Nursery: Blog items
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 1:26pm
Nursery had a very exciting visit this week - we met four owls! We went to meet our feathered friends in the dance studio and waited patiently for their handler to take them out of their boxes. We met Tike, Casper and Twiglet. and a beautiful owl with bright orange eyes. We were excited to learn that Tike burrows under the ground and Casper comes from Africa. One of the owls had bright orange eyes and these help him to see over long diatnaces so he can catch his prey. We also got to hold Twiglet. Twiglet's feathers look just like the bark of a tree so he can camouflage himself from preditors. Thank you SMJ Falconry for bringing your owls to see us.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:18pm
Every Friday is Fun Friday in Nursery! We try to do an exciting activity each week to celebrate another super week in school. The activities often invlove working as a team and sharing a taking turns which is great for developing the children's social and emotional skills. This week is was baking! We made some delicious star biscuits.
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 12:10pm
Nursery have throughly enjoyed reading the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt". They have learnt the pattern of the story and are great at retelling it using a story map or just by themselves. We added instruments to make the sounds of swishy swashy grass and squelchly sqerchy mud! The chidlren loved going on a mini bear hunt outside and making theiir own story mats.
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:48pm
Sometimes in Nursery things can get a little bit messy! The children have been making shaving foam ice creams - I think they got more ice cream on themselves than in the cones! This activity is great fro developing the children's social skills, communication skills and fine motor skills.
Date: 29th Sep 2023 @ 12:34pm
Nursery discovered some dragons frozen in ice this week! They worked together to find ways to set them free. They learnt that making the ice warm would help to melt it so they tried warm water and moving the ice around. Once the ice began to melt the children could wiggle the dragons free.
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:56am
Starrting somewhere new can be a little bit scary so to help the children settle in we have read "Owl Babies" about some baby owls that are worried their mummy won't come back - but of course she does! The story is great for supporintg PSED skills and taking about emotions.
Nursery Won't Let The Rain Stop Them!
Date: 22nd Sep 2023 @ 10:48am
There is only one thing to do on a very rainy day and that's get outside and enjoy it! Nursery had a great time jumnping a splashing in the rain this week and when the slide got extra slippery from the rain drops the children loved sliding down it at super speed! They then got even wetter and explored the water tray. We added some small pipettes and the children pinched the top to sqeeeze water in and then squeezed them again to let the water out. The children counted how many drops it took to fill containers and how many sqeezes to fill the pipette.
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 12:13pm
Nursery are going to be using the dance studio every week to practise their listening skills. They will be doing this by learning some instructional games. So far we have learnt the "Stop and Go" game and the "Bean Game!"! We have learnt two beans this week - jumping bean and jelly bean!
Date: 14th Sep 2023 @ 11:19am
Nursery had a super week meeting all our new starters and welcoming back our old friends. The children have been busy getting to know each other and learning all the nursery routines. We are all excited for lots of adventures this year.
Date: 20th Jul 2023 @ 11:51am
Nursery had a great time building with some new bricks this week. There was some super team work going on as they moved the bricks around and tried to construct a wall. They really had to think about the best way to stack the bricks so the wall didn't fall over! Their building skills were very impressive!
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:21pm
We found a very sleepy bumble bee in our nursery garden this week. To help him get some energy back we gave him some sugar water and he was soon off flying again. The children showed a real interest in the bugs so we went on a big bug hunt around the nursery garden. We found grasshoppers, more bees and a little grass beetle. The children were so excited we're going to carry on exploring for bugs next week.
Date: 6th Jul 2023 @ 12:06pm
As part of whole school Heritage Day, Nursery thought about what clothes they would wear to Stanley Park in the winter and in the summer. We talked about clothes that would keep us warm, clothes that would keep us cool and clothes that would protect us from the different elements. Have a look to see the clothes we chose.
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 7:12pm
Nursery had a great time going on Bear Hunt at Forest School. We went through swishy swashy grass, stumbled tripped in the forest, found some very squelchy squercy mud and made a swirling whirling snow storm! We found the bear and it turns out he was actually very friendly!
Date: 29th Jun 2023 @ 8:52pm
Nursery had a super time taking part in Health Week and learnt lots of ways to keep our bodies healthy. We tried a different type of exercise each day including Yoga and a Joe Wicks work out - that one made our thighs hurt! We talked about healthy and unhealthy foods and sorted them in to two groups. The children also enjoyed tasting some new fruits. Pinapple, mango and pomegranate were a big hit! We all felt super fit and healthy by the end of the week.
Nursery Get Taken Over By Year 5!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:18pm
Year 5 took over the school today and became teachers, teaching assistants, office staff, the Head and Deputy Head and even Site staff! We had some super teachers and teaching assisitants in nursery. They really looked after the children and were great role models. Well done Year 5 - you can come again!
Nursery Celebrate World Music Day
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 12:06pm
Nursery enjoyed celebrating world music day. We listened to different types of music and talked about how it made us feel and the different emotions it created. As the children listened to the music the drew different shapes and patterns to show how they felt. We also listend to some traditonal Nigerian music. The children were really good at identifing the drum beat. They then made shakers and danced to the music!
Nursery Create some Transient Art
Date: 18th Jun 2023 @ 12:48pm
We love to explore different types of art in nursery. This week we have been creating some transient art Under The Sea pictures.The children have a selection of materials and sea creatures to choose from and they arrange them to create their very own sea scene. When they have finished their master piece, we take a photograph of it and then some one else can get creating!
Date: 18th Jun 2023 @ 12:36pm
Nursery have been diving under the sea this week as the read the story "Billy's Bucket". This is a fabulous story about a little boy who can see all sorts of sea creatures in his bucket. The children have been thinking about what they would see in their bucket if they had a magical bucket, developing their fine motor muscles by catching fish and threading jelly fsh tentacles and creating their own buckets and sea creatures. We've had a super time under the sea!
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 4:03pm
Nursery have been exploring farms this week and we have had so much fun! We've sheered sheep, made pigs, cows and chickens, counted farm animals and made milkshakes. The children have been developing their finger muscles by using tweezers to put wool on sheep and building pens for the animals out of playdough.
Date: 25th May 2023 @ 3:38pm
Nursery had a super time when the mobile farm visited school. They found out about the animals and what they like to eat and drink and really enjoyed grooming the sheep, goats and donkey. We talked about what happens on a farm, where the animals sleep and how we get milk from a cow and wool from a sheep.
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 12:07pm
Our outdoor classroom provides lots of wonderful opportunities for our children to develop their own ideas and learning. This week they have been exploring the water area and making picnics and delicious cups of tea. They loved looking for strawberries on our strawberry plants and built an ice cream shop using bricks. These ideas all came from the children as they used the avalible resources in their own way.
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:51am
This week we have been enjoying a great story called Bumble Bear all about a bear who loves honey so much he decides to join bee school! We have been exploring the striped pattern of the bumble bee, learning how bees make honey and making our own bees out of playdough. The children have also been following a step by step guide to draw a bee - great for learning how to follow instructions! Its been a very buzzzzzy week!
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 3:07pm
Nursery have been working hard developing their number skills this week. During our Bug in a Jar activity, the children rolled a dice and used their subitisng skills to say how many spots were on the dice. They then had to count out the matching number of bugs to go in the bug jar.
Nursery Superworm is Super Strong!
Date: 11th May 2023 @ 2:55pm
This week we have read the story "Superworm" about a worm with super strength. The chidlren have been busy exploring length by making longer and shorter worms and adding colours to worms to create a repeating pattern. In the story, Wizard Lizard has a magic flower, the children have been busy trying to create their own magical flowers!
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 10:43am
Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell left us a gift of some slime! The chilldren had a great time exploring the slime and it initiated some wonderful converstaions with the children. They used some great words to describe the slime such as "stretchy, sticky, boingy and bouncy". They were fascinated watching the slime stretch and talked about how long their slime was and whose was longer. The slime also provided a super work out for the childrens fingers with all the pulling, stretching, poking a rolling.
