Nursery

We are pleased to report that all children have successfully completed our Sports Challenge today!  The children have had fun practising their physical skills and even learning a few new ones too!  They have been running, jumping, hopping, climbing, balancing, throwing and catching balls and…

This week the children have been exploring turnips!  They have learnt about where and how they grow.  We cooked some turnip and let them try some!  Some of the children loved it!  Another vegetable to add to their Sunday roast perhaps!  We read the story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ and thought of…

Even if it isn’t outside! We conjured up summer by preparing a deliciously tropical fruit salad, using our brilliant cutting skills. It was fun tasting different fruits and sharing our thoughts on them.

We have looked at traditional stories and not so traditional stories and were inspired to…

We have opened our new role play area today – ‘Yarm Garden Centre’.  The children have been investigating what Garden Centres sell and what you can typically find there.  The children have had fun buying and selling flowers, seeds and plants and have used various garden tools to fill plant pots…

Welcome back to all our Nursery children and a big hello to our new starters.

Our new topic, ‘In the Garden’ has got our Nursery children thinking about what we might find in a garden. We came up with a long list that included:

Butterflies, ladybirds, trees, flowers, hedgehogs and even…

We would like to thank all those who attended our Come and Play session this evening making it a successful and fun event for the children and their families.  A lot of learning was taking place with an ‘Under the sea’ theme.  A lovely end to our topic!

The children have been learning lots of facts about fish and have enjoyed reading the story of the Rainbow Fish.  They made their own Rainbow Fish and used finger painting to add on the scales.  In the story, the Rainbow Fish learnt to share his beautiful shiny scales and so we have been taking…

Nursery have been learning how to sew this week!  Continuing with our Under The Sea theme, the children have been sewing a sea creature.  These will be displayed in the classroom.  Please come and have a look – the children are really proud of them!

As you can see, our new topic is a great hit with the children.

The Nursery fish restaurant is open and the children have wasted no time getting busy.We have ordered, cooked and served more fish and chips than you could ever eat!

In Literacy we have been looking at the difference between…

This week Nursery have been exploring what happens when something melts.  We put coloured icebergs into the water tray.  Whilst the children explored how the icebergs felt and how they behaved in water, they noticed that the icebergs were getting smaller and the water was turning the colour of the…

This week in Nursery, we have been busy celebrating Chinese New Year.

We enjoyed eating egg fried rice using chopsticks, making dragon masks and then coming up with our own dragon dances. We tried on traditional Chinese clothes and explored Chinese artefacts, artwork and ornaments.

We now…

Nursery have been learning about people who live in the Arctic.  We found out that they are called Eskimos and some live build igloos and live in them.  Although they are made completely out of snow and ice they are actually very warm inside!  The children designed and made their own igloos…