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Jan 17
This week in Nursery
This week, we have been continuing with our class story, ‘Each Peach Pear Plum’ by Janet and Alan Ahlberg. The story is beautifully illustrated and has given us many opportunities to talk about some well-known nursery rhymes and story characters: ‘Cinderella is walking up the stairs’ (Theo). ‘Little Bo Peep is sitting on the well.’ …
Jan 10
Welcome back!
Happy New Year to all our families! We hope you enjoyed the festive period and are recharged ready for a new term in Nursery! We had a very exciting start to the new year with the visit of snow! This prompted much excitement and conversation from all the children. We suited ourselves up and went …
Dec 13
The Travelling Star
This week has seen Nursery take part in their first show at school! Nursery worked very hard in rehearsals and were great at sitting beautifully whilst they watched the rest of the show. They sung beautifully and did a brilliant job adding the actions. We are so proud of them and sure you all are …
Dec 06
This week in Nursery
We have a new Nursery member! Take Home Ted has already visited two of our Nursery families and has had some exciting adventures. We are so proud of the children that have already had fun with Ted – they are building up their confidence as well as developing their communication and language skills! Each week, …
Nov 29
Train Ride!
This week in Nursery we have started to look at our new book, The Train Ride by June Crebbin. In the story, a little girl travels by train through different scenery and notices all sorts of things as she looks out of the window! You can listen to the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMmO7QNd57Q In our …
Nov 24
Snow at Nursery!
This week was very exciting at school – we had snow! Lots of us came to school talking about the unexpected weather so we decided to embrace it! Here we are having lots of fun exploring the snow and ice. The children have been discussing the change in weather, thinking about the colour of the …
Nov 15
This week in Nursery
This week is Nursery Rhyme Week, so we have been singing and practising lots of our favourite rhymes! Nursery rhymes are so important to help children hear patterns in language which in turn will support them when practising phonics and learning to read. We sing nursery rhymes everyday and it is wonderful seeing the children …
Nov 08
Happy Divali!
This week we have been learning about Divali, which is the ‘festival of lights’ and is celebrated by Hindus and Sikhs. We began by watching this video, which tells the story of Rama and Sita and explains why Divali is celebrated. We then looked at how Hindus and Sikhs celebrate Divali at home. We found …
Oct 25
Nursery achievements!
This half term we have spent lots of time settling in and learning how to make new friends. We have talked about what makes a good friend – being kind, using manners and helping each other. This links in well with the Golden Rules that we all strive to follow at school. Nursery are beginning …
Oct 18
This week in Nursery
In Nursery this week, we have continued learning the Golden Rules. We are working hard to: Be honest, look after property, listen to people, work hard, be kind and helpful and be gentle. The grown ups have been awarding team points to children that are seen to be following these rules and being good role …