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...
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...
Road Safety in Year 3
This term, Year 3 have been taking part in road safety lessons. Children have been going outside of school and considering how we can cross the roads safely. They have been taught the green cross code and can now remember this excellently. In our summary lesson, 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...
Investigating melting and freezing!
This week in Dragonflies and Ladybirds, the children have been keeping an eye on the weather each day when completing the message board. They have noticed that it had became very cold and that ice and frost was covering the ground. Over a couple of days, the children...
Making the most of the Winter weather!
We have continued to focus on the topic of Winter. One of the stories that we are reading at the moment is called Here Comes Jack Frost and part of the story mentions the interesting patterns that frost forms on windows. We have been very interested in these patterns...
Outdoor art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy
This week in our outdoor session both the Ladybirds and the Dragonflies focused on the transient art style of Andy Goldsworthy, he uses natural resources to create colourful shapes and designs. The children decided to work together to collect natural materials create...
Welcome new nursery friends and old!
A warm welcome to our new nursery pupils and also a warm welcome back to our existing pupils who have been friendly and supportive towards our new friends. Our new children have impressed us at how happily they have separated from their families and we are all...