Ladywell Nursery School

We would like to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  We have had a fantastic week in the Nursery full of festive fun and we are extremely proud of all of our children performing fantastically in their Nativity play and having the best time at their Christmas party.

We also had our end-of-the-month birthday celebration and star award presentation.

Christmas fun is well underway in the Nursery.   The children have been enjoying taking part in lots of different Christmas activities and have been working hard to learn the songs for the Nativity play.   We are looking forward to the performance on Tuesday.

Our tree is up!  The children had lots of fun decorating the tree and the Nursery.   The children used their pattern-making skills to make some table covers for our Christmas lunch on Thursday.

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We have been working hard on learning how to copy and continue a pattern

We are working really hard learning the songs for our nativity.  We are looking forward to our big people coming to watch.

Today was our November celebration.  We celebrated Ares’ birthday as he was 4 in November and Mila, Travis, Summer, Skyler and Victor all received their star awards.  Well done!

We also celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making flags, dressing up in tartan and dancing to Scottish music

We have continued to build on our knowledge of transport and the children thoroughly enjoyed making tracks and patterns with vehicles and tyres of various sizes.  Using lots of mathematical language and learning to copy and create patterns.

We have had lots of fun celebrating Pudsey Day and raising some money for children in need.  There was a fantastic turnout of pyjamas, spots and other Pudsey gear.   The children enjoyed collecting coins, counting and sorting them, we had lots of fabulous artwork taking place from making masks, to colouring in, joining the dots and drawing our own Pudsey and Blush bears.  We also had a Pudsey treasure hunt, danced to the children in need songs and listened to some stories.

Thank you for your participation and donations.  We raised £28.  Well done!

Happy Diwali

We watched a short story about the Hindu festival, Diwal.  We made tea light holders and used lots of bright colours in our artwork in celebration of this festival of light.

The children have had lots of fun taking part in a variety of Halloween activities.

Happy Birthday to everyone who had their birthday in October.

Kaid did a great job helping to make this month’s birthday cake.

Well done to all the children who received their star award.  Keep up the good work.

Welcome back to Nursery we hope you all had a lovely October break

We have definitely noticed a difference in our Nursery garden since returning from our holidays.  There are lots of leaves on the ground now and the children have been helping to sweep them up while becoming involved in lots of conversations about Autumn, the weather, and the colours and shapes of the different leaves we have found.  We have been taking part in some matching, sorting and counting activities and some children have used the leaves and other things to show their creativity in the art area

As a focus this term we are looking at keeping ourselves safe at home, in nursery and out and about in the world around us.

The children have enjoyed using the tool bench this week and have been sharing their thoughts and ideas about keeping safe.  A risk assessment was carried out and it was decided by the children that safety goggles should be worn at all times when working at the workbench, tools should not be lifted about your head and all tools should not be removed from the workbench.

We have been working hard this week on the literacy skill rhyming and the numeracy skill subitising.  The children have enjoyed a variety of activities both at group time and throughout the day to develop their awareness of rhyme and be able to identify a number of objects without counting.  It would be great if you could support us at home with this.

This week in Nursery we have continued to learn about the changing seasons and the weather.  Children have been making windmills, spinners and kites in the art area.  There has been lots of good perseverance to complete tasks and some good fine motor control being observed.

Well done Travis.

In the garden, we are encouraging the children to mark-make using a variety of resources.  Some children found some brambles in the garden and turned it into ink showing excellent creativity.

We have also been experimenting with mixing colours to make new colours.  Skyler very proudly shared how to make purple.

Great job!