Nursery Christmas Party Day.
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.
Nursery's Santa Dash
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!
Arctic Animals
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.
Who will you be today in Nursery A?
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…
Making Decorations in Nursery B
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.
Preparing for the Birthday of Jesus
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…
Favourite Time, Library Time.
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…
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Imagination and Creation
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…
Watch Out for the Wolf!
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…
Changing Seasons in Nursery
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.
Snow and sledging in Nursery A
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…
Messy Mud Kitchen Play
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…