Blog Author: Mrs Garvey

This week the children have been listening to the story of Palm Sunday. They reenacted Jesus travelling through Jerusalem on a donkey with crowds waving palm leaves shouting 'Hosanna'. The children also used the figures in our golden box to retell the story. 

The children have enjoyed doing their PE lesson outdoors this week practising ball skills and travelling in and out of hoops. In the forest area, they continue to balance, swing, collect and play together using their wonderful imaginations. 

In RE our topic is Desert to Garden and we have been talking about spring time and how things begin to grow around us. We went on a walk around school looking for signs of spring and saw lots of beautiful flowers, plants and trees. We remembered how Lent is a time when we grow more like Jesus and…

This week is British Science Week and we are noticing how science is all around us. We have been looking at animals and discussing how they have similarities and differences. The children have enjoyed playing a matching game - finding the halves of the animal faces and identifying each animal. We…

The children in nursery enjoyed playing parachute games and relaxing in the hammock under the sunshine this week. They also searched for minibeasts and played imaginatively with one another. 

This week the children prepared their own healthy snack and made fruit kebabs. They practised their chopping skills whilst talking about the different colours, textures, shape and taste of fruits. 

The children have been reading ‘Where is Bear?’ by Jonathan Bentley and learning about prepositional language. We used the story to practise moving different objects to different places - in, on, under, behind, beside and through.  

We have also been practising counting using…

This week the children have made pancakes as we have been learning about Lent and how this is a special time to prepare for Easter. 

The children have had lots of fun coming to nursery in their favourite pyjamas. 

The children have been learning about Chinese New Year and looking at images and clips of the parade in Liverpool. Some children also created Chinese numbers up to 5 using different coloured paints. 

The children enjoy playing and exploring in our woodland area in all weathers. 

The children have used mirrors to look at their faces and create self-portraits in pencil. Some children also painted portraits of one another using clear plastic. The children practised drawing circles for faces and eyes and added detail to their faces.