Welcome to Nursery
The emphasis in Nursery is to follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, which focuses on the development of the individual child and provides high quality learning opportunities for the children to learn through play. The children are able to explore, take risks, have fun, form friendships, think critically and form their own ideas.
The Nativity 2024
Our little angels
“Let’s follow that star!”
Tickles from Santa
Decorating the tree
Christmas crackers
Young engineers
Remembrance
Play dough poppies
Tipping, pouring, mixing and measuring
What’s inside?
Construction corner
Why did the chocolate melt?
Troll art
More work for our muscles
Send him to my house!
Conkers bonkers!
No leaves on the line today
Autumnal colour mixing
Tremendous teamwork
Tour de Stocksbridge
Fiddly finger threading
Colour matching
Putting the eggs in the incubator
Mr Rogers brought some eggs for the incubator.
Watering our veg
Gardening
Planting
Baking bread like The Little Red Hen
Kneading the dough
Castle building
Red Nose Day
Big Walk & Wheel
Baking for Mummy’s special day
World Book Day – dress as an adjective
Chopsticks & noodles
Gingerbread men – the final touches
Chinese lanterns
Vegetable soup prep
Watch out!
Making bird feeders
Firefighters visited
Nursery News
Happy New Year to all our families. We wish you all fun, happiness and special times in 2025
What a super half term we had before the holidays. We trip-trapped over bridges, blew down houses, cooked porridge, found a shoe that fitted, decorated royal coaches and baked our very own gingerbread men. Can you guess which books we were reading? Of course we also found time to decorate the Christmas tree, practise our wrapping skills, stitch cards, make decorations and perform our super duper Nativity play as well as enjoying a party together, Christmas dinner, a travelling theatre company, and a visit from the man in red himself who said he thought we were all on his ‘good list’. What a busy, but lovely time we all had together in Nursery.
Our new term has had a rather snowy start but we have taken the opportunity to enjoy snowman snap, penguin matching pairs, improved our colour mixing skills, played with polar bears and practised our numbers with snowballs. We have lots to look forward to in the coming weeks as we build boats, share bus adventures and create fantastic train tracks whilst we learn about transport and travel. Most of all we are looking forward to welcoming some new faces at Nursery and it will be great to play with new friends and to help them settle in happily.
Look what we have been up to …
Christmas dinner
Party games
Ginger – mmm!
Weigh it out carefully
Concentrating on putting the buttons in just the right place
Wrapping
Decorating
Let’s party!
Paper chains
Pudsey
Inspired by the poppy fields
Porridge – yum!
Firework mark making
Naughty Guy Fawkes
Smallest to largest
Leaf printing
Working those hand and wrist muscles
Daddy & Grandpa
Repeating patterns
Sycamore seeds
Busy builders
You can’t beat a good book
How high will it get?
Exploring numbers with Numicon
Cutting skills
Weighing the vegetables
The radish have grown!
Water play
Improving our grounds
St George’s Day
Snap, crackle, pop!
Early mark making
The Easter Bunny came
Hunting for our Easter treats
Jenga fun with friends
In your Easter bonnet
Patterns with fiddly fingers
Back to front for Red Nose Day
Practising our letters
Tuesday ‘Wear Your Running Shoes-day’
Red Nose Day Big Walk
Filling, pouring and investigating
Counting
Searching for signs of Spring
World Book Day Cake Competition
Can you hear the first sound?
P.E.
