Blog Author: Janine Brady

Preschool have a lovely first full week back at School, they have loved getting to know their new friends. We have been talking about our families and how we are all different. The children worked hard to develop their hand muscles using a hole punch. 

During snack this morning, Mrs Brady could hear lots of please and thank yous! Parents/carers you should be so proud! Mrs Brady even heard children offering to help a friend who was struggling with theirs, WOW! #embrace #evolve #proud

The children have thoroughly enjoyed exploring their prewriting skills. They used their pom poms to go in the direction of up, down, across and around, they then took these skills to the paper. They also enjoyed using their finger in the sand to create prewriting shaped patterns. 

Check out how cute our lovely little Pre-School children are on their first day! 

The children are settling in well and we are AMAZED at how super they all are. We sure have #enjoyed welcoming them into our Pre-School. 

Wow our caterpillars have grown so big, they are now around 4cm long. This morning, Mrs Davies found four of our caterpillars hanging from the top of their house.Do you know what the next part of the life cycle is? 

We have been learning about new life and life cycles, we went to reception to visit the ducks, Mrs Davies brought in her hens and today we had a very special delivery of caterpillars. Whilst handling the animals we learnt the importance of washing our hands by doing a special test to make sure we…

We have been reading the story 'Guess what is growing inside this egg'. The children predicted which animals come from eggs and which ones don't. We then researched it to find out if we were correct, we then had to sort the animals into egg or no egg. The next day we learnt all about numbers and…

What a magical and wonderful day we have had in Nursery. We started by creating our own wizards and witches name badges, we then made some delicious magic fruit wands. We then watched the magician doing lots of magic tricks and we finished our day by creating some marvellous witches hats, as you…

Today we did an experiment to see how many spoonfuls of salt, it would take to make our egg float. We had some very good estimations, some children drew the numeral for their estimation and some children made marks to represent the numeral.  We had lots of fun taking turns to count the spoonfuls…

This term we have been learning all about traditional tales, to celebrate this we came to nursery dressed as our favourite fairy tale character and brought the story along too. We had so much fun reading our stories and talking about the characters, we even made a mini stage and acted out some of…

The children have been showing a great interest in taking on the role of a police officer. We decided to create a police station, the children have been using the props and costumes to act out scenarios, they especially like putting Miss Brunton into jail. 

Today we had lots of fun taking part in different Chinese New Year activities.