Please look at the school newsletter and complete the slip at the bottom for your child’s parent evening.  Times will be allocated, as requested, to those parents who return the slip and completed by staff for the other children.

Nursery will be taking part in World Book Day with the rest of the school.  Children will dress up as a character from a book for a £1 donation.  They are invited to take part in a design a potato as a book character competition and to bring in a book they no longer want to read to swop with a friend. We hope to inspire a love of reading in the children.

Thank you

Nursery Staff

This week we will be exploring shapes,  We will be recapping the four common shapes and their properties and using shapes to make pictures and models.

We are continuing our topic of Occupations with a visit from Mrs Quinn and Mr Cooke.  They will be telling us what they do in their job roles. Hopefuly your child will come home and let you know all that they do!

We will be talking more about the scarament of Baptism.  Thank you to the parents who have sent in a picture for our display, if you haven’t yet sent in a photograph we will still gladly accept one.

Just a reminder that a copy of all our newsletters and any trip letters, can be found on the website, under Nursery.

Below are a few photographs of the things we learnt  about last week.  We were matching numeral to quantity and building a dwelling for the dolls.

Next week we will be visiting the Church to look at where we are baptised.  We are talking about where we were baptised  and who are our Godparents.  Please could you send in a photograph of your child’s baptism so that we can talk about it with them and add it to our wall display.  Thank you.

In mathematics we will matching numerals to quantity and in literacy we will be focusing on where we can find information in print.

This week we have been exploring shape, finding out about Chinese New Year  and working on our fine motor skills.  Below are a few photographs of the week.

Another very busy week.  The children have settled back well.  We have been working on making independent choices and encouraging children to try activities for themselves and problem solve.  They were encouraged to choose the equipment and resources they needed for an activity and to ask friends for support if needed.

We had some good problem solving going on during the junk modelling session.  The children were able to think about how they joined their models and what they needed to make them.  Children were finding equipment they wanted to extend they play, understanding that they could use equipment in the drawers if they needed it.

We have been continuing our listening and attention activities, with the children looking closely at their eye colours and talking about how they are the same or different to their friends.

Below are some photographs of the week.

Welcome back.  The children have been busy sharing Christmas news.  They bought in a favourite toy to talk about and then completed an observational drawing of the toy.  We had some excellent drawings and some of the children were very confident to share news in front of the others.  We are encouraging children to speak in front of a group and answer questions in a sentence.

We have been practising our gross motor skills, kicking a football in the outdoor area.  We have some promising footballers for the school team in future years.

In mathematics we have been exploring what happens when you take something away from a larger group.  The children realised that this means you have less when we counted out biscuits for each of the children at the tables during snack time and Mrs McCloskey took one off each table, because she was hungry!  When they went to take a biscuits one person did not have one and they were able to say why this happened (and Mrs McCloskey put them back).

We also made use of the weather to go outdoors and see what patterns our footprints made.

Next week we will be counting and practising writing our names.  

Thank you all for your lovely cards and gifts, they were very much appreciated.  It’s been a lovely break and hope that you have enjoyed time with your families.  I had an extra celebration on the 28th December, when my son got married, so it’s been a special time for me.

We are going to be talking about how we celebrated Christmas and would like the children to bring in one of their new toys to show and talk about.   In mathematics we are going to be finding out how quantities change when something is taken away from a group.   In Litracy we will be joining in with refrains and familiar phrases.

We are looking forward to seeing the children again on Monday 9th January and an exciting term ahead.