Summer Term 2024

This term we will be welcoming new children to our nursery and developing relationships with our new friends. In our learning we will be leaving the UK behind and exploring new countries that have a hot climate. Nursery will look at the animals that live there and discover the main features of the environment and how to navigate these on a map. In PE we will be starting ball games and preparing for the school sports day. Children who are starting school in September will be taking part in lots of transitional work and will have a few taster swimming sessions. Watch this space for more information.

Week beginning the 22nd April 

The children in nursery have loved learning more about our Mantle story. The teams have now been sent a special job. In the morning session the team needed to get to the rainforest in Madagascar as quickly as possible, as there is a special object waiting for them that needs to be cared for and moved quickly. In the afternoon session the team have arrived in the Egyptian desert. Mr Sand has commissioned the team to join him at a cave. The team have explored inside the cave and found some abandon eggs. I wonder who has left them there?

The children are learning all about animals that lay eggs at the moment and all of their knowledge will feed into our mantle story and help us decide the best way to solve our problems. The children are really developing their vocabulary and ability to explain their own ideas as well as communicate as a team. Our maths learning has focused on the numbers 1, 2 and 3 and finding sets within a group. 

In the provision we have explored using clay and how it feels when it is wet and dry. We have also used the outside area to explore water and how it travels. Just like the rivers and waterfallls in our Mantle stories. The children have loved using the chalk to draw around each other. And they have been practising their large movements and anticlockwise circles while dancing to music with the pom-poms and the ribbons. It has been a fun and very creative week at nursery.

Week beginning 8th and 15th April 2024

The last two weeks have been very busy in nursery. We have welcomed some new families to our nursery and the children are settling well. The children have all enjoyed coming back after the Easter break and have loved starting to learn more about the world around us. We have begun our new Mantle stories and started to learn about new environments, including the desert and the rainforests in Egypt and Madagascar. The children have loved learning about the waterfalls, rivers, hills  and pyramids in these place. The children have been working very hard developing their social and emotional skills and communication and language. We have been challenging them to learn and use new vocabulary and also communicate with our new members of the class.