Nursery

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. 
 

Nursery loved learning about and exploring all our different poppy stations this morning. During the minutes silence at 11am the children sat silently and watched a short animation clip called ‘Poppies’

This week we have been reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Inspired by our story we have been exploring colour mixing in the Creative Area and have used the colours red and white to make pink. Then we used our pink hands to make hand prints and turn them into one of the three little…

Yesterday we wore the colour yellow to celebrate and raise money for World Mental Health Day. Our children enjoyed some face paint and an impromptu dance session with DJ Rafi. 

This week. Nursery had a go at baking some chocolate cupcakes for snack. They waited and took turns when baking them and they tasted delicious too!

Today Nursery have been learning about St Francis. We looked at different pictures of St Francis and noticed that he was often surrounded by birds. 

The children had a go at threading some cheerios onto a pipe cleaner and pegged them into the tree for the birds to eat. I wonder what birds we…

This week some of our children have enjoyed looking in the mirror and then using different loose materials to create their very own self portrait. 

This week in Nursery we have been exploring the story of ‘Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears’ 

We have been making the three bears using different clothing puzzle pieces. We loved changing their outfits! 
 

Last week in Nursery we read the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ then we had a go at baking our very own. Luckily ours didn’t run away!