Welcome to Nursery 2022 :)

Hello everyone! Welcome to Nursery to all our lovely new children and families and welcome back to everyone returning!

We have had a busy start to our term, getting to know each other and exploring lots of fun things inside and outside our amazing Nursery.

Over the past two weeks, we have been exploring all the colours of the rainbow. We have really enjoyed finding, sorting, mixing, painting, printing, collaging and even tasting yummy fruits and vegetables of the colours we have learnt about. We have put together some of these wonderful creations to make an enormous rainbow to decorate the wall in Nursery…we wonder if you can see it?! 😉

When you are out and about, what colours do you see around you? Which one is your favourite? Which colour do you see most of? We can’t wait to hear all about the lovely things you do at home together 🙂

Spring Term so far…

Welcome back to all our lovely children and families and a very warm welcome to all our new ones 🙂 We have already been very busy in Nursery: exploring our school grounds (snow and all!); talking about our pets and how to look after them in our Pets and Vets topic; looked at the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and did some wonderful paintings, maths, mark making and listening games; celebrating Chinese New Year and learning about how and why it is celebrated and finishing the half term with Patterns and Shapes. The children have really enjoyed making and noticing shapes and patterns around us and had lots of fun using the musical instruments to make a quiet/loud repeating pattern.

We wish you all a lovely half term break and looking forward to having lots more fun next half term 🙂

Autumn Term 2022

What a wonderful, busy term we have had! Exploring Autumn, Harvest, vegetables, night and day, nocturnal animals, Diwali, fireworks and, of course, CHRISTMAS!!

The children have had so much fun using all their senses: making, creating, counting, singing, learning new words, tasting new foods, trying new things, learning new skills… all whilst doing it with their friends. What a lovely group you are 🙂

Welcome Message from Miss Woodhams and Mrs Tooze

Welcome Message from Mrs Potter

Hello 2020!

Welcome back, everyone! And a very warm welcome to all our lovely new children and families 🙂 We have had a great start to our new term: making new friends and even meeting two special visitors… Kindness Elves. We have named them Shiny-Belle and Twinkle. They have come to visit us to see all the kind and lovely things we do in our nursery and even give us some Kindness Challenges (such as smiling at our friends, writing thank you cards for Christmas presents and saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’). We also made some beautiful friendship bracelets to give to a friend by threading beads onto pipe cleaners.

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Goodbye, 2019…

Wow, what a half term! We ended the year in style, learning about Diwali (the Hindu Festival of Light), celebrating Fireworks and Bonfire Night, then had LOTS of fun with all our Christmas activities. Thank you, everyone, for all your ongoing support and for braving the torrential rain to attend our Nursery’s Christmas Sing-Along. The children put on a fabulous show, singing lots of fabulous festive songs!

Spooky Week

We had lots of fun on our first week back building up to Halloween. We listened to Julia Donaldson’s ‘Room on the Broom’ and made some exciting ‘stinky’ green potions using bicarbonate of soda and coloured white vinegar- then later made delicious fruity wands; we made skeleton pictures using cotton buds and used shapes to make brilliant pumpkin faces; we learnt a song ‘5 Little Spooky Ghosts’ and really loved exploring the lights and torches around our darkened nursery space.

 

Autumn, Harvest and Scarecrows

Wow, we have been VERY busy this half term! We looked at the lovely Autumn colours of red, yellow and orange; exploring leaves on the trees, fruits and vegetables. We made delicious lemonade after squeezing fresh lemons and made yummy banana milkshakes, too. We had lots of fun exploring pumpkins- especially looking at the inside of the most enormous pumpkin we’ve ever seen! We used shapes to make our own funny pumpkin faces on the Smartboard!

To get us ready for Harvest, we looked at the story of the Little Red Hen- making story maps, puppets, special headbands and ended the week making our own Hedgehog bread with Mrs Tooze in the Attelier. Yummy!

To finish off a wonderful half term, we looked at scarecrows. We made lovely handprint crows; drew around our bodies using chalk in the outside area; played a fun ‘scare away the crows’ game and made a collaborative collage to decorate our Nursery. We have had such a lovely start to our Autumn term and we look forward to seeing everyone after half term. We hope you enjoy using the ‘Busy Bags’!

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Heartfelt Harvest Thanks

A very big thank you to everyone who came to our Nursery Harvest Sing Along. The children worked so hard learning all the songs and gave a wonderful performance in front of a huge audience of family and friends. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. What a lovely way to end a wonderful half term. The Nursery staff are extremely proud of the children and grateful for your continued support.