25 October 2024

Scoot fit

 

We had such an exciting time yesterday when we took part in Scoot Fit.  The children absolutely loved scooting around to the music.  They were so confident and particularly enjoyed the scoot football.  ‘Best day ever!’ Jacob said. 

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24 October 2024

Nursery Fun with Scoot Fit

The children had lots of fun this morning with Scoot Fit! They sang, danced and improved their scootering skills.

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23 October 2024

Exploring Clay in Nursery

This week we have been exploring clay making different shapes to create mini-beasts. This is helping us to improve our fine motor skills. 

 

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22 October 2024

Library Time for Nursery A

Visiting our school library for the first time was a very special trip for our nursery children. There were gasps of awe and wonder as the brand new resource was revealed to our youngest children.  We loved the books and listening to ‘The Lion Inside’ as part of story time.  We are learning how to…

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17 October 2024

English Martyrs Autumn Cafe!

This week’s menu:

Starter:  Leaf Soup

Main:  Autumn Omelette

Dessert: Spider crispy cakes

Turn-taking, playing, mixing, stirring, speaking, listening, measuring, counting, experimenting = LEARNING!

 

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17 October 2024

When the lights go out…the torches come out!

A power cut in nursery didn’t stop the fun and learning this week.  We used torches to find our way around nursery, exploring light, dark and shadows.

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17 October 2024

Who lives in a house like this?

As part of our Communication and Language work, we have been reading the book Home by Carson Ellis.  The children have been building different homes within the nursery provision.  They have produced some fantastic creations.  

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16 October 2024

Nursery Making Mud Soup

The children have been working together in the mud kitchen making mud soup using our natural resources.

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11 October 2024

Nursery Learning Outdoors

The children have had lots of fun playing and exploring outdoors. In music we have been learning about percussion instruments so the children wanted to hear the sounds the tractor tyre could make. They have also been using the trees to play hide and seek.  

 

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8 October 2024

Musical Moments

The children have enjoyed exploring different sounds on our new music wall that the children created together this week. We listened to the sounds the wooden items made when hit and described how they are different to the sounds created by striking metal objects.  

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8 October 2024

Nature Art

This week we are learning about the work of Andy Goldsworthy known as Nature’s Artist.  Inspired by his work we have been using a variety of natural materials to create faces and patterns.  

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7 October 2024

Orienteering Outdoors

This morning the children worked with Enrich Education to find the different animal markers around our school. We enjoyed making the various animal noises and talking about where we would find these animals in our environment.

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