Nursery

Staff

EYFS Lead and Assistant Head: Mrs Brittain

Class Teacher: Miss Bradshaw

Teaching Assistant: Miss Nehar
Teaching Assistant Apprentice: Miss Bull

All staff have current Paediatric First Aid certificates.

Nursery Spring Newsletter

What we are learning in Nursery

Treasured Texts and Rhymes

Spring 2024

During Spring we have...

Continued to learn concepts through 'Concept Cat'
Went on our own sensory Bear Hunt walk
Invited parents to a Phonics Workshop
Used junk modelling to construct and build buses
Painted self-portraits for the 'Wheels on the Bus display.
A potter, Jon Williams visited us at school and we made the Three Little Pigs and a house out of clay.
Participated in lots of activities to celebrate 'World Book Week'.
Painted a still life of tulips into our artbook.
Celebrated Easter by going on an Easter egg Hunt. We used our Phonics knowledge and skills to work together and figure out the clues.

During Autumn we have...

Used a range of materials and techniques to create an Incy Wincy Spider display.
'Shared a Story' with parents and started using our online reading record; 'BoomReader'
Completed yellow activities and wore yellow for 'World Mental Health Day'
Learnt the 'Concept Cat' concepts.
Asked parents to upload activities for 'Concept Cat' onto 'EvidenceMe'
Celebrated Diwali by creating Diva lamps with clay and decorating them with paint and glitter.
Made instruments at home for our Phonics lessons.
Celebrated Remembrance Day by wearing poppies and decorating large poppy pictures.
Joined in with a 'Fireworks and Bonfire' sensory light show in the dark by Glowbugs!
Participated in Anti-Bullying week by wearing odd socks.
Celebrated 'World Nursery Rhyme Week' (see videos below)
We made Gingerbread Men. We mixed the ingredients to make the dough, then we rolled out the dough, used a cutter for the shape and decorated it with icing and sweets.
Nature's Burrow visited us at school. Some of us were very brave and held the owl! (see images below)
Invited parents in to watch our Christmas Performance
Watched a pantomime at school
Had a Christmas Party with food and games