Nursery

In Nursery we mixed some bread flour with water to make dough. The children all had a piece and rolled and squashed it to make a hedgehog shape. They were then shown how to chop the dough with scissors to create spikes. They all added a raisin for a nose. We put them in the oven and they eagerly…

Nursery wore yellow to promote World Mental Health Day. We talked about being kind and how giving our friends a hug or playing with them can make them happy. 
 

Our Nursery children have been creating their own self portraits in class. They chose how they wanted to do them with colours or on the iPad. Every half term the children will create another one to add to their star on the wall.

Nursery have been getting creative by gluing and sticking to make collage pictures and printing with paint and corks. We have lots of creative children, who are always very proud of their artwork. 
 

Our Nursery children have enjoyed learning outside in September. From building towers, to mark making with chalk and jumping in puddles. Lots of opportunities to explore in different weather. 
 

This week in Nursery we have been practising our fine motor skills. The children have been washing pigs using toothbrushes and squirting soap with soap dispensers and printing with paint and corks. Lots of practise to build up their finger and hand muscles and also lots of messy fun. 
 

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Lots of fun has been had by Nursery this week exploring our new areas inside and investigating outside. Although we have had a few tears from children still settling, we have had smiles and laughter too. We are excited for what next week will bring. 
 

Today we celebrated our Nursery 1 Class of 2025 at their Graduation ceremony! I am beyond proud of these children this year! They have work hard and the progress they have made has been fantastic! We have danced, sang, painted, drawn, coloured, ran, jumped, hopped and skipped our way through the…

What a super day we had on Friday for our Nursery 1 trip to ‘The Ratty’.

 We enjoyed a ride on the train, a picnic lunch and played on the play park. The children behaved impeccably all day and I am so very proud of them! Thank you to our helpers and volunteers that made the day…

Over the last few weeks, Nursery have enjoyed being out in all kinds of weather and have been working very hard at creating some outdoor artwork like the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We collected all sorts of different natural materials like leaves, sticks, pebbles and flowers to use to create our…

Reception and Nursery 1 took part in the annual EYFS Sports Day. They all took part in a running, backwards, jumping, egg and spoon and a hoop race. Thank everyone who came to support and well done to all of our children. 
 

This morning lots of our children enjoyed using our Maths tuff tray activity. They had to count or subitise the number of bugs on each leaf, and then give them the correct amount of cubes, counting the, out of a large group. All of our children knew their numbers 1-5 and were able to give the…