Nursery

The Hockey Cokey!

Nursery class have been focusing on positional language ‘in’ and ‘out’. To help us to remember ‘in and ‘out’ we learnt the song They Hockey Cokey.

The Gingerbread Man

‘Run, run, run, As fast as you can, You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!’……..We have enjoyed reading the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ in Nursery class this week. This morning we decorated our own gingerbread biscuits…they were very yummy!

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Nursery class had lots of fun using props to re-tell the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Butterflies!

Nursery class have been observing caterpillars this half term. We waited two weeks for the caterpillars to turn into cocoons (just like The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and this week they transformed to butterflies. We gave the butterflies fruit and sugar before going outside to release them into the lovely sunshine. They were very friendly and we managed to hold some of them!

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Nursery class have been counting and acting out the song Five Little Speckled Frogs. We are practising subitising by saying the number straight away without the need to count.

Acorn farm visit

More photographs of Nursery class enjoying the farm animals

Acorn farm visit

Nursery enjoyed learning about farm animals with Farmer Marie and Farmer Phil. The children found out lots of interesting facts and got the opportunity to stroke, hold and feed the animals. It was such a fun morning!

Pancake Day fun in Nursery!

This morning, Nursery class read the story Mr Wolf’s Pancakes and tasted some delicious pancakes at snack time. We also made funny face pancakes using our sticking and gluing skills. Well done, Nursery. It has been a lovely morning.

Winter Wonderland fun in Nursery Class

This week in Nursery we have been learning all about winter animals including naming and describing them and finding out where they live. We have also been developing our painting skills by painting snowmen.

Nursery class enjoyed taking part in messy play activities, linked to our topic Winter Wonderland.

We made snowmen using loose parts in gloop and had fun mark making using ice-cubes.

Decorating lanterns in Nursery class to celebrate Chinese New Year.

We enjoyed using collage materials to decorate lanterns and some of the older children enjoyed watching the Chinese Dragons in the hall.

Nursery class are enjoying their new reading area!

We love looking at books and talking about what we can see on the pages. We can hold the books the correct way up and can carefully turn the pages.

Nursery class have been exploring the number 3.

The children in Nursery showed great enthusiasm as they went on a hunt to find numeral 3 cards that were hidden around the room. We have also played number 3 bingo and matched up 3 piece jigsaws. Well done everyone!

Frozen toys!

This morning we arrived at nursery to find some of our toys had been frozen. Oh no! We worked together to break the ice to rescue our toys using warm water and plastic tools. Well done, Nursery!

Decorating crowns

In R.E Nursery have been learning about the wisemen visiting Jesus. During continuous provision the children decorated their own crowns.

Nursery class winter walk

Nursery class had lots of fun exploring the snow and making a snowman with our friends in Reception Class. After our winter walk we enjoyed a nice cup of hot chocolate.

Nursery firework art and crafts

Nursery class have enjoyed making sparkly firework paintings and creating beautiful firework patterns using chalk.

Nursery autumn walk 🍁🍂

Nursery class found lots of autumn treasures on their walk yesterday morning. We found conkers, acorns, sticks and lots of different coloured and sized leaves.

Nursery had great fun creating numbers in the environment.

For maths party day Nursery class took part in a fun outdoor maths lesson. We collected twigs and leaves and matched them to numerals up to 5.

Exploring our garden in Reception

A fun filled first week in Reception Class

First day back at Nursery

It has been lovely welcoming our children back to Nursery. The children have had lots of fun this morning exploring the indoor and outdoor environment and playing with all of their friends. We are looking forward to meeting our new Nursery friends on Monday.

We invited our families to watch our end of year musical showcase! We sang a selection of songs we have learnt accompanied with percussion instruments.

Creative/Imaginative play in Reception

As part of our Big Wide World topic we worked together to create our own sailing boat. We can’t wait to use it to travel around the world. Land Ahoy!!

Making healthy fruit kebabs in Reception

Road Safety Walk

As part of our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class went on a Road Safety Walk around our local area to raise awareness in our community and share some important road safety messages.

To raise awareness of Road Safety during our Whole School Road Safety Week, each class took part in a walk in our local area to highlight some important safety messages to our local community.

Health and fitness week

Nursery and Reception had lots of fun taking part in the daily mile. We completed three laps of jogging, walking and jumping. It was tiring but very fun. We are looking forward to doing it all again tomorrow!

Fruit tasting in nursery

Nursery class enjoyed tasting lots of delicious fruits this morning including strawberries, grapes, apples and blueberries. The most popular fruit in nursery is strawberries! Yum yum!

🦋 Butterflies 🦋

This morning in Nursery we said goodbye to our butterflies. We have thoroughly enjoyed watching them grow from tiny hungry caterpillars to beautiful butterflies. We managed to hold one of the butterflies before it flew away. What an exciting morning!

Reception PE – Using apparatus

This week in PE we explored different ways of travelling across benches. We also practised how to jump off and land safely.

Making music in Reception

In today’s music lesson we all took turns to play our instruments to accompany the song ‘Musical Parade’.

Making sensory playdough in Reception

Constructing fairytale castles in Reception Class

Nursery – (R.E) The Holy Spirit

In Nursery we are learning about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our friend and looks after us. We took streamers and bubbles outside to demonstrate the Holy Spirit is a feeling, like the wind, we can’t see it, but we know it is there.

Nursery – Caterpillars

In Nursery class we have some caterpillars. We are very excited to watch the caterpillars grow into butterflies!

Developing our reading and writing skills – Reception Continuous Provision

Nursery – There was a Princess Long Ago

Nursery class are enjoying our new topic ‘Once Upon a Time’. We had lots of fun learning and singing the song ‘There Was a Princess Long Ago’.

Cinderella Role Play in Reception

Celebrating Earth day in Reception class

Easter egg hunt in Reception….he’s been!

Clean teeth experiment in Reception class!

Vegetable taste testing in Reception, inspired by this week’s focus book ‘Oliver’s Vegetables’

Junk modelling using 3D shapes in Reception

Jack and the Beanstalk roleplay in Reception

Practising our bonds to 10 in Reception

Nursery – Shadows!

Science Week: Nursery Class had lots of fun exploring shadows using animal puppets, a white sheet and torches. When we have some sunshine we are going to see if we can find our own shadows!

Sorting healthy and unhealthy foods in Reception class

Mothers day cards and cakes in Reception class

We made some beautiful cards and chocolate strawberry crispy cakes to take home for our Mummy’s.

Investigating plants outdoors

Instead of throwing away the daffodils from our observational drawings we took them outside and took a close look inside the flowers and stems using our magnifying glasses and tweezers.

Nursery – World Book Day

Nursery Class had lots of fun joining in with World Book Day celebrations.

Nursery have been busy planting sunflower seeds.

This half term our topic is ‘Sunshine and Sunflowers’. We sequenced cards showing the life cycle of a sunflower and planted our own sunflower seeds. We are very excited to see them starting to grow.

Looking for signs of Spring around our school

In Reception class we went on a Spring walk and used our senses to investigate signs of Spring around us.

Spring flower art in Reception

Reception and Y6 reading buddies

Nursery class enjoyed a visit from Acorn Farm

Nursery class had an exciting morning. We helped Farmer Gregg and Farmer Marie feed the animals their breakfast. We also stroked the animals and some children felt brave enough to hold a rat. Well done everyone.

A visit from Acorn Farm!

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception

We listened to some traditional Chinese music and expressed ourselves by matching the flow of music with our ribbons.

Mark making outdoors

Reception – Choosing instruments to make icy sounds

We chose different sounds and instruments for the different icy pictures, such as smooth soft sounds for shiny ice, twinkly sounds for glittery ice and dripping sounds for the icicles.

Making play-dough is so much fun

Nursery enjoyed making red play-dough. We measured out the ingredients and mixed it all in a large bowl. To make the play-dough we used flour, salt, oil, food colouring and cream of tar tar. We took it in turns to help pour and mix the Ingredients.

Making bird feeders in Reception.

Winter den building in EYFS

Ice melting experiment in Reception – How can we rescue teddy from the ice black?

Exploring the snow

We had lots of fun playing in the snow. We made a snowman and lots of footprints!

French Day

Nursery Class have had a lovely morning taking part in activities for French Day. We looked at the colours of the French flag and coloured in our own French flag. We listened to Nursery Rhymes in French and tasted yummy croissants and brioche buns. What a busy morning!

French day in Reception!

Reception – We loved our interactive virtual author visit. Anne-Marie Anang with her wonderful book I am Nefertiti!

Exploring Weight and Capacity in Reception

In Maths Nursery have been learning all about number 1. Today we made ‘1 Spoon Flapjacks’. We used honey, oats and butter. They tasted delicious.

Riding the bikes and scooters on the big playground is so much fun!

Nursery Autumn Painting

Nursery have been enjoying taking part in autumn activities. The children finger painted autumn trees and created leaf print paintings. 🍂

Bonfire Fun

EYFS enjoyed using the sticks and leaves to make a fire. They enjoyed marshmallows and hot chocolate too!

Collecting twigs and sticks

EYFS had a busy morning collecting sticks and twigs in the woods. We are going to use them to make a bonfire. We are very excited.

EYFS enjoyed exploring the pumpkins

Reception Bonfire and Firework Pictures

Reception Autumn Walk

Reception enjoyed an autumn walk. Look at all the autumn treasures they found.

Nursery Autumn Walk

Nursery class enjoyed going on a walk in the woods to collect autumnal objects. We found lots of different coloured leaves, conkers, sticks and acorns. On our walk through the woods we could hear birds tweeting and could see birds nests. It was an exciting morning.

Exploring programmable toys.

We gave our BEEBOTs the correct instructions using positional language to direct them to specific places on our map.