Nursery

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to rest and play. 

This week we have been reading ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’ and learning about growing plants. We wanted to plant our own plants and decided on sunflowers! We learned the process of growing a plant from our story and then watched time lapse videos of plants growing. We had to carefully scoop the soil with a trowel to fill the pots, put the seeds into the soil, cover them over and then water them. We have learned that it can take a long time for plants to grow, and even longer for them to grow very tall. We are excited to see which sunflower grows first, and which sunflower will get the tallest! We will look after them and water them every day to help them grow big and strong. 

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to rest and play. 

This week we have begun learning about Spring in Nursery. We have been reading ‘The Flower Thief’ and we decided to go for a walk around our school grounds to search for signs of Spring. We looked for flowers, birds, bees and sunshine. We found some different flowers growing in one of our raised beds and in our school forest, we found daisies and lots of daffodils ready to bloom! We will visit our forest again to see if they have changed! 

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to rest and play. 

For the last few weeks, we have enjoyed engaging in Foundation for Phonics activities that have focused on rhyming words. One of our favourite activities that we have taken part in is making ‘silly soup’. This is where we take words that rhyme and mix them all together into the soup. We need to make sure that the words rhyme or it won’t be silly enough! We have found out that ‘frog’, ‘log’ and ‘dog’ rhyme, and ‘cat’, ‘mat’ and ‘hat’ rhyme. We are learning more rhyming words each time we play. This is developing our phonological awareness and will support our learning in Reception. 

Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education. 

Article 29 – Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. 

This week in Nursery we have enjoyed settling back in after our Christmas holidays! We have welcomed new children into Nursery and they have enjoyed exploring their new classroom. We have done a brilliant job of coming back and getting straight back into our usual routine. We have made new friends with each other, discussed how we celebrated Christmas time and engaged in messy play. Well done for settling back into Nursery so well everybody, we are looking forward to another half term of fun and learning. 

Article 29 – Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. 

Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

This week in Nursery we have been feeling very creative, so we have explored this led by the children’s interests! The children thoroughly enjoyed the construction area this week and wanted to build towers and structures, so we introduced a roll of masking tape to allow the children to create sturdier models and learn to attach objects in different ways! This helps us to develop our Mathematical and Scientific understanding. Later in the week, we became very interested in painting. We decided to do large scale, gross motor painting on our easel. We enjoyed mixing the colours and experimenting with different movements to strengthen our shoulder muscles. To end our week, we took part in soft play in the hall to develop our movement skills and emotional regulation. What a great week we have had!  

Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education. 

Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

We enjoyed taking part in NSPCC Number day in Nursery this week! To join in with this, we focused on Maths activities in the morning. We sang ‘5 Little Ducks’, sang counting to 10 number songs, practiced finger numbers and practiced counting using our Maths number display. We really enjoyed taking part in this and Miss Reynolds was very impressed with our number knowledge! 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

 
 The children have had a lovely week this week! We have enjoyed reading the story ‘The Leaf Thief’ and learning about Autumn. We went on an Autumn Walk around our school grounds. We found lots of Autumn leaves that had fallen, blackberries growing, a holly bush and conker shells. To celebrate Bonfire Night, we have taken part in lots of firework themed activities. We loved playing in our foam soap, sticking sparkles to paper to make fireworks and finally making edible sparklers! This included dipping a breadstick into melted chocolate and then sprinkles – it was such a treat that we loved! Well done for another lovely week Nursery. You are all stars and I am so proud of you all! ✨ 

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 29 – All children have the right to be the best that they can be. Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

This week in Nursery we read ‘The Gruffalo’ and we have learnt so much this week! To continue our learning about Autumn, we have enjoyed making leaf crowns in our creative area. We used leaves that we collected ourselves and explored PPVA glue and cellotape to investigate different ways of joining materials.  

We then explored our school forest when went on a Gruffalo hunt and we found all the characters from the story, including a Gruffalo! We told the story together as we moved around the forest.

To finish our week, we made an apple crumble from scratch – we were all encouraged to try it and some of us even said that it was very yummy! Well done for a lovely week full of learning Nursery!  

Article 28 – Every child has the right to an education 

Article 29 – Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. 

Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

This week we have enjoyed reading ‘The Gingerbread Man’ story. We enjoyed reading the book and at the end of the week, we thoroughly enjoyed baking our own gingerbread men! We have been enjoying learning about baking and cooking and how to be safe in the kitchen. We have learned about food safety and hygiene and made sure that we learn that we need grown ups to help us cook or bake. We measured everything out and then mixed the ingredients together. We then cut them into gingerbread man shapes, just like in the story! We had to wait whilst they baked in the oven. Then, we decorated them with icing and chocolate chips before finally eating them. They were very yummy, and luckily they didn’t run away from us like the Gingerbread Man from the story!  

We are very happy to open our Nursery doors and welcome all the children for a brand new year. We have spent our first two days of our Nursery journey reading stories, getting to know each other, exploring our new classroom and playing together! The children are doing a lovely job of settling in so far and we are very proud of them already. We are excited for the year ahead and for all of the fun and learning still to come! Well done Nursery, we look forward to seeing you all again next week! 

Article 31 – All children have the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

Article 28 – All children have the right to an education. 

What a busy week it has been in Nursery this week and we have had lots of fun whilst we have learned! This week, we enjoyed reading our story of the week, ‘Elmer’. We discussed how we are all different, just like Elmer, and then we took part in a colour mixing activity! This week we have also started our movement programmes to strengthen our bodies and enjoyed exploring our classroom, playing in the water, sand, painting, drawing and creating! We are starting to make friends and we are doing a lovely job of playing together. Well done Nursery for settling in so well. We are looking forward to a fun week again next week. 

CRC Article 31 – All children have the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. 

CRC Article 28 – All children have the right to a good quality education. 

CRC Article 29- All children have the right to be safe.  

We have had another busy and fun week in Nursery! The children are continuing to settle in, and we are starting to follow instructions very well. We are very proud of you Nursery! We have enjoyed reading our story of the week, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. To extend our learning about the story, we decided to make our own porridge to eat, just like Goldilocks and the bears! We took it in turns to pass the oats around the circle and carefully pour them into the pan. Next, we mixed the milk in. We enjoyed stirring it whilst it cooked on the hob, being very careful because it was hot. Finally, we all got a chance to taste some during our snack time. We enjoyed learning about cooking porridge and about being safe in the kitchen. We are looking forward to another lovely week next week!