13 | March | 2026 | Ferryport Nursery

Monday:

This week starts with more play around fairy tales and characters.

Some of the children chose to work together making more costumes in the messy area. Others used the puppet characters and the “Beanstalk” to support their own storytelling.

Today’s fairytale book was the “Ugly Duckling” at Together Time.

This sparked some interest in birds and looking at nest building. This continued outside with some of the children using a ire book and binoculars to search the garden for evidence of nursery garden birds.

As part of Science Week Mrs Wright introduced the children to growing plants in the garden, with everyone choosing seeds to propagate. Including beans for our very beanstalk.

Tuesday:

Today we worked on our self portraits, taking care to check our features in the mirror before drawing our masterpieces. They are all now in our PLJs.

some of us went to the beach for a walk and to explore. We noticed that the tide was going out, making it harder to throw stones in the water. Before we left the beach we practiced climbing the rocks safely using “3 points of contact”.

Wednesday

We had a busying morning outside playing with the bikes and scooters and playing in the mud kitchen creating delicious meals 😋

We have started to notice some of the mini beasts in our nursery garden and we have been talking about how we look after all living things.

We spent some time checking on the progress of our plants, some of us are finding it tricky waiting for them to sprout!

Since we moved our art easel back to where it was, there has been lots of use and some fabulous drawings created.

Thursday

Gym day! This morning we met at the school and walked down to gym.
We started with a warmup where we pretended to be plants and mini beasts, then moved on to using the large gym equipment. Lots of tumbles, balancing and jumps.

Back at nursery some of us practiced mark making in the sand, while others listened to a story of the “Elves and the Shoemaker”.

We even had time for a science experiment; finding out how to make ice !

Friday

Today was PEEP day for some of our families with Mrs Murphy and Mrs Adamson, where the theme of the session was mark making.

We had time for two science experiments today. First was our bottle volcano with Mrs Adamson, where we watched what happens when hot water with food colouring mixes with cold water.
Next was colour changing flowers with Mrs Cameron , where we thought about how we could change the flowers from white to red/pink. After sitting them in coloured water over the weekend the children are going to check on them with Mrs Murphy on Monday to see if it’s worked!

At together time, we talked about showing kindness to others and listened to a story about being kind. Some of us were able to give examples of when we have been kind in nursery.