Blog by Tag: Nursery

Today we have been practising throwing and catching skills with a bean bag. We moved the bean bag around our bodies, passed it from one hand to the other and then threw the bean bag up in the air catching it with both hands. We also used hoops to practise throwing into a target. Well done children…

This week the children are exploring colour and colour mixing using paints and dinosaurs to create footprint patterns. When they have finished their patterns, they are bathing the dinosaurs in warm soapy water.  

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…

The sun was shining and we have been busy gardening this week. We have weeded and cleared before planting a variety of bedding plants.  We have been observing and noticing differences between the plants and exploring the soil as we dig.  

In Nursery we are reading Gigantosaurus which is a story about dinosaurs. This week the children have discovered frozen dinosaurs in class and used a variety of tools to free the dinosaurs. This created a lot of discussion about what they could see, feel and hear. “The ice is melting!” “It’s…

This week we have been talking about healthy snacks and made our own wraps. The children were able to describe the different tastes, colours and shapes of the fillings. They carefully cut up the tomatoes and cucumber and then added what they wanted to their wraps to take home for lunch. Well done…

Scooping, pouring, investigating patterns, communicating, teamwork, scientific enquiry were just some of the skills being used in this small world play session in Nursery A this week.  The children were engrossed in their play for a long time.  One boy commented “Look, this snake is stripy but…

In our food technology session this weeek, the children have been creating fruit trees using a variety of fruit and bread sticks.  They then enjoyed eating them as a tasty snack.  

This week we are talking about the different games we like to play with our friends. The children are telling one another how to play their favourite games remembering the different rules and steps. Today we have had lots of fun playing What's the Time, Mr Wolf?, The Farmer's in his Den, Hide &…

In response to the text Gigantosaurus, the playdough table has been very popular in Nursery A this week.  The children have been using different dinosaur footprints to impress into their dough and predicting what the dinosaurs may have looked like.  

There was so much of the Catholic Life of the school to celebrate today and it was so much fun.  The children from both of our nurseries took part in an Easter Raffle to raise money for Nugent’s Good Shepherd Appeal.  We learned that not everyone would win but that in raising money for charity we…

Today the children used paints, brushes, string and teabags to create colourful firework paintings. They worked together and shared their ideas while exploring paint using different tools.