Exploring Patterns and New Life in Nursery
This week in nursery the children enjoyed a range of spring‑themed learning experiences. In maths they explored and developed early movement pattern understanding through gross motor actions, body awareness, and spatial reasoning. They created simple repeating...
Spring Flowers, Sorting Games and Creative Play in Nursery!
We have thoroughly enjoyed making the most of the spring sunshine this week and have spent even more time outdoors. Some of us worked hard using wheelbarrows to transport bags of sand to the sandpit, carefully cutting the bags open with scissors and tipping the sand...
Hands‑On Science Fun: Helping the Dinosaur Reach the Top!
This week in Nursery we took part in Science Week by carrying out a fun water experiment. We began by half‑filling a bucket with water and inviting the children to notice the starting water level before placing a floating dinosaur into the bucket and observing how it...
Hello Spring! Exploring, Creating and Investigating
We then began our new Spring topic, and the children have enjoyed a range of seasonal activities. We made bright yellow spring playdough and used string, corks and green pipe cleaners to create spring flowers, thinking carefully about the different parts of a plant...
A Mysterious Landing in the KS1 Playground!
Exciting news from Windy Nook Primary School! Early this morning, it appeared that a mysterious spaceship had landed right in the KS1 playground. Before anyone could take a closer look, the Space Accident Investigation Authority arrived and carefully removed the...
Owls complete the pattern
To end this half term, Owl's took their learning outside and attempted to complete patterns. They had to look carefully at the previous sequence and work together as a team to add to the patters. Great work Owls! Article 28: Every child has the right to an...
Celebrating the People We Love in Nursery
This week in Nursery, the children have been thinking about the people they love and those who are important to them. With Valentine’s Day approaching, we explored what love means, why certain people make us feel happy, safe and cared for, and how we can show kindness...
Another busy week in Nursery!
The children enjoyed a busy and engaging week filled with purposeful play and learning. They took part in Squiggle While You Wiggle and Playdough Disco, where they used big arm movements, dancing and playdough actions to strengthen the muscles needed for mark‑making...
Exploring Repeating Patterns in Nursery
This week in nursery, the children enjoyed a wide range of learning experiences across the curriculum. In our maths learning, the children explored repeating patterns through hands‑on and visual activities. During Outdoor Friday, we made a repeating pattern using long...
A Week of Learning, Movement and Creativity in Nursery
This week in Nursery has been full of exciting learning opportunities, creative expression, and physical development. The children have been busy exploring a range of activities that supported their communication, coordination, early maths skills, and mark‑making....
This Is Me – Celebrating Growth and Progress in Nursery
This week, the children updated our “This is Me” display by creating a new self-portrait. Each child carefully observed a photograph of themselves and produced a drawing, which was then placed over last term’s portrait. This gave them the chance to compare their...
Winter Wonders in Nursery
This week in Nursery, the children have been fully immersed in a magical world of winter! Our learning was inspired by the story Jack Frost, which led to wonderful discussions about the characters and the winter weather shown in the book. The children shared...