Nursery cafe visit/Palm Sunday
This week in Nursery we have been reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea. On Thursday we went to the Top Bistro cafe and the staff kindly gave us biscuits and juice. We took the tiger with us, luckily he didn’t eat all our biscuits or drink our juice. We were so proud of the children, customers and…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 27 March 2025
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Buddy visits nursery
This week in nursery we have been reading Dear Zoo. We talked about what animals would make good pets and what a good pet might need.
The children were very excited when Miss Liddle brought Buddy our school dog to visit. They asked lots of questions and were very impressed with his tricks. They…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 21 March 2025
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Science week
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 16 March 2025
Nursery science week
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We celebrated science week in nursery, our topic was change.
We enjoyed reading The very Hungry Caterpillar and the children were surprised when the caterpillar changed into a butterfly at the end of the story. We learnt that this is called metamorphosis.
The children loved making fruit…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 10 March 2025
Category: NURSERY BLOG
A busy week in Nursery
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It’s been a busy week in Nursery. The children learned about Shrove Tuesday before making pancakes. They enjoyed making the batter, watching Miss Gould toss the pancakes before their favourite part, choosing a topping and eating them.
On Wednesday we talked about lent and Mrs Finch gave us…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 7 March 2025
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Ramadan
This week Mrs Kamran talked to the children about Ramadan. We learned that Muslims decorate their homes just like many of us do at Christmas. The children were very interested to learn that Muslims have something similar to an advent calendar to count down to Eid. Mrs Kamran brought in some…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 28 February 2025
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Fun in the snow.
The nursery children loved walking on the school field in the crunchy snow. They touched the snow and talked about how it felt before looking closely at the snow on the bushes. Back in the nursery garden they used sticks to mark make in the ice.
We have been reading Kipper’s Birthday this week,…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 22 November 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Nursery Week 3
This week in Nursery we made poppy wreaths and walked to the war memorial to place them with the other wreaths. We were very proud of the children’s behaviour.
Later in the week Mrs Roger’s came to visit with baby Joshua to answer our questions about caring for a baby.
In outdoor adventures we…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 17 November 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Pumpkins and Diwali
We’ve had a busy week in Nursery. We chopped pumpkins to a delicious soup. We used the leftover pumpkins to improve our fine motor skills and hand eye coordination by hammering golf tees into them.
The children really enjoyed learning about Diwali, they made diyas from salt dough and decorated…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 3 November 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Nursery Adventures
The children have enjoyed their few weeks at Nursery.
In the outdoor area they have been mark making with chalks, squashed blackberries to make paint and enjoyed searching for mini beasts.
We have made toast and sandwiches using a knife to spread our own choice of ingredients. The children…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 19 September 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Bug hotel
The children worked together to make a bug hotel out of the natural resources they found in the nursery garden. We hope that the mini beasts will love their new home.
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 7 June 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG
Clay minibeasts
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On Friday the nursery children were very lucky to have a visit from Mrs Plumb who is a potter. She read them a story about mini beasts and then showed them how to use clay to model mini beasts of their own. The children really enjoyed this activity and they can’t wait for the clay to dry so that…
Posted by /blog/author/dwatson on 17 May 2024
Category: NURSERY BLOG