
Thursday 3rd October
We have been doing some super maths in Nursery this week!
The Gorillas and Chimps have been learning how to "subitise"!
This means how to recognise small amounts without needing to count them!
We have been looking at patterns on dice and learning how to recognise the pattern and the amount.
We have also been using our fingers to show how many we could notice.
I am really impressed with how quickly the children have picked this up and become confident with it!
You can help your child to subitise at home by looking and noticing (not counting) small amounts. For example, what do you notice when you set the table?
I have attached a game below for your child to play at home - look at the picture and ask "What do you notice?" click on the picture below to go to the game.
Try to help your child to show different amount on their fingers too! Can they quickly show you 5? or 10?
Well done everyone!
(Apologies as I missed out on some photos, but I will catch you next time!)
Friday 24th May - Elmer Day
We celebrated Elmer Day by dressing up in colourful clothes and taking part in lots of different activities!
Please take a look at our photos below!
If you would like to find out more information about Elmer Day or would like to watch the story of Elmer the elephant, please click on the links below!
Thursday 30th April - Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle
The children have been working really hard with their early writing skills. We develop our gross motor skills first using our flipper flappers and complete dances to help with the moves we need for writing. We then transfer these movements on to paper.
Take a look at some of our writing from Dance 4 - Hump.
Fabulous Phonics
Our older children (N2) are all working really hard at their phonic skills.They have all been learning the sounds m, a, s, d, t, and i.
The Gorilla Group children have even been learning how to write down the letters that make those sounds.
Take a look at our fantastic letter formation and writing skills!
If you would like to hear how to say the sounds, please click on the Read, Write Inc. picture below.
W.C. Monday 16th April - Magic Maths!
The children have worked really hard to learn about and make repeating patterns. They each chose two colours and made sure they repeated them to make an ABABAB repeating pattern.
The children were even able to help each other and correct the pattern if they spotted a mistake!
Have a go at making repeating patterns at home! You can use anything you may have lying around the house e.g fork, knife, fork, knife!
Have fun!
W.C. Monday 25th March - Easter Week
We have had an eggs-tremely busy week this week! We have been learning all about Easter and taking part in lots of Easter activities!
We took part in some Easter baking, where every child had the chance to make an Easter crispie cake! The children ate their cakes at snack time!
The children were very egg-cited to have a visit from the Easter Bunny, who hid lots of chocolate eggs all around Nursery. They used team-work skills to find all of the eggs!
The children also took part in an Easter bonnet parade! The children worked hard at home to design and make their Easter bonnets. We walked around school to show off their hard work!
Some children even took part in the annual egg decorating competition! All of the entries were amazing!
We have also been learning songs and rhymes about Easter! Click on the link to sing along to our Easter song!
A big thank you to all children and their parents for contributing to this week and for making it a lot of fun for the children! We hope you have a fantastic Easter break and look forward to seeing you all soon.
Happy Easter!
Egg Model competition
Easter Bonnet Parade
Easter Baking
Easter Egg Hunt
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