Crucial Crew
The children visited Aintree Racecourse to take part in a range of workshops.
The workshops focused on: healthy eating, keeping safe on transport, drugs and alcohol awareness and emotional well being.
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…
Magic Rubbish
In response to a text called ‘Magic Trash’ about an artist who uses recycled items to create his artwork, we decided to create our own ‘Magic Wall’ using recycled items that we have been collecting. Throughout the week, the children have been colour mixing, collaborating, creating and adapting…
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Nursery Picnic
Today Nursery A and B joined together for a picnic in the sunshine. We have been reading the book The Sea Saw and this week, in relation to the text we have been planning a picnic. We are looking forward to our beach trip next week too. The children enjoyed tasty banana oat bars that they made…
Play-dough fun
The children love making play dough with an adult at the start of the week. Lately the children have been using shells and pebbles to enhance their creations.
Our Beautiful Nursery Garden in Full Bloom.
We have been working hard to maintain our garden in nursery. We have a mixture of plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables growing. Look carefully at the labelled pebbles to see the selection including, sunflowers, beetroot, lettuce, onions, radishes, cress, sweetcorn, courgettes and strawberries.…
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.…
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…
Self service snack time
Our snack table is always a favourite area of nursery. We encourage independence by children choosing their own healthy snack, taking it to a table to eat, chatting to their friends and adults in nursery and washing up their own dishes afterwards.
Good Friends in Nursery B
This week we have been talking about being a ‘good friend’ linked to our text Gigantosaurus. The children have talked about their friends and what makes them a good friend. They drew pictures of their friends and described their qualities. We also played lots of games together including circle…
Giving Assistance
Today we looked at First Aid knowledge such as the recovery position and DR ABC.
The children role played to practise DR ABC.
D anger
R esponse
A irway
B reathing
C irculation
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…