Another Wonderful Week in Nursery!
Our new children have continued to thrive and make us proud. We have continued to be fantastic mathematicians again this week by sorting items into groups. We have continued to care for our sunflower seedlings by checking the moisture levels in their soil and watering...
Seedlings and much more!
We have had an excellent first week back after the Easter holidays. We have welcomed some new friends who have embraced nursery life and made us really proud. During our maths sessions we have focused on sorting. We categorised items into groups of straight...
Happy Easter from Nursery!
This week we have continued to focus on Easter. We read The Easter Story and found out what Christians believe. We finished our Easter cards which look fantastic. We made Easter themed pictures on the interactive white board. We baked biscuits, added some icing in the...
Vector Drawings in Computing
This half term in UKS2, we have been looking at vector drawings. The children have learnt what a vector drawing is and used google draw to manipulate and create their own. They have learned to use tools to change the layout, direction and size of shapes to create a...
Nursery Scientists!
As this week is British Science Week we have been scientists and started an experiment using apples. We used all of our senses to explore some apples and discussed out findings. First of all we looked at the apple and discussed its shape, colour, size and the detail...
A very busy week in Nursery!
We have made links to most of the areas of the curriculum in nursery this week during our Mother's Day activities. We made a gift bag for our mams consisting of home made compost, a plant pot, and a 'special' seed which we carefully wrapped up and secured with a pipe...
Still Life Artists in Nursery
In preparation for Mother's Day we have been drawing flowers to which will be attached to the front of our Mother's Day Cards next week. We chose which medium to use from a selection of felt pens, coloured pencils, pastels and crayons. We examined a mini Daffodil...
Scratch!
The children in UKS2 have been using Scratch to create their very own quizzes. They have built upon a previous computing unit for UKS2 which involved using selection in physical computing, using selection to program Crumble controllers. This unit furthered their...
Shrove Tuesday and much more!
We have had another wonderful week in nursery. We all made pancakes within our key worker groups in our cooking area. We began our session by reading the book, Mr Wolf's Pancakes which we loved. We discussed the equipment and ingredients required to cook pancakes. We...
Happy Chinese New Year from Nursery!
We have had a fantastic week in nursery celebrating Chinese New Year. We have made themed pictures on the interactive white board. We learned that Chinese people believe that red is a lucky colour so we showed off our design technology skills by folding red paper to...
We’re going on a shape hunt!
For maths this week we have focussed on shape. We took part in shape hunts both indoors and outdoors. We discovered that triangles were more difficult to find than circles, squares and rectangles. We continued our Winter theme and used our imagination to produce some...
Another busy week in nursery!
We made some more shimmering playdough this week following our playdough recipe. We carefully measured and counted the appropriate quantities of ingredients and practised good turn taking and patience while waiting for our turn. We have continued to focus on repeating...