What’s happening in Nursery – Week 3
Last Friday, Nursery class saw the arrival of some very special visitors...
Last Friday, Nursery class saw the arrival of some very special visitors...
This week in Nursery, children created a painting of a ‘hog’ by using handprints and paintbrushes. We chose to create a ‘hog’ (an adult pig) as it is one of the characters from our core text ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia...
In RE this half term, we are exploring 'Special Foods'. This week we looked at Hindu traditions and special foods such as ‘chapatis’. We learned that they originate from India and it is made up of ingredients such as flour, water and salt. We read...
Nursery's art project this week was inspired by British artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Andy uses natural materials such as leaves, twigs, pebbles and rocks to make sculptures in the UK and around the world. Nursery children first created a spiral pattern in sand, using the formation...
This week is Children's Mental Health Week, and the theme of the week is 'Know Yourself , Grow Yourself'. The more we know about ourselves, the more we can express our emotions. We discussed and shared facts about ourselves such as our favourite food, colour...
In RE this half term, Nursery are exploring special clothes in different religions. On Monday, we had two special visitors from SAINT church, Keziah and Vera, who came into class to show us special clothes in Christianity. Firstly, the children identified special clothes around them...
Our creative activity in Nursery this week was to paint a snowman. The children firstly thought about the shape of the snowman's body and how many circles they needed to paint. Once dried, the children were encouraged to think about different snowman features such as;...
In maths this week, nursery have been focusing on developing their number recognition and one to one correspondence. One to one correspondence involves learning how to count a group of objects by assigning one number to each object and only counting each object once. As...
We have been very busy in Nursery engaging in different Christmas arts and crafts activities! We had so much fun this week creating handprint Christmas tree cards for our families. First, we used a brush to paint our hands green and then stamped it in...
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...