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Nursery Staff
Mrs Newman
Teacher
Miss Cumiskey
Teacher
Bear Hunt
We have received some lovely photographs of the children’s and teachers teddy bears. Take a look and see if you can recognise yours! Also, keep an eye out when you’re on your daily walk and see if you can spot any in windows.
Nursery
March 2020
Recent learning in nursery has been focused on “The Tiny Seed” by Eric Carle. Children have enjoyed the story and have worked hard to create a giant display in our nursery classroom. They have been planting seeds and potatoes and have enjoyed learning new vocabulary and working together. In addition to these activities, children have continued to make marks both inside and outside using a variety of materials. They have explored maths games, sorting activities and role play and have enjoyed sharing stories together.
Nursery
Literacy and Maths in Nursery – Spring Term 2020
Children in nursery have been busy learning in maths and literacy this term. They have had the opportunity to make marks in a variety of materials and have enjoyed writing in nursery and in our garden. Children have been practising drawing lines and circles and trying hard to hold writing materials with some control. They are also enjoying opportunities to talk about their mark making with their friends and the nursery staff. Our maths learning focuses on numbers, counting, number recognition and shape. Children have been playing number games both inside and outside and have had opportunities for counting and recognising familiar numbers in the nursery environment and through song. They have enjoyed exploring maths games on the ipads and have been using shapes to make arrangements and designs.
Nursery
Spring 2020
Children in nursery have had a busy half term with learning centred on a number of themes. We began by learning about rainbows and enjoyed painting, making crepe paper rainbows, sharing information books about weather and using Purple Mash to decorate rainbows on the iPads. Children then enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year celebrations. They played maths games, made red and gold banners, danced a dragon dance, looked at and tried Chinese writing and had a turn to eat noodles with chopsticks. Our Talk for writing story has been The Train Ride by June Crebbin. Children have really enjoyed learning around the theme of trains. They have painted large boxes to make their own train, designed large and small trains with shapes, sang train songs, written a train ticket, enjoyed role play around trains and stations, made their own sandwich lunch and written their own Nursery stories using the structure of the Train Ride. We were delighted to end our half term with a visit from Mr Dama who came to talk about his work.
Nursery, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Sharing Stories
Last week was National Storytelling Week and to mark it, classes around school celebrated the magic of storytelling. Early Years classes continued to learn and practice their stories together while Later Years classes read our class books aloud at the end of each day. Year 6 leaders also visited other classes to share their love of reading with other students!
Nursery, Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Pupil’s Eye View
Nursery
Spring Term 2020
Children in nursery have had a busy half term with learning centred on a number of themes. We began by learning about rainbows and enjoyed painting, making crepe paper rainbows, sharing information books about weather and using Purple Mash to decorate rainbows on the ipads. Children then enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year celebrations. They played maths games, made red and gold banners, danced a dragon dance, looked at and tried Chinese writing and had a turn to eat noodles with chopsticks. Our Talk for writing story has been The Train Ride by June Crebbin. Children have really enjoyed learning around the theme of trains. They have painted large boxes to make their own train, designed large and small trains with shapes, sang train songs, written a train ticket, enjoyed role play around trains and stations, made their own sandwich lunch and written their own Nursery stories using the structure of the Train Ride. We were delighted to end our half term with a visit from Mr Dama who came to talk about his work.
Nursery
First Term!
Children in Nursery have enjoyed their first term. They have settled in well and have started to make new friends. Our learning has focused around “Dear Zoo” and the traditional tale of “The Little Red Hen”.
We have enjoyed activities such as making our own play dough, decorating cakes for our Books and Buns parent event and making decorations from bread for Christmas. Children have been developing skills in the prime areas of: Physical Development, Personal, Social and Emotional Development and Communication and Language.
The children have enjoyed being introduced to the 7 habits through our Learning Characters “Responsible Rhino” and “Go for it Gorilla” this term. We look forward to introducing further characters during the year.
The autumn term concluded with our Christmas celebration when the children sang to their grown – ups and re-told our class version of the Little Red Hen.