Nursery 2022-2023 

Nursery Teacher

Miss Anna Owen

Early Years Practitioners

Mrs Bev Charge

Mrs Stacey Mason

Welcome to Nursery!

Welcome video and PowerPoint below 

Welcome to early years PowerPoint 

Nursery 2022 - 2023

A warm welcome to Nursery. We are so excited for the year ahead and look forward to getting to know your children.

Important information

PE is twice a week and the children will not need a PE kit for this session.

Any questions please do not hesitate to ask to arrange a meeting with Miss Owen or post your questions on Tapestry.

Curriculum Coverage

This term we are on the countdown to reception! Our books we are focusing on are Superworm, London Noisy Bus and Brave Enough for Two. We will be focusing on using pincer grip, writing our names and learning about London and the King's Coronation. 

Please come back each week to see what we have been up to! 

W.B 22.05.2023

This week we have continued our learning on toys. In our maths learning we have been exploring repeating patterns. Some of the children created repeating patterns with children such as tights, socks, tights, socks and others created their own patterns using different coloured pens and pencils.

We have enjoyed another fantastic half term and look forward to welcoming the children back for Summer 2 term on Tuesday 6th June. 

W.B 15.05.2023

This week we explored buying toys from our toy shop! The children had cubes and had a look at the price tags on the toys. They had to tell the adults what they could buy with the cubes they had and also showed the amount of cubes they would need for the toys they liked the look of. 
Next week we will be finishing the half term with our toy topic and creating our beautiful class display! 

W.B 08.05.2023 

This week the children have been continued their learning with 'The London Noisy Bus'. The week started with a celebration of the King's Coronation where the children painted special stones to create an Early Year's sculpture outside.

They also sorted pictures of Stevenage and London using their knowledge of important places! 

Next week we will start a new story called 'Brave Enough for Two' which is all about friendship, bravery and toys.

Reminder - class photos are next week on Tuesday 16th May.

W.B 01.05.2023

This week we have started our book of the week The Noisy London Bus. The children have been learning about different types of buses and some of the main features of London.

As part of our maths learning we pretended we were on a bus, some children got on then some got off! We kept checking how many seats we had on our bus and could show it on our fingers too.

next week we are exploring jobs in London! 

W.B 24.04.2023

This week we have continued our learning on Superworm.

The children asked their friends what their favourite minibeast was, once their friend replied they marked it down onto their sheet using their super pincer grip.

We also looked at non-fiction books and labelled the different parts of the book. We labelled a photo, the front cover and the pages inside.

Next week we will start our two week topic on the London Noisy Book and learn all about London. 

W.B 17.04.2023

This week we have completed PE on the all weather pitch. This is a new area for us to learn in and we were very sensible as we explored the different resources. We practised listening to instructions and moving in different ways through the obstacles.

In our circle time learning we discussed making kind choices and thinking about how others feel. We shared different scenarios that the children acted out and had to decide how the people in the scenario would feel. 

Next week we will continue our learning on friendships but also be thinking about minibeasts in our book of the week, Superworm. 

W.B 27.03.2023

As we approach the end of Spring term we have continued to learn about Easter and have started to delve deeper into phase 2 phonics as we get ready for Summer term.

We made Easter cards by collaging onto card using little pieces of Easter paper. We had to carefully make sure the colourful side was facing upwards to show a pattern.

We have also been starting to explore segmenting and blending within our phonics groups. We have been listening to the sounds and blending them. Next term we will start looking at what the sounds look like as letters.

Next term we will also be starting a new book called 'Superworm' where we will be thinking about friendship, exploring sizes and learning about mini beasts. 

Thank you for all of your ongoing support this term,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 27.03.2023

This week the children have been exploring all things Easter! 
We particularly enjoyed having our parents in for an Easter stay and play on Friday. 
Thank you to all of you who came. 

next week we will be learning the Easter story and practising writing our names. 

W.B 20.03.2023

This week the children have been practising writing their names for their Easter cards. They used their name tags to help them form the letters and some children even tried to be independent in their learning!

Next week we are excited to be having our families in for the Easter stay and play and exploring lots of Easter activities. 

W.B 13.03.2023

This week we have continued our learning on Jack and the Beanstalk.

The children loved having their parents in for parent's open day and had fun learning how to grow seeds with their adults.

We thought about how a seed grows and learnt words such as roots, stem and leaves.

Next week we move into our Easter learning.

Reminder!

Our Easter stay and play is on Friday 24th March

9.15 for Morning nursery

2.15 for Afternoon nursery 

W.B 06.03.2023

This week the children have been starting their new book of the week which is Jack and the Beanstalk. 
They explored size language as they ordered and measured beanstalks with their friends. They learnt the language shorter and taller, shortest and tallest. Within other group learning they have been ordering images from the story to help with their retelling and comprehension skills. 
Next week they will be planting their own seeds and learning about days of the week. 

W.B 27.02.2023

This week we have been learning about shape. We have been creating our own planets using circles and also feeding some shape aliens by feeding them the shapes they love to eat! We were thinking about the properties that the different shapes have to help us. 
 

next week we will be reading our new book of Jack and the Beanstalk where we will be exploring length and learning about the life cycle of a bean! 

W.B 20.02.2023

This week we have started our new topic of space! We started by reading our book Look Up!

We also enjoyed some pancake day yumminess by trying pancakes. We thoughts about the different textures and tastes we were experiencing and enjoyed eating alongside our friends.

Next week we will continue our learning on space and we also have our PJ day on Friday! Please remember to send your child into school wearing pyjamas.

W.B 06.02.2023

This week we have been exploring our final week of monkeys and our exciting cross curricular day learning too! As part of our literacy learning we practised writing our names by going over each letter in our names. 

Have a wonderful half term and we will see you back in school on Monday 20th February.

W.B 30.01.2023

Within our adult led learning this week we have been thinking about the words ‘more and less’. The children had a card which they shared with a friend. They looked at the card and decided if their side had more or less. They used language such as more, less, most, least, bigger and smaller. 
 

next week we will be taking part in cross curricular days and exploring maths!
 

Remember on Friday the 10th February we are dressing in the colour of a number block!
 

W.B 23.01.23
 

This week the children have been learning all about Chinese New Year. They have eaten some Chinese food, played in the role play Chinese restaurant, learnt about the story of lunar new year and explored colours and patterns. 
 

Next week will start our two week focus on the non-fiction book ‘hang on, monkey!’ 

W.B 16.01.2023

This week we have been making the most of the icy weather to support our learning. We have been getting out into the ice and exploring the changes that happen when we expose the ice to sunlight, warm water and different tools. We have been using magnifying glasses to look at the intricate patterns the ice can make and have even been mark making in the ice!

Next week we will be learning all about Chinese New Year!

W.B 09.01.2023

This week we have been reading the story of Meesha Makes Friends. It’s a book all about friendship. One of the activities we completed in small groups was sorting the good and not good choices to be a good friend. The children had two pictures each to sort in their groups.

next week we will be completing lots of creative learning such as making a friendship potion! 

W.c 12.12.2022

This week we enjoyed a snowy day at home on Monday. Throughout the rest of the week we practised singing our song for the Christmas production and have learnt some dance moves too! We also had fun making reindeer food. We had to put two scoops into our bags and make a special Christmas wish! Next week we will be enjoying the last few days of autumn term with some Christmas learning and fun. 

Learning update for school closure due to snow 
As you all know school is closed today due to the weather.

Our learning this week is all about the Christmas story. You can share this with your children if you like 

https://youtu.be/FrTFAZPQxpE

You could also explore counting games on this website as we have been exploring counting to 10

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting

Other activity ideas include:
- exploring the snow! 
- making snow angels 
- making snow balls 
- practise writing your name in the snow 
- sharing a favourite book

I have also attached 4 documents below this post which link to some of our learning this week.

This is all optional and as a support if you needed some ideas for today. 
Have a safe and fun day ❄️ 

Thank you,
The nursery team 
 

W.B 05.12.22

This week we have immersed ourselves in practising our Christmas production and taking part in exciting activities such as making Christmas calendars and meeting Santa. We have learnt new songs for our production and have learnt about how to sing as part of a group whilst using actions and staying in time to the music.

W.C 28.11.2022

This week we have been reading our book of the week 'Stick Man.' The children used their fine motor and creative skills to make a scarf for Stick Man. They thought about the materials they were using and about how they would wind the material around the stick, like a scarf.

Next week we will be learning about Christmas including the Christmas story.

W.C 21.11.2022

This week we have continued our learning about the woods. We have made our own music whilst thinking about a journey through the woods. We also enjoyed sorting images of seasonal objects into the correct season. We listened to the seasons song and then worked as a team to sort all of the pictures.

next week we will be starting our new book of ‘Stick Man’ and learning about the winter.

W.C 14.11.2022

This week we have started a new book all about the woods. We have thought about the different things we see and hear in the woods as well as what we might feel!

In our child initiated learning time we have been looking at different woodland animals and had a go at drawing them too.

We have thought about how important is it to look after the environment so went on a litter pick of the school grounds.

Next week we will be thinking about the seasons as Autumn starts to turn to Winter.

w.c 07.11.2022
 

This week we have explored our special letters from our name. We looked at our initial letter and matched it to the initial letter we could see on our name card.

For some maths learning we counted 5 poppies and some children had a go at counting 10!

next week we will be learning about woodland creatures and looking after the environment. 
 

W.C 31.10.2022

This week we have learning about bonfire night.

We completed a senses lesson where we learnt about the 5 senses. We listened to a special senses song that you can find below to play to your children; the children should be able to join in!

We thought that we would be able to see bright colours, hear the bangs and pops, smell the tasty food and feel the soft gloves we might wear!

We even had a taste of some popcorn to see how our tongues can taste different flavours!

Next week we will be learning about remembrance day.

W.B 17.10.2022

This week we have enjoyed learning about space in our cross curricular days. 
The children loved going inside the planetarium and had a look at the stars and moon! They even learnt how the moon gets its craters. 
When we return back to school we will be learning all about bonfire night. 
 

thank you for your continued support this half term.

the nursery team 

W.B 10.10.2022

This week we have started the story of 'We're going on a Pumpkin Hunt.' We have been exploring all things Autumnal including pumpkins, leaves and spiders!

The children enjoyed looking for different coloured leaves and found 2 leaves each and then some were challenged to find 3.

We also had a look at our super new display which is situation by the year 6 classrooms.

Next week we will be continuing with our learning on Autumn and also learning about Diwali on Friday.

Please remember Nursery is closed for parent consultations on Wednesday the 19th of October.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Miss Owen 

W.B 03.10.2022

This week the children have been enjoying some PE in the hall. The children have PE twice a week with Ms Hall and get to enjoy a range of games and activities which develop their physical development, team work and listening skills.

We also explored plenty of maths skills by counting scoops and stirs as we made porridge and had a go at using number fans!

next week we will be starting our book of the week ‘We’re Going on a Pumpkin Hunt.’ 
 

Thank you for your continued support

Miss Owen

W.B 26.09.2022 

This week we have started our new book of the week Goldilocks. 
The children have explored words linked to size such as small, medium and large. The children helped sort a range of objects and discussed the items using the correct language. 
We have also been answering questions about our homes and practising our listening skills by listening to others too.

Next week we will be thinking about instructions and making our own porridge following them! 
 

thank you for your continued support,

Miss Owen 

W.B 19.09.2022

This week we have been continuing to build upon our independence and learning new routines.

We thought about our homes and family members and drew them onto the templates using our best mark making skills.

We completed some maths learning by looking at 5 houses, counting them and seeing if we could find the number to go on the door! The children were super at their counting and have been trying so hard to stay focused during their learning.

Next week we will be reading the story of Goldilocks and learning about different sizes.

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Owen 

W.B 12.09.2022

This week we have continued to settle the children into their new routines and encouraging that important independence. 

In our learning we have been completing circle time to ensure we are building upon our patience and listening skills. We also had a go at looking in the mirror to see what was super special about us!

Next week we will be learning how to change our shoes and counting to 5!

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Miss Owen

W.B 05.09.2022

This week the children have been settling into Nursery. They have completed settling in days with adults and alone and have done brilliantly. We have started to learn routines such as lining up at the door, sitting for the register, finding our pegs for our bags and using the toilet independently. 

We look forward to next week where we will be reading our book of the week 'Super Duper You!' and completing lots of friendship activities so that the children can start building positive relationships with their new friends.

A reminder to bring in a puddle suit and welly boots if you haven't done so already so that the children can enjoy the outside area come rain or shine!

Thank you for your support,

Miss Owen 

Nursery 2021 - 2022

W.B 18.07.2022

What a year it has been! Thank you so much to all of the parents for their continued support throughout the year. Your children have been a pleasure to teach and are certainly ready to take those first steps into reception in September. 
 

Have a safe and fun Summer! 
the nursery team 

W.B 04.07.2022
This week we have been completing activities all about growing up as we think about moving into Reception.

The children had to order the life cycle of a human and used their super team work skills to get the learning done with a friend.

next week we will be completing some more transitional activities to prepare us for reception.

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

27.06.2022

We started the week with our introduction into the cross curricular days with a visit from Wild Science where we met a range of exciting creatures. 

Linked to the creature we met we completed some maths problem solving!

The children had different animals who ate certain amounts of food. We joined different groups of animals together to find the total amount of food the animals needed.

next week we will be thinking about moving into reception and completing some transition activities.

thank you for your ongoing support.

the nursery team 

W.B 20.06.22
 

This week we have been thinking lots about geography and history.

We looked at old photos of Stevenage and thought about how it has changed over time.

We also thought about seasons and the weather we have in the UK.

During our maths learning we completed a class tally chart and then during CIL the children could choose to ask their friends independently.

next week we have our cross curricular days all about tropical animals.

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 13.06.2022

This week the children have continued their learning about the world. They have learnt about caring for the environment and learnt about recycling and caring for living things.

The children enjoyed the hot weather but put all of their sun safety tips into practise to keep themselves safe and cool.

Next week we will be looking at pictures of Stevenage from the past to explore how the world can change over time.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

Miss Owen 

W.B 06.06.2022

This week the children have explored all things linked to our wonderful world! We have thought about how to keep safe in the sunshine as the weather turns hotter and also thought about how we can look after the environment.

On Friday we enjoyed the NSPCC charity day and visited the year 6 playground playing games and doing activities. 

Next week we will be thinking about recycling and ways we can reduce and reuse.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 23.05.2022

This week we have been learning all about the Queen’s jubilee! We have made crowns, made invitations and even had a go at making our own Union flag. 🇬🇧 We have also completed our whole class display which you can see all of our learning from throughout this half term on living things. 

We hope that you have a wonderful half term and we will see you back in school on Tuesday the 7th of June.

the nursery team 

W.B 16.05.2022

The children have been completing learning linked to the story of Monkey Puzzle. The children have been matching animals and their young in groups and also learning their names.

In preparation for reception the children have been practising writing their names independently and have been encouraged to write them on their pieces of learning.

Next week we will be celebrating all things Queen Jubilee!

Thank you,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 09.05.2022

This week we have been continuing our learning about growing and thinking about animals. 
We linked our learning to phonics and labelled some animals with their initial sounds. We thought about the s, a and t sounds that we have learnt to help us.

Next week we will be continuing our learning about growing.

thank you for your ongoing support

the nursery team 

W.B 02.05.2022

This week our focus has been all about shape!

We went on shape hunts, explored new 3D shapes and we even made shape pictures using a range of common shapes.

In music we used the instruments and thought about how we could make the instruments create fast rhythms and slow rhythms.

Next week we will be learning about some different animals and learning about non fiction books.

 Thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 25.04.2022

This week we have been exploring our topic of growing and learning about length in maths.

We have planted our own cress and will explore how it grows over time.

In maths we were thinking about length and how we would find out how tall the sunflowers were. We measured them using blocks and used super team work to get the job done! 
 

Next week we will be having a shape focus week and exploring lots of shape learning.

thank you for your continued support, 

the nursery team 

W.B 18.04.2022

Welcome back! We hope you had a restful Easter holidays. In these first three days back at school we have been focusing on our new topic of 'Growing and Living Things.' 

The children have adored explored the outside area in the sunshine, we have focused particularly in the living things in our outdoor area such as mini beasts and the flowers. 

We have also thought about counting total amounts of objects and how this makes a larger amount.

Next week we will be learning about growing and planting seeds.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 28.03.2022

This week we have been learning all about Easter. We have made Easter eggs, Easter nests and learnt about the origin of Easter, comparing it to other celebrations we have learnt about throughout the year.

There is also a maths teaching clip for you to view below as an insight into how maths is taught in nursery.

thank you for your ongoing support, have a wonderful Easter and we will see you back in school on Wednesday 20th of April.

the nursery team 

W.B 21.03.2022

This week in nursery we have been thinking about feelings. We explored the ‘feelings monsters’ and spoke about why we feel different feelings and how it’s ok to feel these ways.

We also took the time to explore nature in the outside area through nature hunts and making natural perfumes with the resources we have outside. 
 

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 14.03.2022

Within our CIL learning we have been exploring books including the different parts of the book. We have learnt the words character, front cover and pages. 
We have been encouraging the children to look at books in the reading area and create their own books in the writing area.

next week we will explore all things Mother’s Day! 
 

thanks for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 
 

W.B 07.03.2022

This week in our learning we have been exploring using colours for a purpose. We painted some beautiful daffodils thinking about the different parts of the flower and what we would need to paint them accurately. The skills we needed to use included selecting the correct tools for a purpose and learning how to carefully apply paint to a brush.

Next week we will be learning about Holi, St Patrick's Day and raising awareness for comic relief!

Please remember that Friday the 18th is wear red day and a £2 donation.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery team 

W.B 28.02.2022

This week we learnt about pancake day! We tried pancakes with sugar and lemon and gave our opinions on the flavours and textures we experienced. We also played some pancake music playing different instruments for different parts of the process including rainsticks, claves, egg shakers and bells! We had to learn how to play each instrument and had to learn to play as part of a group.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 21.02.2022

This week we have been immersing ourselves in the new topic of pirates and explorers.

We have loved drawing our own maps and adding features to our maps such as volcanoes and mountains.

We also learnt about repeating patterns, we continued a repeating pattern and the following day created our own repeating patterns using two colours. As a challenge some children chose to use 3 colours in their pattern. 
 

Next week we will be learning about pancake day and even trying some pancakes! 
 

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 07.02.2022

This week we have been exploring celebrations and focused on Valentine's day as it is coming up next week. The children explored making love hearts for others and practised their cutting skills to cut out the love heart before writing a special message on it!

Children also independently explored the skill of subitising as we had starting to learn about this last week so it was fantastic to see so many of the children use what they had learnt and put it into practise. 

We hope you have a fantastic half term!

When we are back we will be exploring our new topic of pirates and explorers!

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 30.01.2022

This week we have been subtising! This means when we look at an amount and we know what it is, our brain is able to know that 4 dots is 4 without counting.

We also celebrated Chinese New Year with some fantastic artefacts as well as making our own beautiful music using untuned instruments.
 

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 24.01.2022

This week we have been learning about people who help us. We have created pictures of vehicles linked to the emergency services, thinking specifically about the colour choices we need to use.

We also spoke about the lolly pop people and their role in Great Ashby. We created our own maps as well as looking at a map of Round Diamond and the surrounded features to see if we could talk about a route we could take from school to Budgens. 
 

Next week our learning will be focused on Chinese New Year.

thank you for your ongoing support.

the nursery team 

W.B 17.01.2022

This week we have been thinking about the language we use in maths. We have explored longer and shorter as well as medium. We have also been thinking about different ways to show a range of numbers and produced this beautiful display in our classroom!

Next week we will be learning about people who help us and learning about roles in the community.

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

6th and 7th of January

The first two days of learning have been focused on settling the children back in after their Christmas break and also learning some life skills!

The whole school took part in life skills and nursery explored this throughout their CIL and adult led inputs.

We completed a litter pick in the outdoor area to learn about the importance of looking after the environment. During CIL we learnt about safely cutting food, writing our names and caring for animals. 
 

thank you for your continued support,

the nursery team

W.B. 13.12.21

Enjoy our super Christmas performances! We have completed plenty of Christmas activities and are excited to show you our singing.

We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and super new year. 
Please remember the last day of term is Tuesday 21st December and we will be back on Thursday 6th January. 
 

Thank you, 

the nursery team 

https://youtu.be/ICFV510YB1s

https://youtu.be/YvaZqQj9GYE

https://youtu.be/29jwOv0MODI

https://youtu.be/ow6MGppoUis

https://youtu.be/V03NNTNrcK0

W.B 06.12.2021
This week within our learning we thought about Christmas around the world. We listened to the story of a festive feast and thought about traditions that other countries have at Christmas time!

We also thoroughly enjoyed Christmas jumper day and used our super pencil grip to design our own Christmas jumpers which showed off the different patterns we know such as zig zags, stripes and dots!

Next week we will be reading the Christmas story and completing a variety of design and technology and art activities to develop these skills whilst learning about Christmas. 
 

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

WB 29.11.2021

This week our learning has linked to the story of ‘The not so perfect penguin’. We have learnt about different places in the world including Antarctica, the United Kingdom and we even looked at some of the flags that are special to our class. We looked at maps and thought about what the different colours of the map mean.

Next week we will be thinking about the count down to Christmas and learning about Christmas in other countries!

Don’t forget Christmas jumper day on Friday 10th!
 

thank you for your continued support,

the nursery team 

WB 22.11.2021 

This week we were recorded to show our love of reading! Miss Owen read a story and you can find the links below to watch our super story time of Hippo Has a Hat!

  Nursery AM reading link  https://youtu.be/E7EGbLkRPrE

Nursery PM reading link 
https://youtu.be/cowe903lJQk

W.B 15.11.2021 

This week the children have been thinking all about rhythm and rhyme. 
We listened to a story all about being different but each of us are so special just the way we are!

We thought about how amazing our bodies are and how we can make body percussion with them. The children had a go at making their own piece of body percussion.

We also explored the rhyme in the story and the children had a go at saying a range of rhyming pairs that were written down for them.

Next week we will explore different shapes and sizes.

please remember now it is getting colder that your child may need a woolly hat and gloves. 

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 08.11.2021

This week we have been learning all about humans and animals. We thought about the life cycle of a human and even had a go at ordering the cycle as well as learnt the vocabulary of human, baby, toddler, teenager, adult and elderly.

We also learnt about the importance of Remembrance Day and completed a range of activities linked to this as a way of remembering all of the people who lost their lives during the War.

Next week we will be continuing our learning about humans, thinking about how we are all different and unique. 

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 02.11.2021

This week our learning has focused all around celebrations. We spent some time discussing Halloween and the ways that children celebrated this during half term. In morning nursery we celebrated Dia de los Muertos for a little girl who celebrates this, we learnt about her Mexican heritage and where Mexico is on the map. 
 

Nursery also learnt about Diwali and made beautiful Rangoli patterns as well as learnt about the story of Rama and Sita. On Friday we learnt about bonfire night and got ourselves ready for the weekend of fireworks!

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 18.10.2021 

This week we have been thinking lots about Autumn and the changes we see. As part of this learning we went on a leaf hunt and tried to find a range of colours as we explored the outdoor area with a friend.

We have been excited for the half term after a super first half term at school! We are so proud of how the children have settled in and we look forward to an amazing second Autumn term.

thank you as always for your ongoing support.

the nursery team 

W.b 11.10.2021

This week the children have been reading the story of the smartest giant in town. They have created plenty of beautiful art for our display including painting a giant and learning about mixing white into paint to make a lighter shade. 
 

The children also learnt how to show different amounts on their fingers. They were learning we can represent numbers in lots of ways! 
Please remember next week we have parent consultations using google meet.

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 04.10.2021

This the children have been learning about the story ‘Hedgehugs’.

They explored mixing paint to see what happens, they explored different textures and what these felt like. They learnt the language spiky, rough, smooth, fluffy and prickly.

Next week the children will be continuing their learning about different celebrations and extending their learning on shape and number.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 27.09.2021

This week the children have completed learning linked to the story of The Smartest Giant in Town.

We practised counting the different amounts of clothing and animals from the story, we also thought about the different patterns we could make on some socks just like the diamond socks in the story. 

Next week we will be basing all of our learning on ‘Hedgehugs’. We will be exploring textures and making our own hedgehogs!

Please remember we have our school photos on Friday 8th.

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 20.09.2021

This week the children have continued to learn about themselves. They have continued learning their new routines and enjoyed consolidating their friendships.

We explored our names and how special all of the letters are! The children looked at the letters they recognised and enjoyed saying the names of some of the letters. We also shared our lovely collages and they are now on display for the children to see! 

Next week we will be basing all of our learning on ‘The Smartest Giant in Town.’

Thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery Team 

W.B 13.09.2021 

This week the children have continued learning about life in nursery and have taken further steps to becoming independent such as putting on their puddle suits and welly boots by themselves!
Next week we will be thinking about the seasons and changes that we see throughout the year. 
One of our adult led activities included making a shape house. The children had the opportunity to talk about their families and home life whilst identifying the shapes they were using.
We will also be starting rolling snack which is where the children help themselves to snack throughout their nursery session.

thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team 

W.B 06.09.2021

This week we have explored the rules of the classroom. We have had plenty of opportunities to make new friends through circle times as well as through our child initiated play. 
All children developed their independence when learning how to find their Wellington boots and change their schools for outdoor learning. 
The children have also experienced music and PE which they were fantastic in.

Next week we will learn some new routines within nursery such as busy fingers activities and self registration.

thank you for your ongoing support,

The Nursery team 

W.B 30.08.2021

What a fantastic first couple of days the children have had in Nursery!

They have settled brilliantly and we are so proud of how independent they have been.

Some reminders for you:

- Please ensure your child is in full uniform every day for school

- Please ensure you have brought in wellington boots and a puddle suit to keep in school

- Please remember to let the class teacher or the office know if anyone different is picking your child up

Thank you for your support,

Miss Owen

Mrs Underhill

Miss Palmer 

2020-2021

W/c 12.06.2021

This week we have continued our transition activities in preparation for reception. We consolidated some of our maths skills including counting amounts of objects and matching to the correct numeral.

The children also ensured they were familiar with all of the letters in their name and decorated them using butterfly colours.

Parental reminder 

A parent mail was sent out with guidance on how to download your child’s journal, please do this should you wish by the end of term.

Another parent mail went out with information on our teddy bears picnic on Wednesday 21st July. 
 

thank you for your ongoing support as always,

the nursery team 

W.C 05.07.2021

This week we have been focusing on transition. The children have been learning about the changes of the world and in particular the changes of a butterfly. They learnt about the life cycle and ordered the images, they also learnt that even though the caterpillar was very scared to change it was exciting too! This led onto our move up day where the children spent some time in their new classrooms, they showed resilience and eagerness as they explored their new rooms and met their new teachers! On Friday we had our RE afternoon where the children learnt about the religion of Humanism. We compared this to different religions we knew and learnt about the 10 commitments.

Next week we will continue our transitional learning and thinking about being in reception!

thank you,

nursery team 

W/c 21.06.2021

This week we have been learning all about capacity! The children have learnt about the word capacity and that it means how much something holds.

We also spent plenty of time in the water area exploring the different containers and vocabulary such as full, empty and half full.

The children are starting to talk more about going into reception so we took some time getting into groups of our new classes to see which friends would be in each class to reassure the children. 
Next week we will be learning about positional language and some more transitional activities linked to reception. 
 

Thank you for your ongoing support,

the nursery team