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Hallowe’en Fun

After all our fun with pumpkins, everyone was in the mood for our Hallowe’en parties and we certainly had lots of fun. We dooked for apples, caught marshmallows with our teeth, played lots of games and enjoyed party food together. Thanks to everyone for sending the children in their fantastic outfits which helped them to feel part of the fun. We hope you can get a flavour of the parties from our photos. Click on each photo to make it bigger.
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Pumpkin Parade

Bethany and Sophie’s families enjoyed our recent photos of the children decorating pumpkins in Nursery and it is certainly true that they worked so hard at this activity and were very creative with their ideas.

Bethany’s Mum: “They both look very busy! Super pumpkin decorators!”

Sophie’s Mum: “Lovely photos as usual, everyone seems to be concentrating hard on such a fun task!”

We were also delighted that so many Nursery families took part in the pumpkin decorating competition which was judged at our school Hallowe’en disco last night. Our children’s contributions looked fantastic and congratulations must go to Sophie from the Sunshine Room who was the winner in the Nursery category. Well done everyone who took part. We hope that those who didn’t make it to the disco will enjoy our photos showing a selection of the pumpkins Nursery children did with their families.

Hallowe’en Pumpkins

It’s been a busy day in Nursery today preparing for Hallowe’en. We had several pumpkins to investigate and decorate ready for our party.
As you can see from the photos, the children were intrigued by what was inside the pumpkins and spent a long time spooning out the flesh and seeds ready for our lanterns. Some drew the faces on the pumpkins for staff to carve and then lots of children contributed to the decoration of them. Never before have we seen so many “jewels” on a pumpkin as the on the one that Rainbow Room morning children created and we especially loved the cheeky tongue and teeth on one of the Sunshine Room’s designs. We think that your pumpkins will look wonderful at our parties tomorrow. Well done everyone.
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Letters and Numbers

Bethany’s Mum commented on our hunt round school looking for letters and numbers:

“Bethany is getting very excited about letters and numbers! Thank you for all your hard work.”

It’s great to hear that Bethany’s enjoying her learning. We are looking forward to you filling our cauldrons this week with letters and numbers that you find at home. Don’t forget to bring them in to Nursery. I wonder which you will find most of – will it be letters or numbers?

Welcome Back

We are looking forward to seeing everyone again tomorrow after our holiday. Please remember that our Hallowe’en parties are during the Nursery sessions on Thursday this week when the Sunshine and Rainbow Rooms will join together for fun and games. Fancy dress is optional.
Staffing will stay the same in each room this term and the children will keep the same key workers as previously although Miss Awde, our Modern Apprentice, will now be moving to the Sunshine Room. No doubt the Sunshine children will be delighted to have the opportunity to play with Miss Awde and we are certainly all looking forward to a fun term ahead.

Hallowe’en Is Coming

We hope that everyone is enjoying their October holiday. Before you know it, we will be back in Nursery and looking forward to our Hallowe’en parties. As you can see, one or two of the children were getting in the mood on the last day of term as we set up our Hallowe’en houses, ready for our witches to brew up their potions. Enjoy the rest of your holiday boys and girls. We will see you all soon.

Sing A Song Of Harvest

The children certainly seemed to have enjoyed learning their harvest songs. Teigan’s Mum left us a lovely comment about her singing at home:

“teigan has been singing the song she learned from the harvest festival to me at home as I was unable to make it due to work which made me laugh, she seems to be enjoying nursery very much.”

Well done Teigan for giving your Mum her own performance.

Numbers, Letters and Pictures

This week we have been talking about the difference between numbers, letters and pictures. To help us in our learning we went on a hunt around school to see if we could find examples and some children took photos as evidence. As well as the numbers, letter and pictures which had been laid in a trail, there were lots of other examples on our journey. We found numbers on P3’s brilliant rocket that was outside their classroom and letters on the mat at the school entrance. There were numbers on lunch boxes and display boards provided lots of letters and numbers, sometimes together, for example, “P7”. Hopefully, the children are now more aware of numbers and letters in their environment and will start to spot them when out and about with their families.

Cooking Crumble

As we have been learning about Harvest and what happens in Autumn, some of the children used apples to make a crumble. It’s amazing how much learning can be developed from a simple cooking activity: the importance of hygiene and safety in the kitchen, fine motor control, counting and chopping skills, using the technology of a microwave and the effect of heat on the apples. Hopefully, you can see from these photos that the children are demonstrating some impressive skills. Most important of all, they had fun as they were learning.

Harvest Happiness

Thank you to Ava, Carmen and Tom’s Mums for their comments on our Harvest celebration.

“Thank you to all the girls and boys for a lovely morning celebrating Harvest, I really enjoyed it. Ava has loved learning the 2 songs and has been singing them a lot at home too. I can see her confidence has grown since starting nursery, which is great, I’m really pleased!”

“Carmen chose pasta to bring into the school for Harvest Day. She said to me ” Do I have to cook the pasta for the people who don’t have a lot of food.” I’m a bit wee for that I won’t reach the cooker.” That made me smile!!”

“It was lovely to come into nursery and hear the children sing and see them all looking so happy and involved.”

The children and staff enjoyed our special celebration too and we all really appreciated how many of our families took the time to join us.