Image of Large scale artwork in Nursery A
28 March 2025

Large scale artwork in Nursery A

The children in Nursery A have been combining their drawing, painting and collage skills over the past few weeks to create amazing joint pieces of artwork. 

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28 March 2025

Song of Hope

Today in our Celebration of the Word Assemblies the children learned a new song for the Jubilee Year 2025 - Pilgrims of Hope.  Listen to it here…

Song of Hope

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28 March 2025

Jars of Hope

Some of our collective worship ambassadors and prayer buddies had been creating designs for special Jars of Hope for each class in school.  We are celebrating the Jubilee Year this year with the theme ‘Pilgrims of Hop’.  The jars will be kept on the prayer focus table in class and pupils are…

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28 March 2025

Parachute Play in Nursery A

Parachute play provides opportunities for cooperation, participation, turn taking and creativity.  We are developing our gross motor skills and our listening skills.  The children loved hiding underneath it too!  

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28 March 2025

Nursery A Dress Up Day

To raise money for Nugent’s Good Shepherd Appeal we held a dress up day in nursery.  We loved pretending to be our different characters.  Thank you to all our families for your support.  

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17 March 2025

Snack and Chat!

Snack time is always popular in nursery but even more so on Mondays as the children are so keen to share with us their weekend news and catch up with their friends.  Here they are developing turn taking, conversation, eye contact, vocabulary, listening skills and much more.   The children choose…

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14 March 2025

Spring Walk in Nursery A

Today we took advantage of a beautiful sunny morning and went on a class walk around the school grounds to look for signs of spring.  We saw many daffodils but some other spring flowers coming up too.  We also observed the buds on the blossom trees.  We finished our time outside with a sensory…

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14 March 2025

Painting in Different Ways in Nursery A

This term in nursery we have been exploring painting in different ways and different context.  Last week we painted outside on tinfoil and took part in finger paining.  This week the children painted to different pieces of music and they absolutely loved it.  

 

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10 March 2025

Perfect Pancakes

Last Tuesday was a hive of activity in Nursery A as we celebrated Shorve Tuesday.  Children had a chance to make and eat pancakes with some traditional toppings. We even made one for Mr Dinsdale!  We talked about the reason why we have Shove Tuesday in preparation for…

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7 March 2025

Telephones and Messages in Bottles.

This week, linking to our English text ‘The Priates are Coning’ we have been writing messages in bottles and floating them on the water in nursery!  We have also talked about other ways we can give or receive messages, realising that we communicate in many different ways.  We also made our own…

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7 March 2025

World Book Day in Nursery A

As part of our World Book Day activities, we took part in a book swap.  In nursery we spread all the books out in our circle and each had chance to choose a new book to read and take home.  We love books in our nursery!

 

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28 February 2025

Using our Bodies in the Spring Sunshine

We have enjoyed using our gross motor skills on the climbing frame today.  We have seen some brilliant climbing and balancing.

 

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