Curriculum Impact Tag: EYFS

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…

Christmas preparation is in full swing in Reception.  We are slowly working our way through costumes for our Nativity play.  Watch out for any lines in book bags this week.  

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…

We were so excited to see the snow on Tuesday morning.  Although there wasn’t that much we certainly made the most of it! Apart from a few cold hands we had a great time. 

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. 

We wasted no time in making the most of the sprinkling of snow we had this morning, learning a ‘sprinkling’ of new snow related vocabulary too!  We used lots of teamwork to pull the heavy sledge and even more teamwork to throw snowballs at the adults!  Smiles all round and despite our cold hands…

The children have been getting messy in the mud kitchen this week. 

An article in QA Nursery Magazine explains the many benefits of mud kitchens some of which are listed below:

Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED)

Mud kitchens work incredibly well as part of PSED for…

The children began their Christmas cake making adventure this week.  They experienced the smells of nutmeg, cinnamon, mixed dried fruit, orange peel, lemon peel, coffee, mixed spice and more. They used listening skills to follow instructions, teamwork and turn-taking skills and mathematical skills…

Some new wigs and glasses have refreshed our dressing up basket this week!

The children in nursery have been very busy making Christmas cakes. They have used their senses to smell and feel the different ingredients and have listened carefully to the instructions. They helped one another and took turns stirring, cutting, mixing and pouring the different ingredients.…