We have reached the last day of term and i'm sure everyone is excited about the Christmas break ahead!
It has been a busy week at nursery. On Tuesday afternoon we enjoyed joining the school for a special Christmas assembly with the Rev Richard.
The children all sat so beautifully and listened really well. 

We enjoyed Chrsitmas dinner on Wednesday where the children wore party hats that they had decorated and today (Friday) the children have had a great time at our nursery party where they have played party games and had a party food lunch.

We are wishing all of our chidren and their families a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and we look forward to seeing you all when we return in January.
Monday 5th January is an INSET day so we return and will see everyone on Tuesday 6th January 2026.

Julie and Sarah

What a wonderful start to the week we had with our nursery nativity on Monday afternoon. The children were all amazing dressed in their costumes and sang beautifully and it was so lovely to see so many parents and carers joining us. A big thank you to Jolene who has started volunteering with us on a Tuesday and Friday morning and who came in to help with he play.

At storytime this week we have enjoyed the books "Five Little Reindeer" and "Aliens love Panta claus"

In phonics we have explored musical instruments by banging, shaking, playing them loudly and quietly and have been naming them.
We listened to sounds in our indoor and outdoor environments on a sound walk and grouped initial sounds.

In maths we have been ordering numbers including those that are larger.

It will be another busy week next week and will include Christmas dinner on Wednesday and our party on Friday.
A reminder that next Friday 19th is the last day before the holidays and we close at 1.30pm to all children.

See you soon

Julie, Sarah and Jolene

It has been a busy week leading up to our Christmas performance which is on Monday afternoon. The children have been practicing their singing and are sounding great. We look forward to performing it for everyone!

The children have been enjoying our Christmas themed role play area and have been busy creating lots of lovely craft to take home at the end of term.

At storytime we have enjoyed books including "Hurry Santa" and "Santa needs a wee".
During phonics, the children have been identifying and grouping initial sounds of different words and trying to identify instrumental sounds and matching them.
They have also been trying hard to listen to different rhyming words.

In maths we have been ordering numbers and matching numeral and quantity and exploring patterns.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

This week at nursery we have been learning about dinosaurs and answering our enquiry question "Are dinosaurs real?"
The children have been busy making their own dinosaur masks and have made dinosaurs using different shapes to create the body parts.

On Thursday we enjoyed making savoury dinosaur biscuits and the children practiced their mixing and rolling skills to create them.

At story time we have enjoyed the books "Crunch Munch Dinosaur Lunch" and the children have been using resources in the tuft tray to support their play.
We have also been learning different dinosaur names in our non fiction collection of books and read "Silly Dizzy Dinosaur".

In phonics the children have been clapping the number of beats in different words, beginning to identify simple rhyming words and they took part in an "instrument party" where they identified and played different musical instrumnerts and moved their bodies as they played them.

In maths we have been exploring repeating patterns and the children have been encouraged to create thier own. We have also been naming and ordering numbers.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Julie and Sarah

It has been a busy week as we have continued to explore colour by mixing paints and making predictions about what colours could be created. The chilren achieved this through hand painting, mixing in zip lock bags and creating a large painting college to go on the book arch.
The children have also named and arranged shapes and created shape wreaths to hang up.

On Tuesday we marked Remembrance by decorating biscuits to look like poppies and we celebrated Children in Need today by dressing in pyjamas, spotty or bright coloured clothes. The children all looked great and we thank you for your kind donations.

This week at story time, we have enjoyed books such as "Simon's Sock" and "H is for Happysaurus".
In phonics, we have been listening to and recognising sounds in the story of "The Gingerbread Man", copying body percussion and actions in songs and copying patterns of sounds in a game of "Piggy Percussion".

In maths we have continued to explore number by counting and naming different numbers in addition to ordering them.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

It was lovely to see the children back after the half term break and we have been busy diving into our enquiry question "How does colour make us feel?"
In addition to this we are exploring different shapes with the children.
This week the children have been busy exploring colour and as it was bonfire night on Wednesday they made some glittery, glue firework pictures to hang in nursery.
They have enjoyed our bonfire themed tuft tray and have created breadstick sparklers to take home and eat.

At story time we enjoyed the books "Sparks in the Sky" and have been exploring the story of "The Colour Monster". The children have been encouraged to talk about the book and how the different colours made them feel as well as discussing what makes them happy, sad or scared.

In phonics this week the children enjoyed playing a game of "I Spy" and tried hard to listen to the sounds at the beginning of the words. We clapped the number of syllables in different words and used our voices to create different noises and sounds.

In maths, we are naming and ordering numbers 1-3 and beyond and have been comparing amounts.

We hope you all have a great weekend and see you on Monday.

Julie and Sarah

 

We have reached the end of this half term and have finished learning all about autumn and what happens in autumn.
The children have taken their craft activities home and were looking forward to sharing their artwork with family.
Today (Thursday) we carried out some halloween activities. The children decorated pumpkins and we had a spooky snack of ghost bananas and orange pumpkins. The chilsren were invited to come dressed up and they looked great!

The children enjoyed reading the story "Room on the Broom" and we talked about  what happened in the story with the children making comments about the book and talking about their favourite parts.

In maths we have enjoyed exploring the stories "The Three Billy Goat's Gruff" where the children had to make a bridge for them to cross and count how many sticks it took to build. "We also looked at "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", focusing on the numbers of items and objects within the story.

It is INSET day tomorrow and then half term so we hope you have a lovely week and we look forward to welcoming you all back from Monday 3rd November.

See you soon

Julie and Sarah

We have been continuing with our enquiry question "How do I know it is autumn?".
The children have been very busy this week making orange bird feeders to take home and hang in gardens and have enjoyed collecting leaves to make an autumn bookmark.
The children have been learning about hibernation and so we made clay hedgehogs and put them in their little house to have a sleep before they went home.

Today (Friday) we have enjoyed going onto the field and into the school garden where as part of phonics we read the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". The children were encouraged to copy and make movements from the story and to move in different ways. We enjoyed a snack of porridge just like Goldilocks and the children answered questions from the story.
Also in phonics this week we have been exploring different words that rhyme when mixing them in a bowl in a game of "Lumpy, Bumpy Porridge", exploring sounds that we can make using our voices and have played a game of "Goldilocks, please be quiet" where the children had to listen and recognise familiar sounds they heard.

In maths we have been ordering numbers and identifying numbers that we see in our environment both indoors and out.

Just a reminder that it is INSET next Friday (24th) and then half term week.

Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah

This week at nursery we have been exploring autumn leaves on the tuft tray. The children talked about what colours they saw and explored sounds that they made using words such as crunchy.
We have been discussing what animals you might see in autumn and the children then made some paper plate owls. They have enjoyed fruit and vegetable printing in the paint.

At story time, we have enjoyed stories such as "The Leaf Thief" and "The Enormous Turnip" and the children have enjoyed reinacting parts of the story in their play.

In maths, we have been using pine cones to count and order, looking at quantities and have continued to explore shapes.

A reminder that we have a Bags2school collection on Tuesday 14th. If you have any used but good quality clothes, shoes, bags or belts then please bag them up and bring them to nursery before 9am on the day.

Have a good weekend

Julie and Sarah

This week at nursery we have started to answer our enquiry question "How do I know it is autumn?"
The children have enjoyed spending time in the school garden where we collected different materials such as leaves and acorns. They talked about what they saw and we explored different sounds that things made such as "crunchy" leaves.
We have started arts and crafts such as making paper plate owls and the children enjoyed some cooking this week, making crumpet pizzas.

Our book corner has changed to show the story of "Owl Babies". We have enjoyed reading this story along with others including "In the woods"

In phonics we have been on a listening walk, beginning to listen to sounds and identify which have the same one and the children have been listening for rhyming words in a game of rhyming pairs.

In maths, we continue to explore shape and have been constructing with shape bricks and blocks.
Have a great weekend

Julie and Sarah