Nursery Visit to Church as Friends of Jesus
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…
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Heatwave Treat in Nursery A.
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…
Special Messages of Love
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…
Nursery Sports Day
What a fantastic morning we had at sports day. Well done children you were brilliant!
Roasted vegetable pasta in Nursery A
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…
Setting our butterflies free!
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!
Building a church
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.…
Petal water play
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.
Birthday Cake Surprise
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…
Learning about the Holy Spirit in Nursery A
In RE this week we have been exploring further the story of the coming of the Holy Spirit. We have listened to the story and used scarves, ribbons and bubbles to explore the feeling of wind and thinking about how Jesus’ friends must have felt. The Holy Spirit feels like the wind, makes us feel…
Wibbly Wobbly!
The children have been using our new bamboo pipes to experiment with cause and effect using a ball. They use teamwork and communication skills to make sure the ball didn’t roll off!
Nursery Visit to Martin Mere
Nursery had an amazing day at Martin Mere in almost perfect weather conditions, we spotted a variety of birds, went for a ‘Wild Walk’, explored the play areas and took part in a pond dipping workshop. It was exciting to see all the new experiences and learning taking place. There were lots of…