Water between our fingers and sand between our toes!
This week’s warm weather has called for a variety of sand and water play in nursery. The children have enjoyed exchanging wellies for bare feet in the sand and have explored pouring, funnelling and spooning water both in indoor and outdoor water play. The children have been cooperating in much…
Magic Rubbish
In response to a text called ‘Magic Trash’ about an artist who uses recycled items to create his artwork, we decided to create our own ‘Magic Wall’ using recycled items that we have been collecting. Throughout the week, the children have been colour mixing, collaborating, creating and adapting…
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Nursery Picnic
Today Nursery A and B joined together for a picnic in the sunshine. We have been reading the book The Sea Saw and this week, in relation to the text we have been planning a picnic. We are looking forward to our beach trip next week too. The children enjoyed tasty banana oat bars that they made…
Fun in the sun!
The children have been loving playing in our outdoor area this week, we have been making the most of the sunny weather with lots of creative play. We have had water play, a large painting area made up of junk modelling, we have made shops, and served sand ice cream!
Art Club!
Some children in Reception have been attending art club after school! This week the children explored finger painting. We explored the difference between abstract and figurative paintings and the children then decided on their own designs before painting.
Building in Nursery B
The children have been building together using wood and crates. They were very imaginative creating an obstacle course, a fire truck and then a helicopter. There was lots of balancing, jumping and travelling. Great teamwork!
Reception Sports Day
Reception had a brilliant day competing in our sports day yesterday! We took part in lots of races, obstacle courses and balancing events. Well done to all the children! Pictured is our winning team and fasted boy and girl in Reception!
Nursery’s Sports Day
Well done to all the children for taking part in Sports Day today. They all had lots of fun and got involved in different races including egg and spoon, obstacle and relay. You were all little stars!
Play-dough fun
The children love making play dough with an adult at the start of the week. Lately the children have been using shells and pebbles to enhance their creations.
Eau de Nursery!
Some of the children in Nursery A have been busy mixing, pouring, creating and enhancing today. They decided that they would like to make their own nursery perfume. They added vanilla and cinnamon to the water, glitter and daisy flower recipe to create their own fragrance.…
Ice-cream Day in Nursery A
Over the past few weeks we have opened a preteen ice-cream shop outside nursery. The children have loved playing shop, requesting their favourite favours and toppings, writing down orders, giving money and change and creating imaginary tasty treats. Today it was time to do it for real! What a…
Exploring past and present
This week the children have been exploring past and present. We started by reading the story ‘Peepo’ identifying items in the book that we don’t use any more. We then were surprised in class with a basket of items. We had an old telephone, a video, vinyls, and an old camera from 1920! It was…