19
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 5
In Nursery, linked to our ‘planting’ topic, the children have been mark making rectangles to resemble the stem of a flower. [gallery ids="13394,13395"]...
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12
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 4
Nursery have been learning about different types of mini-beasts. The children were provided with a range of natural materials (leaves, log slices, pine cones, twigs, bamboo rings, etc) to use when creating a mini-beast of their choice. The children were encouraged to think about the...
05
May
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 3
On Wednesday, nursery visited ‘St John's Church’ for a tour as part of our Summer 1 RE topic ‘What makes a place special?’ This allowed us to further discuss why churches are a special place for Christians. We looked at different features of a church...
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28
Apr
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 2
Each week in Nursery we have a maths song of the week. This week we focused on the nursery rhyme '5 little speckled frogs' to support and develop children's ability to count and find one less. Children used numbered frog puppets to act out the song...
21
Apr
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 1
This week in Nursery, linked to our new topic 'Minibeasts' and core text 'Aaaarrgghh Spider!' we created a 'Nursery's facts about spiders' book by gathering information from non-fiction books and videos. Some interesting facts we learnt was that baby spiders are called spiderlings and not all spiders make...
31
Mar
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 6
This week in Nursery our maths focus was to continue a ABAB pattern using coloured counters. We first discussed and identified how the pattern has been made, then was challenged to create our own patterns using two different colours. [gallery ids="12731,12732"]...
24
Mar
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 5
This week in Nursery school, children created a caterpillar necklace which is linked to the main character in our core text 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' written by Eric Carle. Children worked on their fine motor skills whilst using the push and pull threading technique to...
17
Mar
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 4
This week in Nursery, children created a painting of a ‘hog’ by using handprints and paintbrushes. We chose to create a ‘hog’ as it is one of the characters from our core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We explored...
10
Mar
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 3
This week in literacy linked to our core text ‘What the ladybird heard’ written by Julia Donaldson, the children mapped out the route the thieves (Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len) follow to help them catch the prize cow shed. We used positional language whilst describing the...
03
Mar
What’s happening in Nursery – Week 2
This week during our mark making activity, children drew a ladybird minibeast which is a focus of ours as a ladybird is one of the main characters in our literacy core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. We discussed and...