Nursery

Pre School has been learning all about the past, they watched a beautiful animation that sees war as experienced by animals. The children were fascinated and remembered the significant events of what happened. We have had lots of opportunities to discuss and remember those that fought for our…

This week the children have taken part in 2 votes. We discussed the reasons why we have a vote and modelled some examples. In the first vote, the children had to decide which book they wanted Mrs Brady to read to them at the end of the day. The children looked through the books and made their…

Today Preschool explored Autumn leaves and created a circular composition to represent  a ‘firework’. They also used watered down paint mixed with washing up liquid, to create some amazing print bubbles. They worked hard using their own straw to blow and create bubbles. They also experimented…

Pre-School had a wonderful halloween party! They have enjoyed playing lucky dip, they had to put their hand into jars, they felt around and used lots of language to describe what they could feel. Hidden inside the spaghetti, flour and baked beans were spiders, eye balls, bats and most importantly…

What an amazing time we have had exploring Autumn! #enjoy

This week we have been learning about Autumn. Our focus book was 'It was a cold dark night'. We had a box delivered to Preschool, the children had to guess what was inside. Inside the box was the the book, along with all the characters from the story. The children listened carefully to the story…

What a week of investigation!! Our Pre Schoolers have been learning the nursery rhyme 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive. They sang the song and Mrs Brady decided to buy a fish and let the children investigate for themselves. They learnt lots of new vocabulary such as scales, fins and gills as…

This week we have been learning the rhyme 1,2,3,4,5 once I caught a fish alive. The children have enjoyed exploring the provision and learning through play. We have been learning to count using our fingers, created some lovely fish pictures using different materials, explored fish stuck in ice and…

The children have been helping Humpty Dumpty to build a new wall. Humpty Dumpty asked them to build a wall using a certain amount of bricks, which they had to select from a large group of bricks. Some children were given number cards from Humpty Dumpty and they had to build walls }using the…

This week we have been learning about Humpty Dumpty. After discovering that all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty together again, we decided that we needed to create something to protect him, just incase he fell off the wall again. We spoke about the different materials we…

Today we spoke about our feelings. Our teachers came into school dressed as a different emotion. We created our very own zones of regulation using the characters from the Inside out film. We spoke about scenarios that might make you feel happy, sad, angry and worried. We then made some sensory…

This week we had a very unexpected visitor! We came to Pre School to find spider webs everywhere, who could it be? The children discussed who it might be, then found a huge spider in our pre school, "it's Incy Wincy!" they shouted. We have had lots of fun singing the nursery rhyme using props and…