Nursery: Blog items
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:16pm
Over the past few weeks we have been watching caterpillars go through the process of during in to butterflies. We were so excited to see that they had completed the process and we had five beautiful butterflies. Today we let them go and we think they loved the beautiful flowers in the garden.
Date: 22nd May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We have been reading the story "Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell". In the story, Norman meets lots of snails and thinks their shells are amazing! We looked closey at the spiral patterns on shells and then recreated it through drawing and baking! We made some deliciious jam spirals and drew super spirals.
Date: 20th May 2025 @ 5:07pm
This week we have been exploring shapes. We have learnt the names of four 2D shapes - square, rectangle, triangle and circle. We have also explored how many sides and corners these shapes have and then used the shapes to create pictures.
Nursery and the Bean Experiment
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 3:04pm
Continuing our topic on growth,Nursery carried out a bean experiment. We placed a damp piece of cotton in a plastic bag and placed a bean inside. We sealed the plastic bag and taped it to the window so the heat from the sun would help it germinate. Now we've just got to wait and see what happens!
Nursery Become Flower Detectives
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery have been learning all about groiwth and change through planting seeds and life cycles, This week they explored flowers and have identified the leaves, stem and petals. The children were provided with tweezers, scissors and magnifying glasses so they could explore the intricate parts of the flower.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:59pm
The children are really enjoying painting outside so we decided to create some beautiful sunflowers in the lovely sunshine.The children were provided with green, yellow and brown paint and a sunflower outline and were allowed to explore the colours by mixing and using paintbrushes to create different effetcs. The results were super and we even had a sunflower with a smiley face!
Nursery Plant a Sunflower Seed
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 2:49pm
As part of our topic on growing, Nursery have been reading the story "Sam Plants a Sunflower" by Kate Petty. We have been talking about the lifecycle of a sunflower. The children planted their own sunflower seeds and have been learning how to take care of them. The children are excited to watch their seeds start to grow.
Nursery and the Beautiful Garden
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 4:20pm
The Nursery garden was beginning to look a bit sorry for itself and it was time to give it a make-over! After a lot of preparation,digging out beds, removing weeds and moving countless wheel barrows of garden rubble, it was time to plant some beautiful plants, flowers, grasses and herbs.The children played a big part in creating the garden and helped to dig out the old soil and plant the new flowers. The garden now looks beautful and we are excited to help look after it and watch the plants grow, Extra special thanks goes to Mrs McAllister. Without her expert knowldge and hard work, this wouldn't have been possible. Also a big thanks to Mr Galloway and Mr Harding who had the hard task of digging up the beds! And finally, thank you to the all the nursery staff and children for all their help.
Nursery and the Life Cycle of the Butterfly
Date: 5th May 2025 @ 3:57pm
Nursery have been reading "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and learning about the Life Cycle of a Butterfly. The children have been finding out about all the different stages and have been leanring some new vocabulary including metamorphsis! We were also very excited to get a special delivery of our very own caterpillars! They have already grown so much and we can't wait to watch them turn in to butterflies.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:24pm
Nursery have been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar. One day they came to Nursery to find a giant caterpillar made out of spaghetti! There was only one thing to do - trim that caterpillar! The children were able to develop their fine motor skills and practise their scissor skills. The caterpillar was unrecognisable by the end!
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:15pm
As part of a whole school Art Day, Nursery created some wonderful portraits inspired by the story The Dot. We listened to the story and talked about creating pieces of art from a simple mark on the paper. Each year group were given a different colour to work with and ours was pink. The children were all given a circle and asked to create a self-portrait on their dot. The results were outstanding!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:25pm
We had a visit from the Easter Bunny who hid some chocolate eggs in our garden! The children worked together to find the bunnies and carrots that led us to the eggs. We had to find 24 eggs, so it was a big job but we managed it! We counted together to check we had 24 eggs and we were so happly that we had found them all! Then we went in small groups to race our Easter eggs down a hill!
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 2:16pm
To celebrate Easter, the nursey children made some delicious Easter Nests. We melted the choclate and talked about how when chocolate gets hot it melts and goes runny. We then mixed cornflakes in to the the choclolate and spooned the mixture in to cake case before finally adding a sweet on top. We then talked about how when the chocolate cooled down, it would go hard again and the cakes would be ready to eat!
Date: 2nd Apr 2025 @ 5:00pm
The children were so excited to welcome their parents and carers in to nursery for our Easter Stay and Play. They made some Easter crafts together and iced an Easter biscuit. The children throughly enjoyed showing their favourite people around nursery and sharing with them what they do when they are at school.
Nursery and the Elephant Trunks
Date: 1st Apr 2025 @ 5:04pm
We have throughly enjoyed reading zoo stories over the past two weeks inlcuding "Poo in the Zoo" and "Dear Zoo". After exploring elephant poo, we decided to make our own elephants. Mrs Welch found a super idea using a party blower as the elephants trunk. The children spent time carefully collaging their elephants before being given the ultimate elephant trunk! The children had a wonderful time blowing the party blowers and pretending to be elephants. It was quiet tricky to get a sound out of the party blower and the children had to practise before managing to create a super loud sound! By the end of the day, Mrs Welch wasn't sure it was such a wonderful idea and went home with a headache!
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 3:06pm
This week we have been reading the story "Poo in the Zoo". The chidlren came to school to discover a big lump of elephant poo in the tuff tray! "Ewww! What's that?" they said. We discussed what it looked like and how it might of got there. We remembered that Miss Walsh had been to the zoo on Tuesday and maybe she had trodden in it or an elephant did a poo in her bag! The children explored the poo (wearing safety googles of course) and pulled bits out using tweezers. They found bits of food and a few stones! It was a great discussion point and encouraged lots of conversation.
(Disclaimer - it wasn't real elephant poo!)
Date: 27th Mar 2025 @ 2:57pm
This week Mrs Welch was treated to a delicious Shepherd's Pie made in the mud kitchen. One child led the play and started off cutting the carrots to go in the pie. He then added mud and sand and another child said "I will go and get you some water". They came back with a jug of water which they added to the pie. This was then mixed together. The children showed the pie to Mrs Welch but she was firmly told "Don't eat it yet! It's hot!". When it had cooled down, the pie was given to Mrs Welch to enjoy. She ate every last bit and said it was the best Shepherd's Pie she had ever tasted.
Nursery Meet a Gorilla called Thomas
Date: 20th Mar 2025 @ 8:04pm
Nursery joined in with Science and Geography day. Teachrex came to school a brought a very freindly gorilla called Thomas. The children learnt all about Thomas and where he lives and even got to have a little cuddle They also met a baby sloth! We had a wonderful day and really enjoyed learnig about all the animals.
Nursery and the Wonder of Water Play
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 8:51pm
The children absolutely love water play and it is wonderful watching them lead their own play, make decisons and work together. Water play provides opportunities for physical development, both fine and gross motor, as the chidlren pour and fill different size containers and move pipes. They also work together, discuss ideas and negotiate which supports PSED and communication and language development. There are also opportunties to learn about capacity. The children can honestly spend hours exploring and learning the water tray!
Date: 19th Mar 2025 @ 8:33pm
The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the life of a frog and we're hoping to see some tadpoles emerging from the frogspawn soon! Learning about frogs led us on nicley to exploring colour mixing and how to make green to paint our frogs. The children learnt that yellow and blue make green and how you can make different shades of green by adding more yellow or blue to the mixture.
Date: 12th Mar 2025 @ 4:52pm
We were so excited to find a frog in our garden a few days ago! We got it safely back to the pond area only to find it had returned a few days later - he must like us! With the children so excited, we took the opportunity to learn about the life cycle of a frog. We carefully collect some frogspawn from the pond and the children are fasinated watching all the little changes that take place. Fingers crossed we will get to see some tadpoles emerging from the frogspawn soon!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 10:17pm
Nursery made a superb effort for World Book Day! We had Willy Wonka, but he forgot to bring his chocolate, Dorothy who had lost her way from the yellow brick road and Zog who was taking a break from his dragon training! We had a wonderful day sharing our favourite stoires, drawing book characters and making book marks.
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:18pm
Nursery celebrated Pancake day with a stack of delicious pancakes! We read the story "Mr Wolf's Pancakes" and talked about the ingredients you need to make the pancake batter. We talked a little bit about why we celebrate Shrove Tuesday before the children helped to mix the pancake batter. They children watched patiently as Mrs Welch cooked the pancakes and even managed to successfully toss a few! It was all worth the wait as the chidlren thought the pancakes were delicious!
Nursery get in to Bubbly Troubly!
Date: 4th Mar 2025 @ 5:10pm
We have really enjoyed reading another Supertato adventure - Supertato Bubbly Troubly! This time the Evil Pea cause chaos by swapping normal bubbles for bubbles that cause trouble! The children created their own bubbly trouble by seeing who could blow the biggest bubble mountain and then making a picture! They did this by using a mixture of water, food colouring annd washing up liquid and then creating a print from the bubble on paper. It was a lot of bubbly fun!
Nursery Try to Capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:42pm
We have been reading the story "Supertato" and came to school to find that the Evil Pea had captured all the veggies and then disappeared! We decided we needed to find the Evil Pea so we made some Wanted Posters. The children drew a picture of the Evil Pea and then wrote P for pea. Let's hope it helps to capture the Evil Pea!
