On Friday the boys in girls in the afternoon nursery enjoyed getting creative and messy with pumpkin potions.

We also created monster hats, danced and had great fun stomping on the pumpkins before we helped clean up.

The Nursery Pupils of the Week are as follows;

Morning Nursery 

Dulciee – For having such a positive attitude all week in nursery!

Afternoon Nursery

Robert – For having an excellent week and following the nursery routine!

Well Done to both of you!

We have been having lots of fun this week, decorating, exploring and carving pumpkins.

We were using our fine motor skills to explore the inside of a pumpkin, the boys and girls thought they looked like spider webs, and using the seeds in our home corner. The children decided they wanted to decorate the pumpkin instead of carving it. The children chose the colours of paint and added some glitter to make it extra “special.” The children worked as part of a team to completely cover the pumpkin in paint, taking turns when it was necessary.

Due to the rather wet weather we came inside for the second half of the session, and enjoyed playing with different equipment. A new favourite is the matching meerkat game. Some of the children were matching the meerkats to what teacher they thought they could be. There was many variations, and we even matched some to our friends.

This is one of our favourite songs to listen to this week as we have been talking about emotions and how we are feeling.

Have a lovely weekend!!

The morning nursery enjoyed painting spiders today. Most of the children came to make their own painting. They all had to use their fine motor skills to use the pompom to paint their spiders bodies and a stick to paint the spiders legs. Counting out the legs of each spider was hard work. Some spiders at the end only had two legs.

The children enjoyed displaying their art work on the wall and the teacher hung them up for the parents to take home at pick up time.

Please keep an eye for any pictures that are to be picked up when the gallery is up.  Feel free to admire the other pictures too.

The afternoon nursery have been having fun exploring pumpkins this week. So far we have helped carve the top of the pumpkin to have a look inside. We used our sense of touch to help scoop out the inside of the pumpkin and play with the guts. We then used our sense of smell to decide whether we liked the smell or not using thumbs up or thumbs down.

We will carve another pumpkin later on in the week, after we have chosen which kind of features we want to pumpkin to have.

The morning nursery carved a pumpkin today. They had to take turns and cut and shape the pumpkin as well as scooping out all the innards.

This week we have been reading stories and discussing Autumn. We have spoken about the leaves falling and changing colors as well as the conkers falling.

Please feel free to share your pictures from home on I.L.D or send a picture to your child’s Key worker.

Thank you.

The Morning nursery wore Yellow today for promoting positive mental health!

This week the pupils of the week for nursery are

Morning

Dulciee- For excellent problem solving when creating with the connecting shapes

Afternoon:

Franek – for being a responsible member of our school community and caring for his friends and the nursery environment.

Well done to you both

This week the boys and girls have been continuing to take it in turns to read the story at together time, as well as taking turns when speaking to our friends.

We have had lots of fun learning how to tap dance:

Together we have been working on our fine motor skills through some of our activities:

We have also been singing outdoors, our main song has been the days of the week song.

Below is a video with the song and lyrics to the days of the week song, so you can sing along with your child if you wish to over the holidays.

TeachMindset: Wellbeing and Resilience Online Session for Parents & Carers

Date:  Wednesday 7th October @ 7 p.m.

Dr John Paul Fitzpatrick is currently working closely with our school community to support our wellbeing and resilience.

We are delighted to be running a free online session with John Paul for parents and carers. John Paul will explore the challenging times we find ourselves in and support us to build resilience, and talk strategies for dealing with challenging times.

John Paul will also be talking about the exciting programme of work we are embarking on in school with children and staff. 

This is guaranteed to be interesting and more importantly – useful! All you need is a Mac, PC , tablet or phone with a browser – and headphones if you have them!

To come along to this virtual event please use the link below to register:
https://www.bigmarker.com/TeachMindset/Abbotswell-Primary-Parents-Webinar

This event is for parents/carers only and no staff from school will be present 😁

#HelloYellow

Date: Friday 9th October

To support young people’s mental health on World Mental Health Day, we are encouraging the children to wear something yellow to school on Friday 9th October.

Further details can be found on the young minds website here

School Holidays

The last day of Term is Friday 9th October 2020.

School returns on Monday 26th October 2020.

You can keep up to date with what is happening in our school community by clicking on the following:

School Website

Abbotswell School Twitter

Parent Council Facebook Page

and  here on our Nursery blog