Nursery

Learn at home ideas

Please open the files below to find ideas of things you can do at home to support your child's learning.

Potato growing and tasting 

This week we have been learning about vegetables.We went to our allotment and dug some up that had been growing under the ground and then we cleaned them,chopped them up and ate them as potato wedges.

Pancake day 25th February

Today is pancake day and we all helped to make the pancakes and then got to try them with lemon and sugar,Yummy!

Insy Winsy spider

This week we have been learning Insy Winsy spider .We have made spiders for our web and we even handled real spiders!

Frosty winter walk 6th Feb

Today the morning children went out to explore all the frost it was very pretty

31st January

Chinese new year

To celebrate Chinese new year this week we have been trying Chinese noodles in class.

13th November Learning journal sharing

Today we invited Parents and carers in to look at their child's learning journey.

Apple crumble 8th November

Morning Nursery

Today we used our apples to make some apple crumble.We all had a go at making the crumble, which we all tried for snack.

Autumn walk on 7th November

Today we went on an Autumn walk,we looked at signs of Autumn in our playground and collected leaves that have fallen.We also picked apples from our apple trees which we will use to make apple crumble tomorrow.

Morning Nursery

Afternoon Nursery visit the fire pit (3rd October 2019)

We found the teddy bears having a picnic!

Morning Nursery fire pit picnic (3rd October 2019)

Today we went on an adventure,we went to kingfisher island and sat round a fire pit to eat our teddy bears picnic.

PM Nursery global explorer bears

PM Nursery teddy bear hunt

The afternoon children used their binoculars they made to find the teddies in the woods today.

Global Explorer bears AM Nursery

As part of global explorer week we could bring in teddy bears and dress them up as explorers today.

Am Nursery teddy bear hunt.

Today we used our binoculars we had made to look for teddies in our woods.

Stay and play Wednesday group 10th July

Today we played games and had to wait our turn we also had fresh peas out of the pods for snack and read a book about trying new foods.

Stay and play Wednesday the 3rd July

Today in group we took part in messy play, made our own reward jars to take home and had frozen yogurt for our snack, yummy.

Stay and Play Wednesday 26th June

The big bus adventure

Today we all went out to explore the Eco Bus.We held our grown ups hand as we walked over, got our tickets and got on board.We then listened to a story about vehicles and talked about wearing seat belts and helmets to stay safe.

Then we went up stairs to have our snack and sang songs before we left.

Stay and Play Wednesday the 19th June

Today in group we made things out of K Nex and we read the hungry caterpillar and ate lots of different fruits at snack time like the caterpillar.

Stay and play Wednesday 12th June 2019

Today in group we made Father's day cards and we read a book about Dad's.

Stay and Play Wednesday group 5/6/2019

This week we celebrated Bookstart library book day (pyjamarama) by wearing our pyjamas to group.We designed our own pyjamas and got under the paracute for our story.For snack we made our own special sandwiches using cutters.

Stay and play Wednesday group 22/5/19

The great bug hunt

Today we all went out for a mini beast hunt outside in our lovely garden.For snack we tried honey from the bees and french pancakes Yummy!

Monday 20th May Hear my story week

As part of hear my story week, Julia Ellis-Hall was kind enough to come in and share her favourite story: 'We're going on a bear hunt' with us.We listened to the story and were then inspired to go outside and re tell the story. We all ran away when we saw the bear!

15th May 

Stay and play Wednesday group

Communication and language

This week we made puppets to take home and sang nursery rhyme songs.We had cress,humous and crackers for snack.

8th May 

Stay and play Wednesday group

Hygiene :Today we talked about keeping our hands clean to keep us healthy.We played with soil and washed wild animals.For snack we had cereal and we read the dirty Bertie book.

Stay & Play - Wednesday 1st May

Healthy Eating

This week we looked at healthy eating we made our own dinner mats cutting out pictures of fruit and vegetables and we did fruit printing. For snack we had tomatoes, peppers and rice cakes.

30th April 2019 

Creating a butterfly garden

Today we sprinkled seeds in the grass outside to create a place for bees and butterflies to come.It will also help us to understand growth,decay and development over time.

Stay & Play 24th April - School readiness

We completed a getting ready for school checklist and talked about school lunches, we  used a knife and fork to cut up snack.

Stay & Play - 4th April Easter Celebrations

Today in group we made  Krispy cakes for snack, we counted five mini eggs to put on top. We made Easter rabbits from a template using scissors.

'Stay and Play' Group - Wednesday 20th March 2019 

 This week we learnt about road safety.We made traffic light biscuits for snack and went outside to practise crossing the road safely.

'Stay and Play' Group - Wednesday 13th March 2019

Today we looked at wellbeing and looking after ourselves. We did mindful colouring and yoga and talked about people who we feel safe with.

7th March 2019 - World book day

For world book day we could dress up as Elmer or in our favourite colours.In class we read the book and made our own Elmer elephants from recycled materials to take home.

'Stay and Play' Group -  6th March 2019

Today at group we learnt how to grow our brains.We did jigsaws, a sink or float activity and we had carrots and cream cheese for snack.

'Stay and Play' Group - 27th February 2019

This week at stay and play we learnt about home safety and did a scissors activity and we also spread cream cheese on our crackers at snacktime.

1st February 2019 - History Day

Today we could dress up as our grandparent to learn about History.We brought in photos and talked about who we were dressed up as.