Jul 11
We are nearly at the end of a fantastic year in Nursery, during which the staff have had a wonderful time getting to know your children and watching them grow into independent learners. They have all made huge progress this year and we are immensely proud of them. We look forward to seeing the children …
Jul 04
On Monday we went to Ruislip Lido. We had a fantastic time! We went on a coach and were so sensible staying in our seats and wearing our seatbelts. When we got to Ruislip Lido, we caught a little train that took us for a ride through the forest and then stopped at the station …
Jun 27
This week we have been spending lots of time in our forest. We are very fortunate to have this facility at Merry Hill as it generates a range of fantastic learning experiences for our children and enables us to cover the Early Years Curriculum in different and exciting ways. For this week’s forest sessions, we …
Jun 20
We have been thoroughly enjoying learning about our healthy body this week in Nursery. We have loved exploring the book ‘Look inside Your Body’ because it has a lot of interesting facts about your body. We generated some of our own questions and have been working hard to find out the answer to some of …
Jun 13
We have been very busy little bees in Nursery this week! After discovering a bee hive in our forest, this sparked our interest and we have been enjoying exploring lots of bee related activities. We have been practising our fine motor skills, sharing and taking turns as well as working like a team of bumblebees! …
Jun 06
It has been lovely to welcome the children back after half term, ready for our final seven weeks of Nursery! We have a lot happening over the next few weeks, and we are particularly looking forward to Sports Day and our trip to Ruislip Lido. This week we started a new story called ‘Sharing a …
May 23
Wow! The last five weeks have flown by and we have done so much! We hope you enjoy the photos of all our wonderful learning this half term. How you can help at home: Your children have been doing a fantastic job learning their phonics this half term! So far, we have taught the following …
May 16
The Big Bad Wolf has been to Nursery this week! He has been blowing down our constructions and we had to work hard to build stronger houses for the pigs! We enjoyed retelling the story of The Three Little Pigs using masks and our acting skills. We listened to a few versions of ‘The Three …
May 09
This week in PE we went to the hall for gymnastics. We listened very carefully to the instructions and watched as the use of all apparatus was modelled to us. We had to remember how to stay safe as well whilst learning to travel in different ways. Some of us slithered along the benches on …
May 02
What a gorgeous, sunny week this has been! Nursery have been making the most of the sun and we have been out and about in our Nursery playground, in our lovely forest and on our field, under our beautiful willow tree. This week we have started our new story, ‘The Enormous Turnip’. We began by …