Nursery children have had a fun filled party day today.  Both nurseries joined together in the hall for pass the parcel, musical statues and disco dancing.  Children also enjoyed games and party food in their own nursery settings. 

Today the children wore their Christmas jumpers and took part in the School Games Santa Dash event. They had lots of fun walking and running with their friends followed by a surprise visit to see Father Christmas. How exciting!

The children in nursery are interested in learning about animals that live in cold climates. We have looked at different animals that live in the Arctic including polar bears, snowy owls and arctic foxes. We have also been exploring what happens to ice as it melts.  

Cheerful children's stocking

As a school, each year group is fundraising for CAFOD this Advent.  Nursery have chosen the World Gift of a Cheerful Children’s Stocking this year to raise money for.  We have had the idea of asking our nursery children to bring in a small treat for themselves to…

Our nursery children made a wonderful start to our Christmas assemblies today.  In our special act of worship the children sang beautifully and reminded us all of the true meaning of Christmas.  We are so proud of how amazing they all were.   Well done children!  

In Nursery we love taking on different roles.  Throughout the year we use hats, bags, shoes, clothes to be whoever we want to be.  In the run up to Christmas we have introduced a variety of more recognisable costumes into nursery and the children have had so much fun.  One area of our classroom…

This week the children are enjoying making handprint salt dough decorations to hang on their Christmas trees at home. We will be painting and decorating our decorations next week. 

In our RE topic, Prophecy and Promise, the children have been learning about the story of the Angel Gabriel visiting Jesus to tell her the news of a baby boy called Jesus.  The children have been using our small world nativity figures to retell the story. The children learnt about the love that…

The children in Nursery A can’t wait for their library slots each week.  This week it was fantastic to see so many children recognising The Three Pigs book that we have been using so much in nursery and competing to be the first to read it!  There is such a buzz of excitement when we visit our…

There has been a plethora of imaginative play taking place this week outside with our large scale resources.  Children have made vehicles, boats and bridges over ‘cold choppy water’.  We have also noticed independence with wellies, shoes and coats improving vastly over the past few…

The children in nursery are continuing to read ‘The Three Little Pigs’. This week we are focusing on the wolf and have created our own Watch Out! posters. The children have drawn and described the wolf remembering vocabulary from the text.

The children have also been working together building…

The children in nursery have been learning about our different seasons and this week they were able to explore what snow and ice feel like. The children talked about ‘wrapping up warm’ and preparing for the winter months ahead.