Nursery

This week we are talking about the different games we like to play with our friends. The children are telling one another how to play their favourite games remembering the different rules and steps. Today we have had lots of fun playing What's the Time, Mr Wolf?, The Farmer's in his Den, Hide &…

There are so many beautiful daisies on our soon to be cut grass around school that the children in Nursery A decided to learn some facts about them and collect as many as possible.  We then used them to create daisy chains and in our provision throughout nursery from creating transient artwork to…

In response to the text Gigantosaurus, the playdough table has been very popular in Nursery A this week.  The children have been using different dinosaur footprints to impress into their dough and predicting what the dinosaurs may have looked like.  

Today the children used paints, brushes, string and teabags to create colourful firework paintings. They worked together and shared their ideas while exploring paint using different tools. 

This week we are playing with shape puzzles and simple jigsaws in our continuous provision. Today we matched a range of objects to their shadows concentrating on the shapes we could see. We also played a matching numicon and numeral game together. 

The children in Nursery A have been showing off their knowledge of shapes this week.  We have been exploring different shapes and today collected blossom that has fallen from our beautiful nursery tree, to fill shapes and create different shapes on our own and in small groups.

The children in Nursery A have been combining their drawing, painting and collage skills over the past few weeks to create amazing joint pieces of artwork. 

Parachute play provides opportunities for cooperation, participation, turn taking and creativity.  We are developing our gross motor skills and our listening skills.  The children loved hiding underneath it too!  

To raise money for Nugent’s Good Shepherd Appeal we held a dress up day in nursery.  We loved pretending to be our different characters.  Thank you to all our families for your support.  

Today the children went on a walk looking for signs of spring. Together we found buds, daffodils, tulips, seedlings, insects and birds. The children enjoyed exploring and seeing so many bright colours around our school.

Snack time is always popular in nursery but even more so on Mondays as the children are so keen to share with us their weekend news and catch up with their friends.  Here they are developing turn taking, conversation, eye contact, vocabulary, listening skills and much more.   The children choose…

Today we took advantage of a beautiful sunny morning and went on a class walk around the school grounds to look for signs of spring.  We saw many daffodils but some other spring flowers coming up too.  We also observed the buds on the blossom trees.  We finished our time outside with a sensory…