Image of Jubilee Year of Hope, Exploring Unity in Nursery A
24 September 2025

Jubilee Year of Hope, Exploring Unity in Nursery A

Throughout the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year of Hope, we have been exploring different themes. Each school in our local cluster of Catholic schools has produced a ‘prayer focus box’ on a different theme.  The boxes have been passed between the cluster schools throughout the Jubilee Year and to…

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24 September 2025

Throwing, Catching, Playing!

Nursery A children have been enjoying practising throwing, catching, balancing and ball hitting skills using playground equipment in the sunshine.  

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23 September 2025

Autumn Treasures in Nursery B

The children have been looking for signs of autumn and have brought their ‘autumn treasures’ to show their friends. They have collected leaves, conkers, pine cones, berries, twigs and seeds. Once child brought in a pumpkin which she had grown in her allotment, This  sparked conversations about…

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23 September 2025

Learning about the Bible in Nursery B

The children have been learning about the Bible. We looked inside our golden box and found our special book. The children all held the Bible and we talked how it has lots of wonderful stories about God and Jesus. We also talked about why we make the sign of the cross when we say our prayers. The…

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19 September 2025

Outdoor Adventures in Nursery A

This afternoon we ventured to the grassed area in front of the dinner hall to have lots of fun. As part of our ongoing theme of change we collected leaves and discussed differences, we then explored the adventure trail using our gross motor skills.  There were some wonderful examples of managed…

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19 September 2025

Threading Skills in Nursery A

We noticed that many of our children were finding threading a little bit tricky to complete independently so we took it into key person groups this week and the children did brilliantly.  

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19 September 2025

Learning Outdoors in Nursery B

Today we enjoyed playing outdoors in the autumn sunshine. We collected lots of leaves and talked about the different colours - green, orange, brown yellow and red.  We then practised travelling, climbing and jumping on our obstacle course.

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18 September 2025

Nursery A - Beautiful Me!

We haven’t just been finding out about our new friends in nursery, we have been thinking about ourselves and asking what makes us special.  We used mirrors to look carefully at our faces and draw our own self portrrait.  Thinking about the shape of our faces, eyes, nose, mouth and ears.  We then…

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17 September 2025

Reading Together in Nursery B

As the children settle into nursery life, they are enjoying sharing books together. 

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15 September 2025

Library Time for Nursery A

Nursery A enjoyed their first visit to our school library this afternoon.  We tried to guess the animals in the ‘Flip Flap Forest’ book and then we had some time to choose our own books.  

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11 September 2025

Let’s Play in Nursery A!

This week has been all about new experiences for our nursery children.  They have been discovering the nursery environment and all it has to offer, whilst making new friends.  

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11 September 2025

All aboard the English Martyrs Bus Tour!

 The children in Nursery A have been playing together to create a bus, using crates, wheels and wood.  A tambourine made a perfect steering wheel.  Watch out for the fast drivers!

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