Nursey Blog 2022-2023
Welcome Back - Academic Year 2023/24
W/C 27/11/23
Making Lunch

W/C 20/11/23

W/C 13/11/23
Diwali and Children In Need.
This week in Nursery we have been learning about the Hindu celebrations of Diwali, the festival of lights. We have talked about how we are all different but all very special. The children have been busy making diva lights and Rangoli patterns using coloured rice.
W/C 06/11/23

W/C 23/10/23
Pumpkin and Vegetable Soup
This week the children really enjoyed looking inside the pumpkin and guessing how many seeds there were inside. They used their sensory skills to feel and smell the texture. They found different tools to stir their soup using their gross motor skills.

W/C 16/10/23
This week we have been discussing Autumn, and how our environment has changed with leaves falling and colder weather. The children have collected their own Autumn treasures to create and explore with. They made hedgehogs from the dough and drew their very own leaf man.
The pumpkin was very popular. The children used their fine and gross motor skills to hammer the golf tees into the pumpkin.

W/C 09/10/23
This week we really enjoyed listening to the story, 'Mrs 'Blackhat'. The children expressed great excitement when we talked about potions and spells.

W/C 02/10/23
This week we have had lots of fun finding worms, slugs, and ladybirds. We have been learning how we care for living things in the environment. As well as having lots of discussions about what we notice about different creepy crawlies.
W/C 25/09/23
The children were very excited to find lots of runner beans in our vegetable garden. They enjoyed experimenting with them by picking, counting, sizing, and weighing them using lots of numeracy skills. We also talked about how good vegetables were for the body.
W/C 18/09/23

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PIRATES

W/C 03/07/23
Another day at the police station

W/C 26/06/23
Growing Potatoes

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W/C 5/06/23
Planting Runner Beans
The children have also been very eager to see if they could find any strawberries.
W/C 22.05.23
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Blast off !!

W/C 15.05.23
Miniebeast Hunt
The nursery children have been exploring the school grounds to find Minibeasts. We were very excited to find Beatles, Ants, Worms, Centipedes, Slugs, and Dragonflies.
To extend their knowledge further we then discussed the different types of Minibeasts and where they might live. We used magnifying glasses to enlarge the insects.
We then came back and played with the pretend Minibeasts and had lots of fun.

W/C 08.05.23
Planting

W/C 01.05.23
Coronation Celebrations

W/C 24.04.23
Nature

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Signs of Spring

W/C 27.03.23
Easter
Nursery has been learning all about Easter this week. The children have enjoyed taking part in a range of fun activities.
At the beginning of the week, we joined the school's Easter Bonnet parade to show off all of our fancy Easter bonnets.
We enjoyed our Easter snack of hot cross buns and had a fantastic Easter egg hunt in our outside area.

W/C 20.03.23

W/C 13.03.23
Science Week
This week we had lots of fun taking part in a range of science experiments! These included the lava lamp, sinking and floating. Making a rainbow by adding water and skittles. To extend the children's knowledge further, they used their own thinking and creative skills to make up their own experiments.
W/C 06.03.23
Volcanoes

W/C 27.02.23
We had a brilliant World Book Day in nursery. The children and staff had lots of fun dressing up as their favourite book character and everyone looked amazing.
Throughout the day we read lots of lovely stories . The children talked about their favourite book and did some lovely acting with the puppet show.
Later we joined Reception at the big school for bedtime stories.

W/C 13/02/23
Pancake Fun!

W/C 06/02/23
Exploring Magnets

W/C 30.01.23
Bird Watching
WC 23/01/2023
Happy Chinese New Year
This week we had lots of different opportunities to explore Chinese New Year. We learnt that Chinese New Year is an important festival in the Chinese Calendar.
We learnt all about China and the diverse culture. We looked at the big world map to find where China was, and then found England and compared the size of each country.
The children learnt all about the lucky Chinese envelopes, which the children made using their creative skills.
We then had the opportunity to try some real Chinese food, using chopsticks to eat it with. Today we celebrated by doing a dragon dance and playing musical instruments.
What a lovely week of learning.
W/C 16/01/2023

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W/C 02/01/23
This week the children have been learning about healthy foods and how to look after their teeth. They enjoyed having a practice at cleaning the crocodiles teeth. They did lots of circles and up and down movements on his teeth.

W/C 12/12/22
Our children have been extremely busy over the festive season. The children enjoyed creating their own Christmas cards using their own critical thinking to design them. They used their fine motor skills to peel sprouts and their mathematical skills to count and weigh them.
We learnt all about the Christmas story and enjoyed taking part in the Christmas play with Reception in the big school hall.

W/C 5th Dec
W/C 28th Nov
Road Safety - This week the children used their physical skills to ride the scooters and bikes. We talked about keeping safe particularly when crossing the road. The children used road signs to practice some of the safety rules.
We used our maths skills to park our cars in the number spaces.
W/C 21st Nov
After watching the NASA space rocket take off in Florida.
The children wanted to make their own space centre. We used our knowledge and understanding skills to learn about the planets. They dressed up and pretended to be an astronaut and used their fine motor skills to draw rockets.
We had great fun counting backwards to “blast off” launching our rockets into space.
W/C 14th Nov
We have had lots of fun in nursery celebrating Children in Need. We talked about why we celebrate it and what we raise the money towards.
The children then enjoyed taking part in lots of different activities throughout the day.
They made and decorated Pudsey pictures, using their fine motor skills to draw and colour in his spotty bandana. They also made a Pudsey ears head band, and later on they had fun creating their own Rice Krispie cakes, covering them in sprinkles to represent the spots.
W/C 7th Nov
W/C 31st Oct
This week in Nursery we have been learning about the Hindu celebration of Diwali, the Festival of Lights. We talked about different cultures and how lovely it is to learn about them.
The children took part in lots of activities, they decorated Diva lights and Rangoli design patterns. We used our math skills and scales to weigh, and our critical thinking skills to work out if we had more or less.
We also looked at the big world map to extend our knowledge and understanding.
What a lovely week of learning together!
W/C 17th Oct
Pumpkin Fun - The children were very eager this week to make pumpkin soup. We used our fine motor skills to peel the sprouts, and our senses to smell the parsley. We talked about where the vegetables came from, and where they might grow. Later we turned our pumpkins into a bird feeder.
W/C 10th October
This week we talked about hedgehogs and how they hibernated in the winter, the children collected their own resourced from the woods to make a hedgehog. They walked around the woods to find a nice warm home to place their hedgehogs.
W/C 3rd October
This week the children looked at the changes that Autumn brings. In the woods we collected leaves and used our critical thinking to match colours and numbers. Back at nursery we used conkers to make patterns by rolling them in the paint. We created our own Autumn trees using our fine motor skills to stick, colour and paint.
W/C 26th September
We were delighted to welcome the church visits back into nursery. The children enjoyed listening to the storey about Reverend Freddie Fisher and his cat "Puddles". The church activity was to make a potato person to represent Autumn and Harvest time. Reverend Hazel also showed us some lovely photos of the church in the village.
W/C 19th September
It was lovely to welcome all the children back in September. We made lots of friends, new and old. The children were excited to be able to use the daily mile track that school had installed over the summer holiday. We enjoyed various group activities to develop our friendship and social skills.
W/C 4th July
This week in nursery we turned the room and outside area into an amazing jungle full of exciting jungle animals and exciting adventures. We made our very own giraffe, elephant and crocodiles out of boxes. They used their gross motor skills to paint and decorated them. The children also enjoyed playing with the jungle animals in the outside jungle tough tray .
W/C 20th June


W/C 13th June
This sunny week in nursery the children enjoyed having their feet painted to make colourful footprints for their Father's Day gifts, and using their imagination and creativity to make beautiful Father's Day cards - decorating them with lots of different craft resources. In Welly Wood the children used their fine and gross motor skills to draw different insects we can find in the wood, copying from the pictures we had hanging up in the wood.

W/C 6th June
This week in nursery the children enjoyed using their imagination and creativity to build amazing castles and houses with the natural resources, adding detail by decorating with the pretty stones, conkers and other resources. We also planted our runner beans in our nursery garden and we talked about how to stop the naughty rabbits getting them, so they grow well - we put up some netting to protect them and keep them safe.
W/C 23rd May
This week in nursery the children had lots of fun celebrating Jubilee Week. The children were excited to discover the outdoor area had been totally transformed - the children enjoyed role playing in the Queen's castle, playing the musical instruments performing at the Royal Variety Performance in our very own London Palladium, and working together to make a fantastic crown - using sticks and grass and other resources from Welly Wood.
The children also enjoyed squirting water out of the water bottles to help put out The Great Fire of London, using their fine motor skills. Some children also sat down around the table together for the Queen's Tea party
W/C 16th May
This week in nursery the children had fun when we added powder paints to the rain water in the puddles, the children enjoyed jumping in the puddles and watching the colours mix together - making some pretty colours. The children also enjoyed planting seeds in Welly Wood - and are excited to watch and grow their own herbs and sunflowers. A group of children also worked brilliantly together to make their very own swing in Welly Wood - using resources from the wood and rope.
W/C 9th May
In Nursery this week we had fun playing parachute games with the balls - helping the children practice their counting and positional language. Also following one of the children telling us they had a poorly cat, we extended this by setting up a Vets roleplay area. Where the children dressed up as a vet and were able to look after the soft toy animals, and make them better. The children were also busy enjoying watching our potatoes grow - they loved watching the changes as the potatoes grew from seeds, and learned that they need water and sunlight to grow.
W/C 2nd May
We have enjoyed a lovely week in Nursery. In Welly Wood the children enjoyed playing a number matching activity, where they found the correct number of various items from the wood to place on the number squares. The children have also been learning about how to look after their teeth - using a toothbrush to clean the toy dinosaurs' teeth. The children enjoyed this activity so much, we lead the activity on by letting the children mark make with paintbrushes and their fingers - making patterns in the shaving foam.
W/C 25th April




W/C 4th April
This week in nursery, we had lots of fun celebrating British Science Week (Growth) - conducting lots of fun science experiments, such as making little volcanoes with different ingredients. The children were fascinated and enjoyed watching the lava bubble up and over. We also had fun looking at worms in Welly Wood, and measuring them - finding out which were the longest and shortest, using the tape measure. We also planted grass seeds, herbs and rubber beans and got the potatoes ready to plant - talking about what they will need to grow. Over the coming weeks the children will be watching, looking at their growth and measuring them - extending their knowledge and understanding of the world and how things grow.
W/C 28th March
This week in nursery, we have been learning about the lifecycle of a frog, and looking at numbers and number recognition. As the weather suddenly changed and it started snowing, through in the moment planning, we decided to bring in some snow and the children painted the snow different colours and enjoyed watching the colours mix together as it melted. _
W/C 14th March
This week in nursery, we had lots of fun celebrating British Science Week (Growth) - conducting lots of fun science experiments, such as making little volcanoes with different ingredients. The children were fascinated and enjoyed watching the lava bubble up and over. We also had fun looking at worms in Welly Wood, and measuring them - finding out which were the longest and shortest, using the tape measure. We also planted grass seeds, herbs and rubber beans and got the potatoes ready to plant - talking about what they will need to grow. Over the coming weeks the children will be watching, looking at their growth and measuring them - extending their knowledge and understanding of the world and how things grow.
W/C 7th March
This week nursery, the children had lots of fun on a very windy day in Welly Wood - watching the effects of the wind as they held up sheets of paper and the wind blowing the paper, making it fly like a kite. Leading on from this, the children used their creative skills to make their very own kites and decorate them with triangles and other shapes, pipe cleaners and other shiny resources and sequins - talking about the different shapes they used.
W/C 28th February
This week in nursery, the children wanted to build a car wash for the outdoor cars - the children used crates, hoses and other resources to build it, and we used a chalk board to make a sign for the car wash and the price. The children enjoyed washing the cars and driving their cars through the car wash. We also had lots of fun celebrating World Book Day. We read lots of lovely books, and the children voted for their favourite book - placing a counter in front of their choice, and the winner with the most votes was "The Gruffalo", which we then read to the children. We also read "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", and the children had fun acting out the story. We made some porridge together, and the children had lots of fun playing with the porridge - stirring and exploring and feeling the texture with their hands, and talking about how it felt to touch.
W/C 14th February
This week in nursery, the children had lots of outdoor fun - making mud pies in the mud kitchen, and the children built their very own Lamborghini car using crates, tyres, a pipe and the bendy tube as the steering wheel to drive the car. The children also used different colour chalks to mark make and draw a Lamborghini car on our nursery play ground. Finally, the children enjoyed marble painting - rolling marbles in the different colour paint to mix the colours and produce some colourful patterns on their marble pictures.
W/C 7th February 2022
This week in nursery, as part of Mental Health Awareness week, we talked about our emotions. Every morning the children were invited to express how they were feeling - by placing a counter next to their choice of emotion on our emotions table. The children also used their own critical thinking skills to create their very own Valentine's cards for Valentine's Day. In Welly Wood, the children also enjoyed building a bird's nest with sticks and twigs, and found some feathers which they placed in the middle to represent the birds.



W/C 31st January 2022
This week in nursery we celebrated Chinese New Year! We had our very own Chinese restaurant, where the children could buy noodles, rice and other Chinese food, and had a go using chopsticks to practice their fine motor skills.
The children made lucky Chinese envelopes, and because this is the year of the Tiger - the children made colourful tiger masks and painted stripes on them. The children even learnt some Chinese - answering the register with “NÄhÇŽo”and enjoyed doing some Chinese writing - with black paint, using their gross motor skills. The children also had fun doing a dragon dance to music
W/C 24th January 2022
This week in nursery we celebrated the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch week. The children enjoyed learning about the different birds and listening to, and searching for different birds on our visits to Welly Wood. The children used their fine motor skills to mark make as they ticked off the different birds they found on the bird checklist. The children also used their creative skills to make and decorate their own binoculars to help spot the birds with. We also made our very own Birdwatch house, which the children decorated using paint and sponges. The children took it in turns to sit inside and look through the different shape windows and had lots of fun birdwatching.
W/C 17th January 2022



W/C 10th January 2022
This week in nursery we had a great adventure in Welly Wood. We read "We're Going on a Bear Hunt", and the children had fun acting out the story - travelling in different ways and going "squelch, squerch" through the mud. And at the end, we even found the bear, in the pretend cave!


The children also worked together as a group to build their own brilliant house, with bricks and sticks from the wood, using their creative and critical thinking skills.
This week, one child brought in a Koala bear story book, which we enjoyed reading together. Through in the moment planning, we then went on to talk about Australia, to extend their knowledge and understanding. We also looked at the world map and different country's flags. Then in the afternoon, the children used their creative skills to create their own flags. Well done children!


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