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…
Crazy Day in Nursery A
We had a fun day with our crazy clothes and hair day today. Check out our craziness!
The Last Supper and Good Friday
Using small world play, we told the story of Jesus’ last supper with his friends. We discussed the words of Jesus to do this to remember him and how many people remember Jesus this way at Mass. We also talked about Good Friday and how it was a sad day but a good day. After looking at hot cross…
Retelling the Story of Palm Sunday
We made palm leaves in our key person groups and used small world figures to retell the story of Jesus entering Jerusalem, a story that we remember on Palm Sunday. Different groups of children chose to recreate this story during their role-play throughout the few weeks leading up to our…
RE Curriculum Governors Meeting
Children from Year 3 came to this afternoon’s curriculum governors meeting to talk about their learning in Religious Education. Mrs McIntyre and Mrs Sothern conducted a pupil book study and the children shared their knowledge and understanding. Governors commented that they had learned new…
Nursery A Fruit Kebabs
Fruit kebabs were on the food technology menu this week. The children chopped a variety of fruit and then carefully created their own fruit kebabs.
World Book Day in Nursery A
We had a fun packed World Book Day. This year we had a busy time learning a poem about farm animals to perform in a special assembly this morning.