In Maths, the children have been exploring how they can sort objects in nursery. By following a simple rule, the children have been able to catergories items either by size, colour, shape, legnth or material. Are the items soft or hard, plactic or wooden, long or short, orange or green.
Across the whole of school, we supported Hello Yellow Day, for World Mental Health Day. Children and staff were invited to come to school dressed in yellow.
Wearing yellow symbolises warmth, optimism, and happiness, and we embraced that in nursery with lots of yellow activities.
The children had fun, collecting and playing with the leaves in the autumn sun.
As we've been reading Leaf Man this week, we created our own leaf man with all the leaves we collected. Using lots of glue, and googly eyes, the children made lots of lovely pictures.
Each week, we focus on a particular colour in nursery.
This week everything has been green, so the children loved mixing their own green paint, using yellow and blue paint. It was lots of fun getting messy doing green handprints.
Following on with our Autumn theme, we've enjoyed reading the story Owl Babies this week.
We've retold the story with props, explored autumn treasure, sorted by colour and size, as well as created our own Owl Babies picture using paint and a potato masher!
Welcome back to our new Nursery Class of 25 -26 and their parents/carers. The children have all settled into school amazingly! They are immersing themselves in active learning whilst exploring their new environment through lots of engaging play. We have already begun to speak about the different seasons following our Autumn Walk. The children collected Autumnal leaves to sort into colours and discussed the change in weather. Nursery also linked their learning to matching colours in PE! We thoroughly enjoyed our recent Listening Walk as the children were encouraged to develop their early speaking and listening skills as they listened out for outdoor/indoor sounds! During this half term we will focus on learning about ourselves and our families. Thank you again, for the beautiful family photographs we have already displayed in our classroom.
Please remember Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore are always happy to speak with you if you have any questions or worries as your children start school. We know this is a major event for parents too.
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Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Phillips and Mrs Beardmore
The children really enjoyed exploring the school grounds, looking for all the signs that Autumn was on its way. We looked at how the leaves are changing colour, and collected acorns, pine cones and conkers as they fell from the trees.
The children were really excited about baking Elmer biscuits this week.
We mixed all the ingredients to make a sweet dough, that we rolled and cut it into elephants. Decorating them with yummy icing and rainbow sprinkles. Delicious!
As a school, we celebrated Culture Day. Each class throughout the school focused on a particular country. They then learnt and performed traditional songs.
Nursery focused on the United Kingdom. We dressed in the colours of the union flag, enjoyed themed arts and crafts, learnt about King Charles III as well as learning to sing and sign the national anthem.
We are incredibly proud of the children's hard work and perseverance, as they begin to learn phonic sounds in preparation for their journey into Reception next year. The children's letter formation is coming on beautifully, and many of us are now writing our names independently, and even blending short words.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Sutton Park.
We explored the wooded area looking for signs of the 3 little pigs and the big bad wolf!
We collected our own sticks to build a house for the 3 little pigs.
And of course we enjoyed some time in the playground on the swings and slides.
Miss Phillips, Mrs Beardmore, Mr Selmes and Miss Leddy were extremely proud of how well the children followed instructions, keeping themselves safe whilst in the park and safely wearing their seatbelts on the minibus.
The children thoroughly enjoyed being out in the sunshine hunting for minibeasts. Equiped with magnifying glasses and our checklists, we searched the school environment, looking for insects and minibeasts featured in the story Superworm by Julia Donalson. Hunting in forest school, the vegetable patch and the flower beds, we were lucky enough to find spiders, snails, ladybirds, and many more.