We celebrated Shrove Tuesday with traditional pancake activities and shared our learning on why this is an important Christian festival and not just great fun making pancakes and eating them. The children are all now involved in weekly baking activities … Continue reading →

We are exploring all about Fairtrade to mark its yearly focus. We were very lucky to have Lynn from Tesco come to visit with stories about bananas and chocolate. Lynn explained all about how Fairtrade products give farmers a better … Continue reading →

We are very grateful to Lauren’s Grandparents for visiting Nursery with their new puppy Sam. The children were very excited to meet him and Sam took it all in his stride. The children asked lots of questions about Sam’s play, … Continue reading →

We were delighted to welcome Parents and Carers this week to come into Nursery and join in our play. We shared new ideas from emerging literacy training and hope to develop further parental involvement through our improvement plan ideas. We … Continue reading →

The children have explored the fascinating details of the Chinese culture through celebrations to mark Chinese New Year. We watched a short film about this important time in China and went on to create an interest table and this has … Continue reading →

The winter weather has prompted many learning and fun opportunities in Nursery this week. We discussed where our weather comes from and we used a Pop Bottle kit to see how clouds and rain are formed. The first experiment was … Continue reading →

We were very lucky to have Cameron’s mum, Mrs Howitt, who is a science teacher, come into Nursery this week to share experiments with us. She showed us one called “Walking Water “. We had to make ladders with absorbent … Continue reading →

Following on from another fantastic performance of the Littlest Christmas Tree for our Christmas show, the children definitely deserved a fun packed party to round off our celebrations. We have some fabulous dancers and everyone enjoyed the musical statues. Next … Continue reading →

The children have been watching the birds all year from our Nursery window hide and realised lately that we had more and more little birds and when asked they replied that “birds need food when it gets cold as the … Continue reading →