Nursery News Stories

Monday 16 December 2024 F1 Christmas Topic In F1 for the past two weeks, we have been exploring the celebration 'Christmas'. The children have enjoyed taking part in the nativity, singing Christmas songs, decorating the tree, our Christmas stay and play and taking part in all the other activities we have had in the classroom. The children have also had two dress up days with Elf day and Christmas jumper day for charity causes.

Wednesday 4 December 2024 The Gingerbread man In F1, the children have loved reading 'The Gingerbread man' story for the past two weeks. We have been learning to retell the story and the repeated refrains, using masks outside to chase the Gingerbread man. Indoors, we have made Gingerbreads with playdough, adding the correct number of eyes and buttons, made colour patterns using pegs and boards, fished numbered Gingerbread from flour and decorated Gingerbreads on the creative table. We introduced our Tonie box too and the children loved listening to the story on it before retelling the story using puppets in the puppet theatre. We ended the topic baking our own Gingerbreads and learnt new vocabulary during this process. They looked delicious and thankfully none of our Gingerbreads ran away.

Friday 8 November 2024 F1 Diwali This week in F1, we have been exploring Diwali activities. We have had so much fun talking about what different celebrations we all celebrate. Here are some photos of what we have been doing. We have done some Bollywood dancing, made Diwali cards, made cakes with playdough, got creative making fireworks and lentil sticking, explored rice play, made rockets using blocks and ended the week tasting poppadom's and mango chutney.

Friday 10 May 2024 F1 Holiday Topic Following on from our topic about transport in F1, we have spent the last two weeks learning and talking about holidays. We shared holiday photos, had an ice cream shop role play, a beach theme role play, under the sea creatures in the water tray and for maths we learnt to make a repeating pattern. We got lucky with the hot weather and had so many fun activities outdoors too. The nursery children had rollers and brushes, fun with paddling in the water and finished off with eating some yummy ice lollies!

Friday 26 April 2024 Nursery - Transport This week in F1, we have been learning about 'transport'. The children have really enjoyed this topic! They have rubbed on stencils to make vehicles and been laying on their backs and drawing under tables to strengthen their arms. The children have used an upside down table as a vehicle and wrote tickets, and done lots of cutting and transport puzzles. The children have got creative making vehicle tracks in paint and went on an environment walk where we spotted different transport vehicles and named things in our local environment. During our outdoor play, we took the bikes and scooters down hills and followed traffic signs, waiting when to 'stop' and 'go'. We ended the week with the children bringing in their own bikes or scooters and enjoyed riding them on the big playground with road markings. What a fun week we have had!!

Friday 19 April 2024 The Three Billy Goats Gruff' In F1 for the past two weeks, we have been reading the story 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. The children have had so much fun exploring the different activities around the classroom and outdoors based around the story. All of the children know the story from memory being able to repeat the main lines and use them in their play.

Tuesday 12 March 2024 F1 Farm Animals This week we are learning to name farm animals in F1. We have had a sensory small world, fishing ducks in the water, dancing like animals using materials, cutting and making masks, using correct materials to decorate farm animals and a farm shop with real fruit and veg. Outdoors the children have been pretending to be farm animals, wearing masks and we have been using crates and other materials to construct our own tractor and sing 'Old McDonald'. The children even had the opportunity to visit a real farm and see the animals.

Friday 2 February 2024 F1 Superheroes This week in F1, the children have been superheroes. They have learnt a lot of new words and named superpowers they would like. They have dressed up, made masks, made wrist bands that give them superpowers, enjoyed the small world superhero hero figures, matched the correct key to padlock to save tied up superheroes and used tools to save frozen superheroes too! Outdoors the children have painted ice and tried to escape from a web. We ended the week dressing up as superheroes and talking about which superhero they are and what their superpower is.

Friday 26 January 2024 F1 Pirates This week in F1, we have been learning vocabulary based on our 'Pirates' theme. The children have really used their imagination this week and have loved dressing up. In the class we did lots of mark making, made eye patches and telescopes and made our own pirate ship in the role play area. The imaginative play continued outside where we made a pirate ship and walked the plank. For maths we were looking at different patterns in the environment so we ended the week dressing up in patterned clothes.

Friday 19 January 2024 F1 - Exploring Colours In F1, we have been exploring colours and reading the story 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?' this week. The children have made teddy breads which the children really enjoyed eating. They have also enjoyed lots of colour mixing activities and ended the week, dressing up in their favourite colours. Here are some of the children exploring colours.

Thursday 21 December 2023 EYFS Nativity Over the past two days, we have had two fantastic EYFS nativities. The children looked fabulous in their costumes and performed brilliantly with amazing singing, dancing, and acting throughout. Well done to everyone involved in the show.

Thursday 7 December 2023 F1 - People Who help us For the past three weeks in F1, we have been learning about 'People who help us'. The children have really used their imaginations and explored so many fun activities around doctors, police and fire fighters. Here are only some of the photos of what we have been up to.

Friday 27 October 2023 The Gingerbread Man This week in F1, we have been reading the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. The children have really loved saying the repeated refrains in the book and have engaged in all the fun activities in the classroom. Outdoors the children have loved running really fast like the Gingerbread Man wearing masks and singing "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man".

Friday 29 September 2023 F1 Families In F1 last week we were talking about our families. We spoke about who is in our family and how families can be different. We ended the week inviting our family for a stay and play. Thank you to everybody that came.

Friday 7 July 2023 F1 Celebration Picnic Today, F1 had an end of year picnic with all of the children and parents to celebrate all of their learning and hard work this year. They got very lucky with the weather and had a fabulous time! What an amazing year it has been. Now for a new adventure for the children as they move into F2 and full time.

Friday 23 June 2023 F1-Healthy Lifestyles In F1, we have been talking about 'Healthy Lifestyles'. Last week, we focused on what food and drink we can have to be healthy through reading the story 'Oliver's Fruit Salad'. We tasted different types of fruit and created our own fruit salad. On Wednesday the children brought in their own healthy snack.

Friday 16 June 2023 F1 The Very Hungry Caterpillar In F1, we have been learning the story 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. Last week we read the story and recalled the main events and this week we have been looking at changes and the life cycle. We have had so many fun activities in the class such as threading our own caterpillar necklaces, cutting and sticking caterpillars, making butterflies symmetrical on our creative table and so much more. We even have real caterpillars and the children have loved coming into school every day to see the changes.

Friday 26 May 2023 F1 Minibeasts and name writing In F1, we have been learning about minibeasts. We have been naming them and talking about if they have legs or fly. The children have really enjoyed this topic and the activities. They have explored our small world minibeast tray, made their own minibeasts with playdough and have got creative making bee's and ladybirds in our creative area. In maths we have been learning about length. We ended the week going on our own minibeast hunt and the children found so many minibeasts and were able to name them.

Friday 28 April 2023 F1 Colour Topic This week in F1 we have been learning about 'How many colours are in a rainbow'. We have been exploring different colours. We have had so many colour activities in the class, which the children have enjoyed, especially our ice-cream roleplay and our colour hunt around our school.

Thursday 23 March 2023 F1 Farm Trip F1 have been learning about farm animals. We have had some very fun activities in the classroom. The children have enjoyed our sensory farm small world, farm shop, cutting and drawing farm animals, sticking different materials on farm animals, counting farm animals and threading. We had so much fun when we went on our farm trip to Stonehurst farm. The children had the opportunity to have a tractor ride and see so many farm animals including their new spring babies.