Nursery

We have been reading the beginning of The Christmas Story when Angel Gabriel told Mary she was going to have a baby and his name would be Jesus. The children have re-enacted the story and talked about how Mary may have felt. This week we talked about the meaning of love and created ‘hanging…

Communication & Language, Physical Development, Literacy

We are reading ‘I’m Going to Eat This Ant’ by Chris Naylor which is a story about an anteater who is tired of eating ants all the time. This week the children have looked at different images and clips of anteaters. We then asked them to…

Understanding the World, Personal, Social & Emotional Development, Physical Development

This week the children made vegetable soup to eat as part of their snack. They used their cutting, chopping and peeling skills to prepare the different vegetables. We talked about where vegetables grow and…

Following on from our vegetable shop role play we used some of our vegetables to make a special “English Martyrs Soup”. The children peeled and chopped. We discussed the shapes and textures of the vegetables. This afternoon we enjoyed eating our soup in the woodland area. We heard words such as…

The children in our nurseries have been playing in our woodland area this morning.  They have produced a woodland shop with sticks, branches and leaves, they have worked cooperatively to manoeuvre on the adventure trail and they have played a guessing game using pebbles.  The game was a focused…

Expressive Arts & Design

The children enjoyed exploring paint and colour mixing with their feet this week. First they walked in paint with their feet covered in bubble wrap and created ‘dinosaur footprints’. Then they went barefoot describing and comparing how it felt using words such as…

The children have continued their bug hunting this week using the magnifying viewfinders. After an adult initiated bug hunting activity last week, these children were choosing to continue and extend their learning independently.  

Everyday is a nursery rhyme day in Nursery A but we are singing even more this week as it’s National Nursery Rhyme Week.  Here we are having fun singing ‘Row, row, row your boat’ with a partner.

Expressive Arts & Design

The children have been exploring with paints creating firework pictures and colourful pebbles for our woodland area. 

We saw fantastic creativity and imagination in our sensory play this week.  Children were focused and engaged well with the experiences provided.  Cognitively, sensory play stimulates neural pathways in the brain through exploring different textures, materials and smells.  

This week the children have been working in their key groups to find hidden bugs in our woodland area. They used their investigative skills to look for the photographs of different insects and to talk about their features. We will continue to learn about bugs this half term as we are reading ‘I’m…