As part of this term’s RE topic of ‘Celebrations’, on Monday, Nursery went on a trip to Tesco to buy ingredients to make and bake ‘salt dough Christmas decorations’. This will allow us to discuss the idea of a recipe and the ingredients and method...
This week, the children in Nursery were encouraged to use a range of 2d shapes to create a representation of the main character from 'The Everywhere Bear’ written by Julia Donaldson. The children thought about the appearance of the bear, identifying the different bodily features...
This week in Nursery, we started reading ‘The Everywhere Bear’ written by Julia Donaldson. The story focuses on a stuffed toy that lives at a school: the Everywhere Bear. One day, the bear falls from a boy's backpack and goes on the most extraordinary adventure....
In Nursery our topic is ‘Autumn’. At the creative table, the children have been using their fine manipulative skills (finger muscles) to thread paper leaves onto a piece of string to create a ‘Leaf Necklace’. The children were encouraged to choose five autumnal coloured leaves and then use the push/pull...
In Nursery, we have been exploring the season 'Autumn'. Children used natural objects such as conkers, leaves, sticks and pine cones to represent facial features when creating an image of their face. The children looked in the mirror to identify what facial features they have...
During the half term, Nursery were given the task of collecting autumnal gems such as conkers, leaves and sticks using their special autumnal treasure bags. On Monday, the children brought in their findings and shared them with the class. The children loved exploring and investigating the different kinds...
This week in Nursery, we created an art piece inspired by Alma Thomas for Black History Month. The children used lemons as a stamp to create a print on a canvas. The lemons were cut in half to expose the wonderful patterns inside. The stamp...
In Nursery this week, we have loved exploring our new playground! We now have a new slide and climbing wall, which is going to support the children in developing their gross motor skills. Gross motor skills are the movements we make with large muscles, which...
Linked to this week's literacy core text ‘Lulu Gets A Cat’, we have created a class book based on our favourite pets. The children labelled their work by identifying different features of their favourite pet and discussed how we can care for them. [gallery ids="19451,19452"]...
To consolidate our learning in literacy, Nursery created a story map for our core text 'So Much' by sequencing what happens during the story. We used key words such as 'first, next and then' to sequence the events in the book and labelled our work...