Blog Author: Melissa Vaughan

Over the last few weeks in Nursery we have been learning about an artist called Andy Goldsworthy. We have learnt that he used outdoor materials like leaves, pebbles and sticks to create his artwork. We also learnt by looking at pictures of Andy Goldsworthy’s work that he used lots of circular…

Last week our eldest Nursery children enjoyed a fantastic day out to the beach at St Bee’s to celebrate the end of their Nursery journey before moving up to Reception. They were very excited about the bus journey to St Bee’s and we compared this to the story we had been reading ‘The Train Ride’…

Over the last few weeks in Nursery we have been listening to different types of music and talking about how they make us feel - happy, calm, sad. Our favourite types of music have been the ones that make us feel happy and calm. 

We have also had a go at making marks on paper to show the type of…

This week we have been practising our cutting skills. 

To link in with our story of the week, ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’ we had a bear and the different story characters to cut out, helping us to retell the story.
We used a range of scissors including loop scissors and normal scissors to…

Last week in Nursery we combined our computing and maths skills to complete a job. 

We were using the iPads on an interactive game of counting the ladybird spots. 

Lots of children were able to practise their subsidising skills for numbers 1-3, and some children were able to subsidise…

What a super time we have had doing the Kidzfit workshop today!

We have exercised our bodies, felt our heart beat and learnt more about healthy eating and keeping our bodies healthy. We know you need to eat 5 pieces of fruit or vegetables a day, drink 8 glasses of water a day and milk is also…

Last week and this week we have been practising our baking skills in  Nursery.

Last week, we mixed together flour, sugar, butter and eggs to make cakes. We were also able to mix together some icing sugar and water and red food colouring to decorate our cakes, once they had cooled. 

This…

Over the last few days we have been trying really hard at practising our name writing. We are working hard to form the letters in our names correctly.
Some of us have also been able to practise some of our phonics sounds too.

Best of all, we have loved being outside enjoying the sunshine and…

What a fantastic day we have had celebrating the King’s Coronation! We have jumped on the bouncy castle, eaten ice cream and enjoyed a picnic lunch with some of our teddy bears! We have also enjoyed face painting Union Jack flags and decorating biscuits too! 
 

In Nursery we have been learning about people who help us. We have talked a lot about police, fire fighters, doctors, and teachers being people who can help us in different ways. Teachers can help us learn and doctors can help us when we feel poorly. 

This morning we were very lucky to have a…

We have loved investigating gloop this week! we have used different amounts of cornstarch and water to creat different gloop textures. Some gloop felt watery and other gloop went very sticky. 

We also had a go at a lava lamp experiment! For this we used oil, water and dropped…

What a super time have had in the Wonderdome!

We travelled to space and got to learn all about the planets and stars in the solar system. We even got to see what it was like on the moon. We loved that we were surrounded by the stars and planets, it was like we were really in space! 

We also…