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Squirrels (Nursery)

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Our Amazing Work!

We had fun this week at the Stay and Play! Our theme was about the Chinese New Year.


The children have been learning about Light and Dark. They really enjoyed wearing their pyjamas for Nursery and making shadows with torches.


We had a special visitor in school who brought in some animals for us to learn about. We got to hold and stroke them.


In Forest School we had fun exploring natural materials to make 2D shapes.


We hope you had a wonderful and restful Christmas break.  We would also like to wish you all a Happy New Year!

Our theme for this half term is ‘Winter, Day and Night.’ We will be sharing a new story or stories every week and learning a new nursery rhyme or song as before.  Our mini weekly themes and possible stories are as follows:

Week 1 – Happy New Year, Winter and Hibernation – We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Week 2 – Polar Regions – The Snow Queen/The Runaway Iceberg/Inuit People/Lost and Found

Week 3 – Day and Night – Peace at Last/Owl Babies/ A Tale of Two Feathers

Week 4 – Chinese New Year – The Chinese New Year Story

Week 5 – Space – Whatever Next/Back to Earth with a Bump

Week 6 – Valentine’s Day – The Story of St Valentine/Love Monster

This half term we will be continuing our Sound of the Week. We would like you to go on a sound hunt at home each week and help your child to find a small object which begins with the sound of the week, for example, ‘a’ for apple. They can then bring it in to show. Please can you name your child’s object. Your child can bring in one object a week or a different object every day.  We will also have a Number of the Week and your child can bring in an object to show which is related to this as well if they would like to.

The sounds and numbers for this half term are as follows:

Week 1 – Week commencing 7th January – sound d and number 1

Week 2 – Week commencing 13th January – sound g and number 2

Week 3 – Week commencing 20th January – sound o and number 3

Week 4 – Week commencing 27th January – sound c and number 4

Week 5 – Week commencing 3rd February – sound k and number 5

Week 6 – Week commencing 10th February – sound e and numbers 1-5

Your child can continue to choose a book from our class library to share with you each week by swopping their old book for a new one.

Please do not hesitate to come and speak to your child’s key worker or any of the team if you have any questions or need a chat.

Thank you for your support,

The Nursery Staff


Christmas Stay and Play 🎅🎄😍


Santa Fun Run!


Trip to see Santa! 🎅❤️


Our first Forest School! 🌿😍


Snow day!


We have been learning about Diwali this week. The children have been building temples with 3D wooden shapes, dancing with ‘firework’ streamers and making rangoli patterns with numicon. 😍


The children have had lots of fun this week colouring and making fireworks, playing firework bingo and investigating torches! 🎆


Autumn Stay and Play


Outdoor fun! 💙


The children loved meeting some very special pets.  Miss Scully’s dogs and Mrs Featherstone’s tortoises. They found out how to look after these lovely animals. 🐶🐢


The children are settling into Nursery and having fun! They are enjoying seeing old friends and also making new friends. 😍


Welcome to Nursery!

We are so proud of all the children who are settling into their new routines so well. They are also enjoying making new friends. We are all looking forward to an exciting year ahead where your child will be learning in a fun and safe environment. We will send a message on the App every Monday to explain the weeks activities and you will be able to see photos of your child learning through play on Tapestry.  

Please do not hesitate to come and speak to any of the Nursery staff if you have any questions or need a chat.

Thank you for your support,

Mrs Caine, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs Featherstone, Mrs Lane, Mrs Bruce and Mrs Gifford. 


2023-2024


Enjoying music sessions!


Fun in the sun! 🌞


Stay and Play! 😍


People who help us : builders and vets! 😍


Pond dipping fun! 😍


2D shape hunt! 


We have been bouncing and catching a ball in P.E. We imagined our ball was a grasshopper! We caught the ball with two hands at the magic moment. We held onto our grasshopper with both hands so that it didn’t jump away! 


The children were very excited to go on a bug hunt this week! They looked carefully on leaves, on bark and under logs and stones. We found ants, worms, snails, woodlouse, snails and millipedes! 


The children had so much fun at our Stay and Play! 😍


The children have been learning how to stop a rolling ball with their feet or hands in P.E. They have also enjoyed taking turns rolling the ball to each other.


The children have been learning about the Muslim festival of Ramadan and Eid. They especially enjoyed building mosques with 3D wooden shapes and decorating crescent moon mobiles. 🌙


Two vets came to visit us in Nursery! We learnt how they look after poorly animals. We tried on their uniform and we bandaged our teddy animals. 


Dinosaur fun! 🌋


Mother’s Day Stay and Play 💖


We’ve had such a fun week! An ambulance and an air ambulance came to our school! We enjoyed learning all about how they help people. We also sat in the seats of the ambulance and tried on the paramedics uniform. We heard the loud ambulance siren too!


We have been learning about light and dark. We had lots of fun playing with the torches. We found dark places to shine our torches and had a torch disco! 


The children have had fun making ABAB colour patterns! 


Having fun at our Chinese New Year Stay and Play! 🐲


The children have enjoyed being space explorers! Stepping over the hurdles to the dark side of the moon, jumping over hoops from one planet to the next and leaping like an astronaut through space!


This week we have been learning about the polar regions. We have investigated ice and rescued polar bears who got stuck in the ice! We’ve also used our fine motor skills to line up little penguins and sometimes we’ve made colour patterns with the penguins.


The children have been learning all about Winter. They have been writing the letter ‘s’ in talcum powder ‘snow,’ practising their pencil control drawing snow men and painting ice cubes with winter colours. ☃️

Our Christmas Stay and Play🎅😍

We have enjoyed sharing Christmas stories, weighing presents for Santa and making delicious ginger bread biscuits!

We had a wonderful time on our trip to see Santa! The children each had a cuddly teddy from Santa, they played on the rides and the trampolines, they posted a class letter to Santa and they went on a reindeer hunt!

Playing together and sharing in Nursery.