Author: Vaila Wallace

What a busy day! What a busy day we have all had today.   Everyone has been busy making den’s today, dressing up and playing families.  It was lovely to hear all the lovely role-play happening. Some of the children were brave enough to head outside to play for a bit of fresh air.  It was… Continue reading Friday 30th January 2026

Foam marble painting We found some marble paints in the cupboard today so we thought we would try it out with some foam prints.  We were very excited to see what patterns came out.  It was quite tricky squeezing the bottles to get the paint to come out. Here is some of the conversations: “It… Continue reading Thursday 29th January 2026

The interest in numbers has continued today.  We had some number fun on the whiteboard with some dot to dots and finding number games.  Some of the children really challenged themselves looking for numbers up to 100.   We also added a vertical number line and the children were all keen to see how tall… Continue reading Friday 23rd January 2026 – Even more numbers !

The children have all been very interested in numbers and challenging themselves with bigger and bigger numbers.  Today we introduced a bigger movable number line up to 50 in the setting.  Everyone was very interested in it and there was lots of great teamwork as they worked together to find what number came next.  … Continue reading Thursday 22nd January 2026 – Number fun

Today we made the most of a beautiful, calm crisp day.   At snack we all had a vote to see where we would like to spend our time – up in the garden or playing outside the nursery.  Everyone got a chance to make their tally mark and together we counted up to see which… Continue reading Friday 16th January 2026 – Garden Adventures

Chinese New Year This week we have started learning about Chinese New Year. Today we made up some coloured rice for our sensory tray in colours that reminded us of Chinese New Year.   It felt very squishy as we mixed in all the paint and spread it out to dry in the trays. We also… Continue reading Thursday 15th January 2026

This Friday we were excited to introduce Helicopter Stories with the children.  This is a child led storytelling method that places children’s ideas and imagination at the centre and where adults write down the children’s stories exactly as they are told.  The stories are then brought to life through role play with the rest of… Continue reading Helicopter Stories 9th January 2026

Welcome back to Nursery!  We hope you all had a lovely Christmas break.  It has been so great to have everyone back. The past couple of days the children have been very excited to explore the snow and ice outdoors.  As soon as we went outside there was lots of searching for ice, hoping to… Continue reading Welcome back! 8th January 2026

Ball skills This week we focused on developing our ball skills.  We explored lots of fun ways to move with the ball using different parts of our bodies. We practiced teamwork by working with a friend to keep the ball safely between each other using only our bellies.  The children had to work together to… Continue reading Thursday 18th December 2025 – Gym day

Today we set up some winter pattern making activities at the tinkering table.  Some of the children chose to copy some of the pattern examples, while others decided to create their own repeating patterns.  There was lots of careful thinking and sorting as they experimented with what came next in their patterns. Later on, we… Continue reading Pattern Making 11 December 2025