Author: Miss Paterson

We thoroughly enjoyed welcoming you to our Christmas parties and singalong. Thank you for joining us and for joining in!

We enjoy the range of experiences on offer, making daily choices about our learning and who we play with.

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Collaboration, imagination, problem-solving, mathematical thinking, perseverance, overcoming challenges, compromising, evaluating and modifying…

Indoors and out, we LOVE building dens (and vehicles) for ourselves and small worlds for our little creatures to inhabit.

Through careful observation and by working together, the practitioners in nursery always endeavour to meet the children’s developmental needs and follow their interests where possible.

Recently the adults enriched the block play and loose parts area with some simple signs and wheelbarrows. Many of the children were interested in the environmental print and used the signs along with our mobile fences to cordon off areas of the ‘building site’ and alert others to potential hazards. They also highlighted the importance of wearing PPE such as hard hats.

   

A visitor who works in construction came to tell us more about these kinds of things and answer some of our questions.

Some of us then went on to draw, measure up and plan for a new extension we’d like to build.

PLEASE DO SPEAK TO US IF YOU CAN ACCOMPANY US ON ANY WALKING TRIPS TO ENHANCE THE CHILDREN’S LEARNING EXPERIENCES.

Local walks allow us to explore the natural and built environment and to learn more about the shops, services and people in our community.

Recently we have been to the train station, the park, a pedestrian crossing, the corner shop, the streets where some of us live…

We find lots of purposes for writing in our play and enjoy making marks with a range of tools.

Shopping list for ingredients we need to buy

A list of things we need to do

Our names

The measurements for our extension into the school

Creating secret messages and password protected secure entry systems! 

 

MARK MAKING

 

 

Sharing a story and a smile with a friend

     

Finding information

Al fresco!

Sharing books a friend has brought from home

A quiet moment alone

While your friends build a ship around you!

Sharing our likes and dislikes

We enjoyed taking on the roles of different characters and using our imaginations.

 

 

In nursery we try to discuss and adopt healthy habits that are good for our bodies and our minds.

• We are physically active – gym hall, Little Garden, Secret Garden, yoga
• We spend time outdoors every day
• We brush our teeth
• We help to choose and prepare snack before eating with our friends
• We evaluate our learning and development and think about next steps
• We celebrate our successes and achievements
• We try to be kind and include everyone

  

Water play, indoors and out, allows us to:

• engage in imaginary play
• explore capacity and develop language such as full, empty, more, enough
• explore cause and effect
• take risks and solve problems
• engage in discussion and thinking about mixing, dissolving and separating
• use interesting descriptive vocabulary and onomatopoeia, playing with words and sounds
• explore how water changes state
• make predictions
• investigate how objects move…