Welcome to the Nursery

Below is a photograph of the things you will need your child to have at Nursery. Please can you make sure they are clearly labelled on the outside as shown in the photo. They will need:

A lunch box if not having hot meals.

A drinks bottle

A small bag with spare clothes,

A coat as we go out everyday whatever the weather (hats, scarves and gloves in the Winter),

A pair of welly boots.

4.7.25

This week we have finished making our electric Lighthouse circuits.

On our welly walk we recapped our work on the, ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We used some story stones to create a story map.

27.6.25

This week we have been making simple electric circuits to make a bulb light up like the light in the story of the, “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’.

On our welly walk we used resin numbers to count matching quantities.

13.6.25

This week we have been measuring using water. We predicted then counted how many containers it took to tip the waterfall.

We have had our last practice for Sports Day which was very successful.

5.6.25

This week we have worked on finishing our Bear Hunt art work. We have used brushio water paint inspired by the work of Claude Monet to create the backgrounds. We then chose our favourite characters from the story and stuck them on top of the background.

5.6.25

On our welly walks we have been practicing how to write our name.

5.6.25

We had lots fun with some cardboard boxes as well!

Big Brush Club colouring competition.

4 year old colouring

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3 Year Old Colouring 

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8.5.25

This week we have been spending time with the children one to one to look at their yellow folder work. Please return any outstanding folders.

In PE we have carried on with the Sports Day races and some movement and freeze games,

On our welly walks we went on a 2D shape hunt and found lots and lots around our school.

2.5.25

Continuing our theme of the, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ this week we have been designing butterflies and creating symmetrical patterns.

On our welly walks we have been using a nature scavenger hunt sheet to help us find different plants, insects and birds around our school. We have also recorded the weather.

In PE we have moved on to learning our second race for Sports Day the tennis racket and bean bag balance race.

24.4.25

Welcome back everyone. This week we have started a topic about the iconic story, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. The children have been working in small groups to read the story and recreate it using pictures and props.

On our welly walks we have been using chunky chalks to draw pictures from the story.

In PE we have started to learn races for Sports Day.

Easter Bonnets

4.4.25

Wow the Easter Bunny just left us a letter and we followed the clues to find some Easter Lolly treats!

4.4.25

This week we have been making delicious Easter cakes. We have also been watching videos about the Easter stories.

Tomorrow we have a surprise from the Easter Bunny!
 

Have a lovely Easter Holiday everyone!

27.3.25

We have been looking for signs of Spring on our Welly walk this week and found lots including daffodils, primroses, bluebells and tree buds.

We had an amazing party to celebrate our 30th Year Anniversary yesterday. It was so lovely to see all the previous Nursery staff and so many parents and Grandparents. Thanks again for all your support.

21.3,25

Nursery carnival band

20.3.25

This week we have been making  secret Mothers Day cards! 
 

We had great fun on our welly walk we had to find the hidden ‘Bluey’ figures.

In PE we have been playing movement games as well as continuing ball skills.

We are getting very excited about our Nursery party next week on Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the Nursery being 30 years old. Hope to see you all there.

13.3.25

Ths week we have had a focus on Spring and have used oil pastels to make observational sketches of the daffodils in our garden.

In PE we have been playing movement games such as,’find the hoop’ as well as continuing with ball skills.

4.3.25

Today we have had fun celebrating Pancake Day. The children tried pancakes with different toppings for snack. They also made pretend pancakes using collage pieces and took part in pancake races.

26.2.25

This week we have had a focus on pattern. On our welly Walks we have been looking for patterns in our outside world. In the classroom we have been looking at patterns on our clothing as well as creating repeating patterns using paint and vehicle stamps.

In PE we have started work on ball skills we concentrated on throwing and catching for our first session.

7.2.25

This week we have extended our work on the story,’Tiddler’. The children have made up their own reasons why Tiddler was late.

On our welly walks we have been practicing writing our names with chalk and painting over them with water.

In PE we continued our focus on gymnastics extending our bench routines to involve rolling.

29.1.25

kung Hei Fat Choy

Happy Chinese New Year 

This week we have had an amazing time learning about how people celebrate Chinese New Year and the traditions behind it.

We have watched videos of people celebrating in China as well as England. We have listened to the story of how the animal zodiac signs were chosen. We have tasted Chinese food for our snack. We enjoyed rice,noodles,prawn crackers and fortune cookies. We have tried on authentic Chinese costumes and looked at artefacts brought back from China. We have also made our own lanterns to decorate our outside area.

23.1.25

This week we have been making stickman on our welly walks. 

We have also been reading the story, ‘Tiddler’ and acting it out using puppets.

We are really enjoying reading lots of Julia Donaldson books we have been voting on our favourite one so far it is, ‘Stickman’.

16.1.25

This week we have started a project around the stories written by Julia Donaldson. We have started looking at the story, ‘Tiddler’ we  have started to share the story in the story tent outside. We have also made some friends for Tiddler by finger painting some new fish.

On our Welly walks we have collected natural materials and made collage artwork of the mouse and snake from the, ‘Gruffalo’ and the witches hat and broom from, ‘Room on the Broom”.

In PE we have continued our work on balancing and travelling however we have extended our circuit and also replicated a balance circuit outside.

9.1.25

Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year.

This week we have been talking about our favourite Christmas presents and drawing pictures of them to show what they look like and how they work.
In PD we have started some balance and travelling across small benches.

On our welly walks we have been looking for different types of birds we managed to spot pigeons,seagulls,crows and magpies. We have decided to hang some seed in our garden to encourage smaller birds onto our site.

18.12.24

Christmas Party Day

18.12.24

We shared a delicious Christmas dinner today thank you Angela.

17.12.24

Today the children made melting snowmen biscuits for their snack.

13.12.24

We have had great fun over the last few weeks celebrating and making things for Christmas.

We have made snowmen,Gingerbread house cards and lanterns.

We have shared lots of Christmas stories and songs.

The Christmas performance was amazing and now we are looking forward to our Christmas party.

22.11.24

This week we have finished making our 3D carnival floats.

We have also played lots of phase 1 phonic games in small groups to help work on turn taking and hearing sounds.

We have now become really good at our daily teeth brushing see photos below.

13.11.24

This week we have started to make 3D carnival floats after being inspired by our local illuminated carnival.

In PE we have continued with “Write Dance’ as well as working on throwing and catching.

On our welly walks we have used chunky chalks to draw fireworks and poppies on the playground.

7.11.24

This week we have had an explosion of firework activities!

We have created some small scale pieces of artwork painting fireworks using earbuds which helped us to concentrate on our fine motor control. We have also made some large scale pieces of art by throwing balls covered in paint on a piece of black paper which helped us with gross motor control.

In PE we danced like fireworks using Pom poms.

25.10.24

We had a really fun Pumpkin Party Day!

25.10.24

This week we have been checking are knowledge of 2D shape. We have been looking for shapes on our welly walks around our outside environment. We have also been cutting out rectangles and counting corners and sides on shapes such as squares,  triangles and pentagons.

17.10.24

This week we have had a focus on counting and knowing the end number. We played a counting game called, ‘Ladybirds’ which helped with counting as well as opportunities to see objects as groups.

On our welly walks we looked at how many tyres, windscreen wipers and windows were on Mrs Lovibond-Stephens and Mr Franklins cars.We then recorded our findings using tally style marks.

In PE we continued with Write Dance drawing a rainbow song as well dancing with Pom poms.

10.10.24

This week the older children from the School Council helped the Nursery children to plant Spring bulbs as part of our Live Simply Pledge.

In PE we continued Write Dance and played some circle games.

As part of our adult led activities we have continued to work on making Family Trees as well as creating some Autumn themed artwork to display in our garden.

3.10.24

This week we have started to make Family Trees. We have been sharing information about people in our family and special events we can remember.

On Welly Walks we have been working on counting and number recognition.We collected leaves and sticks then chose a number from 1-10 then attempted to count the matching number of leaves.

In PD we have continued to work on, ‘Write Dance’ as well as learning circle games such as Ring a ring a roses and Here we go round the Mulberry Bush.

27.9.24

This week we have continued our theme around Elmer the Elephant. All the children have now made a collage Elephant which are displayed in our classroom. We have read and watched several stories about Elmer and completed some comprehension questions about the story.

On our welly walks we worked on a phase 1 phonics game. We listened to sounds we could here in the environment and recorded them.

In PE we continued to work on Write Dance and learnt a new movement game, ‘Duck,duck, goose’.

19.9.24

This week we have been making Christmas cards to be send away to Santa to be made into real Christmas cards. The design is top secret!

In PE we did the next part of, “Write Dance’ dancing and drawing like a tree. We also played games on the parachute.

On our Welly Walks we played a game hunting for the colours that matched our cards.

12.9.24

This week we have been finding out about each other by talking about our favourite foods. We then made collages of our favourite foods on paper plates.

On our welly walks we have been finding out about Autumn and collected different coloured leaves which we also made into seasonal collages.

In PE we have used the parachute to play some games and started an early mark making scheme called, ‘Write Dance’.

5.9.24

The children have settled back really well into Nursery life and have been exploring and learning routines.

Below are a wide range of different resources to use and refer to if you are required to be away from Nursery for a period of time.

Information sent out to Parents/Carers

Nursery Children, here is a little video - we hope you like it!

Stay Safe and Keep Smiling!

British Values

We have a set of class expectations which we set up together which we follow on a daily basis alongside our school values.

We have started to monitor and vote for our favourite snacks we have in school. 
9.1.25

Our favourite snack this week was breadsticks with strawberries a close runner up.