Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

Last week was British Science Week. In Year 4 we researched into the Scientist Maria Telkes. The children researched and found out about Maria Telkes’ life and Scientific achievements as a Biophysicist. One of the key facts the children found about about her was that she was known as ‘The Sun…

Today our new Happiness Ninjas from Y2-Y6 were out at their training gala. They learnt how to always be the best version of themselves and not to wait for Fridays to be happy. 

The children were each given a wristband by ‘The Marathon Man’ Gary McGee, who shared that whenever you feel tired and…

This week some of our older children have been reading ‘The Body Book’. We discussed how this book was not a story book but a book with facts in, a non fiction text. 
We have learnt that in our body there is a skeleton that keeps us upright. We had a go at finding different body parts and drawing…

What a fabulous day we have had celebrating World Book Day! We came dressed as our favourite characters or in our pyjamas. Some of us brought along our favourite story books to share with each other too. In the afternoon we were joined by some of Year 4 who came to read to us too! 
 

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This week in Nursery we have been planting seeds and learning what a seed needs to grow - sun, soil and water.We have read the stories Errol’s Garden and The Extraordinary Gardener and can’t wait to see what our seeds grow into. Inspired by the fruit and vegetables grown in the stories we read, we…

This week in Nursery we tried to bake some bread. The children each took a turn to scoop the bread mixture into a bowl. As they did this the children guessed what we would be making. Their guesses included cookies and cupcakes. They took it in turns to mix and pour some water in the bowl. As they…

This week in Nursery we started our topic “How does your garden and its creatures grow?”

We looked at different Spring pictures and began to change our tree in the Small World from a Winter tree into a Spring tree. The children all created some handprint mini beasts to go with the tree. 
 

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Today we celebrated Pancake Day! 

We made the Pancake batter using flour, eggs and milk and whisked it all together. 

Reception came to join us and Miss Vaughan and Mrs Palmer cooked and flipped the pancakes in the kitchen.

We were able to eat our pancakes with a variety of different…

Over the last few weeks in Nursery we have been getting ready to celebrate Valentine's Day.

We have been making hand printed flower craft to give to someone we care about at home as well as baking and decorating Valentine's biscuits.
The children picked the size of the heart shaped cutter that…

On Tuesday it was Safer Internet Day. Our older Nursery children had a look and explored an iPad. Lots of the children said they have iPads at home. They shared that they play games and watch shows on their iPads. 
We talked about what to do if something pops up on the iPad and they don’t know…

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. 
We know that this year is the year of the dragon, and to decide this there was ‘The Great Race’ between the animals. 
To celebrate we have been creating our very own dragon pictures, uncovering different Chinese symbols and having a go…

We have loved celebrating and supporting NSPCC Number Day in Nursery today! Our day was inspired by the Numberblocks. 

We came dressed with numbers on our clothes and enjoyed dancing to different number songs and hunting numbers outside.

We also decorated Numberblocks and were able to cut…