Author: Vaila Wallace

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

Secret Messages Today when we came into nursery we noticed that Tinsel our Christmas Elf had been very busy during the night and had left us lots of secret messages to find.   The children couldn’t wait to start looking around to find where he could have hidden them. Tinsel also left us a challenge and… Continue reading Friday 5th December

Our Adventure up into the garden. Today the children requested to head up into the garden so we headed up after lunch.   Everyone loves jumping in the huge muddy puddle.  Some of the children pretended they were Peppa pig characters as they splashed in the puddle. Some of the children explored the mud even further,… Continue reading Thursday 4th December 2025

Today we started to get ready for Christmas and make a postbox for our Santie letters and cards.  The boys helped paint up the box ready and then when it was all dry we set up a letter writing station.   This was a great opportunity for the children to practice their mark making and letter… Continue reading Thursday 27th November 2025

The children have been showing a growing interest in den building, leading us to extend their play by adding a dark den to the porch area.  We made it warm and inviting with the cosy blankets and the children were immediately drawn to the new space. Inside the den the children asked to have the… Continue reading Friday 21st November 2025

After our snow day we decided to try and make some snowflake spin pictures. to add to the setting.  Everyone worked hard at cutting out their circle and then adding it to the salad spinner and adding in our icy colours.  We loved seeing the different patterns that the paint made and then had load… Continue reading Thursday 20th November 2025

Today we took the Lino printing materials up into our trip up to the garden   The children carefully chose some leaves they found around the garden and then we pressed them and rolled them to make some prints.   We also looked for some other patterns in the environment.   We took some prints of the tyres… Continue reading Thursday 13th November 2025