Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

This week in Nursery we have been celebrating Valentine’s Day! 

We have created a Valentines craft to take home and give to someone we care about.

We have also had a love potions messy tray, where we have loved exploring the pink coloured water and flower petals. 

Finally, we decorated a…

We have loved exploring the Numberblocks to celebrate NSPCC Number Day this year! 
we explored our Numberblocks shelf, including our Numberblock characters. We then had a go at making and decorating our own numberblock to add to the shelf. 
 

To help celebrate St Bridget’s Day on the 1st February, this week Nursery have been making and delivering a St Bridget’s craft.

They coloured and decorated a picture of St Bridget to stick on a lollipop stick and gave them to our dinner staff who come in and help us at lunch times, spreading…

This week in Nursery we have been putting our maths prepositional skills into practise by building an obstacle course. The children placed planks on the tyres to balance and climb on. I modelled language like “on, up, over and under” to the children as they made their way along the different parts…

Last week we read the story “I want to be … a fire fighter”. In the story we found out what a fire fighter wears and some of the jobs they do.

The children then enjoyed exploring the fire fighter role play toys.

This week in Nursery we have had a go at using the paint program on mini mash to practice our letter formation. The children had a go at looking for the first letter of their name before having a go and writing it. 
we had lots of fun using the iPad and paint program to practise! 
 

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We have loved being back in Nursery this week! 
 

we have been enjoying the cold frosty days outside on our yard. We have loved explored the ice that had frozen in our new water trays, practised letter formation and mark making with chalks and lots more!

This afternoon Nursery and Year 6 took part in their Reindeer Run!
What a fantastic time they had running! 
 

What a busy few weeks we have had in Nursery getting ready for Christmas! All our children have made a Christmas card decorated to look like a Christmas present, a salt dough decoration, a height snowman of how tall they are and a 2025 calendar. 

Nursery loved visiting Santa in his grotto last week. They all told him what they would like for Christmas and received a lovely chocolate selection box for being good this year. 

This half term in RE we have been talking about how we welcome people. First we discussed how we are welcomed into Nursery in a morning. Then we discussed how we might welcome a new baby home and what they need. Finally, we learnt about how people are welcomed into God’s family through baptism in…

Last week in Maths we worked on moving and labelling numbers 1, 2 and 3. We used the tuff tray to match number 1, 2 and 3 to the correct amount of objects. Some children even had a go at giving numbers 4 and 5 the correct amount too.