Blog Author: Mrs Palmer

Nursery enjoyed World Book Day today by dressing in their pyjamas or as their favourite book character, we had Bluey, dinosaurs and even a Marmalade bear. We shared stories in class in the provision and read the story, Shark in the Patk. Our Nursery 1 children had some fun in Year 4 sharing…

Our Nursery children have been practising their bowling skills, while also counting one to one. They had to see how many skittles they could knock down with the ball, then count the skittles and record how many with lines. Mrs Palmer was there to help with the recording, but the children counted…

In Nursery this week we have been using our balance bikes, tractors and trikes to move around the outside provision. Children have been learning how to go faster and slower and to negotiate lots of different obstacles. Children have become more confident and have more control after lots of…

Nursery have enjoyed creating crafts for Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year this week. They colllage hearts and chinese lanterns, made heart shape playdough and love potions and practised their fine motor skills by using chopsticks. Lots of language was used and lots of creative skills. 

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Nursery celebrated number day by singing lots of Nursery rhymes, including 1,2,3,4,5 and 10 monkeys jumping on the bed. They also made some chocolate cupcakes and decorated them using icing pens with their favourite number. Yummy!

In Nursery for National Storytelling Week, we had a Teddy bear Sleepover day, where the children and staff all came in wearing their pyjamas and with their favourite teddies. We shared stories as a whole class and in groups and the children chose stories to share by themselves. We had Year 5 join…

In Nursery, the children have been bringing a teddy in from home to share a story with in class. We then had some quieter time to share our stories in groups. The children have really enjoyed bringing their teddies to join in with the fun! 

Year 2 have been learning about the life of St Bridget and the kind acts she did for others. They then created colourful bookmarks to share with our community at our celebration mass next week for St Bridget’s feast day. 
 

To celebrate St Bridget’s feast day, Nursery have been baking shortbread biscuits. They carefully rolled and flatten out the mixture, before placing it in a cross shape, just like the one found in our St Bridget’s badge. We put them in the oven and they turned into delicious biscuits for us to…

This half term, Nursery are reading stories by Julia Donaldson. They have enjoyed sharing her stories and creating crafts. This week they made masks like the Highway Rat wore, using collage materials. 
 

Our Nursery children have been practising their fine motor skills by cutting spaghetti and jelly cubes with scissors. Outside, they have been making obstacle courses and using bats and balls. Lots of opportunities to develop their skills and build on their teamwork with others. 
 

This week, our Nursery 1 children have been reading the story The Smartest Giant in Town. We talked about how the giant looked in his different clothes and discussed how kind he was when he helped all of the other animals.

At the end of the week, the children drew pictures of the giant,…