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...
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...