Nursery

Given the weather forecast for the rest of the week, we took advantage of the beautiful autumn sunshine yesterday and took our play to our forest school area.  The children used their muscles to lift and carry pumpkins and explore cause and effect.  We found a large number of ladybirds so we…

In English we are reading ‘Home’ by Carson Ellis which is a wonderful book about different homes around the world. The children have enjoyed looking at the pictures and have used some of these to create their own homes. They have been describing their creations and sharing their images with…

We have been taking advantage of the mild Autumn days to spend lots of time outdoors.  The children have been exploring our forest school area, playing parachute games and using pumpkins as part of their play.  They have been developing teamwork and working our physical gross motor skills…

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about and experiencing God’s wonderful world in a variety of ways.  We have draw God’s world on a big frieze, been on a walk to look at the beauty of God’s creation and have painted aspects of God’s world in small groups.  We have been thinking about…

Nursery B have been learning about Harvest and thanking God for our wonderful world and everything in it. We have been talking about our farmers and the crops they grow. The children then continued their learning and set up vegetable patches and shops in Nursery where they could buy their fruits…

The children have been creating magic recipes and potions using pumpkins and other natural ingredients in our forest area. We have created our own pumpkin patch and have been learning about pumpkins describing their colour, shape and size. We also had lots of fun decorating our magician hats. 

Physical development is part of everything we do in nursery. Each day we are developing and strengthening our fine and gross motor skills through the different activities we do. We are mark-making, playing musical instruments, lifting and carrying, balancing and building as well as feeding…

This week in Maths the children are exploring shapes. They are building together and using their imaginations to create some wonderful houses, hotels, castles and towers. 

After reading the story ‘Whatever Next’ by Jill Murphy, some of the children chose to explore and build a rocket with the wooden blocks.  They explored how to position the blocks in different ways using the language big, bigger, small, smaller.  

As part of our introduction to nursery we have been creating some spoon friends, this is also a chance for the adults in nursery to have some one-to-one time with the children and we build relationships and connections.

Look at our amazing creations.

The children have been busy this morning building a bridge to our outdoor autumn cafe.  We saw some brilliant teamwork and problem solving.

A newly donated glockenspiel became a focal point in nursery this morning and we ended up having a nursery rhyme medley led by Mrs Bruchez with Mrs McIntyre joining in on the flute!