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1 October 2025

Showing our Love and Care

In Nursery A we have been demonstrating our love and care through role play.  We have been caring for our ‘babies’ by making sure they are fed, clothed and well looked after.  We have names for our dolls so that they are treated with dignity and respect.  We talk about why we need to look after…

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1 October 2025

Andy Goldsworthy Inspired Natural Art

We have been inspired to make some art with nature by finding out about the work of artist and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy.  After collecting Autumn treasures at home, we have used these to create.  We have made faces, patterns and even our own trees.  We have been developing our vocabulary around…

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29 September 2025

Nursery B Visit the Library

Every week the children in nursery visit the school library. They enjoy looking at books with their friends and talking about the pictures. We read stories together and talk about what has happened.

Today we read ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ by Judith Kerr. The children remembered lots of facts…

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26 September 2025

You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!

This week the children have been reading the story of the Gingerbread Man.  We have been using our speaking and listening skills to talk about the story and we even decorated our own gingerbread men!

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26 September 2025

You’ve got a friend in Nursery A

It has been wonderful to watch friendships being created and developed in the first few weeks of nursery.  We are learning to get along, help one another and develop our sharing skills.  We are putting our faith into action, demonstrating how we love God and one another. 

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26 September 2025

Cooking in the Mud Kitchen

Today the children in Nursery B have been using their imaginations and working together to create delicious mud soup, pies, stew and ice-creams. They took turns, listened to one another and counted their ingredients to make the perfect recipes. They mixed, poured, stirred and cleaned up after…

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24 September 2025

Jubilee Year of Hope, Exploring Unity in Nursery A

Throughout the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, we have been exploring different themes. Each school in our local cluster of Catholic schools has produced a ‘prayer focus box’ on a different theme.  The boxes have been passed between the cluster schools throughout the Jubilee Year and to…

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24 September 2025

Throwing, Catching, Playing!

Nursery A children have been enjoying practising throwing, catching, balancing and ball hitting skills using playground equipment in the sunshine.  

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23 September 2025

Autumn Treasures in Nursery B

The children have been looking for signs of autumn and have brought their ‘autumn treasures’ to show their friends. They have collected leaves, conkers, pine cones, berries, twigs and seeds. Once child brought in a pumpkin which she had grown in her allotment, This  sparked conversations about…

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23 September 2025

Learning about the Bible in Nursery B

The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…

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19 September 2025

Outdoor Adventures in Nursery A

This afternoon we ventured to the grassed area in front of the dinner hall to have lots of fun. As part of our ongoing theme of change we collected leaves and discussed differences, we then explored the adventure trail using our gross motor skills.  There were some wonderful examples of managed…

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19 September 2025

Threading Skills in Nursery A

We noticed that many of our children were finding threading a little bit tricky to complete independently so we took it into key person groups this week and the children did brilliantly.  

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