Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

We baked and decorated biscuits to celebrate St Bridget’s Day. We used red icing inspired by our burgundy coloured uniform and added sprinkles too. We talked about who St Bridget was, that she is our patron saint, and that our school is named St Bridget’s, which is why we are celebrating St…

Last week our Nursery children enjoyed reading the story ‘Tiddler’ by Julia Donaldson, as part of our ‘All about Julia’ topic. 

They loved exploring the ‘Tiddler’ inspired messy tray, looking for the sea creatures from the story in the jelly. 

Other children enjoyed creating some tangram…

This week our younger children have loved reading the story ‘I want to be …a Doctor’ and using the role play equipment pretending to be a doctor. Our older children loved joining in and helping them too.

What a lovely snow day we have had this morning! We have made snow angels, snowmen and had snow ball fights. We loved warming up with a hot chocolate at snack time. 
 

On Friday it was Christmas Jumper Day! Everyone in Nursery came to school dressed in their most festive Christmas outfit! 
We also had a very special visitor in school. Santa came to visit all our children and he brought with him a very special treat - a chocolate selection box! 
We loved…

What a fabulous morning we had dressed as elves for our Nursery Christmas Sing a long. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did! 

Afterwards, we enjoyed elf face painting, dancing and some party games.
A huge thank you to Miss Dougan and Miss Lawson for their amazing face painting…

We have been super busy over the last few weeks, and we are thrilled to be able to share some photos of everything we have been doing. 
We have been creating Christmas cards in the style of Jackson Pollock, an American abstract artist. We used Pom poms dipped in different coloured paint to create…

This week in Nursery we have been practicing our numbers 1-5.
We waited patiently and took it in turns to roll the dice, recognise the number and pick the correct number of bears out of the pot. All of the children were able to recognise the numbers on the dice and count out the bears that they…

This week in Nursery we have been identifying and sorting shapes. We have been focusing on squares, triangles and circles. 

We have also learnt that some shapes have straight sides like a square and a triangle and other shapes are round like a circle. 
 

We have been learning about Remembrance Day, by creating our own poppies. We have learnt that Poppies were the only flower able to grow in all the mud after the fighting.
We have used tweezers and Pom poms to complete a poppy as well as using lots of red materials and paper plates to create a…

This week we have started to learn a little bit about Diwali. We have learnt that it is the Hindu festival of light.
We have been looking at Rangoli patterns. We noticed that they were often in a circular shape. 
We had a go at creating our own Rangoli patterns using the shapes on our light…

This week our older children have been reading the story - The Dot. In the story we met a little girl called Vashti who thought she couldn’t do any art. By the end of the story she discovered that she could, all she had to do was make a mark - a dot. 
We were feeling inspired by Vashti and…