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Caterpillars and Butterflies (Nursery)

Welcome to Caterpillars and Butterflies

Our teacher is Miss Clough, who is accompanied by Mrs Pedersen-Wylie and Mrs McNally.

We like to explore and have fun.

Information for Nursery Class parents and carers about the structure of the school day and staffing. If you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.
Click on the link below to access it or should you require a paper version then just ask at the office.

Please remember to…

  • Name all of your child’s clothes, shoes and any items that they bring into Nursey.
  • Drop off and collect your child on time.
  • Encourage your child to look in their tray for pictures, letters, jumpers and models.
  • Hand lunch time cover money in every Monday in a named envelope (30 hour children).
  • Resist the temptation to do everything for your child and encourage them to try and do it for themselves. E.G. dressing and toileting.
  • Remember that no worry is too small, if you are concerned about your child please let us know so that we can help.

Resources:

Early Years Book List

National Day of Spain launches Windy Nook Spanish

National Day of Spain launches Windy Nook Spanish

Ayer en Windy Nook, celebramos el el día nacional de españa.  Yesterday in Windy Nook, we celebrated National Day of Spain. Ahora, los niños aprenden español en ves de frances en nuestro colegio. Now, children learn Spanish instead of French in our school. Para...

Cauliflower Cards and much more!

Cauliflower Cards and much more!

This week in nursery we created a Christmas card by making a hand print Santa Clause. Our beautiful artwork will be sent to a company called Cauliflower Cards who will produce our cards which will be available to buy in the near future. We have made our own play dough...

Early Years Online Journal Tapestry User Guide

Early Years Online Journal Tapestry User Guide

Tapestry is an interactive online journal, recording and sharing learning and special moments of children’s early years education with parents. Tapestry is safe and secure as well as GDPR-compliant, plus simple to use. Unlike paper journals, parents and carers can see...

Kind Hands in Nursery

Kind Hands in Nursery

We have continued to focus on following our nursery routine and getting to know each other this week. We read the story, Picasso's Trousers and talked about how we are all artists like Picasso. We have now all completed self portrait paintings which look fantastic...

New Beginnings in Nursery

New Beginnings in Nursery

A warm welcome to our new friends in nursery and also our children who attended nursery last term. Our existing children have welcomed their new friends with kindness and some friendships are already beginning to form. We are focussing on following the nursery routine...

Rotbots and rosemary seeds

Rotbots and rosemary seeds

Today we completed our rotbot activity. We topped our rotbots up with compost from our compost bin that we have been making over the last eighteen months and then added some rosemary seeds. We are going to take our finished rotbots home tomorrow to look after and...

Beach Treasure Sculptures by Nursery!

Beach Treasure Sculptures by Nursery!

Nursey have been artists again today and made some fantastic sculptures and patterns using our beach treasure. We made pictures of flowers, faces, tall pebble structures and driftwood collages to name a few. Article 1: Everyone, under 18, has the rights of the UN...

Nursery Sports Day

Nursery Sports Day

Nursey had a super Sports Day today! They took park in a variety of races which included an obstacle race, running race, balancing race and a basket ball activity. The children showed determination throughout the activities and encouraged their fiends when challenges...

90s Summer Festival 2023

90s Summer Festival 2023

Today was the return of the annual Summer Festival at Windy Nook. We decided on a 90s theme and all of the children really dressed for the occasion. Year 6 led the event, painting banners and manning all of the different stations on offer: bubbles; juice and biscuits;...

KS1 Art Gallery

KS1 Art Gallery

Round 2 for our Windy Nook gallery and this time with EYFS and KS1. What a great evening seeing all of the children’s hard work on their portraits as well as their sketchbooks. It was lovely to see the children so proud of what they had created and showing this off to...

Games, art, 90s and much more!

Games, art, 90s and much more!

This week in nursery we have continued to focus on beaches and Summer. We read the story, Bluey, The Beach and discussed words like; scuttle and pipi. We used the internet to find out what they mean and we watched a video of a crab scuttling and then we pretended to...

School Games Day

School Games Day

This week, across the whole school, we celebrated School Games Day. This is a day where we focus on a mass sports event and look at some of the countries involved with it to celebrate sports achievement. This year, we focussed on the upcoming Women's World Cup. In...