Nursery news 2024-2025
20/12/24
Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year to you all!
Our party went very well on Thursday and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and have fun. Everyone joined in with dancing and the party games and accepted defeat with good grace. Our visit to Blossom Court was truly heart warming with residents and our children enjoying a nice chat and joining in with the singing.
Thank you so much for your kind gifts, cards and good wishes. We will see you in January and hopefully the children will have got rid of their coughs and colds.
Best wishes from Mrs Sudall and the Nursery team.
Next term-castles and new starters.
13/12/24
What a very, very busy but wonderful week. The children have coped extremely well with changes in routine and staff and some very large Christmas events. We have had Nativity dress rehearsal, Nativity performance, police visit, church visit and a very special visit from someone in a red suit. Phew! Only 12 more sleeps till Christmas!
Next week; Christmas crafts, Blossom court visit and Christmas Party.
6/12/24
We have been into the hall a few times to rehearse our Nativity, we have been given our roles and practised our singing and dancing. The children are all very excited and looking forward to showing their grown ups. In the classroom we have decorated our tree approximately 25 times a day and listened to the Christmas story to understand a little more why we have a Nativity.
Next week: Dress rehearsal, performance and church visit.
29/11/24
The children have enjoyed exploring our dark cave with torches this week. We have discussed different types of light including candles, lanterns and torches and how we feel about the dark. We found out about animals that come out when we are in bed and then practised our cutting skills with pictures of them. We have played I spy with woodland creatures, made playdough hedgehogs and started practising our Nativity Songs.
22/11/24
It was all about the weather for us in Nursery this week. The children enjoyed exploring the cold, frost and snow so we followed their interest. When we ran out of snow in our garden we went to collect some from elsewhere!
Next week; light and dark, night and day.
15/11/24
This week is world nursery rhyme week and we have focussed on a different rhyme each day. We have used instruments, new clapping actions and counting games to explore traditional rhymes and even performed them for each other. Children who know and can sing a range of nursery rhymes are more likely to become strong readers. Challenge your child to sing all five rhymes- Incy Wincy, Old Macdonald, Twinkle, Twinkle, The Big Ship Sails and 5 Currant Buns.
As part of our topic on people who help us, we had a visit from one of our parents who is a nurse. The children enjoyed bandaging each other, using a stethoscope and checking inside ears.
Next week; people who work at night. Training Day Friday-Nursery will be closed.
8/11/24
Welcome back after the half term, we have made an exciting start with a visit from the fire service. We learned what a firefighter has to do for their job and how they help people. We tried out safety clothing and equipment and even got to sit in the cab! The children were polite, attentive and enthusiastic-brilliant!
This week we also talked about keeping safe at Bonfires, we counted fireworks and created our own sparkly bonfire pictures.
Next week; Remembrance Day, National Nursery Rhyme week and a stay and play session for new starters.
25/10/24
It was lovely to see so many parents and 'new starters' at our stay and play session. We hope you enjoyed it too, the children certainly did. Thank you for coming.
This week we have talked about Halloween and how some scary things can be fun too! We have enjoyed collecting, playing with and tidying the autumn leaves and used them to make pictures. We have counted spikes on hedgehogs and used autumn colours for our own artwork.
Next week is half term. We are finishing just as lots of children have come down with coughs, colds and feeling poorly. Hopefully the germs will clear, ready to start again on Monday 4th November.
Next half term; light and dark.
18/10/24
It was lovely to see lots of you at Parents Evening and so nice to be able to celebrate our lovely children. We thought about the season of autumn this week and the changes that take place in the world around us. The children noticed colours and shapes on our autumn walk and we really enjoyed the bright sunshine as we collected autumn treasure.
We made patterns with natural objects and helped a cheeky squirrel to count conkers. In phonics we made a 'silly soup' and talked about the initial sounds of objects then found the odd one out.
The children took our photograph session in their stride, they waited patiently for their turn and all smiled on demand.
Next week; autumn, harvest and our craft stay and play session on Thursday.
11/10/24
We have been thinking about our five senses this week and done lots of fun activities to explore each one. We played detective to identify what was in the 'smelly pots' and went on a listening walk around school. We found lots of objects that we look through including an 'old fashioned' camera. The children could not believe that we used to take photos with it in the olden days! We talked about not being able to see and how guide dogs are used to help people and had a feely box of common objects that we weren't allowed to peep in. A lovely week!
Next week; harvest time!
4/10/24
The children showed their caring side this week in our baby clinic. We have fed, bathed, weighed and changed nappies for our babies and tried hard to dress them. We have shared photos of when the children were babies and talked about what babies need to make them happy.
We finished our self portraits and named different parts of the body. We took clipboards and went on an adventure around school on a colour hunt. The children all looked very efficient ticking off the colours as we went and really enjoyed peeping at the older children hard at work in the classrooms.
Next week; our five senses
27/9/24
We have had a busy week this week with lots of new experiences. First time in the hall for some of our children, first time singing and dancing with Mr Jennings, first time lining up to walk quietly through school. The children coped brilliantly with all the changes in routine and new challenges.
In the classroom, we looked carefully at our own faces in the mirror and painted brilliant self-portraits. We used natural resources to to make funny faces and talked about our bodies and how to keep them healthy. We then set up a doctor's surgery just in case. A t-rex was a good patient when we talked about brushing for healthy teeth, the children each took a toothbrush and toothpaste home to practice their own brushing.
Next week; how are bodies change as we grow and a baby clinic!!!
20/9/24
We have had a lovely week, all the children are settled and comfortable with only a few tears at drop off time. The children are building lovely friendships and we have seen lots of group games both inside and out. The children are learning to listen to each others ideas and share the resources and the space.
All the children have enjoyed talking about the people who are special to them. If you have not sent us a family photo please could you upload one to tapestry.
Next week; our amazing bodies.
13/9/25
We got straight down to business this week, with our phonics and maths curriculum. The children enjoyed the carpet sessions and listened really well. We focussed on listening games in phonics and comparing amounts and groups in maths. We also started 'Dough Disco' to strengthen the muscles in hands and arms. In topic we did lots of talking about good and bad feelings and how our faces tell others how we are feeling. We added features to faces with playdough, counted how many of each feature we have and practised in the mirror to show different emotions.
Everyone has made a doll figure of themselves to display in the cloakroom. The children love pointing to their friends and discussing what the dolls are wearing. We are all doing well at learning names.
Next week; families.
6/9/24
Welcome back, welcome to Nursery!
We have had a wonderful start to the new academic year. Our returning children are being kind role models and our new starters have shown good listening skills and an eagerness to 'get stuck in!'
Next week; getting to know you games and a focus on what we like to do!
