Blog by Tag: PSHE

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…

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…

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. 

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.…

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.…

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…

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.  

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…

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 

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…

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.  

Some of the children in Nursery A have been very busy creating “A Very Posh Hotel” this morning.  The walls are guarded by animals, there is an area for food and “candy”, binoculars for the guests and lots of rooms.  “This hotel is cool” was one of the comments overheard.  The children have been…