Blog Author: Janine Brady

This week, our focus book is The Three Little Pigs. The children received a letter from Mummy Pig saying that she missed her Little Pigs and asked them if they could paint a picture of the pigs, for her to hang on her wall. However, there was a problem, Nursery didn't have any pink paint. The…

Thank you so much for attending our reading stay and play session. It was lovely to see you enjoying a range of stories with your children. We hope you had lots of fun exploring the different ways to tell stories and most importantly, making your child's learning fun!  

Nursery enjoyed reading stories all about Monty. We really loved the story 'I'm not a Panda cow', we were able to join in with the repeated refrains. #enjoy

Nursery made their very own sandwiches to eat at our teddy bear picnic. Nursery brought in their favourite teddies from home and spoke about why they are their favourite and what they like to do together at home. We then took a trip to our school library, where we read our teddies some stories, we…

Last week the children embraced our topic of bears, by going on their very own bear hunt! They used the character masks from the story and chanted the story out loud, as they set off on their journey to find the bear! They also took part in lots of fun activities such as, talking about the…

We have a new friend called Delphy! We found him outside all alone, we decided that we could take turns in looking after him. Delphy cant wait to start exploring, I wonder where he will begin his adventure... #enjoy #embrace

This week, our focus book has been Where's my Teddy? It all began when Eddy wrote to us, to say that he had lost his teddy at nursery. We had to follow the rhyming clues which led us to his teddy. The children have embraced this book and are beginning to retell the story using the pictures. They…

Today the children have been taking part in fun Children In Need activities. We spoke about why it is important to help others. The children enjoyed a visit from Pudsey the bear. We made Pudsy biscuits, painted the spots on Pudsey's face using our fingers, gave Pudsey the correct amount of spots…

Today the children learnt all about Remembrance Day! We used the correct colours to paint a poppy, we moulded the playdough into poppies and we engaged in some poppy sensory play, using rice. We then watched a small video clip about how animals felt when the war was happening. We spoke about the…

Today the children read a story all about Autumn. We spoke about the things you might find outside in the Autumn time. We became detectives and looked around our school, searching for signs of autumn using our magnifying glasses. We found lots of different items and learnt lots of new words along…

Today we created our very own happy tin. We spoke about being nice to others and what kind things we can say and do. When the children were caught doing something nice or kind, their name went into our happy tin. We read out all of our happy post it notes at the end of the session, the children…

What an amazing skill to have balance and coordination. The children listened carefully to instructions and created some amazing animal poses using their bodies!