Hello everyone, we hope you all have had a great holiday! Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Monday 30th March

Today outside a group of children have been working together to create their own sock puppets! With a bit of trial and error they attached items to the socks to “make them oh so beautiful” in the words of the children. ☺️

Today inside a group of children enjoyed role playing in the home corner. They pretended it was Easter Day and that there was an Easter bunny to deliver Easter eggs. 🐣

Today inside a group of children have been exploring stories in different ways. Some children have been exploring stories through digital technology and have demonstrated how they do that by picking characters to place on the tonie box. An individual also brought a story from home in linking to our learning wall and enjoyed sharing it with the ladies and peers. 📖

Today inside a group of children have been mark making using pens and paper and digital technology responsibly. They knew it was one person on the smart board at a time. They confidently mark maked different pictures before they handed the pen on to their peers. They have explored size by zooming in and zooming out to make their picture bigger. ✍️

Tuesday 31st March

Today in the block area a group of children worked together and communicated their ideas to create a “blast of thing for the rocket.” They used loose parts, panels and blocks to create a tower like model for the rocket to go on top of. “Ready 3….2….1….blast off.” 🚀

Today inside a couple of children independently made use of the writing materials as they confidently drew a picture of a map and was successfully able to describe what they had made. Child A said ”These are stairs to relax and look at the sky. It also has a mountain to walk up and look at the view.” “There’s also sunbathing.” “This is my monster it’s trying to break it with its claw, because it’s claw is really sharp, so sharp it could crunch everything.” Child B said “this is my map to find the treasure chest.”🪎

After making a mask with a little adult support with cutting the eyeholes, An individual inspired and supported their friend to make a similar mask through talking through the sequence of instructions and showing practically. ‘You had to make a shape like this.’’You need to make eye holes then add sellotape.’ With support the children were able to create their own mask. ☺️

Today the children were enjoying the sunshine outside. They took it in turns to create pictures in the sand using their finger and different tools such a a paintbrush and stick. 🖼️

Wednesday 1st April

Today in the forest a group of children were exploring the fallen down tree. They engaged in good quality conversation with each other and discussed what they were doing. “We’re trying to find treasure.” “We’re breaking the mud with sticks and we can find rocks.” “We’re looking for lots of different rocks.” “They’re the treasure” “look I found a big one.” “I found a big one maybe it’s a fossil, because dinosaurs use to live here.” 🪨

Today at the forest an individual found a stick on the ground. They described the stick and said it looked like a bird. “It has a pointy beak and two wings.” 🦅

Today at the forest an individual demonstrated good gross motor skills by climbing up the tree independently. They said their tummy was feeling fine and could see “all the boys and girls.” 🌳

Today on the way up to the forest a group of children identified daffodils in someone’s garden. Then at the forest they spotted some more daffodils and compared colours and size “look there’s a white one and a yellow one.” “This one is bigger than this one.” 🌼

Today at the forest a group of children showed good turn taking as they all confidently waited their turn for the rope swing. They then independently took turn demonstrating good gross motor skills by keeping theirselves up. 🪾

Thursday 2nd April

Today outside a group of children participated in a sewing activity. They have been developing their fine motor skills, simple textures techniques and hand/eye coordination. They confidently chose different colours and shapes to create lovely patterns. 🪡

Today all children participated in an Easter egg hunt they used their observation skills, resilience and team work to hunt for plastic egg shells that had a hidden surprise. All children found them with a little bit of support and have a yummy snack to take home to enjoy for Easter. 🐣

Today as seen on seesaw you will see a promotion 50 Things to Do before you are five. Our first 50 things seesaw activities are number 15 dressing up. Use clothes and objects you have at home to pretend to be someone or something else. 👗

And number 47 baking. Children love to cook and bake. Cooking together means you get to spend lots of quality time together. We can’t wait to see what you bake together. 🎂 Don’t forgot the share photos with us on seesaw to get a certificate at the end of every challenge. 📷  Happy Holidays, hope you have fun!☺️

Friday 3rd April the nursery will be closed for 2 weeks and will resume on the Monday 20th April. We hope you have an amazing Easter holiday and we can’t wait to hear all about it. 🐰🐣

 

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you ask a members of the team to help sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.
• If you have a sun hat at home for your child that you can send in for them to wear please do and have their initials or name on the inside.
• on sunny days can you please apply suncream before your child attends nursery and we will top them up through the day with our own suncream which is Cien kids sensitive 50+. We have all permission slips back which let us know that your child can use this, if anything has changed please let us know.

 

We hope you have a lovely holiday .

Miss Nelson and the rest of the Nursery team. x

 

Hello Everyone! We hope you have all had a great week. Here are some of the lovely things we have been up to…

At the beginning of the week the children and staff wore bright, colourful, bold and mismatched socks to represent uniqueness, inclusion and diversity of people that are born with an extra chromosome 21. This sparked a conversation about what the chromosome 21 looks like under a microscope which resembles small socks.

The children have been risk assessing the garden and setting up to play rugby together. They discussed the rules and ensured how to not bump into each other while playing which shows great spatial awareness. They carried out this game and had lots of fun.

While at the forest, the children took part in:

• Flower hunt
• Fire safety
• Road safety
• Weather conditions
• Searching for mini beast
• Climbing trees

 

 

To continue their learning and exploring from forest the children used their pictures of the variety of flowers and recreated these using water colours and paper. They took turns to speak about the similarities and differences between each of the flowers and created beautiful paintings using a range of colours, shapes and sizes to represent each of them.

A group created a castle by using a range of different sized blocks. They used a range of different skills such as spacial awareness, creative thinking and working together with peers to build a structure which shows teamwork, cooperation, negotiation, and sharing. Once finished they asked to use the technology to capture their work and share with parents as they were very proud of their work.

REMINDERS FOR NEXT WEEK.

• Please send your child to nursery with sunhats and sun cream, if required
• Please label children’s belongings to prevent loosing things
• Forest on Wednesday 1st April. Please meet between 9am-9:15am at Waterstone Crook Carpark.
• There will be no peep session this week due to being off Friday.
• The spring service is on Thursday however the nursery are not taking part.
• SCHOOL HOLIDAYS BEGIN ON FRIDAY 3RD APRIL (Next week is only a 4 day week) RETURNING ON MONDAY 20TH APRIL.

 

 

Hello everyone, we hope you have had a great week, here is a look at what we have been up to…

 

Children have been creating potions in the mud kitchen as they use a range of items such as flowers, leaves, mud and water.

children have been using the jenga blocks to explore playing the game or creating their own symmetrical towers.

We had an amazing trip to the Science Centre Dundee where the children explored a range of areas to cover different science topics. We had compliments from the public on how well we were behaving when out and about which made us all very proud. 😊

The day after the trip, we created a mind map to discuss all of the things we learned and our favourite parts of the trip which everyone took part in.

Children found a bee lying on the ground and recognised he needed some help. We gave it space and some sugar water and when it had enough we found a safe place in the planter to put him 🐝

We have been exploring other ways to mark make and explore letters, numbers and patterns outside as we use tools in the sand outside and get creative.

Reminders:

 

• we are starting back our forest sessions on 25th March where we will meet at Waterstone crook car park between 9:00-9:15 then head up to the forest space
• parent chats will continue next week for those who have of haven’t arranged a time yet
• if you have a sun hat at home for your child that you can send in for them to wear please do and have their initials or name on the inside.
• on sunny days can you please apply suncream before your child attends nursery and we will top them up through the day with our own suncream which is Cien kids sensitive 50+. We have all permission slips back which let us know that your child can use this, if anything has changed please let us know.
• Bookbug will be next Friday which is Friday 27th March which will be the last session before the holidays
• on Monday we are celebrating World Down Syndrome Day so please come in and wear your odd socks to celebrate!

Hello everyone, we hope you all have had a great holiday! Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Monday 9th March

Today inside a group of children have enjoyed exploring the sand pit and worked together to build sand castles using the scoop and buckets. 🏝️

Today inside individual children have been using digital technology responsibly as they enjoyed being creative. They were all able to independently change the colour of the pen to make their drawing more colourful. 🌈

Today inside a group of children have been working together using good communication skills to solve problems and design a rocket with a swimming pool using trial and error. Great team work 🚀

Tuesday 10th March

Today inside a group of children enjoyed being creative in the art area. We noticed the pictures on the wall related to winter and discussed what season was next. We discussed baby animals and flowers and created lovely blossom tree pictures. 🌸

Today a group of children enjoyed some snack. They asked for some pasta and cheese. They were able to discuss healthy snacks to have along with pasta and they chose oranges and apples. 🍏

Today a group of children enjoyed being creative as they made up their own stories along the way. A group of children were participating in role play activities in the home corner. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

Wednesday 11th March

Today inside some children enjoyed discovering that the fish they were playing with in the water were sinking. “Look they’re sinking.” They independently discovered they sunk and shared their findings. 🐠

Today inside a group of children were interested in story books. They confidently picked up a book from the story corner and enjoyed looking at the pictures. They pointed out their favourite cats in the story book. 📖

Today inside a group of children have enjoyed experimenting with sound and rhythm. They were able to programme the piano to play a song and they used other instruments to play along too. 🎹

Thursday 12th March

Today inside one child enjoyed riding on the horse to go to the desert. They also enjoyed looking in the mirror. “Look I was looking in the mirror too.” 🐎

Today inside a group of children explored the dolls house. They used the furniture and placed it appropriately in the house using the people to roll play families. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

Today inside all children wanted to take part in an arts and crafts activity. All children have been busy making special cards for their mummies 🤫. The children individually told Miss Nelson what they loved about their mummies and helped write cards personalised to their own mums. Happy Mother’s Day to all our amazing mummies when it comes. 🥰

Friday 13th March

Through creative play a group of children have beginning to explore different materials and share their findings. They enjoyed investigating in the water tray and discovered objects that float and sink. They showed their understanding of this by sharing their findings with Miss Nelson. They discovered that the scoop, the pipette and bucket floated and the rock, shell and dolphin sunk. 💦

This afternoon a group of children were observed investigating the weaving area using up, down and through the hole movements with the language to describe these actions too.

Today a group of children enjoyed a trip down to the bottom garden. To look for mini beasts and bugs. They discussed habitats and movements of the insects.

Dates for the diary

• Trip to the science centre (17th March 2026)
• PEEP will be next week (20th March 2026)
• Red Nose Day please wear red where you can £1 donations can also be made. (20th March 2026)

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you ask a members of the team to help sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend .

Miss Nelson and the rest of the Nursery team. x

 

Hello everyone, Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery this week…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Throughout the week the children have been demonstrating skills using a variety of technology in their play from using the smart board to complete jigsaws, selecting the right pieces to fit in the correct place supporting hand and eye coordination. To working with the adult after a short survey in naming the the play shed literacy area creating a graph using the various buttons. To using various apps on the iPad such as Chatter PIX. They applied  creative skills to produce a video featuring  singing, specialist stickers and a colourful background as well as their name.

‘I want the colourful background.’ ‘When Santa got stuck up the chimney.’ ‘It’s a bit quiet.’

‘I want to sing Let it Go.’ ‘I want the rainbow.’ ‘I’ll have the happy birthday (frame).’ ‘Look at my dress.’

Some children were demonstrating their estimating skills through using the bug catcher game. They needed to guess which had the most or least amount of coloured butterflies. Then used skills to catch them.

   

Outside the interest in a range of physical activities continues with games of football, rugby and tag. Also we have seen some children enjoying yoga too, along with Kodaly sessions with Mrs Laing.

 

Also this week lots of interest in using the mud kitchen, digging, mixing, creating imaginative play along with bug hunting, especially the worms. Some children have worked with an adult to develop more literacy in the area creating a mud recipe, taking ideas from the children’s mind map

  

On Thursday we celebrated World book day, and how brilliant were all the costumes worn and throughout the day the children engaged in an array of activities linked to a range of different story books. We also created a story book that captured the children’s characters and created a short mystery story of who stole Winnie the poohs honey pot.

On Friday we had another successful PEEP session that focused on Listening and Talking. Next Friday the focus is Book bug looking at favourites.

Reminders

• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇   

• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.  If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware. 
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.

Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

 

Our Cosy Time Library and Story Sacks 📚

• This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️f your child has any special requests for a certain book, please  ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help.

 

• Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, planks of wood, cable drums etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

We hope you have a lovely extended weekend and we will see you all on Monday.

From  Mrs Wilson and all the Nursery team. x

 

Hello everyone, we hope you’ve had a lovely week, here is a look at what we have been up to…

 

Groups of children created a bus using crates and planks of wood outside. The play expanded when the children created their own bus tickets to hand out to one another.

Children revisited the story of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff story outside as they designed and built their own bridges and houses using a range of loose parts and blocks, sharing their ideas and why they have used certain materials with others.

Children have started to explore the new Jenga game where they are turn taking and team building as they discuss which blocks they should and shouldn’t take out to help their peers to stop the tower falling down.

Children have been exploring some of their favourite stories such as Superworm where they have been looking at rhyming, feelings, pictures and characters.

Children have been keen to share their ideas for our garden development. Children shared their ideas for an adult to write on a mind map where the children contributed their mark making skills after. Some children shared they wanted to create more dens, someone said they wanted to plant pretty flowers and another shared they wanted pretty things in the house.

Children have been making use of the art resources as they create different dinosaurs and plan how they want them to look and how they can make that happen. Another child created a “little birdie” using junk modelling independently.

 

After developing our dressing up area, children have been making use of the items on show and exploring different role play experiences together.

“it’s my whole family, that’s me, mummy, daddy and my sister” children have been exploring their mark making skills as they create pictures of their family and proudly show it to others

Groups of children have been continuing their interest in UNO as they take turns, show good number and colour recognition and sharing the rules of the game with each other.

Children brought their knowledge of the story of the 3 Billy goats gruff into their play in the garden as they used various loose parts. They had a troll living under the bridge so they needed to travel across very quietly so not to wake it.

 

Reminders:

Peep on Friday 7th March 2026

If you have any permission slips please remember to bring these in within the next week for our trip to the science centre or any eye tests.

 

Have a great weekend!

Miss McKenzie 😊

Hello everyone, we hope you all have had a great holiday! Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Monday 16th February

Today inside a group of children asked to help the ladies. They have been helping by taking the lunches to the office and collect the bands for everyone. They then proceeded to  have a look at all the loose parts face cards and could name some of the feelings. ☺️

In the block area, a group of children worked together and  constructed a chair which was designed to support a person. They celebrated their design and construction and supported their friends to have a seat. ‘Look Mrs Laing.’ ‘You can go first.’ ‘I’ll show you.’ 🧱🪑

Today inside a group of children asked to do some Kodaly songs this morning. They used the drum to keep the beat and the rhythm and used different props to help remember their songs. 🎶

Tuesday 17th February

Today inside some children have been drawing a beautiful picture of their families and using the new whiteboards. They could confidently identify each family member as they spoke through their picture. 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒

Today inside a group of children have been working together to make a picture using the coloured pins. They used their colour recognition to match the pins to the board to create different pictures. 🔵

While exploring Top Marks games with an adult, a group of children have selected a phonics game and successfully applied their mouse skills and sound knowledge to complete words by selecting the correct initial sound. 🔡

Wednesday 18th February

Through imaginary play a group of children have been using the dressing up outfits to create different characters. They dressed up as an inspector to inspect things, a real hunter their job was to “make plants grow.” And another hunter and their job was to “help.” 🧐

Today inside a group of children have been developing their motor skills and creativity in the sand by creating different things. One peer created a volcano, while two others worked together to create a home for an electric eel. They created a road and cleared some sand to represent water for the eel to swim in. 🌋

Today outside a group of children have been working together to make some pasta using water, lavender and sand in the mud kitchen outside. 🍝

Thursday 19th February

Today inside a group of children have been continuing to explore the technology in the room to complete their number recognition and placing in the correct order. They confidently ordered 1-5, and  6-10 with some children needing a little bit of support with this to place correctly. With continued support they continued up to 20. 🔢

Today outside a group of children have been exploring the farm. They have been mimicking the daily routines of farmers and caring for animals, they have been learning responsibilities of farmers and been developing their communication skills by discussing what they were doing. 🧑‍🌾

Today outside a group of children have been developing their fine motor skills and hand/eye coordination by being creative. They have continued their interest of painting outside and moved to drawing pictures. ✍️

Friday 20th February

Today inside a group of children have been independently and confidently using the smart board to explore measurement as they select the correct answer each time. They were able to check using the ruler and line up to where the object ended and selected the number. They were able to measure using full and half numbers. “That one’s a 1 and a 5” 📏

Today a group of children liked the sound of toast for snack. They independently followed routines of collecting their plates and items of food. Some of the children chose to have beans. They then sat down and socially enjoyed their snack together. 🍞

Today inside a child independently spent a good amount of time in the block area. They used different size and shaped blocks to create a model of Lego city. “I made captain americas room at the very bottom of the avengers tower.” “This is vibranium shield, it is the strongest metal that nothing can break it.” “When captain America throws his shield it bounces off something and comes straight back to him.” 🛡️

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you ask a members of the team to help sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.
• Bookbug will be next week (27th February 2026)
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend .

Miss Nelson and the rest of the Nursery team. x

 

Hello everyone, Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery this week…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Throughout the last few days,  the children have continued their interest in team games especially Toilet tag and Duck, duck, moose outside. They are showing skills to follow the rules and take turns.

Inside the children were keen to further develop their own learning interest by researching the internet using google maps to find their grandparents home in Italy. Then afterwards researching Concorde aircraft and why it doesn’t fly anymore,  inspiring others to join in too. This was then added to our learning wall topic and our shared learning floor book for all to see.

We have introduced a few forth coming celebrations into nursery this week looking at Pancake day and the Chinese New year. We have created a small display promoting this event in other peoples lives. We have provided opportunities for the children to explore more through a range of short video ,and other experiences too. Some children explored the Chinese dragon  game working on ordering and sequences their numbers. from 0-10, 20 and even 100, going forwards and backwards. Others enjoyed looking at money using simple skills in addition using coins from 1p to £2. Another child shared his counting skills from home using a book demonstrating his mark making number skills.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇   

• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.  If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware. 
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.

Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

Our Cosy Time Library and Story Sacks 📚

• This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️f your child has any special requests for a certain book, please  ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help.

 

• Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, planks of wood, cable drums etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

We hope you have a lovely extended weekend and we will see you all on Monday.

From  Mrs Wilson and all the Nursery team. x

 

Hello everyone, we hope you all have had a great holiday! Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Monday 2nd February

This morning a group of children were exploring the water tray area using a variety of non standard tools to explore the bubbles in the water and what they could do with these. They first explored how to make the bubble float, either by blowing or clapping them between their hands. Next they explored how they travelled down the pipes, discovering that the bubble needed some water to help them along. They explored how to make more bubbles. 🫧

Today inside a group of children got creative in the block area. They each had their own idea of what they were building using lots of different sized and shaped blocks as well as loose parts. There was a creation of a superhero, a girl, and a house for dinosaurs. 🧱

Today inside a group of children enjoyed a nice healthy snack at nursery. They independently discussed healthy foods on their plates and what their favourite snack at nursery is. A favourite was pears and mangos. 🥭

 

Tuesday 3rd February

Today inside a group of children got creative and used their imagination to create a boat independently. They used a range of junk modelling and loose parts putting their ideas together and working hard to create their models with some trail and error. 🛥️

Today inside a group of children were exploring the dressing up area. They used different outfits and discovered their look by looking in the mirror. They enjoyed making funny faces in the mirror to each other. 🪞

This afternoon inside a group of children played cooperatively for a long time through a role play experience. They demonstrated different roles people have in the community as they role played shops. They confidently shared resources and negotiated with each other when more than one person wanted one object. They all took part in discussions about what you find in a shop. They worked as a team to collect items around the nursery to create their shop. They discussed amount of foods they found and confidently showed one to one correspondence by counting out the books they chose to display in their shop. The group of children had opportunities to have experience of giving and receiving change through their role play experience. They were able to vocalise that in a shop you can use money or a card to pay for their items. They discussed shopping lists which we are going to explore over the next few days to promote mark making within their role play experience.

 

 

Wednesday 4th February

Today inside a group of children were keen to go outside they showed their understanding of dressing for different types of weather. They independently got their waterproofs and wellies and confidently put them on ready to go outside to play in the rain. Can we remind all parents to provide wellies, waterproofs, hats and gloves on a daily basis to support your child’s well-being. ☔️ 

Today inside a group of children enjoyed some time at the learning wall. They used the books to explore pictures. The identified houses that looked similar to their from the story and discussed this with each other. 📖

Today inside a group of children worked together to create a holiday house using the cosy den. They shared ideas and solutions with each other to make their holiday home sturdy. They used the clips to place the blankets in place so they could role play holiday houses together. 🏘️

Today inside the block area a group of children worked together sharing their ideas and solutions to create a home for dinosaurs. They communicated well with each other when bricks were falling to suggest what to do next. They used lots of different sized and shaped blocks to create this unique design together. 🦖 🏠

 

Thursday 5th February

Today inside a group of children have been experimenting with the paint by mixing colours to enhance their artistic skills. They developed their motor skills by using the paint brush to confidently mix the primary colours yellow and red and used their colour recognition to understand it changes to orange. 🧡

Today inside a group of children have been expanding their vocabulary, enhancing language skills, and strengthening cognitive abilities like memory and attention by looking at books from the learning wall. They were able to discuss what they found in the book which was sea snakes and golden eagles. They enjoyed pretending they were golden eagles as they flew around the room. 🦅

Through imaginary play a group of children have been practicing kindness and empathy, understanding the impact of their actions on others. They engaged in a role play experience of playing spider man and discussed how they were saving each other from the bad guy. The group of children also used the home corner to cook food for each other and used the computer to buy things to catch the “bad guy”. 🕷️

Friday 6th February

 

 

Today outside a group of children worked alongside with the adult to share thoughts, ideas on creating a den using a range of sticks, material and crates. They confidently used words to describe what was working and not working, using skills to make changes. ⛺️ “It’s a man”. Today inside individual children have been using their fine motor skills to draw a picture, laying down in the art area. They used different shapes and line to create a chosen picture of a man. 🧍‍♂️ This afternoon outside individual children explored the sound area using different loose parts to make sounds. They showed a good understanding when the adult asked if they could go faster, slower, gentle hard using this knowledge to create a beat. 🎶

 

 

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you ask a members of the team to help sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend .

Miss Nelson and the rest of the Nursery team. x

 

HHello everyone, we hope you all have had a great holiday! Here is a quick look at what we have been up to in nursery…..

This week learning is… creativity, motor skills, team work, communication, balancing skills, hand/eye coordination, numeracy, literacy, self confidence, exploring, predicting, being curious, sharing, self-esteem, technology, outdoor learning and problem solving.

Monday 26th January

Today outside a group of children shared their thoughts with Miss McKenzie about turning the house into a cosy story den. The children worked well with Miss McKenzie to help move things to make it look cosy. They suggested adding blankets and lights too. 📖 

Today, Twinkle the unicorn came to speak to the children about brushing their teeth and how to keep their mouths healthy. Everyone had a turn at brushing Twinkles teeth and asked and answered a range of questions relating to tooth brushing. Children were able to discuss foods and drinks that were healthy and unhealthy for their teeth and the process of cleaning them. Well done everyone 🦷 🪥

Another group of children continued their interest in UNO today as they requested to play it together. They were able to share, take turns and colour/number match and even supported one another to make the best choice of card to play next 🃏

 

Tuesday 27th January

Today a group of children have been working together to fit the puzzle pieces together and confidently tidied up when they were finished. 🧩

Today individual children have spending time together creating pictures using the coloured buttons on boards with pictures behind to copy or create their own. 🟡🔴🔵🟢

Today a group of children enjoyed exploring the dolls house. They used different characters to role play and recalled their learning they have participated in by reflecting on our learning wall. 🏡

Wednesday 28th January

Today a group of children engaged with the adult to help plan some snack ideas. They decided on strawberry pancakes using the iPad to search for healthy sugar free options, which we found. Next step to write a shopping list which they started with using their developing letter recognition to write Greek yoghurt using a space in between the words. 🥞 

Today inside a group of children identified they needed a rest and cosied into the cosy den with a blanket over them to have some chilled time. 🕰️

Today inside an individual child created a model for their astronaut using different sizes and shapes of blocks. 🧑‍🚀

Thursday 29th January

Today inside a group of children are continuing their interest of homes and houses. Through an intentional promotion they used loose parts and their knowledge to create people who live with them. They used a mixture of stones, pine cones, shells, and sticks to create models of their family members. They were able to discuss how many people live in their house as well as counting with one to one correspondence and subitising. They discussed how many rooms are in their house as well as what features it has such as windows, doors, stairs and garages.

Today inside a group of children independently followed rules to the dotty dinosaur game. They confidently took turns at rolling the dice and taking their shot and reminded each other when it was their turn. 🦖

Today inside a group of children enjoyed exploring the art area. They used the crayons to draw themselves. They spoke about features they have such as long hair, short hair, eyes and independently drew themselves with lots of different colours. 🖍️

Friday 30th January

Today a group of children have been creative in the art area and other areas of the nursery. A group of children have been using the art area to create different models and pictures having a good look at what resources are available to them they independently chose what to use. Another group of children have been creative pictures on paper with lots of different coloured pens. 🖊️

Today a group of children worked together to create a den using the pillows and blankets in ten cosy den. They independently worked together by sharing their ideas on how to put a blanket up as a door. They used the clips to clip the blanket on the cosy den and chairs to hold in place as they climbed inside cosied up and enjoyed some sociable conversations. 🗣️

Today a few children identified there was lots of sand on the floor they used their initiative and became responsible citizens as they cleaned it up. They found dustpan and brushes and said “I need to sweep this up so no one falls.” Great team work. ⭐️

Our Cosy Time Library 📚 This will be available to families at drop off and pick up time every day for you and your child to choose a book to take home to read 🏡There is no time limit on our library books we would just ask that you ask a members of the team to help sign the book with your child’s name, the title of the book they have taken, the date it was taken and when it was returned ✍️There will be pens available for you to sign the books in and out. If your child has any special requests for a certain book please ask a member of staff or send a message on seesaw and we can help you 😃There will be a folder with your child’s name for them to put the book in for its journey to home and back 📁A tray will be available for you to put in your returned books so we can quarantine and clean them before putting them on display again, if you have any questions, any member of staff would be happy to help ☺️

Loose Parts.

We are always in need of replenishing our loose parts in nursery. If you are out and about on walks, or are planning to recycle items, can we ask that you think of us first please 😃

Here is some of the items we are looking for:

Conkers, stones, shells, tea cups, sticks, picture frames, plates, wood, drainpipes any old garden furniture such as chairs, tables or parasols, etc,  anything you think might be of used in nursery.

 

Reminders

• Can all parents label items of  your child’s clothing.
• Can all parents put in at least one full change of clothing for water play and accidents.
• Can all parents if your child has a packed lunch can we please ensure grapes and big fruits are cut to minimise the risk of choking.🍇
• Can we remind all parents\carers to park in a white space only as the yellow spaces are for staff only.
• If your child is going to be picked up by someone else, please let the ladies know or the office so we are aware.
• Can we ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for all the weather  conditions that may arise.
• Can we ensure when you are leaving the nursery that the gate is locked.
• Can all parents ensure your child has a set of waterproofs and wellies to enable play outside when it’s wet.
• Our nursery blog is sent out every week on a Friday afternoon.

 

We hope you have a lovely weekend .

Miss Nelson and the rest of the Nursery team. x