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24 June 2025

Nursery A went to the beach today!

Today we visited Formby Beach and Pinewoods.  We linked our visit to the book The See Saw by Tom Percival.  The children had a little picnic and time to play in the sand.  We spent time walking, talking, climbing, digging, rolling, laughing and singing! There were some very sleepy children on the…

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20 June 2025

Water between our fingers and sand between our toes!

This week’s warm weather has called for a variety of sand and water play in nursery.  The children have enjoyed exchanging wellies for bare feet in the sand and have explored pouring, funnelling and spooning water both in indoor and outdoor water play.  The children have been cooperating in much…

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16 June 2025

Eau de Nursery!

Some of the children in Nursery A have been busy mixing, pouring, creating and enhancing today.  They decided that they would like to make their own nursery perfume.  They added vanilla and cinnamon to the water, glitter and daisy flower recipe to create their own fragrance.…

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13 June 2025

Ice-cream Day in Nursery A

Over the past few weeks we have opened a preteen ice-cream shop outside nursery.  The children have loved playing shop, requesting their favourite favours and toppings, writing down orders, giving money and change and creating imaginary tasty treats.  Today it was time to do it for real!  What a…

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13 June 2025

Counting in Nursery

Today some of our nursery children worked together to order the number squares 1 to 10. Lots of number conversations could be heard! 

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6 June 2025

Repeated A, B, A, B patterns

We have been noticing patterns around us and talking about repeated patterns.  Using loose parts in the nursery the children have been creating their own repeated patterns.  

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23 May 2025

Number in Nursery

The children had the opportunity to show off their counting skills this week.  They are very proud of themselves!

 

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19 May 2025

What shape?

To consolidate our learning of properties of different shapes, the pupils played in small groups a game of ‘What shape?’

By asking yes or no questions, the children had to solve which shape the other person had selected.

After playing the game, we discussed which were the best kind of…

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16 May 2025

Fruit lollies

Fruit lollies were a perfect choice to make on our warm week in nursery A.  The children used cutting skills to prepare the soft fruit and distributed them into ice lolly moulds, after calculating how much fruit we would need.  After that the children practised their pouring by adding water before…

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16 May 2025

Battleships

This week in Mathematics, Year 5 have been learning about coordinates.

To show our understanding, the children played a game of Battleships against one another.

Grace 5B ‘Battleships was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed playing against my friend Erin.’

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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

3-D shapes

Year 5 has been investigating 3-D shapes.

We were tasked with finding out how many faces, edges and vertices each 3-D shape had.

The children enjoyed working in pairs and handling the different shapes.

 

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