Welcome to Nursery
In Nursery we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum, which focuses on the development of the individual child and provides high quality learning opportunities for the children to learn through play. The children are able to explore, take risks, have fun, form friendships, think critically and form their own ideas.
Useful Information
Simply click and download our documents below:
Nursery Parent & Carer Booklet
FS1. Nursery Curriculum. Long Term Plan. Year 2024-2025
Our Nursery Team are always happy to help you.
                                
Teacher: Miss Rogers
Teaching Assistants:Â Miss Shepherd, Mrs Evans & Miss Price
Mrs Taylor also teaches in Nursery, usually on a Wednesday.
Working hard to put in the bedding plants
Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh
Hole punching the leaf – munching through just like The Hungry Caterpillar
How tall is it?
Can you catch Evil Pea?
Quick, before it falls down
Can we dye the flower petals?
Where’s Wally?
Potato peeling
Chopping the chips
Oiling the chips
Great chips – yummy!
Chopping to build up our muscles
Herby play dough
Investigating the vegetables
Water play and problem solving
We’re the guards, at the palace gates
The band of the King’s Guards
Building London
Can you guess the London landmark?
The Naughty Bus
Threading
Hammering to free the figures trapped in the ice
The Nativity 2024
Our little angels
“Let’s follow that star!”
Tickles from Santa
Decorating the tree
Christmas crackers
Gingerbread men – the final touches
Young engineers
Remembrance
Play dough poppies
Tipping, pouring, mixing and measuring
What’s inside?
Construction corner
Why did the chocolate melt?
Troll art
More work for our muscles
Send him to my house!
Conkers bonkers!
No leaves on the line today
Autumnal colour mixing
Tremendous teamwork
Tour de Stocksbridge
Fiddly finger threading
Colour matching
Putting the eggs in the incubator
Mr Rogers brought some eggs for the incubator.
Watering our veg
Gardening
Planting
Baking bread like The Little Red Hen
Kneading the dough
Castle building
Red Nose Day
Big Walk & Wheel
Baking for Mummy’s special day
World Book Day – dress as an adjective
Chopsticks & noodles
Chinese lanterns
Vegetable soup prep
Watch out!
Making bird feeders
Firefighters visited
Nursery News
What a wonderful year we have enjoyed in Nursery. It has been absolutely bursting with learning, fun, adventures, challenges, discovery, laughter, friendships and memories that the children and staff will cherish.
Over the summer term we enjoyed a lovely day out at Wigfield Farm. The weather was kind, the children were great and the animals were patient and inquisitive. For most of our little ones this was their first ever school trip and, judging by the snoring coming from the coach on the way home, they had simply had an action-packed, fabulously fun-filled day. Â
The sun shone down for our Sports Days and the children also shone – running, jumping, throwing and cheering each other on with enthusiasm and smiles. Thank you to all the parents and families who were equally great sports.
Learning in our Nursery environment has seen us bug hunting, sunflower growing, harvesting our carrots, peas and beans, watching our caterpillars turn to chrysalises then butterflies and we have found time to learn how to make chips from potatoes, just like Oliver, the little boy in our story. All this is alongside our water exploration, play dough modelling, train tracks, Duplo creations, art work and of course the many marble runs that the children adore building.
Earlier in the term we had been looking at customs and cultures from other countries. We carried baskets of fruit on our heads like Handa in Kenya, built The Great Wall of China the whole way round the playground, measured The Himalayas using our blocks, threw boomerangs, created Eiffel Towers, and used the resources outdoors to make a fantastic Indian counting train from which we could view crocodiles, palaces and The Taj Mahal. We learnt so much and this was clear to see as the children ‘played’ at what we had been learning together. We are certain that some of them will have their bags packed and be off globe trotting as soon as they are old enough.
Look what we have been up to …
Wigfield Farm
The goats were very hungry
The meerkats were watching us.
The llamas came to look at us too.
Hungry goat
Don’t let it fall off!
Ready, steady, go
Sports Day balancing
London snap
It’s fiddlier than it looks!
All aboard!
A shape train
Which shapes roll?
The Train Ride
Carriage counting
Snowy sledging fun
Christmas dinner
Party games
Ginger – mmm!
Weigh it out carefully
Concentrating on putting the buttons in just the right place
Wrapping
Decorating
Let’s party!
Paper chains
Pudsey
Inspired by the poppy fields
Porridge – yum!
Firework mark making
Naughty Guy Fawkes
Smallest to largest
Leaf printing
Working those hand and wrist muscles
Daddy & Grandpa
Repeating patterns
Sycamore seeds
Busy builders
You can’t beat a good book
How high will it get?
Exploring numbers with Numicon
Cutting skills
Weighing the vegetables
The radish have grown!
Water play
Improving our grounds
St George’s Day
Snap, crackle, pop!
Early mark making
The Easter Bunny came
Hunting for our Easter treats
Jenga fun with friends
In your Easter bonnet
Back to front for Red Nose Day
Practising our letters
Tuesday ‘Wear Your Running Shoes-day’
Red Nose Day Big Walk
Filling, pouring and investigating
Counting
Searching for signs of Spring
World Book Day Cake Competition
Can you hear the first sound?
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