Ladywell Nursery School

The children have been busy celebrating Burns Day and all things Scottish.  We have been looking at different tartans and creating our own in the arts and crafts area.   The children worked hard to follow the directed activity of weaving.  Follow instructions very well.                 

We had fun listening to the bagpipes and watching some highland dancing.   Some children enjoyed expressing themselves to the music and shared their own experiences of seeing pipe bands playing.

Some of the children took a walk to Aldi to buy some haggis.   We had a Scottish snack on Thursday consisting of oatcakes and haggis.  Delicious!!

Today we had a visit from the fire service.  Two firefighters came to talk to us and show us all their special clothing and equipment.  We even got to try some of it out.

Happy New Year to everyone.  It is lovely to welcome everyone back to Nursery in 2024.  We hope everyone had a lovely holiday.

The children have settled back into Nursery extremely well and we have welcomed some new families this week.

As we are well into winter the children have been discussing the temperature and the winter conditions.  We found ice in our garden and have been learning about the properties of water and what happens in the world at this time of year.    We have also been discussing what animals live in the cold lands.

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There has been a lot of interest in the woodwork bench this week and some children have spent a long time working hard to create their very own aeroplanes and boats.  Transport seems to be an interest just now so we will take this opportunity to learn about different types of transport in the world around us.

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.