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Welcome to Nursery

In Nursery, our main aim is to provide a safe and nurturing environment which in turn will enable the children to thrive and learn.

Our goals for young children are:

to be happy and secure in the learning environment
to learn through active involvement with people, materials, events and ideas
to become independent, confident, resilient learners
to explore, relate to others, to set their own goals and solve problems.

We will strive to provide the children with a rich curriculum which meets the children’s interests, their wellbeing and yet still provides them with memorable first hand learning experiences.

We want our children to have the best possible start to their learning journey here in our wonderful Nursery!

We can't wait to work with you all,

Mrs Jackson, Mrs Kevan, Mrs Tough and Mrs Mumtaz

Nursery Newsletters 2021-2022

We can't believe that it is the last week already! We have celebrated our final birthday of the term and had lots of fun during our fun day! We hope you all have a super summer holidays. Have lots of fun and look after yourselves. We are really going to miss the children who are moving up next year- we are so so proud of you all but we know you are all ready to fly. Please always pop back and say hello! Lots of love, Nursery Staff xxx

Week beg 11.7 Phew! What a week! This week we have celebrated another birthday, taken part in a muddy monsters session, visited the allotment and taken part in sports day (please see tapestry for photos of sports day). It has been a super week and we are ready for our last week of fun next week before the long summer holidays!

STEAM day- we have had a great day exploring. We have carried out some investigations, built being engineers and explored melting! What fun!

Week Beg 4.7.22 We have had a really exciting week this week- we had 'Animals about Town' in to visit both our morning and afternoon children! It was great fun and we learned lots about animals and their young!

27.06.22. What a fun week with our fabulous Nursery children! They have enjoyed exploring, creating and playing with their friends and the Nursery staff, both inside and outside. We have all enjoyed singing, dancing and joining in the actions with lots of Mr Parkin's songs! Also, Mo, our football coach, has played lots of games, encouraging great listening, following instructions and lots of different ways of moving!

Week beg- 20.6 What a week! We have had another 4th birthday, we enjoyed pulling up our potatoes and digging for them in the soil. We then washed them, boiled them and ate them-they were delicious! We also were very interested in tea bags so we made a cup of tea and enjoyed dunking our biscuits into it! As always we have loved playing and exploring with our friends!

13.6.22 We have been outside lots this week. We have loved water play and showed a real interest so on Friday we decided to have a whole morning of water fun! We have worked with our football coach again and also enjoyed our 'Wild Wednesday' as always! What fun we have had!

6.6.22 We have had two birthdays this week- we've had great fun making our own birthday cakes! We have also work with Mo, our football coach, and had lots of fun making ice lollies and eating them! What a super first week back!

week beg 22.5.22 We have had a lovely week celebrating the Queen's jubilee! What a super week we have had with our parents and carers joining us for our Stay and Play sessions.

16.5.22 This week has been lots of fun! We have had our football coach, Mo, back in to work with us. We have also started preparation for our jubilee celebrations next week. We have also had Mr Parkin in to work with our afternoon children- we loved singing in the sunshine!

8.5.22 We have had a lovely week. We have been looking at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have made porridge, we have ordered by size and used lots of vocabulary related to size. We have also enjoyed taking part in our Teddy Bear's picnic. We had a real baby in to visit and we thought about all the ways we have grown and changed since we were a baby! Our afternoon children enjoyed making and tasting jelly- it was delicious! Again, we thought about how it changed as it was made. Our new children are already very happy and settled in our setting- what a fantastic week!

Week beg 3.5.22 This week we have had a lovely outdoor week to help kick off our 'Growth and Change' theme. We enjoyed our morning with Phil from 'Muddy Monsters'. We also spent a morning down at the allotment. We weeded, planted, dug and sieved. We are loving learning all about plants, growing and change!

25.4.22 What an amazing first week back! We have started our Eid preparations by decorating our home corner area. We have also celebrated two birthdays. Our morning children took part in a football coaching session which was super for our gross motor skills and co-ordination.

4.4.22 this week we have loved playing in our brand new enormous sandpit. We have also taken part in a super Muddy Monsters session. We have celebrated another 4th birthday (slightly early) and planted some vegetables in our vegetable patch! Phew......we are ready for our holidays now!

28.3.22 What a week! This week our morning children have been to soft play and what a wonderful time we had! We have also enjoyed the ever-changing weather. We are already looking forward to our Easter activities next week!

21.3.22 We have enjoyed the sunshine this week. We have played outside in the water, enjoy our 'Wild Wednesday', celebrated another 4th birthday and enjoyed taking part in 'Little Movers'. What a lovely, sunny week!

14.3.22 This week we have had some parents come in to ‘Stay and Play’. It has been really lovely to have our parents and carers back in school with us. We have also had lots of fun in ‘Wild Wednesday’ and exploring and enhancing our provision to meet the needs of our children as always. Finally today we have taken part in Red Nose Day! What a lovely week it has been!

Week beg 7.3.22 we have had our first trip out in two years! We really enjoyed being back out and about. We have celebrated another birthday and enjoyed learning through our super provision as always!

Week beg 28.2.22 What a super start to this half-term! We have enjoyed Pancake Day, loved exploring 'Don't put your finger in the jelly, Nelly' for World Book Day. Our afternoon children enjoyed their first session with Little Movers and we had some special visitors in on Friday and we watched their performance in the hall. Have a look at our pictures....

14.2.22- Phew! What a week! We have had birthdays, loved exploring volcanoes and the wind (we made our own kites). We have acted out Bill Goats Gruff and we have enjoyed playing with our friends, having ice cream and playing party games in the hall on our fun day! We are ready for a rest now- have a fantastic half-term break!

Week beg 7.2.22 This week is mental health week. We have had lots of fun thinking about how to look after our mental health. We made a list of things we like to and have taken time to do some of them this week. We have done some yoga, make and eaten some lollies, we have had a relaxing spa morning, we have spent time enjoying nature through our 'Wild Wednesday' session. We a lovely week we have had looking after ourselves!

Week beg 31.1.22 Phew! What a lovely week we have had. We have celebrated Chines New Year, taken part in a Muddy Monsters session, continued with our sensory circuit sessions and explored numbers for our NSPCC number day! Please have a look what we have been up to..............

Week beg 24.01.22 This week we have been very busy. We have been to forest school, we have been to see the fire engine, we have raised money for a charity very close to our hearts 'bright red' and we have loved exploring moving in different ways including bouncing on the trampoline. Look at what we have explored and investigated this week!

17.1.22 This week we've been exploring movement. We've moved with the big parachute in the hall and used the space to develop our spatial awareness. We were lucky enough to watch the bins being emptied as we have been really excited to see it! We have explored different ways of mark making and celebrated another birthday! Phew-we will all enjoy the rest this weekend!

Week beg 10.1.22 This week we have been practising our fine and gross motor skills. We have been trying really hard to hear and write the initial sounds in our names. We have also been along to the hall to practise different ways of moving. We have been very interested in eggs and what happens if you crack them so all cracked an egg and we made and tried some scrambled egg. Nursery has been so busy this week- we are super stars!

3.1.22 We've had a super first week back. Settling back into our provision, another birthday, exploring the freezing cold ice, we've loved playing with the Frozen characters and have began our recycling paper! Welcome back everyone and here's to a super year of playing and exploring in our wonderful Nursery!

Enjoying Polar Express Day!

Week beg 13.12.21 This week we have celebrated another birthday. We have also taken part in the Carol Concert and enjoyed making our cards and calendars.

Our Carol Concert- aren't we fabulous!

6.12.21- Christmas is in full swing in Nursery! We're having so much fun! We've also celebrated a birthday!

It’s nearly time for our Christmas fair! We know that it can’t be the same family occasion but we are hoping to have some festive fun with the children in school in their bubbles. Nursery, Reception, year one and two will have their time in the fair on Thursday and years three, four, five and six on Friday. The children will be able to play some games run by school council for 10p a turn, including name the teddy bear and pin the nose on Rudolph! Name your price for toys on the bric a brac stall. Play tombola games at £1 for 5 tickets, we have a mixed tombola and a super stocked toy tombola! You can buy cakes or sweets from our tuck shop to enjoy. We still have raffle tickets too for £1 a strip- top prizes are a Nintendo Switch and a TV! Each class will also have crafts to sell for 50p or £1. Please remember to put your child’s money in a purse or envelope and give it to their class teacher. Thanks you Mrs Franklin

Week beg 29.11.21 Another busy week in Nursery exploring the weather. It has been icy and very rainy and muddy! We have been thinking lots about jobs we would like to do when we grow up. What fun!

Putting up the Christmas decorations and celebrating a birthday!

22.11.21- We celebrated Mrs Kevan's special birthday at the start of the week! We've had another great week learning, exploring, playing and working together!

19.11.21- Enjoying Children in Need!

15.11.21 Another full week of super activities in Nursery- look what we've been up to.

8.11.21 We have enjoyed celebrating a birthday this week. We have made and decorated a cake for this special occasion. We have also had lots of fun at our first 'Muddy Monsters' session. We have explored the exercise equipment, painted a pumpkin- it has been a really fun week in Nursery!

Week beg 1.11- What a great week we've had! We have had our first session in Forest School. It was great fun! We have had two visitors this week too. One lady told us all about Diwali and we also had a nurse come into visit us! Another fantastic week in Nursery!

Halloween- we really enjoyed our Halloween party today- look at what we've been up to!

Week beginning 18.10.21 We've had a super busy week again this week. We began by celebrating a birthday at the beginning of the week. We also noticed and were interested in the workman who were working just outside of our school so we went up to see them! This sparked our interest in car/ trucks and vehicles. We painted with them and we even went to wash the minibus. It has been a brilliant week!

We celebrated another child's birthday this week! The children were brilliant when talking about the ingredients needed to make the cake and what it might taste like. They enjoyed eating the cake - especially the strawberry jam! We're looking forward to making, decorating and eating another cake when we celebrate the next child's birthday!

11.10.21 We have had a super week this week. The children have been talking about making ice lollies as we read a story about it last week so we decided to make them and taste them. We really enjoyed them! We've also had lots of fun exploring in all of the areas! have a look at what we've been up to.......

4.10.21- What a super day we had yesterday! We made the most of the heavy rain and went puddle jumping- its was brilliant! Look how much fun we had! During our afternoon session we had lots of fun with water play too! We also loved celebrating 'World Mental Day'- we had ice creams, popcorn and a film!

27.9.21 We have enjoyed lots of activities this week. We have been taking part in a range of fine motor activities which we have done really well with. We have explored digging, pizza making, we have even had an ice-cream shop outside. Our afternoon children got to taste some juicy melon. Well done everyone- you've all had another amazing week exploring!

Week beginning 20.9.21 We have had a really busy week in Nursery this week. We have followed the children's interests further again with bubbles and have been blowing bubbles in milk and blowing bubbles in the water tray. We have been extremely interested in rolling so we went to the top of our hill to find out what happened when we rolled the apples down the hill. We have had another visit from Mr Parkin and some of the children were lucky enough to have a try of playing the keyboard. Another fantastic week with our fantastic children!

Week Beginning 13.9.21 We have had another fabulous week in Nursery. This week we have explored the story 'We're going on a Bear Hunt'. We have made 'swirling, whirling' snow pictures and 'long, wavy' grass string pictures. We also acted out the story in the small world area. We have had a real interest in bubbles so we spent some time blowing a popping bubbles! We have had such a fun week......

We celebrated another child's birthday this week! The children were fantastic when weighing and mixing the ingredients, baking the cake, deciding how to decorate the cake and finally eating the cake - delicious! We're looking forward to making another cake when we celebrate the next child's birthday!

Celebrating a child's birthday!

We had great fun celebrating a child's birthday by baking a cake, decorating the cake and finally eating the cake - yum yum! The children were amazing when weighing and mixing the ingredients then deciding how to decorate the cake. We're looking forward to making another cake when we celebrate another child's birthday!

Celebrating a special birthday!

Wow! Our Nursery children have been AMAZING today! They have been very excited to play in the different areas and very confident when washing their hands.

Then came the surprise...our new Nursery pet fish! After suggesting different names for the fish, the children decided on the name Davey! They enjoyed watching Davey eat his fish food and are looking forward to caring for him.