Tag: social studies

Winter Learning

Jack Frost was particularly helpful with our learning today as some of the children tried to work out why they could not dig outdoors as normal. The hard, frozen ground prompted them to try out all kind of tools, including the drill, to break through for treasure but they learned that frozen ground is very hard. There was more mystery when the water would not come out of the water butt tap and they wondered if the birds could possibly have drunk all of it over the weekend. Thank you Jack Frost for providing us with the best learning opportunity about winter that we could have had.

Hecklegirth Hairdressers

I wonder if anyone is in need of a new hairstyle in preparation for the festive season? We have a great team of hairdressers who are very busy in Nursery if you would like to stay to play and experience a new style created by them. As you can see, they have been on the phone booking in appointments and trying out a range of equipment as part of their role play. I wonder if we have any hairdressers of the future here?

Autumn Detectives

As part of our recent learning about the changing seasons, a group of children visited the nature area to look for signs of Autumn and were very good detectives, collecting lots of natural materials which they then used to produce their own works of art back in the Nursery garden. As you can see, they decided to have a little picnic in the nature area as a reward for all their hard work.

Talking About Autumn

Learning about Autumn this term has been helped greatly by the children’s super contributions to our display. Chestnuts, acorns, various berries and leaves of so many colours have been collected by the children and their families. Good talking skills have been evident as the children shared their finds with others and talked about where they had found them. Thank you so much to all those families who have taken the time to talk to their children about the signs of Autumn and have helped them find examples. The children have shown great enthusiasm to look at and talk about our display.

Hecklegirth Clinic

Life at Hecklegirth Clinic has been hectic over the last few weeks as dolls and children alike have been examined and cured of so many broken limbs, coughs, sore tummies and every other ailment you can imagine. As you can see, there has been a large staff of willing doctors and nurses to help out at our clinic, writing down prescriptions and notes then administering the correct medicine or applying a bandage to cure their poor patients. We think that we might have some budding medical staff of the future here in Hecklegirth Nursery and hope that you enjoy the photos of the children at work.

Willow Work

The afternoon children can be seen here carrying out an important task to help look after our garden. They were recently in charge of spraying the willow tunnel with soapy water in the hope that this discourages the wasps from settling there. What super work you did boys and girls. Well done for looking after our Nursery environment.

Afternoon Fire Station Visit

As promised, here are photos of the afternoon children visiting the fire station last week. They all enjoyed lots of fun learning just like the morning children. Thank you so much to all the parents and grandparents who came with us on our visit – we appreciate your help and support.
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Fire Station

After learning about different jobs in our community at the end of last term, we had one further exciting trip out last week when we visited the fire station. Fortunately the weather was very kind and we enjoyed a lovely walk there in the sunshine. As well as finding out about the job of a fire officer, the children took part in a road safety activity where they took on different roles of cars, lorries, buses and bikes as well as a police officer and lollipop person. This was a super new resource that the fire service have just acquired and was a great way to help the children think about how to stay safe.
They also got a close up view of all the equipment in a fire engine, learned what it is used for and put their hands to their ears as the siren was turned on. Of course, no visit to the fire station is complete without getting an opportunity to sit up in the fire engine and try out the big hose.
Huge thanks go to all the fire fighters who looked after us and made our visit such fun as well as to the parents who accompanied us – without parent helpers these trips out would not be possible. We hope that you enjoy these photos of the morning children and will post photos soon of our afternoon visit.
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George the Lamb

Lily’s family has been looking at the photos of our RHET visit. They liked the photo of the girls on the tractor: “Aww lovely photo of Lily and Francesca!”

The photos with the lamb have also caught their eye:

 “Lily has been telling me all about ‘George the lamb’ and how he gets milk from his mummy! She also says he’s 1month old??!”

I’m not sure that George is quite as young as that but he is a pet lamb still being looked after by Mrs. Ker.

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