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16 May 2025

Good Friends in Nursery B

This week we have been talking about being a ‘good friend’ linked to our text Gigantosaurus. The children have talked about their friends and what makes them a good friend. They drew pictures of their friends and described their qualities. We also played lots of games together including circle…

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15 May 2025

Throwing and Catching in Nursery B

Today we have been practising throwing and catching skills with a bean bag. We moved the bean bag around our bodies, passed it from one hand to the other and then threw the bean bag up in the air catching it with both hands. We also used hoops to practise throwing into a target. Well done children…

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13 May 2025

Dinosaur Footprints in Nursery B

This week the children are exploring colour and colour mixing using paints and dinosaurs to create footprint patterns. When they have finished their patterns, they are bathing the dinosaurs in warm soapy water.  

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9 May 2025

It’s a Wrap!

As part of our learning about food in nursery this week we have made our own wraps.  We had a variety of fillings to choose from to create our perfect taste sensation.  We had to think carefully about how much filling to use.  Too many and the wrap will fall apart, too few and the wrap may be…

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9 May 2025

Practising our Planting in Nursery

The sun was shining and we have been busy gardening this week. We have weeded and cleared before planting a variety of bedding plants.  We have been observing and noticing differences between the plants and exploring the soil as we dig.  

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1 May 2025

Making healthy snacks in Nursery B

This week we have been talking about healthy snacks and made our own wraps. The children were able to describe the different tastes, colours and shapes of the fillings. They carefully cut up the tomatoes and cucumber and then added what they wanted to their wraps to take home for lunch. Well done…

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1 May 2025

Wetland Adventure

Scooping, pouring, investigating patterns, communicating, teamwork, scientific enquiry were just some of the skills being used in this small world play session in Nursery A this week.  The children were engrossed in their play for a long time.  One boy commented “Look, this snake is stripy but…

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29 April 2025

A Very Posh Hotel

Some of the children in Nursery A have been very busy creating “A Very Posh Hotel” this morning.  The walls are guarded by animals, there is an area for food and “candy”, binoculars for the guests and lots of rooms.  “This hotel is cool” was one of the comments overheard.  The children have been…

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28 April 2025

Playing Games in Nursery B

This week we are talking about the different games we like to play with our friends. The children are telling one another how to play their favourite games remembering the different rules and steps. Today we have had lots of fun playing What's the Time, Mr Wolf?, The Farmer's in his Den, Hide &…

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25 April 2025

Daisy, Daisy!

There are so many beautiful daisies on our soon to be cut grass around school that the children in Nursery A decided to learn some facts about them and collect as many as possible.  We then used them to create daisy chains and in our provision throughout nursery from creating transient artwork to…

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25 April 2025

Dinosaur Playdough!

In response to the text Gigantosaurus, the playdough table has been very popular in Nursery A this week.  The children have been using different dinosaur footprints to impress into their dough and predicting what the dinosaurs may have looked like.  

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4 April 2025

Colourful Painting in Nursery

Today the children used paints, brushes, string and teabags to create colourful firework paintings. They worked together and shared their ideas while exploring paint using different tools. 

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