Blog Author: Mrs McIntyre

Nursery A and B children came together this morning in our forest school area for a wonderful time of friendship and exploring. For many it was their first visit to our forest school area.  

There will be some happy, tired and muddy children this evening! 

We have spent time learning the sign of the cross prayer in nursery as part of our prayers and learning in RE. The children have also been very busy learning their morning, lunchtime and home time prayers both in school and at home.  

The children in Nursery A have had a very busy time settling in, discovering and exploring our nursery environment.  The children were very excited by the opening of our new ‘Autumn Outdoor Cafe’ today!

As part of our RE topic, ‘Dialogue and Encounter’ we visited church.  We listened to a Gospel reading and learned about how the church family gather together to pray and to celebrate the Eucharist.  We talked about how were are all friends of Jesus and how to follow his example.  The children…

The heatwave this week has been a fantastic opportunity for discussion around how to keep cool and hydrated during hot weather.  We have learned lots of new vocabulary and scientific facts! The children have been brilliant in the hot weather and as a special reward we enjoyed a hot weather ice…

In our topic ‘Dialogue and Encounter’ we have been learning about our neighbours near and far.  We have learned about Peter and Paul who travelled to tell everyone about Jesus.  Today we tried to be like Peter and Paul and spread the news the ‘Jesus loves everyone - Jesus loves you!’  We drew a…

What a fantastic morning we had at sports day.  Well done children you were brilliant!

The children made delicious roasted vegetable pasta sauce today using onions, courgettes, peppers, carrot and tomato.  We prepared and chopped the vegetables, coated them in oil and baked them in the oven.  We then blended them together and combined them with cooked pasta to create a delicious…

After weeks of watching and waiting our caterpillars emerged from their chrysalis’ as beautiful butterflies. Today it was time to release them.  We were so excited, just look at our faces! 

Today one of our  nursery children came to tell me that she had built a church.  What an amazing creation! She showed me all the people and told me that they were at Mass.  We discussed that the people were parishioners and that we call them the congregation when they are gathered in prayer.…

This week the children have enjoyed engaging in sensory water play.  Intended to support fine motor skills and develop mathematical and scientific concepts, the children have focused on this form of play for extended periods.

The children impressed us all with their creative and teamwork skills this week.  Working together and using their own ideas, they designed and made a large and imaginative birthday cake as part of their play dough and role-play.  All topped off with a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.  What a…