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Forest school sessions with the coach

Science Week 2024

World Book day 2024

Animal tea party

Playdough animal models!

Children's Mental Health Week

Forest school

Exploring the snow!

Technology 

Understanding the world

We learnt all about human made and natural items. We then went on a hunt around the school grounds to see what we could find. The children used their new knowledge to identify which group the objects fitted into! 

Physical Development

We have enjoyed taking our PE learning into the hall over the last couple of weeks, we have consolidated our locomotion skills. We have looked at the different ways to move, different speeds and balancing. The children have really enjoyed this learning. 

Nursery and Reception Nativity- 2023

Diwali learning

The children have enjoyed learning all about Diwali, the festival of lights, we have taken part in some great awe and wonder opportunities to spark the children's curiosity. We listened to traditional celebration music and had a go at our own traditional dance moves, we have made diya lamps, we have watched videos of firework displays, made Rangoli patterns in a range of different ways and even tried some tasty food. We learnt a fantastic call and response song too! Happy Diwali from all in Nursery! 

Remembrance Day

Nursery enjoyed learning all about the importance of Remembrance Day, we looked at some artefacts which Mrs Campbell brought in including; a whistle, medals, pins, cards, dominos and a military jacket. The children learnt why people wear poppies as a sign of respect and created their own.  We took part in a whole school 2 minute silence. 

Stay and play

-Thank you to all our parents and carers who attended our first settling in stay and play! It was lovely to welcome so many of you into our class. It was great to celebrate how well the children have settled into school life and update you on their progress so far! 

Pumpkin patch and Autumn art

-Nursery have dived into Autumn, we have had so much fun creating artwork with our own nature paintbrushes. The children have collected leaves and carried out leaf painting to make lovely leaf prints. A new popular spot in the class in our pumpkin patch role play area, the children have acted out experiences, listened to each other and used their imaginations. Lots of fun has been had by all! 

How have we changed? 

-Nursery have spent this half term exploring how we changed since we were all babies and what we can do now compared to then. We have developed our understanding of our own immediate past linking to our own baby photos and experiences. We have enjoyed discussing what we can do now, how we look different and speaking about what we needed help with in our own past. We have ordered the human life cycle and recognised our own place in it. We also had a special visitor to help us cement this learning, Baby Thea and her Mummy visited us. The children behaved amazingly, asked lots of questions and listened to learn lots more. This have certainly sparked lots of awe and wonder opportunities in Nursery!

Forest school

-Nursery have enjoyed our weekly forest school sessions, we have enjoyed developing our independence skills by getting our own wellies on and managing our own risks in a new environment. We have enjoyed creating nature faces, leaf faces, bug hunts and den building. We have lots more fun activities planned. 

Fruit faces

-We enjoyed creating our own fruit faces, this helped us develop our fine motor skills through cutting and chopping. It also helped us cement our learning about different facial features and spark conversation relating to our own similarities and differences. The best part was certainly tasting them.. yummy!

Scribble club 

-Nursery have enjoyed starting scribble club, this explores how to add extra joy to mark making and scribbling through invention, magic and story. In Nursery we are sparking the interest into mark making, drawing, writing and scribbling. The children have invented their own stories, characters and creations through scribble club. We carry out scribble club together during group inputs and during provision time during co-play. We are really developing our early writing skills! 

Loose part nature faces 

-Nursery have had lots of fun making loose part nature faces, they have thought hard about their own features and used different items to resemble the different features. 

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Seaside day!

We had a great seaside day in nursery! We made our own slushes, played traditional seaside games, designed our own ice creams, played in the sand and water and the best part completed our ice cream order forms and made our own ice creams. Yummy!

Tropical World & Roundhay park!

Sports day 2023!

Mental Health Awareness 

We made our own feelings tree in Nursery, to help us think about how we are feeling. We used green for good, orange for unsure or wobbly and red for sad. We discussed why we feel the way we do and decided to make our own feelings Monster because we know if we share our worries this can help us feel better. We worked together and created 'Lollipop the worry Monster'. 

Superhero day!

Colour mixing experiment!

We had so much fun carrying out a colour mixing experiment, we followed the instructions carefully to complete each step. We discussed what a scientist was and decided we wanted to find out more ourselves.  We spoke to our talking partners about what we thought might happened and then checked to see if are predictions was right or wrong. The children really loved this hands on learning and even asked if they could do it again. We are scientists! 

Blazepods!

We really enjoyed our Blazepod workshop, we had to follow a certain colour light around the circle and see how quickly we could follow and tap it. We had some super quick reactions from our Nursery children!

Gardening 

We have been very lucky to have a collection donated to us by Asda to help us get our gardening area up and running in Nursery. We have planted seeds, filled up planters, dug holes and lots more. We have spoken about how we need to check on our plants regularly to see if they are growing and we must remember to water them. We have also made a bug hotel, we collected natural resources and worked well as a team to create a fantastic bug hotel. We hope the insects will enjoy exploring it!

The Coronation of King Charles III

Nursery had a fantastic time celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III! We watched the Queens own Coronation, listened and sang the National Anthem, made crowns, chalked the King, handprint crown pictures and lots more fun. We had our own Coronation where we spoke and waved like proud Kings and Queens. We loved the whole school Coronation celebrations and Crown parade! 

Road Safety Day!

This is the way the Bunny hops! 

Nutrition week 2023

In Nursery we have enjoyed some hands on learning. We have explored fruits, their textures, seeds, pips and smells! We have discussed the importance of having our five a day, what our favourite fruits are and the best part tasting! We did a vote after each fruit to see if we liked or disliked it, our class favourite was apples!

Red Nose Day 2023

World Book Day 2023!

In Nursery we had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day, we enjoyed a reading walk around the school playground! We ended up in the bears cave and the children asked if they could have snack there!  Look at our fantastic outfits! 

Shape printing!

Puff painting

We have made our own puff paint, we explored a new texture and style to our painting. We learnt that we had to dab instead of brushing, this was a tricky skill to master but we made some fantastic Dragons!

Jack and the Beanstalk! 

We have loved the Traditional Tale Jack and the Beanstalk! Our home corner has turned into a Giant's castle and we are having so much fun acting out the parts of the story! A huge beanstalk appeared in our outdoor area as well as some giant footprints! 

Chinese New Year

What a busy week we have had learning all about Chinese New Year! We have enjoyed listening to traditional Chinese music, watching and re telling the 'Great Race' story, painting Chinese symbols and numbers, making our own lanterns, exploring chopsticks in our home corner and having a Chinese food tasting session. The children really enjoyed learning about a different celebration and culture! Well done Nursery! 

Exploring our school environment 

We enjoyed a walk around school, we went on a listening walk to explore what different sounds we could hear within school. We compared these sounds to the types of sounds we hear in Nursery and our playground. We also hunted for some old and new items, we found an old bell, a new and old door and new chairs. We used words such as: rusty and shiny to describe what we found. 

Obstacle courses

We have set up lots of different obstacle courses to keep us warm and moving in this colder weather. We have practiced our gross motor movements and balancing skills. We had to move ourselves in and out of the cones, balance carefully along the bench, throw and catch equipment and balance objects on our heads. This is great at developing our gross and fine motor movements and hand-eye co ordination! 

Christmas pantomime 

Christmas dinner and Christmas jumper day!

Pyjama day and decorating the Christmas tree!

Nursery Christmas Disco!

Making soup

We enjoyed making our own vegetable soup today, we explored the different vegetables speaking about their taste and texture. We then peeled, chopped and put them into the pan ready to cook. We spoke about the different equipment we used and why we needed to be careful. The best part was getting to try the soup, it was very tasty and warmed us up on a cold day! 

Anti-Bullying Week

We learnt all about how to be a good friend and make the right choices during Anti-Bullying week, we carried out a sorting task and spoke about friendly and unfriendly behaviours. We then practiced being kind companions to our friends. We made kindness bracelets and drew pictures of what we had done to be a kind companion. 

Remembrance day 

We learnt all about Remembrance day, we watched a simple video to help us understand and then paid our respects by taking part in the 2 minute silence with the whole school. We then had a look at some war items from Mrs Campbell. We knew we had to be extra careful with them because they was special. We tried on the military jacket and carried out some lovely poppy art work.

Funny bones

We have enjoyed reading funny bones and learning all about the bones in our body! We went on a stick hunt and enjoyed getting a little messy to paint them white to turn into bones. We then had lots of fun making our own skeletons. 

Harvest Festival 2022

Outdoor learning

We have loved our Forest school sessions this half term. We have enjoyed leaf hunts and counting what we have found on graphs! We enjoyed making our own magic wands and sharing a magical story to make sure they worked, we also enjoyed an Autumn hunt looking for lots of different Autumn objects. We have carried out listening walks, explored bubbles and how they land and lots more! We love learning outdoors!

Diwali

We enjoyed learning all about Diwali - The festival of light. We started our learning off by going into assembly to listen to the story of Rama and Sita. We then decorated our own Rangoli patterns as well as making big patterns outside using chalk. We listened to Diwali themed music and learnt some traditional dance moves. We had some of our friends who celebrated Diwali at home so we got to see some lovely photos from their decorations at home and their visits to a Temple! What great learning!

Who will you be?

We had so much fun dressing up for 'Who will you be?' day. We spoke about what we wanted to be when we all grow up, designed our own masks and t-shirts. It was lovely to see many amazing outfits, a fun day was had by all! 

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The children loved celebrating Seaside day in Nursery! We had large paddling pools, sand trays, make your own ice creams and lots of creative seaside themed activities! We all loved a trip from the Ice Cream van and enjoyed a sweet treat! We sang songs... we do like to be beside the seaside! Lots of fun was had by all! 

Magic breakfast!

Today was very funny because we ate breakfast...IN SCHOOL! It was lots of fun to sit with our friends and enjoy our cereal, fruit and bagels. We even got some silly selfies with the breakfast props.

Birds...

This week was National Birdwatching Week so we spent tome creating bird feeders, counting birds in our environment, going on a (pretend) bird hunt,, and talking about different types of birds e.g. magpies, parrots, pigeons and doves. We were lucky enough to find a nest in our Forest School that had fallen from a tree. We had a careful look at what it was made of, considered whetehr it would be comfy for us to sleep in or not, and then carefully put it back in a tree for the birds to use again. 

Looking after Lola...

As part of our topic we have been developing our knowledge of looking after pets. We talked about making sure they are fed and watered, loved and given exercise. We had chance to practice and nurture these skills when Lola the School Dog paid us a special visit. 

Car wash and more...

Our new car wash, petrol station and mechanics has been great fun to explore and role play. Our Nursery class has some fantastic drivers, thorough car washers  and some very polite mechanics.

Observational drawing...

We had to look carefully at the details on the flowers including the petals, the pollen, the stem and leaves and try to include all of these important features in our drawings!

The Nativity...

Nursery were so excited to perform their Nativity in front of parents, carers and friends. We practiced lots leading up to the day as we had six whole songs to learn along with actions. Some of us had our very own lines to say and had to use a 'loud proud' voice in our performance. 

We hope you enjoyed the performance as much as we did!

Decorating the tree...

We enjoyed hanging beautiful decorations on the Christmas tree, many of us were very excited for Christmas and talked lots about what we understood Christmas to be about: Church, presents, Santa and family. We did fantastic turn taking and sharing of decorations.

Harvest festival...

We have enjoyed exploring the fruits and vegetables, digging them from the soil and discovering which have seeds, including our lovely big pumpkins which we scooped out ready for Halloween. 

Fruit printing...

We discussed fruits that we like and dislike and how they taste 'yummy', 'yucky' etc. We also named and talked about the colours we were using to paint with and even experimented mixing colours!