Mother's Day Celebration Lunch
The Nursery and Holly Tots children celebrated Mother's Day by eating lunch with their Mums at Nursery. Mums and children ate and talked together. There was lots of reminiscing about school dinners of old and funny stories from home.
After the meal the children took their Mums to play for a while before presenting them with a Mother's Day surprise: a rose. This was a special moment that brought a tear to the eye of everyone. The bond between mother and child shone through.
Thank you very much to Mrs Heap, the school cook, and her staff for a lovely meal. Also a big thank you to Miss Taylor for organising this special time.
Spring Update
Nursery and Holly Tots took full advantage of the snowy weather. The children
investigated the snow, sledded down the nursery hill, made snow angels and built snow men. Inside
the children found out that snow melted when it became warm. The snowy theme continued in the
role-play corner: the children enjoyed an igloo tent with cuddly polar bears and an arctic tuff spot
with pretend snow.
The children decided that they would like to start their learning journey with
a topic about houses. This led on to The Three Little Pigs. The children enjoyed sorting materials,
building with sticks and boxes made to look like bails of straw or bricks and performing puppet shows
to their friends.
This traditional story made the children think about other stories that they know:
fairy tales. Thanks to Mr. Hammond a castle was erected and the Nursery was full of princesses and
knights. Lots of children visited castles with their Mums and Dads. They brought in rubbings, guides
and photographs to show their friends. Some new words were learnt like drawbridge and dungeon.
To end the castle topic we celebrated with a banquet. The children decided that
they wanted to cook honey cakes and gingerbread rather than roasted peacock (an old castle favourite).
After the banquet we danced to old castle music and played there was a princess long ago, but this
didn’t stop the children thinking about dragons.
It was Chinese New Year. The children loved dragon dancing and making dragon music
which was appreciated by the whole school. There was more feasting; this time on Chinese food prepared
by Mrs Woolley and Mrs Jones. This year was the year of the tiger. The children engaged in the story
about the first Chinese New Year and made tiger masks.
This second part of the spring term the children have decided that they want to find out about people who help us starting with our Mums because it’s Mother’s day soon. The staff are looking forward to visiting the fire station!
Mums and Dads have visited Nursery and Holly Tots all week including Thursday: World
Book Day. The children and staff have really enjoyed seeing them. We like to think that they have enjoyed
it too.
Nursery Autumn Term 2009
Nursery and Holly Tots have been enjoying the topic Autumn. We have been learning about healthy foods (fruits and vegetables) and the changes to the environment that occur during this season. The fruit and vegetables have been sorted by colour, shape, size and texture and even painted or printed. The children have extended their knowledge gained in the role play Fruit and Vegetable shop set up in the play house outside.
A wonderful time was had by all in the clay including the staff. Sculptures were created from autumn finds collected by the children at home
The book corner has been turned into a hibernating house where the children can tell a story to a cuddly hedgehog, squirrel or fox inside a decorated tent.
Outside the children have enjoyed exploring leaves by throwing them, walking in them and sweeping them up into the wheelbarrows. The children have used magnifying glasses to look at the leaves in greater detail.
Many topic based books have been read and the children have learnt lots of new songs such as Five little peas in a pea pod pressed, I’ve got a basket of apples and This is the way we sweep the leaves. We must not forget our Dingle dangle scarecrow party where the children celebrate their first half term by tasting a variety of fruit and vegetables, singing songs and playing party games such as musical scarecrows. This day is a way of recapturing all knowledge gained throughout the last 7 weeks.
Previous Years
Work, trips and stories from previous years can be found here.