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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

Terrific Transition in Early Years!

Terrific Transition in Early Years!

Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed their transition sessions in their new classrooms over the last two days. Mrs Ramanandi and Miss Burns were very complementary about the children and referred to them as delightful which has made the nursery staff very proud indeed! The...

Nursery New Starter Meeting Information

Nursery New Starter Meeting Information

Please find attached a PDF copy of the parent information power point from the Nursery New Starter Welcome meeting. WN - EYFS nursery class parents powerpoint CRA 23 final There is also a guide to pack lunches in the Nursery Packed lunch letter to parents CRA23...

Beach treasure!

Beach treasure!

Following on from our story called Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab, we have focused on beaches this week as Tiny Crab lived at the beach in the story. We looked at and discussed a variety of items that were found on the beach like; seaweed, crabs, starfish, drift wood,...

The sun has got his hat on!

The sun has got his hat on!

We have continued to focus on the story Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab. We know the story really well know and we have participated in some super acting of it. We finished drawing fantastic pictures of the characters and items from the story and they look brilliant on our...

Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab

Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab

This week in nursery we have focussed on the story, Tiny Crab is a Tidy Crab. The story is about a crab who lives on a beach and it explores how he feels when his friends visit and don't tidy up after themselves. This follows on from our science week and caring for...

A visit from Professor Brainstorm

A visit from Professor Brainstorm

Throughout science week, all of the children had a visit from Professor Brainstorm. He explained and demonstrated lots of different investigations focusing on various scientific areas. Professor Brainstorm was very knowledgeable and the children learned some new...

Doing our part for the environment!

Doing our part for the environment!

Science week this year focused on climate change and investigating what we can do to help our environment. The children were set a challenge to think of ways that they could reduce, reuse and recycle and reduce their carbon footprint in school and at home. Following...

A fantastic visit from Angela’s Ark

A fantastic visit from Angela’s Ark

Throughout science week, the children enjoyed an exotic animal workshop with our expert visitor Angela from 'Angela's Ark'. Angela introduced the children to all of her different animals these included skinny pigs, snakes, bearded dragons and rabbits to name just a...

Science Week in Early Years

Science Week in Early Years

We have had a super week being scientists and thinking about how to look after our planet this week. We examined our mini wormeries daily using magnifying glasses to see if the worms had made any tunnels or ate any food. On Friday when we looked at our wormeries for...

Good Luck to Gateshead FC!

Good Luck to Gateshead FC!

Our children came to school today in football strips and dress down in support of Gateshead FC in the F.A. Trophy Final at Wembley this weekend. Good luck and best wishes to the team and we hope the children from our school and members of our community lucky enough to...

Worm Charmers in Nursery!

Worm Charmers in Nursery!

We have had a super week in nursery being scientists and continuing to find out information about worms. We made our own mini wormeries by filling plastic bottles with layers of sand, soil and leaves. Each group chose a different food from our compost bucket to put at...