Autumn Term 1!

We are incredibly proud of how all our lovely Seedlings have settled into nursery life. They love exploring both inside and outside and are learning all of our routines well! This half term we have focused on making sure the children are happy and settled, we have read Where is Spot and Dear Zoo, we have learned our key nursery rhymes - Twinkle Twinkle, Row Row Row your Boat, 1,2,3,4,5 and also Hickory Dickory Dock, we have enjoyed our first block with NUFC and we have loved getting into Tales Toolkit! Here is a selection of photos showing all the fun we have had!

Autumn Term 2!

This half term has been another very busy one for the Seedlings! We started off by thinking about Remembrance Day and what it means. Then we celebrated World Kindness Day and thought about our friends and why they make us smile. Children in Need came and went and we did lots of activities about that. We crept into December, with the return of our resident elf - Buddy who likes to hide in different places each morning throughout December. We decorated for Christmas, had a role play shop, made some winter pictures and did all of our Christmas crafts ready to go home with the children at the end of the term. On Cosy Christmas Friday we came to school wearing our pyjamas, watched The Snowman and wrote our letters to Santa! We celebrated National World Nursery Rhyme Week by singing a nursery rhyme a day for our grown ups which went out on Facebook, we danced with the resident Snowman who did his rounds outside of school selling raffle tickets, we investigated what happens to water when left outside over night in the freezing cold and we have done many winter/Christmas themed Tales Toolkits! On top of all this, we have been enjoying daily Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle sessions and Dough Disco too to strengthen our core muscles and the muscles in our fingers that we need to help us write! Finally, we loved welcoming our family and friends in to nursery to join us in a festive singalong, where there were props, actions and instruments galore - we even had our Christmas lunch in between the two sessions! This has been an action packed half term in nursery!

Spring Term 1!

This half term has been yet again another super busy one! We started by welcoming some new friends who all settled incredibly well into our daily routines in nursery. This half term has saw the return of our NUFC weekly training sessions. Coach Jack commented on how much progress we have made with our listening and concentration skills since last time! We have read Hairy Maclary and also Jasper's Beanstalk which led us to introduce our new garden centre in nursery! We introduced the 'Everywhere Bear' who has started going home with a different child each weekend and then we share the photos their adult uploads to Tapestry in nursery the following week. We continue with our daily Squiggle Whilst you Wiggle sessions, Dough Disco and Letters and Sounds games. We are noticing our bodies and fingers getting stronger by the day! We have celebrated Chinese New Year and also Number Day, shared stories, explored the playdough, built castles, climbed outside, dressed up.... We literally never stop! We ended the half term by inviting our parents and carers in to school for our 'I love you' craft session where we had lots of fun both inside and outside with love themed activities. We are excited to see what this next half  term brings!

Spring Term 2!

We seem to have blinked and another half term has flown by! We have dressed up as a word for World Book Day, celebrated Red Nose Day, welcomed more new friends to nursery and enjoyed being outside with some lovely weather! We have read 'Hug' and 'You Choose' as our key texts and we have been playing lots of games about alliteration to help children hear sounds in words. The highlight of this half term has definitely been the wedding we held for two of our children, the safari activities we set up and getting to wear the Carabao cup winner's medal! Both of these events happened through planning in the moment and listening to the children's interests - allowing them to lead their play!