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Category Archives: Nursery
Nursery January
We are off to a very busy start this term.
The children have been discussing and learning about Winter in nursery through a variety of different activities some rather messy!
We have had various visitors to nursery and the school and we would like to share this with you:
SSPCA- Discussed caring for pets including Rabbits. They provided some robotic Rabbits for us to use in our learning. We learned about what food, shelter and space that Rabbits needed to be happy.
Quality Meat Scotland- Jennifer came to school and lead a cooking demonstration in which some of us helped to make beef fajitas. They were really yummy! We discussed the different food groups and learned more about healthy eating. We participated in a picture game which we were to decide what goodness our bodies get from different meats.
Guide dogs- Clare and Liz brought along Tudor their 5 month old puppy and discussed with us the job that guide dogs do and how important they are. We learned that puppies go to school at the age of 1 and by 2 they are working supporting a visually impaired person. We also discussed the things needed to look after a puppy.
We also celebrated Burns day including, listening to Scottish muisc and stories and having our own Burns supper for snack.
Nursery Week
In nursery this week we have all been very busy putting the finishing touches on our Christmas art to sell at the Christmas Fayre.
We have been doing lots of baking in preparation for the Christmas fayre we made; chocolate crispy Christmas trees, Christmas puddings and fairy cakes. It has been a very busy nursery.
We have started to learn about light and dark as the children have noticed the change in the colour of the sky in the later afternoon. As the children had so much fun last week creating a tent and camp fire to go camping and toasting marshmallows. We decided to make a den/ cave in our story corner to allow us to have a dark and quiet area in nursery. The children helped to black out the windows and had lots of fun making stars and moons to display all around the cave. We have been using torches so that we can read books in the dark den.
The children have started to help prepare a pallet which we have decorated brightly to be used as a weather station outside and we are going to record the rain fall, temperature and see the wind. Parents are welcome to come in and have a look and maybe help out in the preparations.
We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas fayre and we are looking forward to another busy week in nursery with preparations and practices of the Nativity starting.
Nursery – Diwali
In nursery we have been learning about the festival of Diwali. We started by watching a power point presentation on our smartboard. The children asked to create a restaurant in our house corner. We looked at pictures using pinterest and decided to make an Indian restaurant following the theme of Diwali. The children selected their own pictures to use in our role play area. To extend their play adults provided rice to use in role play cooking. The children chose the colour they wanted to make the rice and had lots of fun squashing the rice and paint together in a food bag. The children have enjoyed using the rice in their role play cooking. (so has the floor)
We listened to the short story of Diwali and the children noticed the funny patterns (Rangoli pattern) during the story and wanted to make their own patterns. This was carried out in a variety of different ways including painting, smartboard and drawing.
The children have enjoyed the experience of learning about Diwali.
Nursery Life
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Nursery Sway
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| We have been learning about Chinese New Year by exploring stories, images, music and customs from China. | |
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Community Links
On Thursday the nursery enjoyed a visit from two of the residents at Blackfaulds House Nursing Home, and their carer.
There is growing research on the benefits, to both young and old, of such generational integration. The children and visitors enjoyed playing and listening to stories together. We are planning on Thursday visits, from Blackfaulds House, becoming a regular occurance.
Nursery Vision
Our Vision:
“Westfield a Place to Smile”
Our vision puts enjoyment and happiness at the heart of all we do, as we believe, in order to thrive and excel, children need to be happy.
To ensure our vision accurately reflects Westfield Nursery, we are consulting all stakeholders; gathering their ideas, views and opinions.
The children have been consulted and their thoughts are now on display, in our cloakroom, for you to view.
This consultation has shown us the children value:
- The opportunity to make friends at nursery
- The opportunity to play
- Having choice in their play
- Learning to be independent and responsible, by preparing snack for themselves and others
Children in Need
The children in the nursery baked cakes to raise money for Children in Need. They mixed sugar, butter, eggs and flour together, then they spooned them into small cake cases before cooking the cakes.
Next, after the cakes had cooled a mum came in to nursery to help the children decorated their cakes with icing sugar and Pudsey Bear designs.
Lastly on Friday morning the children sold the cakes to raise money for Children in Need.
The Nursery raised £42.20 by making and selling Pudsey cakes, well done everyone!
Nursery News
Another busy week in the nursery started with the children collecting sticks to make a ‘campfire’. Songs and stories were shared around the ‘campfire’ and fire safety discussed.
Later in the week the learning about fire safety was extended through some messy play set up by Miss Hirst, our visiting student Teacher. The children really enjoyed ‘putting out’ the fire (red paint added to shaving foam) while discussing and learning more about fire safety.
Every week the children are learning all about food and food hygiene through helping prepare snack. The nursery staff are keen for the children to experience a big variety of food. Last week the children helped make macaroni cheese. They examined the uncook pasta and described how to cook it. They looked at the difference between cooked and uncooked macaroni and they added the cheese to the cooked macaroni.
This week the children enjoyed making and tasting apple pie.
The children have also been developing their pen control and artistic skills through creating self portraits. We think the look great. Please check them out in the gallery below.
